All Ops & safety articles – Page 1337
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Turboprop market rings to the sounds of silence
Don't expect a war of words as the battle for the 50-seater turboprop market heats up - expect a war of whispers instead. Both Saab with its top-of -the-range high-performance Saab 2000 and the Bombardier Regional Aircraft (BRAD) de Havilland Dash 8Q series are claiming technological advances which ...
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Shuttle may go with ads to cut costs
Imagine the Space Shuttle looking like a Grand Prix racing car covered with company logos. It could happen. "The USA can't afford to run the Space Shuttle without private financing," says former astronaut Jim Adamson, who heads United Space Alliance which operates the Shuttle for NASA. ...
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Demos draw in the crowds at Aeroquip-Vickers
Hands-on activities at Hall 4/B5 are drawing in the crowds to the Aeroquip-Vickers stand. The attractions are live demonstrations of a new aerospace Target-Pro particle counter and interactive software. Aeroquip and Vickers are exhibiting as Aeroquip-Vickers, a new name adopted in April 1997. The ...
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European ATM giant proposed
Thomson-CSF and Siemens are seeking European regulatory approval for a new joint venture teaming their air traffic management activities and creating the largest ATM company in the world. The new company, Airsys ATM, will be owned 60% by Thomson CSF and 40% by Siemens. Airsys will ...
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Biodecap strips the natural way
French firm Biodecap has gone back to nature with a new product which strips paint off metal, composites and plastics on aircraft. The product, called Biodecap, is made from wheat, and can be seen for the first time in Hall 4/B2. The patented process mixes flour ...
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Cover story
A washable aircraft seat cover which is lighter than previous materials but as hard-wearing has been developed by Faber and Becker of Germany. Called Airtex, it is made from a special yarn that is 90% lambswool and 10% polyamit. This type of material is expected to ...
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Flexible stretcher
Lars Thogersen reclines across the brand new stretcher he has designed for SAS Component and Bucher Leichtbau. The New Generation Stretcher System is making its debut in Hall 3/E3 on the SAS Component stand. Although flexible and comfortable, it weighs just 38kg (80lb) and offers various ...
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Lufthansa pilots to train on Pipers
Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) is to buy a fleet of seven Piper Seneca V aircraft, with options on a further four. The first deliveries begin in January 1998. The deal, announced by New Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Florida, at Le Bourget yesterday, will involve the aircraft being ...
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Japan cargo growth
Japan has approved daily FedEx flights from New York, Chicago, Anchorage and Houston to Tokyo and Naha, Okinawa, continuing to other Far East destinations. Another US parcels carrier, UPS, has substituted a Boeing 747-100 freighter for a 767-300 on five-times-weekly flights from Chicago to Tokyo Narita. ...
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JAL turbulence
Eleven passengers and crew were injured, four seriously, aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) McDonnell Douglas MD-11 after the aircraft encountered severe air turbulence on 8 June. The aircraft was en route from Hong Kong to Nagoya carrying 169 passengers and 11 crew, when it encountered the turbulence about 25min before ...
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Runway safety
Northrop Grumman's Norden Systems unit has received $20 million from the US Federal Aviation Administration to produce and install 20 airport-movement area safety systems (AMASS) at major US airports. The safety device, which is integrated with the ASDE-3 surface surveillance radar, automatically alerts controllers to potential runway conflicts under all ...
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Advantage ATI
The Aerospace community has a seemingly insatiable demand for ever more high-value information, delivered with ever greater frequency and speed. Nowhere is this demand more visible than in the airline sector, where information (on competitors, suppliers and customers) has become as powerful a competitive tool as any. Historically, the ...
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Keeping air traffic flowing
Sir - In a recent weekday attempt to recover an unpressurised jet transport from the Mediterranean area to the UK, France's Paris Control objected to the flight plan because the route did not conform to the traffic-orientation scheme (TOS-17). It was explained that the flightplan route was selected to avoid ...
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Airbus testing
The final series of ground-based tests on Airbus Industrie's A330-200 has begun in Toulouse, leading to its first flight in mid-August. The A330-200, which will seat 253 passengers in a standard three-class layout, is the newest member of the growing A330/A340 family. A comprehensive 630h flight-test ...
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Rockwell Sino link
Rockwell's Avionics and Communications is to assemble and test two major components of the Collins Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System in China. This follows a co-production agreement with China National Aero-Technology International Supply Corporation. The agreement signed at the show calls for Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute ...
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EuroLOT primed for take-off as parent suffers 1996 loss
LOT Polish Airlines is preparing to start operations of its regional, low-cost subsidiary EuroLOT in the hope of cutting costs on its shorter routes, after dropping sharply from modest profitability into loss in 1996. EuroLOT, which is expected to become operational early in July, will initially take over ...
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Reed Aerospace poised to launch 24h information service
Reed Aerospace, publisher of Flight International and Airline Business, is to launch the world's first round-the-clock air transport-dedicated newswire as part of a major new electronic information service. An initial team of eight journalists worldwide is being recruited to provide the first-hand news that will make up the ...
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Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval
British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...
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China switches AE31X assembly plans
Aviation INDUSTRIES of China (AVIC) has switched plans for the final assembly of the proposed AE31X family of regional aircraft from Shanghai to Xian, in an move which threatens to complicate development and logistical support of the international programme. China's State Council is understood to have dropped Shanghai ...
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Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase
Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...