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Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns
David Learmount/LONDON A SOFTWARE product which is claimed to revolutionise the safe design of air-traffic flight procedures has been launched by a new company, Wavionix, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The time taken to design new air-traffic flight patterns or amend existing ones can be cut from ...
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Strength and weakness
INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED operating standards have long been among the greatest strengths of the airline community, but they are now posing one of its greatest challenges - through the failure of national regulators to keep pace with the increasing complexity of the globalising industry they seek to control. Nowhere can this ...
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Trislander production line restarts
ANGLO NORMANDY Aero-engineering has put the Britten Norman Trislander back into limited production, 14 years after the last airframe was built by the UK aviation company. The Guernsey, Channel Islands-based Anglo Normandy received two Trislander kits late in 1995 from the USA where they have been kept in ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
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Base approval
British Aerospace (Systems and Equipment) (BASE) has won US Federal Aviation Administration-approval to overhaul radomes and composite panels of US-registered aircraft. Meanwhile, BASE's SCR500 family of digital cockpit voice and combined voice/data recorders has received FAA technical service order approval.Transbrazil stake Source: Flight International
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Sabena restores union agreements
SABENA HAS reinstated labour agreements cancelled in November 1995 when unions refused to discuss a new business plan with airline president Pierre Godfroid. The plan includes a three-year wage freeze and 5% increase in working hours. The move comes after the Belgian Government stepped in to appoint a ...
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Boeing sued over Dash 8 sale
BOEING IS embroiled in a legal action which alleges that it used bribes to secure the sale of five de Havilland Dash 8s to BahamasAir in 1989. The allegations are understood to be contained in documents filed in a Miami, Florida, court by Canadian entrepreneur Craig Dobbin. He claims that ...
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An-32 freighter crashes on take-off, killing 250
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON IN ONE OF THE worst third-party aviation accidents in history, a freighter aircraft taking off from Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire, on 8 January crashed immediately after take-off, killing about 250 people in the Simbazikita marketplace just beyond the airfield boundary. ...
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Malibu heads Piper's 1996 plans
NEW PIPER AIRCRAFT plans to build 186 aircraft in 1996, compared with 177 in 1995 and 134 in 1994. The modest increase planned disguises a dramatic rise in production of the Malibu Mirage six-seat, high-performance, piston single, to 56 aircraft from 40 in 1995. Piper cites increased demand ...
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Wicked Wilga
POLAND'S PZL-OKECIE IS offering an armed version of its PZL-104 Wilga general-purpose light aircraft to an unspecified third-world country for border patrol and counter-insurgency duties. The aircraft is a basic Wilga with the addition of two under-wing pylons carrying unguided or guided rockets or gun pods. About 1,000 examples of ...
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UK Honours
Among aerospace personalities honoured in the UK New Year honours list are: Roger Hurn, chairman and chief executive of Smiths Industries, who receives a knighthood for services to the engineering industry; Bill Gunston, a former technical editor of Flight International, who receives the OBE for services to aviation journalism; Alan ...
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Cessna
Gary Hay is named vice-chairman at light-aircraft manufacturer Cessna Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas. David Assard has become president and chief operating officer and Charles Johnson is promoted to executive vice-president for operations. Hay with Cessna for 29 years, and Assard, the former president of Textron Lycoming's turbine-engine operations, became executive ...
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Researchers glimpse potential in ceramics
Martin Hindley/LONDON APPLICATIONS FOR lightweight, toughened ceramics could be found, in the jet engines of the future, US researchers claim. Materials scientists at Cornell University in New York have developed a technique for "tempering" ceramics - improving their crack resistance at temperatures of up to ...
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Iranians poised to fly Blue Bird
IRANIAN AIRCRAFT builder Dorna expects to fly its Blue Bird two-seat light aircraft for the first time in the middle of this year. The Tehran-based company, launched the programme in early 1994, with the original intention of flying the aircraft in 1995. A shortage of funds, followed by ...
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Belgian police pick Explorer
BELGIUM'S Gendarmerie has selected the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) MD Explorer for its air component, which operates from Melsbroek air base, near Brussels. Two aircraft will be delivered in 1996, with a third on option for 1998 delivery. They will be used for police work throughout Belgium. ...
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Beech reaches golden Bonanza
BEECH AIRCRAFT'S most successful light utility and training aircraft, the four- to six-seat Bonanza, has now been in service for 50 years. Since its first flight on 22 December, 1945, a total of more than 17,000 Bonanzas has been built, and the type is still in production, with about 100 ...
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Australian training plan sparks row
AUSTRALIA'S FLYING training industry has condemned an Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plan for its restructure, calling the regulatory proposals "...over-regulation and an attempt to create more jobs in CASA". The review recommends sweeping increases in minimum experience and training for instructor ratings at all levels, with ...
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US/UK air-safety bilateral finalised
THE USA AND THE UK have signed a bilateral aviation-safety agreement, which eases the oversight of aircraft and simulator certification, as well as maintenance operations. An agreement with the Netherlands was made in 1995 and the US Federal Aviation Administration is also working with Canada, France and Germany ...
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Airports Council condemns ICAO environmental rules deferral
THE RECENT DECISION taken by the International Civil Aviation Organisation's Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) to postpone the implementation of stricter environmental standards (Flight International, 3-9 January) has been condemned by the Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), which is one of the Committee members. Avi Gil, ACI's ...
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Late Skyhawks
New production Cessna Aircraft 172 Skyhawks will not be rolled off the company's new $45 million manufacturing plant at the Independence, Kansas, municipal airport until December - about three months later than planned. Poor weather had slowed down progress. Source: Flight International