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Airtran picks hushkit
Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets. The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft. "They ...
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Learjet chief quits
LEARJET president Brian Barents has resigned unexpectedly. He has been replaced by Jim Robinson, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who joined Learjet in 1995 as executive vice-president, overseeing the business-jet makers operations. Barents had been with Learjet since 1988, when the company was owned by Integrated Resources, ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...
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Delta is debut customer for electro-optical ice detector
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) has received its first airline order for the ID-1 wide-area aircraft ice-detection system. Delta Air Lines has ordered four of the hand-held electro-optical systems for use this winter at its main US East Coast airports. Hauppauge, New York-based RVSI says that the Delta order ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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Pakistani first
First officer Maliha Sami of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has become the first woman pilot in the company to fly an Airbus A310. Sami was also the first woman pilot to fly the Airbus A300 as co-pilot, and was the first woman pilot to join PIA in 1990. Before that ...
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DASA folds its wings
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE DECISION BY Daimler-Benz, to abandon its Dutch regional-jet associate Fokker to its fate, is the final nail in the coffin of the German company's hopes, of dominating a united European regional aircraft industry. With the policy in tatters, little remains for Daimler-Benz other than to ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Messier-Dowty
Geoff Smith has been appointed managing director of TI/Snecma joint-venture landing-gear manufacturer Messier-Dowty of Abingdon, Oxford, UK. Smith, who joined the Dowty Group in 1968, joined Lucas for 12 years, before returning to Dowty Fuel Systems in 1987, where he became director and general manager and managing director of joint ...
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Fastener purchase
Banner Aerospace is negotiating the acquisition of Fairchild's Harco division, an El Segundo, California-based distributor of aerospace fasteners. Under the proposed share-exchange deal, Fairchild would become the majority shareholder in Washington, DC-based Banner Aerospace. Source: Flight International
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Britannia boosts cargo business
BRITANNIA AIRWAYS, the world's largest holiday-passenger charter airline, is attempting to boost its revenues with an aggressive entry into the cargo business, taking advantage of the belly-hold capacity of its Boeing 767 and 757 fleet. The airline believes that there is a vast unexplored market from the Mediterranean ...
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Meridiana pioneers regional satcoms
ITALIAN REGIONAL carrier Meridiana is to fit its fleet of British Aerospace BAe 146-200s with passenger satellite-telephones. The move is the first satellite communication (satcom) installation on the 146 and the first significant passenger-satcom made available by a regional carrier, according to In-Flight Entertainment, the Flight International newsletter. ...
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Invest or die
GIFAS equipment president Jean-Robert Martin warns that the industry's unique R&D needs must be met. Julian Moxon/PARIS JEAN-ROBERT MARTIN has a stark message for anyone following the fortunes of the French equipment industry. "If we do not maintain our investment in research and development, we cannot survive," he ...
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Dufour casts doubts over Snecma GE90 commitment
SNECMA CHAIRMAN Bernard Dufour has again raised severe doubts over his company's ability to fund its share of development on any future growth variants of the General Electric GE90. Dufour says that, while Snecma is still committed to its 25.5% participation in the current GE90, it would not ...
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MDC covers losses on MD-11
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has put aside a $1.8 billion charge to cover its losses on MD-11 sales, leaving a question mark over the future of the faltering programme. The move follows dwindling orders for the tri-jet, for which there was a backlog of only ...
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JAA reform crucial, claims Euro chief
David Learmount/LONDON THE HEAD OF the European Commission's (EC's) air-safety unit has delivered a stinging attack on the status of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), claiming that the body's regulations do not have any force in European Union (EU) law. The EC view effectively dooms ...
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Government recommendation raises Grob Strato 2C fears
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN RESEARCH and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers has recommended that the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research-aircraft programme be cancelled. The minister is believed to have handed a report to the country's parliamentary budget committee advising that the Government refuse further support for the aircraft. ...
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European FAA?
ONE OF THE GREAT ADVANTAGES of belonging to an international club like the European Union (EU) is the harmonisation of rules on matters such as aircraft safety and certification. Right? Wrong - or partly wrong. The problem is that the EU and some of its neighbours do have a common ...
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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CFMI studies service software
SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW JET engines to be more easily serviced is being employed in the development of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7 turbofan engine, which will power the new-generation Boeing 737. The software, known as Product Vision and developed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New ...