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Aviation History
1977
1977 - 0111.PDF
*!"' AIR TRANSPORT ^—-•J V ••';' IL-86 FIRST FLIGHT DETAILS THE prototype of the Soviet Union's Ilyushin 11-86 wide-body airliner (see Flight, January 1, page 2) made its first flight on December 22, 1976. Like the 11-76 prototype freighter, which first flew in 1971, the 11-86 took off from the aerodrome of the Ilyushin design bureau's factory at the old Moscow Central Airport at Khodinka, one of the oldest airfields in the USSR. Hero of the Soviet Union A. Kuz- netsov captained the first flight, which lasted about 40min. The aircraft landed at the 11-86 flight-test airfield, thought to be either Ramenskoye or Zhukovsky. Although the main Ilyushin design bureau, headed by General Designer G. V. Novozhilov, is at Moscow Cen tral, production will be located else where in the USSR. The new wide-body will cruise at about 400kt (950km/h) and 30,0O0ft. New York Concorde decision soon ^ESKTSSS J iiililP JGI MHHHHHH j'i THE next full board meeting of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, due on February 10, is ex pected to reach a decision on whether to let Concorde into John F. Kennedy Airport. In addition, the New York court hearings on whether the Port Authority is legally justified in refus ing Concorde have been postponed from January 17 to February 18. The Port Authority's internal report on Concorde operations will be pre sented to the Board of Commissioners on February 10, but an Authority spokesman tells Flight that this "does not necessarily mean that the Comis? sioners will hand down a decision." The Port Authority may probably wait instead for a policy statement from incoming Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, who appears unlikely to defer to the environmental lobby and ban the SST. Concorde operators Air France and British Airways regard the situation in two different lights. Air France tells Flight that at a meeting on December 10 the Port Authority promised to take a decision "one way or the other" on February 10. The French flag carrier is sure that this decision will be favourable. A more cautious British Airways says: "No- one really knows, possibly not the Port Authority itself." British Airways tells Flight that the two airlines prefer to delay any court action until after the Authority has handed down a decision. They think that legal action immediately before the Port Authority meeting on Feb ruary 10 might be seen as unneces sarily provocative. The Port Authority has not yet said whether it intends to re-position its take-off noise monitor to take account of the curved departure path proposed for Concorde. But any move to place
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