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Northwest crew is punished for Brussels miscue
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has taken stern action against the flight deck crew of a Frankfurt-bound McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, which landed at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. Northwest has completed its internal probe of the incident, which has resulted in the captain "taking early retirement" the first officer ...
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Cessna delays
Cessna Aircraft is expected to announce that it has delayed certification of its Citation X high-speed business jet until the second quarter of 1996. Partial US certification had been expected by the end of 1995, but the manufacturer has decided instead to aim for full certification of the Mach 0.92 ...
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The dangers of down-wind turns
Sir - Although not always accepted by the flying establishment, the danger of the "down-wind-turn" phenomenon is accepted by pilots of light aircraft and gliders. The effect may be seen, as birds circle in windy conditions, when the rapid loss of height as the bird turns down-wind, becomes obvious. ...
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Piper
Larry Bardon, formerly with Lockheed's "Skunk Works" and Pilatus Aircraft, has been appointed director for marketing and sales at light piston-aircraft manufacturer New Piper Aircraft, of Vero Beach, Florida. Dan Elliott becomes manager for manufacturing. Elliott, who previously spent 13 years with Piper, returns having served as chief tool engineer ...
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Concorde wins race against US TCAS ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS and Air France have avoided the threat of a ban on their Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde operations to the USA, after Rockwell-Collins finally solved technical problems associated with the external antennae for the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS) which it is supplying for the supersonic airliner. ...
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Canadian Airbus scandal deepens
THE FORMER CHAIRMAN of the company which brokered the sale of 34 Airbus A320s to Air Canada has said that he set up a Swiss bank account to funnel Airbus kickback money to former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Mulroney denies the bribery allegation and has filed a C$50 million ...
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UK firm starts work on new low-cost amphibian
A LOW-COST TWIN-engined amphibian aircraft based on the Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) Islander is being developed by a new UK aircraft company. Ross Aircraft has already successfully tested a one-fifth-scale model in proof-of-concept trials on a Scottish lake and is in negotiations with potential backers in a bid to ...
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FlightSafety opens Coventry centre
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has opened a UK centre to allow US-trained UK students to complete their Civil Aviation Administration instrument-rating courses in the UK. The Coventry Airport centre has a Frasca simulator and a Piper Seneca III and is operated with a ground school provided by Aviation Training Associates. ...
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New members join in-trail-climb club
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST, AMERICAN and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are set to join Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in operational trials of in-trail-climb (ITC) procedures over the Pacific. The use of ITC is being examined as a way of preventing one aircraft becoming "trapped" beneath ...
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France and Russia start up scramjet collaboration
Julian Moxon/BOURGES AEROSPATIALE AND the Moscow Aviation Institute are building an experimental variable-thrust supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine, which will be ready for testing in two years' time. Integrated with a ramjet, the engine will be capable of being run at between Mach 2 and M12, ...
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Kestrel enters general-aviation fray
A NEW US light-aircraft manufacturer has emerged with the 19 November first flight of the Kestrel KL-1A. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, Kestrel Aircraft was founded in 1991 by former Cessna international sales manager Dr Donald Stroud, to develop a line of four- and six-seat piston-single utility aircraft. The ...
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Gulfstream flies first GV
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GULFSTREAM Aerospace flew the Gulfstream V long-range business jet for the first time on 28 November. The 1h flight of the first GV, from Gulfstream's Savannah, Georgia, base, also marked the first flight for BMW Rolls-Royce's BR710 turbofan. The flight marks the beginning of ...
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Taiwan 'ready to give support' to Jetcruzer
TAIWAN IS PREPARED to back a joint venture with Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) to produce the Jetcruzer six-seat single-turboprop aircraft, according to local reports. Jack Tang, deputy director of the Taiwanese economics ministry's committee for aviation and space industry development, is quoted as saying that the venture ...
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Aircraft news
JAL has ordered five B777-300s to enter service in 1998. The carrier already has 10 B777-200s on order with options on a further 10. Uzbekistan Airways has ordered two B767-300ERs and one B757. The National Civil Aviation Authority of Turkmenistan has ordered two Rolls-Royce powered B757s. ...
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Abacus first in the frame
Abacus has become the first CRS to win access to the vast Chinese market in a deal that should give the Singapore-based company a lead in developing a full-scale CRS for China. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) awarded the contract in mid-October after a three year battle that ...
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Delta poised for antitrust
A decision on the antitrust immunity application for Delta Air Lines, Swissair, Austrian and Sabena could be hampered by a similar request from American and Canadian Airlines International. The US Department of Justice finished its analysis of the Delta proposal in early November, and the application is now ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...
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Yeltsin fears hit Russian recovery
The serious health cloud over Russian president Boris Yeltsin could not be more untimely. Politically it means that Yeltsin, the champion of economic liberalisation, is not fit enough to campaign for reformist candidates in this month's (December) parliamentary elections. Moreover, after several years of economic decline and chaos, there ...
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Going to market
Airport marketing is coming of age, as airports work harder to attract new airlines, new routes and new hub operations. Richard Whitaker reports from the recent route development conference in Cannes. Airports represent the last industry to discover marketing. So says Mike Howarth of Airport Strategy and Marketing which, along ...