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a new fast-attack craft design,
given the preliminary NATO
designation "Balcom" 10. Eight
missiles are mounted on the
vessel in a two quad-canister
arrangement similar to that of
Harpoon. •
A Qantas 747-400 landed at London Heathrow just min
utes before it ran out of fuel. The
aircraft may not have had suf
ficient fuel had it been forced to
go around again.
The pilot had been forced t...
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 ...ECHNICAL: SIMULATION
Qantas buys better image
Qantas 747-400 simulator pilots get a wider view with Image IV and AWARDS 200
Australian airline Qantas is the
xYfirst customer for Link-
Miles' latest Image IV-600 simu
lator visual system, which ...
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 ...LETTERS
Qantas: fuel
for thought
SIR—I have just read the response
of Capt Massey-Green (Qantas
747-400 manager) to your article
regarding the arrival at Heathrow
of one of his aeroplanes which...
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 ...FUTURE AIR NAVIGATION SYSTEM
By April, 1995, benefits from the major elements of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) are expected to flow to a handful of
Pacific carriers. Full-scale FANS operat...
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 ...MIR TRANSPORT
Qantas leads Pacific FANS progress
PAUL PHELAN/CAIRNS
QANTAS HAS begun flying the Boeing FANS-1 avion
ics package, which is designed to
make the 747-400 compatible
with the Future ...
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 ...the start of a distributed fault-tolerant system
with bases in Montreal and Singapore, is on
target for the fourth quarter of 1995.
Frenetic preparations are also taking place
among the airlines. Qantas 747-400 technical
manager David Massy-Greene says: "We
already have one aircraft configured for
FANS-1 and we plan to have seven configured
by 4 April, which is enough to operate the
Pacif...
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 ...t to western companies.
It says that it sees the aircraft,
with its 13 AAY pallet/2 51 payload
and 3,700km (2,000nm) range, as a
direct replacement for the ageing
Boeing 727 freighter fleets. •
Qantas 747-400 drives into the rough
A Qantas Boeing 747-400 (VH-OJH) overran Bangkok's runway
21L following a 2 3 September night landing in rain. Aquaplaning is
believed to have been a factor, bu...
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 ...Harrier GR.5 (background) dominates military simulator production Image IV's increased surface capacity offers high scene detail
UNIX operating system tor all software devel
opment and maintenance. ...
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 ...SIMULATION
Aer Lingus
updates
DUBLIN
Aer Lingus' $1-5 million
update of its BAe One-Eleven
simulator is already paying
dividends. Since the simulator
resumed operations in Febru
ary, a number...
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 ...STRAIGHT E3 LEVEL
NEW PRODUCTS
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Returning to the subject of slightly swept wings
(Straight & Level, August
12) and Sydney Camm's
reported wrong-C-of-G
excuse for them, Chas
Bowyer's l...
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 ...Aviation Authority (CAA) came up with
its own set of rules independently. "What
we have agreed fortunately does not fall
outside what the CAA has now approved,"
says Koh.
One of the 747-400s is p...
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 ... KILGORE
CHIEF SCIENTIST
Applied Aerodynamics Division
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia
VSA
More fuel
for thought
SIR —This is just to put the
record straight in regard to the
QANTAS 747-400 fuel scare. M
D Albone (Letters, 1-7 August)
has obviously not studied the
David Learmount article (Ffight,
6-12 June) on this subject,
which states "...the aircraft's
auxiliary p...
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 ...OPERATOR/Type
Qantas continued
747-300
747-400
747-400
747-400
767-200ER
767-300ER
c
Supplier
Singer-Link
Singer-Link
Singer-Link
CAE
Singer-Link
Link-Miles
REFLECTONE TRAINING CENTRE ...
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 ...WORLD AIRLINER CENSUS
N.and S.
America Europe
Middle
East
Asia and
Australasia
Boeing 747-200 continued
United AL
Vang (200B Combi)
Federal Express (200F)
Federal Express
2
3
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89 ...
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 ...OPERATIONS: AIR TRANSPORT
Qantas flies London-Sydney non-stop
AQantas Boeing 747-400 has flown London-Sydney non
stop. The flight took 20h 9min,
covered 9,720 n.m. (18,001km),
and the aircraft la...
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 ...Operator/
Simulator Manufacturer Computer Visual
Display Motion
windows axes
Service
entry Remarks
Libyan Arab Airlines (Crawley)
727-200 Rediffusion Gould 32/77
Linhas Aeras de Mocambique (Ma...
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 ...WORLD AIRLINER CENSUS.
N.and S.
America
Middle East
and Africa
Asia and
Australasia
Boeing continued
Boeing 737-300: Number ordered 807, in airline service 477(141).
American AL
America West...
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 ...WORLD NEWS
Qantas
keeps
market
on toes
SYDNEY
Qantas' latest engine choices,
for its Boeing 747-400s and
its newly-ordered 767-300ER,
heat up the three-way battle
between Rolls-Royce, Genera...
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 ...SIMULATION
horizontally by 130° verti
cally, adequate for most air-
combat training require
ments. An eight-projector
system, which would be
considerably more expensive,
would be needed to achie...
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 ...against GE and P&W to ensure that P&W
never gets another Qantas order, and that
GE does not get into future 747s. This is a
blood-on-the-floor battle, with a lot at
stake.
The immediate question ...
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