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Inertial platform fault to blame for Chinese Long March crash
CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) says that telemetry data from its failed Long March 3B booster indicates that the control system's inertial-guidance platform failed T+2s after lift-off from Xichang on 14 February. The maiden flight of the LM3B carried the Intelsat 708, which was lost in the crash ...
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Private Qantas delivers on performance promise
QANTAS IS HOLDING its own, despite competition in international and domestic markets, says chairman Gary Pemberton, revealing the group's first financial figures, since it completed privatisation in mid-1995. Pemberton reports that Qantas pushed up profits by more than 15%, to A$148 million ($110 million) in the first half ...
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Examination of safety enhancement
Sir - I refer to the letter from Jerry Wilmot, "The criteria for flight paths are incomplete", (Flight International, 14-20 February, P51. Wavionix recognises that en route flight paths are not included in document 8168 PANS-OPS. Because of the demand received from procedure specialists, the Wavionix ...
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FltMaster offers low-cost simulation
REVOLUTIONARY, low-cost software designed to provide aerospace engineers with access to powerful simulation and visualisation tools has been unveiled by California-based Sight, Sound, & Motion. Its FltMaster is offered as a complete engineering system, consisting of advanced application software hosted on a graphics workstation. It allows aircraft to ...
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How open skies?
GERMANY HAS become the latest and largest catch in the US drive to sign up Europe to open skies. With this new bilateral safely initialed, the USA has now signed up 11 European nations to open skies, representing 40% of the region's air market. The deal marks ...
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NASA orders inquiry into loss of Tethered Satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA HAS FORMED an independent panel to review the loss of the Italian Tethered Satellite (TSS 1R) from the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS75 mission on 26 February. A report into its findings will be made available within 70 days. "Given the ...
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Making waves
Not only has Mexican carrier Aeromar survived the recession, but it has done so by expanding. Gilbert Sedbon/MEXICO CITY AFTER SURVIVING the Mexican economic crash of 1995, Transportes Aeromar, the country's newest domestic carrier, is back in a growth pattern aimed at breaking through the 1 million ...
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Research pinpoints non-precision risks
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM AIRLINES CARRYING out non-precision approach and landing procedures face a five-fold increase in the risk of a controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accident compared with precision approaches, according to research by the Netherlands' National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR). The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), as part of its International ...
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Agents for change
All the major computer reservations systems recently signed distribution agreements in China. Elaine White outlines the Chinese travel agent scene and looks at the potential for automating what will become the world's largest travel market.China's travel and tourism industry may be relatively new, but it is already one of the ...
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Kinnock aims for mandate
European transport commissioner Neil Kinnock is hoping to turn a potentially serious threat to securing the external negotiating mandate to his advantage as the Commission aims to secure at least part of the elusive holy grail this year. On the surface, the tentative open skies accord reached between ...
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Jumbo threat spurs Airbus
Boeing's recent sales successes in Asia with the B777 and B747 are forcing Airbus to consider an early launch for its A3XX project, as the US manufacturer prepares to stretch its largest jet. While Airbus and its partners ponder the viability of their $8 billion programme, Boeing is ...
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Airline speak: a beginner's guide
In this industry people rarely mean what they say. Here's what they really mean.As airline startups multiply and established carriers recruit new management teams, there is a steady influx of new blood into this industry. Newcomers listening to the old hands talking might make the cardinal error of assuming that ...
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Airline news
Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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ATA bemoans Russia deal
By approving a $1 billion loan to Aeroflot, the Export-Import Bank has inadvertently become the latest target in the US airline industry's fight to have the exemption on fuel tax reinstated. The howls of protest that greeted Exim's decision to grant a $1 billion loan to Aeroflot to ...
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Lessors less committed
For the first time in years, operating lessors are placing major aircraft orders again without advance lease commitments and amid warnings that history may repeat itself. General Electric Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) has ordered 107 Boeing aircraft, and is reportedly close to making a large Airbus order. Singapore ...
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Cuts start to pay at TWA
Restructuring at TWA is finally beginning to bear fruit as Delta Air Lines slows its broad '7.5' cost-reduction programme. But both carriers have been hard hit by one-time costs associated with layoffs, outsourcing, fleet retirements and, especially for TWA, new technology investment. At St Louis-based TWA, there are ...
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Japan set to tie down
Tokyo is hoping the new pragmatism demonstrated by Washington on fifth freedom issues with Thailand will carry over into passenger talks it hopes to start in April. Thai-US negotiators reached agreement on a new bilateral surprisingly fast, thus ending a six year impasse over US fifth freedoms. The ...
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Never green enough
Airlines may have escaped a global increase in noise and possibly on emission stringencies, but does this open the door for individual airports to impose surcharges at will? Sara Guild reports on the ongoing debate on the environment.Aeroengine emissions and noise have been the subject of countless meetings and reviews ...
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A few home truths
Full liberalisation of the domestic markets of all the third package signatory states is just over a year away but Europe's leading economy is already in its third year of fully-fledged domestic competition. Mark Odell reports. The prospects for new competitors in the German internal market appear bleak after liberalisation ...
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No haste, just speed
Having sealed its partnership with KLM, Kenya Airways is wasting no time in completing its privatisation and entering the next phase of its development. Jackie Gallacher reports.Kenya Airways is in a hurry. It aims to complete its privatisation by the end of March, and to outline the main priorities for ...