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1995
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&s 2J Osprey design review completed THE BELL BOEING V-22 design has been frozen fol lowing completion of its critical design review (CDR). Programme director Stuart Dodge says that completion of the CDR and the Pentagon's endorsement of Osprey production clears the way to begin low-rate initial produc tion (LRIP) and initial entry into service of the V-22 with the US Marine Corps in 2001. Bell and Boeing are manufac turing major components for the four "production-representative" Ospreys being built with engin eering and manufacturing devel opment funding. The first will be flown in December 1996. The Pentagon plans to buy 523 V-22s, with the USMC receiving 425 MV-22s to replace die Boeing Helicopters CII-46, the US Navy gaining 48 HV-22s and the US Air Force buying 50 CV-22s for special-operations missions. About $50 million in long-lead funding for 16 LRIP V-22s will be requested this month by the Pentagon. Full-scale production will begin the following fiscal year, at a rate of about 24 V-22s annually through to FY2021, Production of the first four CV- 22s will begin in FY2001. 3 Australia reduces trainer shortlist THE ROYAL Australian Air Force has shortened the list of contenders for its advanced jet- trainer requirement to six types. The air force is expected to release requests for tenders short ly to Aermacchi, for the MB.339FD; Aero Vodochody, for the L-59; Alenia, for the AMX-T; British Aerospace, which is offer ing the Hawk 100; Dassault, bid ding the Alphajet; and McDonnell Douglas, offering the T-45. Eight unnamed companies which were interested have been ejected from the competition. Selection of a winner to supply between 35 and 45 trainers is expected by early 1996, with first deliveries scheduled in June 1999 and formation of the first squadron inJanuary 2000. 3 Canada aims to scrap bilateral restraints JIM BAGNALL/OTTAWA RAMON LOPEZ/WASHINGTON DC CANADIAN TRANSPORT minister Douglas Young has moved forward liberalisation in two areas of Canadian interna tional air-services agreements (ASAs): an accord with the USA, and those with other nations. The US/Canada deal is a framework agreement for a new ASA, on which talks will resume this month. This would remove most constraints on all-cargo ser vices and phase in the lifting of restrictions on US airline flights to major Canadian cities. The US/Canada bilateral agreement has remained substan tially unchanged for two decades, and nearly two-thirds of the 100 largest US cities are without non stop service to Canada. The agreement recommends immediate removal of restrictions on USA-Canada passenger services, except for new US-carrier access to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. On diose routes, restrictions would be phased out over three years so that Canadian carriers can adjust to the competition. Code-sharing would be permitted. On the international front, Young has invited all Canadian carriers to bid for overseas routes now "under-served" by either of the two major carriers, Air Canada or Canadian Airlines International. Foreign carriers will also be invited to bid. Young has published a list of 37 countries which now have poor direct air links with Canada despite the existence of ASAs. These include Belgium, the Netherlands, Singapore and Spain. 3 Air Algerie crash in UK kills five AN AIR ALGERIE Boeing 737-200 freighter on approach to Coventry Airport in the UK on 21 December, 1994, crashed in woodland nearly 3km (1.6nm) short of Runway 23, killing all five people on board. Shortly before impact with the ground at 09.50, the aircraft hit an electricity-cable pylon and clipped the roofs of two houses. The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch refuses to comment on "leaked" informa tion that an incorrect altimeter setting may have been a factor in die accident. The aircraft, 7T-VEE, which entered service in 1973, had no freight on board, but the 6.5t of fuel remaining ignited on impact, causing the wrecked aircraft to burn out. The Air Algerie aircraft and crew had been operating from The 131 ait a swathe through trees near a housing estate Phoenix leased the 131 from Air Algerie Coventry Airport for about ten weeks, wet-leased by UK aircraft broker Phoenix Aviation on a con tract to carry livestock to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Rennes in France. Phoenix confirms that the crew had started from Coventry at about 01.30 that day, fly ing 190 calves to Amster dam, and returning empty. It had to divert to East Mid lands Airport because of fog conditions. Departure on the 20min flight to Coventry was at 09.30 and the crew chose a surveillance-radar approach because the aircraft's instrument- landing system (ILS) receiver could be tuned only to die nearest 50KHz frequency. Coventry's ILS is on 109.75MHz. Weather at the airfield was wind calm and visibility was between 1,000m (3,300ft) and 1,500m in mist. • There were three deaths among tJie five crew of a Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 (5N-ABK) freighter which crashed near Hadeja in northern Nigeria <>n 19 December, 1994, en mute from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Kano, Nigeria. The circumstances are still being investigated. • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 4 - 10 January 1995
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