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1978
1978 - 0465.PDF
•, FLIGHT International. 25 March 1978 ) Aerocondor A300 • hot and high r AIKBUS INDUSTRIE reports the conclusion of a series of hot-and-high ' trials using Aerocondor's first A300B4, > the first A300 to be fitted with the ' 52,5001b-thrust General Electric CF6- 50C1. The trials represent a signifi cant advance on previous tests carried out for South African Airways at Windhoek. The tests were carried out under the auspices of the French Centre d'Essais en Vol (CEV). The aircraft made a dozen take-offs with simulated engine failure from Bogota (8,355ft altitude) and also operated from La Paz (13,355ft). Aerocondor has been oper- K ating regularly out of Bogota since taking delivery of its B4 late last year on flights to Miami. Airbus claims that the latest flight- tests have confirmed that the A300 can carry a full 50-passenger load out of La Paz for Lima, and hopes that this will enhance the appeal of the A300 in the Andes region. Aeroflot plans s 180 new routes this year AEROFLOT intends to inaugurate no fewer than 180 new routes in the current year, and efforts are being made to increase aircraft availability and utilisation. The latest planned traffic target for 1978 is 135,000 million passenger-kilometres, slightly lower than the figure envisaged early last year. First reports make no mention of Cranfield runs , safety courses AN EIGHT-WEEK course entitled Air craft Accident Investigation is being run at Cranfield* between May 8 and June 30. This course is the second to be devised by the College of Aero nautics in co-operation with the Acci dents Investigation Branch of the Department of Trade. It aims to bring together people from many areas of aviation activity to discuss and evaluate how accidents happen. The fee of £1,500 includes residence. Cranfield is running two other safety-related one-week courses. The first, entitled Aviation Safety, will be held on June 5-9, and the fee is £160. The second, Safety Assessment of Air craft Systems, is being organised in conjunction with the British Civil Avia tion Authority and will be held on December 11-15, fee £190. Further • details are available from Frank 'Taylor or Bob Golding on Bedford (0234) 750111 ext 248 or 280; telex 825072. * The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 OAL, England. Air Tanzania has ordered a pair of Boeing 737-200CS, for delivery in December 1978 and May 1979. Total 737 orders stand at 547 aircraft for 71 customers • Allegheny Airlines announces the sale of seven more Convair 580s. Commuter Airlines of Binghamton, New York, has bought three of the 580s, which will be delivered this month. Mountainwest of Tucson, Arizona, has taken delivery of two, Aspen Airways of Denver has taken one and an unnamed customer has taken the seventh. Allegheny has sold or leased 28 of its original 40- strong fleet of Convair 580s • Arkia is considering the purchase of up to five second-hand Fokker-VFW F.28s to replace Viscounts. The Israeli internal carrier is selling its last two Heralds and one of its Viscounts to a British carrier • Finnair is due to take delivery of its seventh, eighth and ninth McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s around the turn of this year. Two leased-out Finnair DC-9s, a DC-9-50 now with Toa Domestic and a DC-9-10 in service with BMA, will return to their owner in the coming summer. However, two of the three new the introduction of new types. Pro duction Yakovlev Yak-42s are now fly ing, however, and the type is being built at Smolensk and Saratov. Route proving should therefore certainly start this year. The Ilyushin 11-76 freighter is also to be employed on international routes for the first time, and will be used on a joint Aeroflot- JAL Moscow-Tokyo service. The GENERAL ELECTRIC has not given up hope that it may be allowed to sell CF6-50 engines to the Soviet Union, according to Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily, although it has tem porarily withdrawn its application for a US export licence. GE's request to sell 12 CF6s to the Soviet Union, to power a trials batch of a long-haul airliner developed from the Ilyushin An-32 in production ANTONOV'S An-32 light freighter is now in production at Kiev and Ulan Ude, according to reports in the East European aeronautical press. Revealed at last year's Paris Salon, the An-32 is an extensively modified and more powerful version of the An-26, in tended for hot-and-high operations. Production aircraft will differ from the machine shown at Paris, which was presumably an early development air craft. The service variant will have extended-chord outer wing panels and a "dog-tooth" break in the leading edge, fixed slots on the tailplane and wing spoilers. 835 Airliner market DC-9-50s may be leased in South America and one DC-9-50 may be leased to KLM • Pacific Southwest Airlines confirms an order for two more Boeing 727s, for delivery in May, and has agreed to lease a new 727 from Interlease. The latter is the last 727 available this year, and will be delivered to PSA in December. Inter lease has also leased a 737 to Frontier, with delivery this month, and has ordered another for delivery in April 1979 • Tradewinds has acquired a third Boeing 707-320C from American Airlines • World Airways has exer cised its option on three more McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CFs, which will bring its fleet of the type to six aircraft. The newly ordered aircraft will be delivered in 1979. Ilyushin 11-86 is earmarked for Moscow-Paris, but is not likely to enter service before 1979. Airfield and route developments are proceeding side by side, as airfields are improved and Tu-154s and Il-62s replace older types. Ilyushin Il-18s and earlier Tupolev types will be replaced by Tu-154s on 36 routes, according to Aeroflot. 11-86, was opposed by various US Government agencies on security grounds. GE is pointing out to the Depart ment of Commerce that the Soviet Union already has access to the CF6 via Jugoslovenski Aerotransport's DC-lOs, and that co-operation could be useful to Western intelligence ser vices, according to the US publication. Pelican to fly in July? PELICAN AIR TRANSPORT, a new Manchester-based cargo charter carrier, hopes to start operations in late June or early July. Its first air craft, a 1967-built Boeing 707-320C acquired from Pan American, is now being modified for the British register by Israel Aircraft Industries. Pelican is negotiating for a second 707 and hopes to take delivery before the British register is closed to 707s and DC-8s in September. Pelican has applied to the Civil Aviation Authority for an AOC and its operating licence, although formali ties have not yet been completed. Has GE given up in Russia?
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