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1992
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AIR TRANSPORT Yak-42A avionics delivery begins Allied-Signal's Bendix/King Air Transport Avionics divi sion has begun delivering avion ics to Yakovlev for installation on the first Yak-42A 120-seat airliner. The upgraded version of the Yak-42 trijet is scheduled to fly in January 1993 and Ya kovlev plans to have Russian certification by the time of the Paris air show in June 1993. Bendix/King is supplying a five-tube electronic flight instru ment system, weather radar, communication, navigation and identification equipment and a flight-management system for the Yak-42A. The aircraft will have improved aerodynamics and a new interior. Yakovlev has a Russian Aeroflot order for 200 aircraft, says Paul Hanson, Bendix/King's general manager Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) programmes. The Russian design bureau will seek Western certification of the Yak-42A in countries which have bilateral airworthiness agreements with Russia, says Hanson. Yakovlev's intent is to fill niche markets outside the CIS, he says. US certification of the Yak-42A will have to wait until the US Federal Aviation Administration reaches a bilat eral agreement with its CIS counterpart. Bendix/King's contract is to provide avionics for the certifi cation aircraft, followed by a small quantity of production shipsets. The company has worked with Yakovlev to de velop an interface box enabling the US avionics to operate with the Russian autopilot, which is retained. Yakovlev plans to pro duce 20 aircraft a year and is paying cash for the avionics, Hanson says. • A Bendix/King weather radar and traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS) have been installed in an Aeroflot Ilyushin 11-62 flying from Khab arovsk in the Russian Far East to San Francisco. This follows the company installing a TCAS in a Byelorus Tupolev Tu-154 to allow flights to the USA. Bendix/ King is under contract to supply TCAS for 26 Il-62s, Il-86s and Tu-154s of CIS airlines. • Team chosen for Super Flipper BY DOUGLAS BARRIE IN MUNICH Ateam of four companies has been chosen by the Super Aircraft Transport International Company (SATIC), the Deutsche Airbus/Aerospatiale joint venture, for design and engineering requirements on the Airbus A300-600ST replacement for Airbus' obsolescent fleet of Super Guppy transport aircraft. French systems specialist Lat- ecoere has been chosen as lead contractor with responsibility for the overall integration of the aircraft, along with the design of the cargo-hold, floor, airtight bulkhead and rear side doors. Sogerma-Socea Rochefort has been given responsibility for the two front-half sections under the cockpit, side panels, and airtight upper floor over the pressurised fuselage section. Components manufacturer Hurel-Dubois will attend to the nose-gear well's sub-assemblies, along with the structural por tions of the lower floor and sealed bulkhead. Socata, the light-aircraft man ufacturer, has been tasked with developing the rear bottom sec tion, although this does not cover the aircraft's cargo doors — a contract which has still to be awarded. For the Airbus Super Trans porter (AST), dubbed "Super Flipper" rather than "Super Guppy", SATIC has opted for a cockpit situated below floor level with an upwardly opening clamshell door. On the Super Guppy, the whole nose section of the cock- Franco-German team shapes up to make Flipper fly pit is hinged to open sideways, posing problems with the con nection of flight controls, elec trical and hydraulic systems. On the AST, Airbus had examined a similar door configuration to that of the "Super Guppy" before opting for the "clamshell" approach. Other companies contracted to work on the AST include CASA of Spain, which will pro vide the upper panels aft of the nose section, and Elbe Flug- zeugwerke which will provide the redesigned tail section. Aerostructures Hamble of the UK, recently sold by British Aer ospace to an insurance group, is also thought to have been work ing on the AST with the SATIC team, although details of its involvement have yet to be released. The first sub-assemblies are due to be delivered to Latecoere in May 1993, with integration to be carried out at Cornebarrieu near Toulouse. Delivery of the first nose section is due in Au gust 1993, with the remaining three following one per year. The AST is due to make its maiden flight in September 1994, with service entry in 1995. This ambitious schedule is nec essary to meet the requirements of moving Airbus A330/340 structures. • Air Berlin considers extra 737 purchase German regional carrier Air Berlin is considering ac quiring an additional Boeing 737-400 to enter service in the second quarter of 1993, follow ing the completion of its restruc turing programme. The airline has re-registered its Boeing 737-400s from US to German status, and intends to run all three during its "winter season". Two of the 737s are owned outright, with the third leased from GPA. The airline, based at Berlin's Tegel Airport, changed owner ship in 1991 when it was bought by the former sales and market ing director of LTU, Joachim Hunhold. Until this point, it had been a wholly owned subsidiary Osnabruck and Nurnberg. of US company Lelco. While Berlin is its primary operating base, Air Berlin also flies from Diisseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Leipzig, Munster- • Germania Airlines started a service between Berlin Tegel and Heringsdorf at the beginning of May. The route is operated by a Boeing 737-300. • Air Berlin lines up new aircraft purchase 0 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 20-26 May, 1992
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