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FlightSafety
Berton Beach, manager of LaGuardia Airport, New York-based FlightSafety International's Miami, Florida, training centre, has been appointed director of safety and compliance. Beach, with FlightSafety for more than five years, has also served as director of airline operations. Al Krusz becomes director of Gulfstream maintenance training worldwide. He was formerly ...
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STAe is back in the black
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) managed to show a modest profit for the first half of the year, boosted by strong growth from its restructured maintenance businesses. The group ended the half year with a profit of just under S$7 million ($5 million), turning round a loss of $47 ...
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Cargo and Catering departments face Sabena axe
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PLANS to shed its cargo and catering departments, with the possibility that they will be merged into the larger operations being run by the carrier's alliance partner and effective owner Swissair. Paul Reutlinger, who was brought in as Sabena president by Swissair ...
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Boeing fights airline doubts in bid for 747-X go-ahead
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS MOUNTING an intensive last-minute push to launch the Boeing 747-500/600X growth derivatives at the Farnborough air show, which starts on 2 September, but the US manufacturer is struggling to win sufficient airline support - partly caused by the $230 million price ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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The precise cause of L-1011 loss of oil
Sir - I feel that an amendment may be appropriate to the letter from Steve Kirby, "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), about conducting simultaneous maintenance on both engines of a twin without a test before flight. The cause of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar's ...
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Skyhigh healthcare
Airlines are finally considering fitting telemedicine equipment. Patrick Hook/LONDON DESPITE THE HUGE costs involved every time a scheduled service is diverted from its route to off-load a sick passenger, airlines have always demonstrated a reluctance to fit their aircraft with telemedicine equipment which might improve ...
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Fleet wins wing deal
CANADA'S FLEET Aerospace has won an initial C$40 million ($55million) contract from Hyundai Space and Aircraft to supply wing components for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. Deliveries will begin in 1997. South Korea's Hyundai is developing the wing for the 100-seat MD-95 as a risk-sharing partner. Toronto-based Fleet will ...
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ILS opens free-access stolen-parts database
INVENTORY LOCATOR Service (ILS) is to provide free access, via the Internet, to its database of stolen aircraft-parts. Previously, the database was available only to customers using the company's "electronic marketplace" to buy and sell aircraft parts. ILS created the database after a 1989 industry conference estimated that ...
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Ageing-airliner census 1996
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THIS YEAR's Flight International census of ageing airliners shows a growth of 6% (to some 8,200) in the number of jet-powered and turboprop aircraft more than 15 years old in active service at 1 January, 1996. The number of jet-airliners in existence, which ...
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AAR
AAR Engine Group, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Vincent senior vice-president and general manager for AAR Engine Sales & Leasing. He was most recently vice-president and general manager for the Pratt & Whitney product line at AAR Aircraft Turbine Center. Source: Flight International
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Engines should be treated separately
Sir - Recent news suggests that civil organisations do not seem to share their safety-related views. I was amazed to find that an airline could conduct the same maintenance task, simultaneously, on both engines of a twin without a test before flight. Surely, if there is a need, for example, ...
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Tracking down spare parts
Airline outsourcing is hardly front-page news, but most spares-suppliers welcome the attention. Some spare-parts companies are enjoying growth Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE AIRCRAFT spare-parts industry is unsure of itself. At the same time as some companies are enjoying growth, others face uncertain futures. New regulations around ...
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Cathay profits, despite tough half-year
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways produced a respectable rise in profits over the first half of the year, despite restrained growth and some pressure on costs. Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO), the Hong Kong carrier's sister company within the Swire Group, saw profits dip again, however. Financial analysts are ...
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FBI agents raid SabreTech premises
US FEDERAL BUREAU of Investigation (FBI) agents have raided Miami-based SabreTech, maintenance contractor to ValuJet and alleged to be implicated in the cause of the 11 May crash, seizing company documents. FBI officials will not discuss the reasons for the search. Meanwhile, Lewis Jordan, president of grounded ValuJet, ...
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Lufthansa Technik warns against maintenance monopoly dangers
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA TECHNIK (LHT) chairman Wolfgang Mayrhuber has criticised manufacturers which offer their own maintenance packages for aircraft and aero engines. LHT says that aircraft and engine manufacturers are increasingly attempting to "-elbow their way" into the maintenance and overhaul market and restrict current ...
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Maintaining success
European maintenance company FLS Aerospace is to undertake heavy maintenance on three Boeing 747-100Fs belonging to US freight operator Polar Air Cargo. The programme will be performed "nose to tail" at the FLS hangar at Stansted in the UK, starting on 11 August. The Danish-owned company has also secured a ...
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DHL eyes widebody freighters for European operations
DHL AIRWAYS is targeting late 1997 or early 1998 to introduce widebodied freighters on to its European network, as it seeks to modernise and upgrade its fleet. The US-based package carrier operates some 50 aircraft on its European cross-border network, including 24 Stage 3 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. Two more -200Fs ...
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Aviastar Asia opens up for Tu-204 business
AVIASTAR ASIA (AAC), a new joint venture involving Russian aircraft-production company Aviastar and several South-East Asian financial institutions, opened its office in Taipei on 24 July. The consortium will provide leasing, financial and technical support for the Tupolev Tu-204, which is assembled in Ulyanovsk. AAC is planning to ...
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Rivals in a state
What should airlines do when their competitors benefit from state aid? Gerrit Schohe argues that the current system for approving state aids requires an overhaul, but suggests that Commission decisions can be challenged successfully. One of the biggest controversies in the European aviation industry arose when the European Commission ...