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Turkish blend
The Turkish flag carrier appears to have turned the corner financially and is now profitable. But political uncertainty and government interference are still holding THY Turkish Airlines back. Meanwhile, deregulation is allowing the country's private charter carriers to move into scheduled operations. Mark Odell reports from Istanbul. Much as Turkish ...
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BA strikes up Spanish talks
After a damaging three-day strike forced British Airways back to the negotiating table, management set about leaking plans for a low-cost carrier in a bid to raise the pressure on the cabin crew union. At the same time, BA has started talking with Iberia about a possible alliance, following a ...
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Rainbow aria
Besides the airline industry, Omar Fontana's leading passion in life is the piano. Yet a recent operation on Fontana's hands has made it difficult for this accomplished pianist to play. So he is sublimating his love for playing by composing a symphony, instructing other people to write down 'the ...
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Euro alliance shape shifts
The European alliance merry-go-round is turning at full tilt during the northern hemisphere's summer, with loose ends tidied up and new combinations entering the arena. With the holidays more or less shutting the regulators in Brussels down for the month of August, the frustrated officials at British Airways ...
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Looking at glideslope deviation
Sir - You published a letter of mine in November 1990, which proposed a system of radar surveillance to give visual warning of glideslope deviation on the controller's display, so that the controller could query the deviation with the aircraft concerned. A second (unpublished) letter expanded this concept ...
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Expolsive versus combustive flame
Sir - I have been following the investigation into the TW800 accident with great interest, and the two letters on the subject from Capt Pike and Mr Gambardella (Flight International, 13-19 August, P48) prompt me to draw attention to a passage in Lightning Protection for Aircraft (Fischer & Plumer, NASA ...
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Load shift?
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on a possible rearward load-shift of untethered cargo as a cause of the 7 August accident to a Fine Air McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F at Miami, Florida. Controllers reported that the aircraft pitched up to an angle of some 60¼ almost immediately after ...
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Angola accident
A 31-year-old Angolan Air Charter Boeing 727-100F (D2-TJC) crash-landed at Lukapa, Angola inbound from the country's capital, Luanda, on 15 August. There are no confirmed reports about the circumstances, but no-one on board the cargo flight is believed to have been seriously injured. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
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Guam probe reveals US MSAW problems
Software errors have been found and corrected on the minimum-safe-altitude warning (MSAW) systems at three US airports, the US Federal Aviation Administration has revealed. The MSAW alerts air-traffic controllers when an aircraft equipped with a Mode C transponder descends below minimum safe altitude during a landing approach. The ...
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KLM pursues European plans
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM says that it will continue to press ahead with plans to increase its presence across Europe, having signed its latest partnership deal with Norway's Braathens SAFE- backed with a 30%equity stake. KLM, which took full control of Air UK earlier this year and ...
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GosNIIAS signs up to produce Collins TCAS modules
Rockwell Avionics & Communications has signed a co-production agreement with the Russian State Research Institute for Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS), for the production and testing in Moscow of components for the Collins traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). Under the agreement, GosNIIAS will produce key modules of the Collins TPR-900 ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of speciÌcation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will be required to enable ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of specification from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will ...
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ValuJet crash blamed on total US safety-oversight failure
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The cause of the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 crash on 11 May, 1996, was failure by the US aviation-safety system to keep hazardous material off a commercial transport aircraft, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official accident report. ValuJet, the Federal ...
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Beriev prototype crashes at show
Beriev's Be-103 prototype crashed on 18 August during a familiarisation flight over the Zhukovski aerodrome in Moscow just before the start of the show. The twin-engined multi-purpose Be-103 amphibian was first flown on 15 July and had had a further 18 flights during the first month of testing. ...
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Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
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AOPA safety arm funds research
Research into a novel high-lift device is being funded by a ground-breaking grant from the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's (AOPA) Air Safety Foundation. The research grant has been awarded to Wichita State University in Kansas to conduct computational fluid-dynamic analysis and windtunnel testing to validate the "Nahas wing" ...
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United buys time for regional-jet deal with Atlantic Coast Airlines
United Airlines has agreed to reimburse the aircraft-lease and flight-crew costs for Atlantic Coast Airlines' (ACA) Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ) until the end of the year, giving the carrier more time to reach an agreement with its pilots . ACA had planned to begin an independent regional-jet ...
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Japanese consortium prepares plans to launch regional airline
An Okinawa-based Japanese business consortium is drawing up plans to launch an airline within three years, to operate domestic routes and, possibly, international services in the longer term. A group of 32 island investors led by Okinawa Electric Power has established a new company called Southern Cross to ...