All aerospace news – Page 1848
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China Airlines aligns with SIA as it ponders 777 acquisitions
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Airlines (CAL) has reached an internal decision to order a fleet of Boeing 777s, but final board approval remains pending as it weighs the full scope of potential co-operation with newly announced strategic partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The Taiwanese carrier has in principle selected the 777-200 as ...
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KAL suffers new blow as 747 skids off runway
Korean Air's (KAL) safety record was dealt a further blow when a Boeing 747-400 suffered major damage and passenger injuries on landing at Seoul's Kimpo Airport on 5 August. The incident occurred only days after a high-level flight operations shake-up and as KAL considers a $21.5 million flight operations reform ...
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Eurocontrol wants ACAS delay
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol is calling for the complusory implementation of airborne collision avoidance systems (ACAS) in passenger aircraft to be delayed by up to 15 months, from the existing January 2000 deadline. Introduction of the ACAS 2 standard has already been agreed by the European Civil Aviation Conference ...
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Navigation database heads for Internet
Jeppesen plans to put its vast navigation database on the Internet for access by pilots using instrument flight rules global positioning system receivers with the company's data cartridges. Customers will be able to download the 56-day cycle updates without the expense of exchanging the data cards. Even after ...
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New display and navigation products arrive for the cockpit
AlliedSignal and Trimble Avionics have introduced new display and navigation products for the general aviation cockpit. AlliedSignal's Skymap IIIC moving-map display is the first new product to emerge since the company purchased UK-based display maker Skyforce Avionics this year. The Skymap IIIC includes an integral global positioning system (GPS) ...
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Alenia delivers the first logistics module for space station
Tim Furniss/LONDON The first of three Italian Space Agency reusable Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules (MPLM) destined for the International Space Station (ISS), has now arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The MPLM 1 is scheduled to be carried on the Space Shuttle STS 100/Endeavour in December 1999. ...
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Cosmonaut added to ISS Shuttle crew
Russia's Sergei Krikalev has been added to the crew of the STS88 Space Shuttle Endeavour mission set to be launched in December. It will be the first US International Space Station assembly mission to dock the US Unity Node 1 to the Russian Zarya Control module. The Russian module is ...
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Next Soyuz to be launched on credit
TIM FURNISS/LONDON The three-man Soyuz mission to the Mir space station on 13 August is being launched on credit worth $33 million after a Russian Government pledge to provide $120 million to Energia failed to materialise, says the company's director general Yuri Semenov. The space station's remaining time ...
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Taking pole position
Paul Lewis/NEW YORK and HONG KONG The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Asia-Pacific technical office and airline regional co-ordinating group (RCG) has enjoyed a busy three years. Having negotiated safe passage over Afghanistan and helped broker the opening of North Korean airspace, the group scored again with the initial ...
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BM Engineering makes third party breakthrough
BM Engineering has agreed a five-year maintenance support contract with Norwegian start-up charter operator Color Air. The deal represents the company's first third party base maintenance contract since setting up last year as as a separate corporate entity from parent airline British Midland. Color Air has two ex-TACA Boeing ...
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Casinos gamble on new carrier
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Two Las Vegas casinos have together invested $30 million in low-fares start-up National Airlines, in a bid to offset a decline in seat availability as major airlines redeploy aircraft to higher-yield routes. National plans to start services in January or February 1999, operating four leased ...
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Flying Colours team assumes control after Airworld merger
A boardroom reshuffle resulting from the take-over of UK charter airline Flying Colours by Airworld has seen the departure of two Airworld directors. Flying Colours managers have been appointed to most senior positions, despite the airline being taken over. The move, which follows the June take-over of Flying Colours ...
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Marketplace
-Aer Lingus will take delivery of a new General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-200 in May 2000 on a six-year lease from International Lease Finance, with extension options. -Kitty Hawk Air Cargo has completed conversion of an ex-Middle East Airlines (MEA) Boeing 747-200 combi to cargo configuration at its Oscoda, Michigan, ...
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Searching for finance
Emma Kelly/RIO DE JANEIRO Building blocks for worldwide implementation of communications, navigation and surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems are in place, but one crucial element remains. "It's up to us to provide the muscle - money - to put the building blocks together," Jack Howell, director of the ...
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Russian promise
Ian Sheppard/LONDON A worldwide observation campaign to define more precisely the characteristics of the Russian Glonass satellite navigation system will run from September to December this year. It will be conducted by the geodetic community, which is relying on combining the Glonass with the US global positioning system (GPS) to ...
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Celestial Internet
Tim Furniss/LONDON Of all the advances in satellite communications since Telstar, the most interest is being created by the $9 billion Teledesic programme. Now that Teledesic has assembled a powerful industrial team to build and launch its 300-satellite constellation, the project is moving into high gear. Teledesic's copyrighted "Internet in ...
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Wolf captures new managers and reviews 728JET progress
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH John Wolf, the recently appointed chief operating officer of Fairchild Dornier, has shaken up the company's regional jet programmes with new management appointments and a review of the company's approach to the 728JET project. Three new programme managers have been appointed - two of them Wolf's ...
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EC unveils alliance plan details
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has published details of its proposed conditions for the British Airways and Lufthansa-led transatlantic alliances, including a call for the governments involved to open up national airports to other European carriers wanting to start US services. The official publication of the proposals, ...
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Satellite bug delays launches
Tim Furniss/LONDON The launch of at least two Hughes Space and Communications HS-601-based satellites have been delayed following control processor failures aboard the similar DBS1 and Galaxy 4 and 7 spacecraft in geostationary orbit from May to July (Flight International, 22-28 July). The JC-SAT 6, scheduled for launch on 29 ...
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Rotary Rocket starts construction of the first Roton parts
Construction of the first parts of Rotary Rocket's Roton commercial space vehicle is under way, kicking off an ambitious development schedule aimed at achieving initial flight tests by the middle of 1999. The first elements of the Roton, an unpiloted, unmanned, re-useable single stage to orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle, are ...