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South Africa drives J41 boost
Jetstream AIRCRAFT is working on a fresh round of improvements for its J41, aimed at increasing hot and high performance for airfields in countries with developing infrastructures. From 1996 the aircraft will be offered with a 2.2% increase in engine power, revised stall speeds and the introduction of ...
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Gas leak led to Telstar 402 explosion
THE LOSS OF the Telstar 402 communications satellite after launch, aboard an Ariane 4 on 8 September 1994, was caused by an explosion, Martin Marietta Astro Space has confirmed (Flight International, 11-17 January). Although the official accident report had not been released as Flight International went to press, ...
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Bidders line up for $300 million UK ATC centre
Kieran Daly/MAASTRICHT HUGHES AIRCRAFT has become the first company to detail its planned consortium to bid to develop and build the UK's proposed Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is expected to release a request for ...
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Aer Lingus close to finalising deal to lease three BAe 146-300s
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AER LINGUS IS close to completing a deal to lease three British Aerospace 146-300 regional-jets to allow it to compete on routes between Ireland and UK regional airports. The aircraft are being made ready for leasing by BAe's Assett Management Organisation, although Aer Lingus ...
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Easing the flow
Europe's new Central Flow Management Unit promises to make life easier for its embattled air traffic controllers. Julian Moxon/PARIS European air traffic increased by 4.8% in 1994, which is around the annual level of growth predicted until at least the end of the century. ...
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Chess master moves in
AAI keeps up with the weather There is little doubt that Russia's occasionally chaotic aviation industry could benefit from the application of a fine strategic mind. It is about to get one. World chess champion Gary Kasparov has now formally launched a consultancy, aimed at helping ...
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other ...
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Costly Business
The Japanese, it seems, are having problems sorting out how to justify investment in a new small airliner. So are the Koreans and the Chinese, and others, much to the bemusement of at least one potential Western partner for some or all of them. At the same time, the Indonesians ...
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Booz pushes Russian route plans
Kieran Daly/VIENNA A NEW air-traffic management (ATM) system for the Russian Far East, which will bring huge savings for airlines operating in the North Pacific, could be fully operational by August 1997. The programme is designed to open up at least three more routes through ...
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Altair makes light work of HUMS
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES ALTAIR, a Massachusetts-based avionics company, has introduced the first health and usage monitoring system for light turbine and piston helicopters. The Altair HUMS, weighing less than 1kg, has already been fitted to Enstrom 480 and Bell 206 helicopters and is scheduled for ...
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DASA/DLR push for test aircraft funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace Airbus (DAA) and the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) are pushing for Government funding to refit a second MBB VFW 614 as a testbed for a new electronic flight-control system (EFCS). According to DAA, discussions are now under way with the ...
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Alenia rebuffs Airbus to chase MDC stake
EFFORTS BY THE AIRBUS consortium, to woo Alenia away from its proposed airliner alliance with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), have been given a clear rebuff during a hearing by the Italian Senate, into the future of its aerospace industry. In evidence to the Italian upper house, Alenia's state-owned parent ...
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Flight duty times: 'harmonisation' not the main aim
Sir - My first impression from R P Holubowicz's letter (Flight International, 11-17 and 25-31 January) was that the general secretary of the International Air Carriers Association expects pilots to act like robots. More interesting is the statement by K Koplin (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 February), the new ...
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Major US carriers lower agent fees
MAJOR US AIRLINES have imposed caps on travel agent commissions, to lower operating costs. Delta Airlines was the first to limit the fees, but American, Northwest, USAir, United and Continental soon followed. The measure, which was attacked by travel-agent groups who say it may put them out of ...
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Denver braces for airport switch-over after delays
Ramon Lopez/DENVER DENVER International Airport officials say that they are ready for 27 February, when Stapleton International will be shut down and the much-delayed new airport will take over. The opening of the airport has been delayed four times because of technical problems with the ...
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CFMI seeks to pin down airlines on Il-86
CFM INTERNATIONAL hopes to launch its re-engineing programme for the Russian Ilyushin Il-86 by June and to have certification for the CFM56-powered aircraft by the end of 1996. General manager of engine sales, Henri Cabannes, says that a group of Russian airlines have declared their intentions to re-engine ...
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Turbine failures ground ANZ's hushkitted 737s
AIR NEW ZEALAND, suddenly grounded ten of the 13 Boeing 737-200s, in its domestic fleet on 17 February. Managing director Jim McCrea says that the decision followed the fourth turbine failure on a Nordam hushkitted Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engine in six months. The CAA says ...
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Peregrine to press on with BD-10 despite accident
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PEREGRINE FLIGHT International (PFI) is proceeding with plans to certificate the Bede BD-10 jet-powered light aircraft after determining the cause of the crash on 30 December 1994, in which the company's founder was killed. Investigators have concluded that the in-flight break-up of the aircraft ...
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Justice has been seen to be done
Sir - The Dan-Air Pilots' Action Group (DAPAG) is pleased that the industrial tribunal has found in its favour that former Dan-Air pilots were unfairly dismissed. From the outset the advice of the British Air Line Pilots Association (BAlPA) has been that DAPAG had no case. Since the ...
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Stick with the pilot - it's safer
Sir - Why do those bent on eradicating human error in the cockpit by the use of automated systems overlook the fact that these systems are made by just another man - on the ground - and are as prone to suffer human error? At least the man ...