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The benefits of glass cockpits
Sir - I get the impression from David Learmount's article "Cracked glass" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P30) that glass-cockpit aircraft today are less than flawless and that there is a revolution, not just an evolution, needed to bring them back on track. Research into cockpit layout and the ...
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China wants Airbus Industrie to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE CHINA HAS ASKED AERO International (Regional) (AI(R)) to modify its regional-jet partnership proposal to include Airbus Industrie, to improve marketing and after-sales support for the planned Air Express AE-100. The involvement of Airbus is among key demands made by Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) during recent discussions with ...
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Cargo conundrum
Steady growth is predicted for world air-cargo market. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS and conversion specialists are watching the burgeoning growth in world air-cargo traffic with eager anticipation. Every forecast points to steady and continuous growth, but not all agree on whether most of it will be ...
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Winglet benefits
Winglets could bring operational benefits to the Boeing 747-200F. Guy Norris/SEATTLE Aviation Partners, a Seattle-based modification company specialising in advanced winglet designs, is developing a lightweight winglet for the Boeing 747-200F. The company predicts that the revised wing could yield a 7% cruise-drag reduction, among ...
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Preaching conversion
Buoyant demand spawns new wave of widebody freighters. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SO FAR, THE WIDEBODY freighter-conversion market has been dominated by the Boeing 747. Now, a new wave of widebody freighters is being rolled out of modification centres to meet the buoyant demand for cargo aircraft. ...
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Ryanair negotiates to find new shareholder
IRISH LOW-FARE airline Ryanair is in discussions with a major airline, thought to be British Airways, for the sale of a 25% stake. An announcement is possible within a month. The move has taken observers by surprise, even though BA has been steadily building its franchise operations through ...
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EU tightens foreign safety
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPEAN UNION (EU) airports might be empowered to carry out safety checks on foreign airlines in the same way that EU ports already check ships under the port state-control system, says the European Commission (EC). The safety check is one of several proposals, ...
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Bhoja commuter network is close
PAKISTANI CARRIER Bhoja Air, is close to establishing the country's first commuter network, with negotiations to acquire three 50- to 60-seat turboprop aircraft about to be completed, says deputy managing director Syed Hasan. Bhoja Air proposes to base the aircraft in the Punjab and to develop much-needed air ...
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Embraer wins savings from new labour deal
EMBRAER'S EMPLOYEES have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new labour contract, which the Brazilian manufacturer says will improve manufacturing costs on the EMB-120 and the new EMB-145 50-seat regional jet. The agreement involves the loss of 350 administrative and support jobs, while production workers will take a ...
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Puel moves on from AI(R)
AFTER 15 YEARS at the head of Franco-Italian regional-aircraft consortium ATR - now Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) - Henri-Paul Puel is leaving the post to direct Aerospatiale maintenance subsidiary Sogerma. He will be replaced, by Patrick Gavin formerly Aerospatiale's director of industrial and technology strategy. Puel was central ...
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Price is right for Boeing ATM organisation
FORMER HUGHES AIR-traffic supremo Nancy Price is joining Boeing to head its new Aviation Systems organisation. Aviation Systems is being created to help Boeing focus its systems-integration expertise on the growing air-traffic-management (ATM) market and will be part of the company's Defense and Space Group in Kent, Washington. ...
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SAA 777 engine choice delays expansion
Forbes Mutch/JOHANNESBURG DELAYS BY South African Airways (SAA) in confirming its engine selection for seven Boeing 777s ordered in December 1995 have set back the airline's expansion plans and could increase the cost of the order by 20% Boeing says that reluctance by the airline ...
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BA shelves its $1 billion regional-jet purchase
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has postponed a proposed $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets. The airline says that it has not finished restructuring its regional operations in time for the purchase to go ahead. BA had invited five manufacturers to tender for ...
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Potential buyers gather for Dornier
ELEVEN POTENTIAL buyers, including Fairchild Aircraft and three other unidentified regional-aircraft majors, are talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) about taking a majority stake in Dornier Luftfahrt. According to Gunter Pfeiffer, deputy head of the works council at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen site, negotiations could lead to an 80% take-over ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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A340-600 could still use Rolls-Royce or P&W engines
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE SAYS that it could still adopt either a Rolls-Royce or Pratt & Whitney engine to power the proposed stretched A340-600, if an agreement cannot be reached with General Electric in the next six months. An Airbus exclusivity agreement, signed recently with GE to study jointly the ...
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Trent engine reaches ETOPS milestone
ROLLS-ROYCE HAS completed the 3,000-cycle test of its Trent 800 engine, a key milestone to winning early extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) clearance on the Boeing 777. The simulated flights represent almost four years of equivalent airline service and will complement a further series of ETOPS flights being amassed by a ...
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Embraer forecasts end to losses
EMBRAER BELIEVES THAT it is only a couple of years away from returning to profit after some early signs of recovery in 1995, the Brazilian manufacturer's first year under private ownership. Although losses totalled $232 million for the full year, Embraer says that it made a significant recovery ...
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Race for cheap carbon brakes hots up
Andrew Doyle/PARIS MESSIER-BUGATTI believes that, within four years, it will be able to offer aircraft carbon brakes, which are as cheap to operate as their equivalent steel brakes, according to chairman and chief executive Yves Leclere. "We will match the direct operating costs [DOCs] of ...