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Bell Boeing freezes 609 tilt-rotor configuration
The final configuration of the Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt-rotor has been frozen following the selection of the last major system suppliers, some of them existing providers for the V-22 Osprey. Collins has been named as avionics supplier, and the company's General Aviation division will supply and integrate ...
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Hunting may leave interiors as Dash 8 contract is ended
Hunting is reviewing the future of its aviation interiors business following an agreement with Bombardier's de Havilland aircraft business to terminate a contract to supply interiors for the Dash 8-200 and -300 turboprop aircraft which caused the UK company to set a £30 million ($48 million) provision in 1996. ...
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Start-up AirAsia muscles into Malaysia market
Start-up carrier AirAsia has taken advantage of a growing barrage of criticism against Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to announce that it intends to expand its embryonic aircraft fleet and route network. Three months after first taking to the air as Malaysia's second scheduled international carrier, AirAsia is looking to ...
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Braathens boosts 737 fleet with -700 order
Braathens SAFE's all-Boeing 737 fleet is set to be boosted, with the leading Norwegian private airline placing orders for six 737-700s, and taking options on a further ten aircraft. Braathens will take delivery of its first two aircraft in July and August 1998, with the remaining deliveries scheduled ...
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Cameras provide more information
Sir - I would like to clarify some statements attributed to me in the article "Caught on camera" (Flight International, 1-7 January, P35). DM Aerospace is concentrating on the use of internal and external video cameras as airliner-safety enhancements. We have developed an aircraft video flight recorder in ...
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Keith Dougan
Keith Dougan, who died on 5 December, 1996, influenced the flightdecks and cockpits of many aircraft, most recently in his position as operational advisor at UK-based avionics company Smiths Industries. He played a major role in defining the flight-instrument and control-panel formats for products ranging from head-up displays to electronic ...
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Wolf leaves Lair
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 vice-president and programme manager John Wolf has left to become programme manager of Teledesic, a new Washington- based company created by Microsoft owner Bill Gates and cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw, to "-develop a global broad band 'internet in the sky' using low Earth-orbit satellites." A ...
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Lord NVX system quietens DC-9/MD-80 cabin
LORDHASRECEIVED US certification for its NVX active noise-and-vibration control system on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80. The company says that its system is the first to be approved for use on large commercial aircraft, and "...is being considered for several DC-9/MD-80 installation programmes." Approval follows installation of the NVX ...
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Masters of aviation
Pilots' careers finish relatively early, leaving them with no credit for accumulated knowledge and experience beyond that learned during the period of their licences. A postgraduate level of education in the aviation industry would be attractive to some motivated licence-holders who want future employment, early positions as management pilots, or ...
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Piper offers buyers trade-up incentive
BUYERS OFA new Piper aircraft are being guaranteed almost 100% of the original purchase price when they upgrade within 18 months to the next aircraft in the company's product line. New Piper Aircraft says that its Step-Up scheme offers a lower depreciation than would otherwise be experienced when trading in ...
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Rising power
Hydrogen was first used as a means of "powering" flight with the manned flight of a hydrogen balloon only ten days after the Montgolfiers' first manned hot-air balloon flight in 1782. Despite achieving an excellent safety record - 50,000 passengers carried without a fatality - the use of ...
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Flexible flying
For aspiring pilots who mortgage their careers until middle-age to earn a full airline pilot's licence, airline sponsorship is the ultimate dream. Yet, would-be pilots know that such offers are few, and the schemes, reacting to market behaviour, have been sporadic. When sponsors do announce a course, many are called, ...
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New evidence reveals fire on doomed Challenger's booster
New evidence that part of the right-hand solid- rocket booster (SRB) of the Space Shuttle STS 51L/Challenger was breached and caught fire at lift-off on 28 January, 1986, has been revealed by controversial aerospace engineer Ali AbuTaha. Seven crew were lost when the Shuttle broke apart at T+73s, in what ...
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US airline safety ratings to hit Internet
Safety data on US air carriers are to be put on the Internet by the Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to make them more accessible to the travelling public. The agency says it will not, however, rank airlines according to their accident records, although information on accidents and some ...
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Boeing expected to agree late change to new 737 flightdeck
Boeing is close to agreeing to airline requests that it replace electro-mechanical standby instruments on the 737-600/ 700/800 flightdeck, with a single, solid-state, liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit. A final decision is expected when the manufacturer can ascertain whether enough of the units can be supplied to meet planned next-generation ...
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British Midland lobbies EC for European slots at Heathrow
British Midland (BM) has entered the fray over the British Airways/American Airlines alliance, arguing that slots should be made available for its European feeder services rather than exclusively for new transatlantic operations. Chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the move follows the recent intervention of European competition commissioner ...
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Aviacor prepares Tu-154 for Iran
Aviacor is preparing to deliver the first of 12 new-build Tupolev Tu-154s to Iran, which were ordered by the Iranian Government for its airlines in September 1996. The Samara, Russia, based manufacturer is scheduled to hand over the first aircraft during early February. It is designated Tu-154M-100 and ...
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Emirates picks Trent 700 engines for A330s
Emirates Airlines has selected Rolls-Royce to supply 320kN (72,000lb) Trent 700 engines for its fleet of 16 Airbus Industrie A330-200s. The order is worth $500 million. The airline has already ordered the Trent 800 to power its Boeing 777s. The deal is expected to be signed on 17 ...
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Airline safety in the frame
While Michael Crichton's latest book, Airframe, sat atop the bestseller list in the US, Federal Aviation Administration officials were surveying the crash site of a Comair EMB.120. Coming after a record year of commercial aviation accidents, the crash and the book are notable for doing the same thing: undermining - ...
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The sales of the century?
The sales of the century? NetsAAvers, CyberSavers, E-Savers or On-Line Travel Specials - under various names, four of the largest US carriers, plus a handful of others, are experimenting with using the Internet to promote special fare deals. They are selling what is essentially 'distressed' inventory - seats on weekend ...