News from FlightGlobal – Page 2404
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Delta detection
Robotic Vision Systems (RVSI) has received an order from Delta Air Lines for additional ID-1H wide-area ice-detection systems to complete equipment of its Delta Shuttle aircraft. The ID-1H combines a hand-held sensor with a video display to enable de-icing truck operators to locate contamination of critical surfaces. Source: ...
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Is the SST a viable solution?
Sir-In your article "Supersonic Resurrection" (Flight International, 18-25 December 1996, P26), you reported the Tupolev officials' belief that sustained air-traffic growth would lead to the need for a larger, second-generation, supersonic transport (SST). This is illogical, as continuing air-traffic growth is already causing a shortage of "slots" at major airports. ...
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FAA demands total 737 rudder-retrofit programme
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to order airlines to retrofit four newly developed rudder-system components in 2,800 Boeing 737s. US Vice President Al Gore revealed the move in a speech on commercial aviation security and safety. The updated components will be incorporated in new-build 737-300, -400 and -500 series ...
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World charters
World Airways will provide charter flights for Garuda Indonesia during 1997 under a wet-lease agreement worth at least $30 million. World will fly pilgrims between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia with four McDonnell Douglas MD-11s and two DC-10-30s. The US charter carrier has provided wet-lease services to Garuda since 1973. ...
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Boeing747 orders
Boeing has taken orders from two customers for three Boeing 747-400s, including two -400 Combis for Air China, and one -400 Freighter for Cargolux, the latter being due for delivery in November. Source: Flight International
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AA pilots reject
American Airlines' (AA) recent $6.6 billion order for a mix of Boeing aircraft is on hold following the rejection of a new labour agreement by the Allied Pilots' Association, a union which represents some 9,000 of the airline's aircrew. AA said when it placed the order that it was contingent ...
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Safety defeated
THE YEAR 1996 SAW the largest number both of airline fatal accidents and of fatalities on record. Other serious worries for the air-transport community highlighted by 1996 include the number of deaths on the ground caused by crashes - also the worst ever - and some compelling trends indicating that ...
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Tu-224: different class of aircraft
Sir - In the article "Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort", Dr Ibrahim Kamel, president of the newly formed Sirocco, is quoted as saying that the Tupolev Tu-224 (Western-powered Tu-204) will cost about $36 million. You then say that comparative "sticker" prices for the similarly sized Airbus A321-100 ...
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Europe seeks reversal of Air Pacific Boeing order
European governments are putting pressure on Fiji to reverse an Air Pacific order for three Boeing 737-700s with an option on a fourth, and order Airbus aircraft instead. The Fijian flag carrier ordered the aircraft in 1996 to add to its all-Boeing fleet of 737s, a 747 and one 767. ...
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Augsburg considers expansion with Dash 8-400
Augsburg Airways, which recently became the first "Team Lufthansa" franchise partner, is considering further fleet expansion with the de Havilland Dash 8-400. While no firm purchase decision has been taken, the southern Germany-based regional airline says that its partnership with Lufthansa opens the possibility of future operations on ...
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Collision leads to restructure of Delhi air-traffic-control routes
Arrival and departure procedures in the New Delhi airport terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) have been revised since the collision on 12 November, 1996 between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 which killed 349 people (Flight International, 20-26 November 1996, P8), according to the Indian Directorate ...
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Delta ends intra Europe flights
DELTA AIR LINES is to discontinue the intra-European operations which it acquired from Pan American World Airways in 1991, and instead increase transatlantic flights, principally from New York's J F Kennedy Airport. The restructuring will result in a one-time charge against earnings of up to $60 million, mainly ...
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Fokker will make selection of F28 retrofit engine in February
Plans to launch a re-engineing programme for the Fokker F28 Fellowship are gathering momentum, with a final engine selection expected in February. Programme partners Fokker Services and Perry Group plan a launch decision in April, depending on market response. Lion Boenders, product marketing manager at Woensdrecht, Holland-based Fokker ...
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ValuJet progress
ValuJet Airlines is again serving West Palm Beach and will resume flights to Fort Myers, Florida, on 16 January. The low-fare Atlanta, Georgia-based airline continues to rebuild its route structure under the watchful eye of the US Federal Aviation Administration which has now given permission for ValuJet to add three ...
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BA wins approval for Air Liberte rescue
British Airways and the Rivaud group have won court approval for their take-over of Air Liberté, the French regional carrier forced to seek a rescuer after running out of cash in September. BA and Rivaud emerged as the winning bidders early in November, but had to wait until ...
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Airbus closes in on AE-100 development agreement
Airbus Industrie is expected to announce shortly its team to head Europe's participation in the joint development of the proposed Air Express AE-100 regional passenger aircraft in partnership with China and Singapore. The new Airbus team will assume responsibility for the programme from Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)), which ...
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The boom returns for airliner orders
Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)saw jet-airliner orders climb comfortably above the 1,000 mark in 1996, giving the big three aircraft builders their best year since the bonanza of the late 1980s. Production rates are also on the rise and due to hit record levels within the next two to ...
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AMRAI works to salvage N250 schedule
American Regional Aircraft Industries (AMRAI) is to form a joint task force with IPTN in an attempt to get the N250 flight-test and certification programme back on schedule. The Indonesian manufacturer and its US-based subsidiary agreed to the recovery effort in mid-December, shortly after the much-delayed maiden flight ...
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Boeing confirms 767-400ERX stretch but raises 747-X doubts
Boeing HAS confirmed that the stretched 767-400ERX is on course to be launched this year, but raises further doubts about the timetable for a go-ahead on the proposed stretched 747. Ron Woodard, president of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, says that the main board gave its formal approval ...
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Airbus selects two vendors for advanced FMS
Airbus INDUSTRIE has selected Honeywell and Sextant Avionique/Smiths Industries to supply future air navigation system (FANS)-capable flight-management systems (FMS)on its aircraft from 1998. Honeywell plans to gain certification for its upgraded FMSon the A330 and A340 in April 1998, with A319/320/321 approval following six months later. Sextant/Smiths has ...