All Ops & safety articles – Page 1382
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Power games
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE TWO MANUFACTURERS which will offer engines for Boeing's 747-500X/600X derivatives laid their cards on the table at Farnborough, and highlighted the radical differences between two powerplants which could end up being remarkably similar in terms of performance. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney ...
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Where safety responsibility lies
Sir -Your Comment "Under oversight" (Flight International, 31 July-6 August) could give the impression that regulatory authorities rely on their own direct inspections to achieve high safety standards in aviation. This has never been the case. The aviation-safety process has always relied on regulatory-authority approval and licensing of ...
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New master of the loads
McDonnell Douglas is establishing the MD-11 as a major force in the large-transport cargo market. Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON LUFTHANSA CARGO'S surprise order for five McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11F freighters, placed half-way through the Farnborough show, could hardly have come at a better time for the tri-jet ...
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Saab sounds out potential partners for new regional
Andrzej Jeziorski/LINKOPING SWEDISH REGIONAL-turboprop manufacturer Saab Aircraft is in the early stages of talks to find a partner for a successor programme to its current range, the 35-seat Saab 340 and the 50-seat Saab 2000. According to Saab Aircraft president Hans Kr_ger, the company aims to ...
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Sound of silence
THE UK GOVERNMENT has decided that the absolute noise limits for airliners leaving London's three major airports should be reduced by up to 3dBA. This action, it says, will reduce noise for airport neighbours at little cost to the airlines - "only" 12% of departures of the heaviest-laden Boeing 747s ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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EF2000 overtakes inflation rate
Sir - In May 1996, I noted an article which quoted the price of the Eurofighter EF2000 at £34 million ($56.6 million). Two months later, in the UK Times of 22 July, the price was quoted as £50 million. What is happening? I thought that inflation was supposed ...
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Scientists lose faith in Ariane 5 managers after 'betrayal'
Tim Furniss/FARNBOROUGH EUROPEAN SPACE Agency (ESA) scientists have been "betrayed" by management mistakes which resulted in the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch in June, according to Roger Bonnet, the head of the agency's space-programmes office. Bonnet says that the official enquiry board into the ...
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Looking at dwell-cracks in CF6-50
Sir - Further to my letters "Solving problems in development" and "Development problems continue" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P44 and 13-19 March, P37), I note a statement in the June issue of the Royal Aeronautical Society journal which says that following two uncontained compressor-disc failures in General Electric CF6-50s, the ...
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Boeing reveals details of '747-look' -700X
FIRST DETAILS of Boeing's proposed 747-700X design reveal a "747-look" concept with the first change in the fuselage cross-section since the baseline 747 was designed in the 1960s (Flight International, 4-10 September). Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president Ron Woodard says: "The design of our 747-600X will allow for ...
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Boeing 737 mystery prompts airworthiness directives
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC and David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the USAir Pittsburgh crash has spawned airworthiness directives (ADs) requiring changes in the Boeing 737 flight-control system. This comes despite the fact that the investigation, the most exhaustive in the board's history, has failed ...
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...while signalling caution on a new Japanese alliance deal
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS British Airways has signalled that the signing up of an alliance partner in the Asia-Pacific region will take a back seat as the airline first attempts to see through its tie-up with American Airlines. Chief executive Bob Ayling told a meeting of Australia's National ...
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ATN team to be led by AlliedSignal project
ATN SYSTEMS, the industry consortium created to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN), has picked an AlliedSignal-led team to develop the network "router". The team will provide the avionics and ground system equipment needed to support routing and operation of data communications services over the ATN. Working ...
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Satellite-landing system approval is postponed
US CERTIFICATION OF the Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system (SLS) has been put back by six months, to the end of 1996. The first satellite-landing system will be certificated to US Federal Aviation Administration special-category 1 (SCAT 1) levels at Newark, New Jersey, rather than at Minneapolis/St Paul, as ...
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BA optimistic on open-skies
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways chief executive Bob Ayling is hopeful that the US/UK open-skies negotiations will be back on track by the end of September, despite the breakdown in the latest round of talks. Doubts were raised over the state of relations between the two sides ...
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Japanese/US bilateral talks falter
Japan's Minister of Transport has written to his US Department of Transportation (DoT) counterpart warning against the imposition of traffic sanctions, following the collapse in the recent round of air services talks. In a letter sent to US transportation secretary Frederico Pena, Japan's minister, Yoshiyuki Kamei, states that ...
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TWA bomb evidence mounts up
SUSPICIONS THAT A BOMB brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on 17 July have been reinforced by additional traces of explosive residue and a Boeing analysis of a centre fuel-tank explosion. Accident investigators and federal law-enforcement officials still cannot say, that the TWA Boeing 747-100 was downed by a ...
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The Cathay experience
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has been operating mixed-fleet flying with its new Airbus Industrie A330/A340s since August 1995. This is a pioneering departure, in that it requires crews to be simultaneously qualified, on aircraft with two and four engines, a combination, which has never before been an industry-accepted practice for line ...
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Dornier sets jet date
FAIRCHILD DORNIER could launch a turbofan version of its 30-seat Dornier 328 next month, with development of a stretched 50-seat turbofan to follow in mid-1997 after an eight-month definition phase. The turbofan development, an alternative to the long-awaited turboprop stretched-version of the aircraft, has already been deemed ...
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Pricing row forces Virgin Express to delay new Geneva service
VIRGIN EXPRESS has been forced to postpone "until further notice" its new scheduled service to Geneva, following the Swiss authorities' objections to the company's low-fare policy. The Brussels-based carrier was to have begun services on 2 September. The proposed Virgin Express aimed to set fares at around half ...