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DG-10 slats may be modified MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MD) is pre senting DC-10 operators with an option to modify leading-edge slat actuating systems. Representatives of the world's 45 DC-10 users are meeting ait the manufacturer's Long Beach plant on January 14 to decide whether, following damage to an Air Florida aircraft's slats caused by un- contained engine failure, the slat actu ation system could be made fail-safe (Flight, December 5, page 1668). In the incident take-off was safely aborted, but the slats on one wing had retracted. MD offers two modifi cations: one installs hydraulic valves which will act as locks if pressure in the pipes is cut; the other modifies the cable system which controls the hydraulic slat actuating valves—but MD will not at present specify the kind of modification. There is no certification or government aviation agency require ment to carry out these modifications, but airlines are being offered the changes as a part of the continuous development programme which any aircraft undergoes in the light of operating experience, MD says. A question which has to be addressed, a company spokesman tells Flight, is whether it is worth tampering with a reliable system when an uncontained engine failure of this magnitude would occur only once in a thousand million flights especially associated with slat damage. Airliner market Egyptair has placed an order for an Airbus A300B4-200, for delivery in the summer of 1983. The purchase takes the Egyptian flag carrier's total A300 purchase to eight. The aircraft will be powered by General Electric CF6-50C2 engines. Egyptair currently operates five A300s, two of which are on lease. The fourth and fifth of its own A300 order will be delivered this summer, and the sixth and seventh in the spring of 1983. The airline plans to replace Boeing 707s by A300s on its Far Eastern routes in the near future. Air Chicago, a new US airline propos ing to start operations from Midway Airport this spring, has bought five Boeing 727-100s from Pan Am in a $12-2 million deal. The agreement allows Pan Am to buy approximately five per cent of Air Chicago's outstand ing common stock after the public offering of two million shares. In cluded in the sale price is a training package for Air Chicago's initial com plement of pilots, cabin crew, and maintenance staff. Pan Am has also undertaken to sell the Midway-based carrier up to $1-7 million-worth of spares, and will provide the financing for this deal. Air Micronesia is to acquire a Boeing 727-200 to supplement the two 727- 100s which it already operates. The aircraft might come from its parent carrier Continentail Airlines, which operates Air Micronesia's aircraft on its behalf. Ethiopian Airlines has just taken de livery of its third Boeing 727-200, under a previously unannounced order. The aircraft was delivered late in December. Sales for the 727 now total 1,825. Boeing says that it an nounced orders for 219 airliners dur ing 1981. KLM has become Boeing's first 1982 customer with a $90 million order for a Boeing 747-200B Combi, fitted with a side cargo door for combined pas senger/cargo services. The aircraft Sir Reginald Ansett SIR Reginald Ansett, founder and former chairman of Ansett Airlines, has died at 72. He learned to fly in 1926, and for six years ran a road transport service in Western Aus tralia. Failing to get permission to extend operations from Hamilton to Melbourne, he formed Ansett Airlines in 1935 with a single-engined Fokker Universal, which made its first flight between Hamilton and Melbourne. In 1957 Ansett Airlines bought out Government-owned Australian Nat ional Airlines and became Ansett- ANA. The airline became Ansett Air lines of Australia in 1969, operating DC-3, DC-9, Carvair, Boeing 727, and F.27 aircraft all over the continent. Sir Reginald retired in January 1980 and Ansett was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd, and Thomas Nationwide Transport. He left Ansett Airlines with assets of almost £400 million, annual revenues of £475 mil lion, and 14,800 employees. will be delivered in September 1983, and will be powered by General Elec tric CF6-50E2s. It will be KLM's 18th 747, and its eighth Combi. The $90 million value put on the order is in 1983 dollars, and includes the cost of spares. Sales for the 747 have now reached 587. American Airlines is reported to have held discussions with Boeing in an effort to cut down its commitment for 30 767s. According to a spokesman for the airline, no agreements have been reached yet, but the carrier wants to reduce its order because of inadequate 1981 profits and an un favourable outlook for 1982. The air line needs to achieve a five per cent profit margin to finance its new pur chases, says the spokesman, and be lieves it probably will not achieve that target this year. The Airline of the Marshall Islands has ordered a British Aerospace HS.748-2B, for delivery late this year. The first of the flight-test Ahrens 404s is "meeting or exceeding all performance estimates", and the second joins the programme in February isiiiMSiiISi 106 FLIGHT International, 16 January 1982
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