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Safety Contract
China Airlines (CAL) has contracted Lufthansa Technik to help the accident-prone Taiwanese national carrier improve its safety record. Lufthansa Technik will advise CAL on drawing up new operational and maintenance management procedures over the next two to three years. The airline has suffered from a spate of fatal and non-fatal ...
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Coating resurrects worn engine components
WORN ENGINE sub-assemblies and components which previously had to be scrapped can now be recovered using a coating called TC-4, according to its developer, Turbine Controls. The coating is designed to protect components from the effects of corrosion, and can also be used to restore heavily worn surfaces. ...
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Safety: who is really to blame?
Sir - I refer to the Airline Safety Review (Flight International, 17-23 January), which gives a table of the most common reasons for airline accidents. The top five causes (aircrew error, controlled flight into terrain, weather, loss of control, engine failure/fire) can all be brought together, under one ...
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Boon to aerospace
A background in shipbuilding has helped the head of Singapore Technologies Aerospace keep the company afloat. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOON SWAN FOO'S first year at the helm of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has proved to be tough. The former Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering president has had to contend ...
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Singapore applies to join Asian AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Technologies is negotiating with China to take at least a 10% stake in the proposed new AE-100 passenger-aircraft programme. According to industry sources in Beijing, Singapore Technologies has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to join ...
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Air Canada
Chris Nassenstein has been appointed vice-president for technical operations at Air Canada, with effect from 1 February. He was most recently vice-president for maintenance and engineering at Canadian Airlines and has also held senior positions at Nordair, Austin Airways and Quebecair. He replaces John Dickie. Source: ...
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STAe
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe), the Aerospace arm of the Singapore Technologies Group, has appointed Wee Siew Kim senior vice-president (operations) for its commercial-business group. Oci Ling Heong becomes senior vice-president (marketing). Tang Kok Fai has resigned as executive vice-president of the commercial-business group. Source: Flight International
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What's on
Asian Aerospace '96 6-11 February, Singapore. Contacts (Asia-Pacific) Reed Exhibition Companies, tel: +65 371 0705; fax +65 271 4520; (North America) tel: +1 (203) 840 5342; fax: +1 (203) 840 9342; (Rest of the World) Reed Exhibition Companies, Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1DL, UK; tel: +44 ...
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SEP sizes up Messier-Bugatti purchase
FRENCH ROCKET-engine manufacturer SEP is angling to take over the Messier-Bugatti carbon-brakes business, its sister company within the Snecma group. SEP president Roger Vignelles says that he wants to take over the brakes business to reinforce non-space business while his company prepares for a fall in revenues from ...
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Global Express assembly begins
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ASSEMBLY OF THE first Global Express long-range business jet has begun at Bombardier's partner companies. The forward fuselage, produced by Shorts in the UK, has been joined to Canadair's cockpit section at the Canadian company's Montreal plant, while preliminary mating of the wing and centre fuselage has taken ...
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STAe agrees funds for maintenance arm
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has gone ahead with the recapitalisation of its loss-making maintenance company ST Aviation Services (SASCO), after reaching agreement with partner shareholders Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Japan Airlines (JAL). Under the restructuring plan, STAe has converted a S$20 million ($14 million) loan into preference shares ...
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Start for Woomera's space bid agreement signed
AN AUSTRALIAN engineering company and Russia's Scientific Technical Complex (STC) have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of establishing a commercial launch service for low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia. The Russian Start booster would be used to carry 600kg payloads to ...
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British Midland to face JAR action
IMPLEMENTATION OF the European Joint Aviation Regulations (JARs) has led to criminal charges being brought against British Midland Airlines by the UK Civil Aviation Authority following a maintenance error in 1995. JARs make companies, rather than individuals, responsible for errors. The BMA mistake caused the emergency diversion and ...
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AB Shannon
David Billingsby (left) has been appointed sales manager for AB Shannon, part of the Air Bristol Group, of Bristol, Avon, UK. Billingsby, formerly general sales manager of maintenance company JEA, of Exeter, Devon, and, before that, director of sales at Budget Rent-a-Car, is seen with group chief executive Brian Beal. ...
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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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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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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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FLS cutback
FLS Aerospace is shedding up to 320 of its 670-strong maintenance workforce at Stansted Airport in the UK, with the exact number of redundancies to be announced by 20 March. Source: Flight International
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AAR
AAR Oklahoma of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has announced that James Whaylen has been promoted to director of business-aviation maintenance services. Whaylen was manager of business-aviation service sales. David Chapman is promoted to Whaylen's former position. Source: Flight International
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KLM
P F Hartman executive vice-president for personnel and organisation at Netherlands national carrier KLM is named executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, replacing R G van Groenewoud, who is to leave the company. Hartman is replaced by, C van Woudenberg now executive vice president, for flight services. C J M ...