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DHL studies 747 to cope with transatlantic growth
Steve Waller, senior vice-president of Network Transportation at DHL Airways, says the documents express carrier "-is truly a company without a national identity". DHL Airways is the US operational arm of DHL International, a private company with major stakes held by Japan Air Lines (JAL), Lufthansa Cargo and Deutsche Post ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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Airbus lowers A3XX numbers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's latest long range market forecast has maintained a bullish outlook for jet airliner demand over the next 20 years, despite the present Asian economic crisis, but its analysis has shifted towards greater demand for smaller aircraft compared to 1997 predictions, and reduced the size of ...
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ADP plans five year investment in Charles de Gaulle
France's Aéroports de Paris (ADP) airport authority is embarking on a five year programme of heavy investment at Charles de Gaulle (CDG), its main base and Air France's increasingly successful hub. As it opened the first half of the new terminal 2F at the airport on 27 March, ADP ...
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First for Dutch ATC
The Netherlands has accepted into operation the FIRST air traffic control (ATC) tower simulator supplied by Raytheon Systems UK and installed in a new training centre at Amsterdam Schiphol-East. Controller training is scheduled to begin in the third quarter. Source: Flight International
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NTSB pushes for SB
An Airbus Industrie A320 incident in which the rudder pedal operation remained stiff after autopilot disconnect has led the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to call for an April 1997 Airbus service bulletin (SB) to be made compulsory. The NTSB cites a pilot report on a November 1996 Northwest ...
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Marketplace
-US cargo carrier Atlas Air has signed a long term contract to operate Boeing 747-200 freighter services for Alitalia, with an ex-Philippine Airlines 747-200F being converted by Boeing. -Stansted, UK based AB Airlines has leased two ex-Jet Airways Boeing 737-300s from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS). -Air Malta has concluded ...
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High fidelity pays off
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Simulator manufacturers have started 1998 as they ended 1997 - busy. As expected, orders for commercial flight simulators are tracking closely the recent surge in airliner sales. At least 45 full flight simulators were sold last year, short of the last peak of 55 in 1989, but ...
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Dee Howard sell-off looms
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Alenia is considering the sale of part of its US maintenance business, Dee Howard, while the Italian group's Venice-based Aeronavali unit has received a huge order from a leasing company for converting McDonnell Douglas DC-10s into freighters. Maintenance represents around 65% of Dee Howard's annual $100 million sales. ...
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Europe and USA on course to clash over FANS datalink
Kieran Daly/LONDON Europe and the USA are once again set for a clash of wills over a key component of the technology to be used in the satellite based Future Air Navigation System (FANS). At an International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO) panel meeting starting this week, European interests ...
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French cargo carrier secures Brasilias to start freighter operations
Start-up French cargo airline Air Open Sky is preparing to begin operating the first of three Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias which have been configured for quick change (QC) passenger-to-freighter operations. The airline planned to start flying the Brasilias late in 1997 but hit delays due to problems in securing the ...
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BA cadets start US training
Paul Richfield/BATTLE CREEK The first class of British Airways cadets has begun training at Western Michigan University (WMU) as part of the airline's drive to take on some 2,500 pilots over the next decade. A second group of BA trainees will arrive at Michigan in May under the ...
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Taiwan steps up safety audits
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI In an attempt to rebuild passenger confidence in Taiwan's air safety following a spate of accidents, the country's Civil Aeronautics Administration has announced stricter penalties, including severe fines and grounding, for airlines not in compliance with regulatory standards. Each of Taiwan's nine commercial airlines has been ...
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New UK oceanic ATC centre faces major delays
Ian Sheppard/LONDON THE UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) faces another embarrassing delay in upgrading its ageing infrastructure, with warnings that it will have to extend the deadline on completing a new oceanic air traffic control centre within only months of work starting. Design work on the centre, ...
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IAI closes on partners for FedEx Airtruck project
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is in talks with potential partners in Europe and Asia over its Airtruck project for a small turboprop cargo aircraft, and is expected to decide within the next few weeks whether it is able to present formal proposals to customer FedEx. FedEx has a requirement ...
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Japanese aircrew strike grinds into its second week
The strike by pilots and flight engineers over salary cuts at All Nippon Airways (ANA)is moving into its second week with no sign of an end to what is an almost unprecedented level of industrial action for Japan. By 17 April, the twelfth day, the number of cancelled international flights ...
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Sabbath flights issue is high on El Al privatisation agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV As the Israeli Government attempts again to thrash out agreement on privatising national carrier El Al, the thorny political issue of whether to end its costly ban on Sabbath flights remains high on the agenda. A decision on the long delayed privatisation was due to take ...
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Thai/Garuda firm up fleet plans as Qantas eyes up Asian 747s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Paul Phelan/CAIRNSThai Airways International has been given approval to take delivery of 17 new aircraft over the next three years, despite Thailand's economic difficulties. Financial problems elsewhere are forcing Garuda Indonesia to seek an early return of six leased Boeing MD-11s, while Qantas is seeking to acquire surplus ...
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Korean wraps up 737 deal with Boeing/GECAS
Korean Air (KAL) has finalised a series of financially convoluted lease, loan and trade-in deals with Boeing and General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for 35 Next Generation 737s. The agreements entail KAL rolling over its entire fleet of 26 Boeing MD-82/83 and Fokker 100 twinjets. In return, Boeing ...
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FAA fuel tank explosion concerns now extended to 737s
Potential explosion danger from fuel vapour in Boeing 737 fuel tanks is to be addressed in a new US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD). The proposed AD, affecting 1,140 US-registered and about 1,600 other 737s, specifies all models from the -100 to the -500. It calls for protection ...