All Ops & safety articles – Page 1408
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USAir heads for profit
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAIR HAS surprised analysts with an upbeat forecast that it will end the year with its first profits since 1988. Over the past six years, the carrier has built up losses of more than $3 billion USAir ended the first half of this ...
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Israviation looks to Gulf marketplace
ST-50 MANUFACTURER Israviation hopes, that the Gulf States could develop into an important market, for the light executive aircraft being developed in Israel. The optimism follows the 2 September flight of the ST-50 prototype for presentation to King Hussein of Jordan. The king, an enthusiastic pilot, is believed ...
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How green is a hushkit?
Sir - The article in Flight International, 23-29 August, on hushkit fitment to European Aviation's 20 BAC One-Elevens highlights the fact that, even 12 years after the first One-Eleven Tay re-engining proposals (Weybridge, 1983), the "thinking" operator prefers a re-engined aircraft to one fitted with hushkits. A similar pronouncement, was ...
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Koliber II is fast, but not that fast
Sir - I refer to the flight test of the Koliber II (Flight International, 7-13 June, P112). I was not a little surprised to read that the Koliber can reach speeds of between 170kt (315jm/h) and 260kt (and this with the cockpit canopy not completely closed), which to ...
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Virtual evacuation
Cabin design and procedures for safe emergency evacuation, may be changed by computer modeling. Martin Hindley/LONDON AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY evacuations are designed as far as possible to work no matter what the nature of the emergency, but passenger behaviour is inherently difficult to define and predict. ...
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Technology-transfer key to regional-jet deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA'S AND South Korea's selection, of a Western partner to help develop a new 100-seat regional jet, will be determined by the level of foreign technology transfer. According to South Korean aerospace sources, local industry access to new technology will be the key ...
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Contracting the inside out
Bombardier is the latest to contract out interiors Kevin O'Toole/BIGGIN HILL IN AN ERA OF standardisation, the cabin interior remains one of the few parts of an aircraft where the airline customer still has a chance make its mark. For the customer, it ...
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How cabin-noise suppression works
There are three principal sources of noise in the cabin of a typical twin-engine turboprop aircraft. The first is a result of engine vibration transmitted through the wing structure, which causes the cabin walls to vibrate. Secondly, cabin noise is generated by the propeller slip-stream, coming into contact with the ...
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Fokker submits its bail-out plan to Dutch Government
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FOKKER HAS delivered a stark warning to the Dutch Government that the company will be left facing a crisis unless the state shareholder approves a major injection of cash. The warning came as Fokker handed over a new business plan to Dutch economics minister ...
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Cathay moves its simulators Australia
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways is to relocate most of its flight- simulator capability from Hong Kong to an Australian site yet to be decided. The move follows an A$15 million ($11.2 million) concession from the Australian Government against tax which would have been due on the company's five simulators. The first ...
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Lockheed answers arms-sales queries
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN says that it is responding to "...three unrelated federal subpoenas seeking information...on its use of consultants on foreign sales". Documents requested concern the sales of F-16s to South Korea and at least five other countries since 1990, plus the sale of ...
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UK schools angry at US training plan
FLYING SCHOOLS based in the UK have reacted angrily to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's decision to allow two flight centres in the USA to run CAA-approved courses for commercial pilot training (Flight International, 2-8 August, P20). Acting on the UK schools' behalf, the General Aviation Manufacturers ...
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Greek air-traffic control causes serious pilot-concern
Julian Moxon/Paris EUROPEAN PILOTS' associations have raised major concerns over continuing "very serious" air-traffic-control (ATC) problems in Greece. The German and Scandinavian Airline Pilots Associations have called the situation "disastrous", citing a survey of pilots which found that they were frequently unable to understand the instructions ...
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Traffic boom boosts European airports figures
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S AIRPORTS have emerged showing the world's strongest passenger-growth over the first half of the year, giving further confirmation of the traffic boom now taking place in the region. Passenger throughput for European airports grew by 7.8%, according to the latest figures from the ...
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United 777s: heavy but happy
Guy Norris/Los Angeles UNITED AIRLINES admits that its first Boeing 777s is overweight, but is still satisfied with the aircraft's performance. New 16G crash-worthy seating is the largest single contributor to the higher-than-expected operating empty weight (OEW) of the initial aircraft, says the carrier. In United's ...
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Air Inter to sell A330s as part of re-organisation
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC and regional carrier Air Inter is looking for buyers for its 400-seat Airbus A330-300 long-haul aircraft. The airline's management considers that the aircraft is "too big" for its needs as it repositions itself to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation. ...
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Extra extreme
Photographing the Firebird Extra 300's aerobatic capabilities is nothing if not dramatic. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICHMark Wagner/LONDON Flight International photographer Mark Wagner, enthusing about his passenger-seat introduction to the Extra 300, says: "I was taking a couple of shots from the front cockpit, when we went completely berserk. ...
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Martinair orders zonal dryers
MARTINAIR HOLLAND has become the launch customer for CTT Systems' zonal drying system (Flight International, 10-16 August 1994). They will be fitted to the Dutch charter carrier's fleet of six Boeing 767-300s. The sixth aircraft will have the system factory-installed by Boeing before delivery in November. Nykoping, Sweden-based ...
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'Colleague resource management'
Sir - The article "Safety-resource management" (Flight International, 16-22 August, P33) identifies the usefulness of crew-resource management (CRM). We have introduced CRM at the ab initio stage of training on our aviation degree course. The first solo is now the first flight in command. In addition, we use ...