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Washington now Virgin territory?
As Virgin Atlantic makes its presence felt in the US-UK open skies negotiations, Washington's commonly held wisdom that British Airways holds nearly complete sway over the UK's international aviation policy is being put to the test. BA, which wants an open skies pact so it can seek antitrust ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...
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Su-37 shows its thrust
Sukhoi has displayed its Su-27M Flanker derivative, fitted with thrust-vector control, at Tushino airfield during the Air Fleet Day show on 18 August. The aircraft, which has been dubbed the Su-37, is fitted with Lyulka/Saturn Al-37FU engines with thrust-vectoring nozzles. The most spectacular thrust-vectoring manoeuvre demonstrated was a rapid pitch-up, ...
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EMB-145 brake system is Crane's
Sir - While the EMB-145 flight-test "Basic appeal" (Flight International, 3-9 July, P29) was very good, there was an error. The discussion of the brake-control system incorrectly lists the anti-skid unit as a Maxaret system. It is actually a MkV digital brake-by-wire control system manufactured by Hydro-Air/Crane in Burbank, California. ...
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ValuJet misses 23 August target date for service resumption
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC VALUJET AIRLINES has failed to resume flights by the 23 August start-up target, which it had set earlier in the month. The carrier says that "proving runs" were to take place on 20-21 August for the benefit of US Federal Aviation Administration inspectors. ...
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MDHS reveals MD600N design change
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has begun flight testing a series of modifications to the MD600N eight-seat civil helicopter following the crash of a prototype earlier this year. The changes are aimed at increasing the clearance between the main rotor blades and ...
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IL-76 crash
An Ilyushin Il-76 four-jet freighter crashed and burned about 1km (0.5nm) short of Belgrade Airport, Yugoslavia, killing all ten people on board. The aircraft, belonging to Ykaterinburg, Russian-based charter airline Spair, had taken off from Belgrade bound for Malta at about 03.00 local time on 19 August, but, about 15min ...
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Failure on Delta JT8D concerns Safety Board
A DELTA AIR LINES Boeing 727 suffered engine surge followed by the uncontained turbine failure of one of its three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engines during a climb from New York's LaGuardia Airport, on 14 August, says the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incident, the second ...
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Farnborough International TV and Radio '96
This year's show will mark the first appearance of Farnborough International Television (FITV). The service, produced by Surrey-based Aerospace Communication Services, is designed to provide exhibitors and visitors alike with a comprehensive news and information service throughout the duration of the show. FITV will include interviews with prominent ...
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Planar advance
Planar Advance, in partnership with dpiX, will unveil full-military specification active-matrix liquid-crystal-displays (AMLCDs) for fast jets and other cockpit applications. The initial product measures 125 x 125mm and has a 480 x 480 pixel colour display. The company says that a 160 x 160mm display is among larger, higher-resolution displays, ...
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DM Aerospace
DM Aerospace will be launching FlightVu, which consists of a range of video-camera equipment designed for use on commercial aircraft. The FV-0100 is a monochrome video camera for mounting externally on an aircraft, and is heated, sealed and easily maintainable. The FV-0300 performs a similar function, but uses a colour ...
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ATC Lasham/Wynnwith
In a new contract with the Farnborough International '96 organisers, ATC Lasham and Wynnwith Engineering have joined forces to provide aircraft engineering support at the show. With a ground crew of over 40 personnel, the joint team has responsibility for moving aircraft from the runway-section of the static park before ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...
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Dollar rise takes toll of SAS profit
SAS HAS BECOME the latest of the northern European carriers to suffer a slump in operating profits, largely blamed on the rise of the US dollar. The Scandinavian carrier ended the first half of the year with operating profits down by nearly 40% at SKr930 million ($142 million) ...
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Explosion located
Investigators of the 17 July Trans World Airlines Boeing 747 crash near Long Island, New York, say that they are now certain that the explosion which brought the aircraft down took place "in the centre-tank area" of the fuselage. The US National Transportation Safety Board says, however, that the cause ...
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Family favourites
Boeing's new-generation 737is the same, only different Guy Norris/SEATTLE EXACTLY 30 YEARS ago, the first Boeing 737 was taking shape at the company's plant in Renton, Washington. At the time, not everyone was convinced that the "Baby Boeing" gamble would be a winner. The concern ...
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Passenger/baggage matching system planned
MICRON Communications has signed a co-operative research-and-development agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop a prototype positive passenger-baggage matching system. The objective is for the system to recognise automatically when baggage has been placed on an aircraft without the associated passenger, says Boise, Idaho-based Micron. ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...