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Revised US airspace upgrade concentrates on ground work
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The first phase of the revised modernisation plan for the US National Airspace System (NAS) is to concentrate on ground infrastructure improvements. "There will be little impact on avionics equipment," says a senior Federal Aviation Administration official, indicating that features such as automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast and ...
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Marketplace
-Pearljet of Australia has purchased a second British Aerospace Jetstream 41 from BAe Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT), to be based at Brisbane. -O'Connor Airlines of Mount Gambier, Australia, has become the first customer in the Asia- Pacific region for the British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP enhanced performance aircraft, leasing two ...
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GE aims to expand oriental engine support ventures
General Electric Engine Services is focusing efforts on firming up planned new engine-overhaul joint ventures in China and the Philippines, following the recent start of its partnership with EVA Airways in Taiwan. GE has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Xiamen Aviation Industrial to ...
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Fairchild Dornier examines 728JET partners
Principal risk-sharing partners in Fairchild Dornier's proposed new 728JET family of regional aircraft should be known by the end of the month. The main design configuration is expected to be frozen by May. The company's regional and business aircraft president Earl Robinson says that a total of 17 competing ...
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Pierson warns on A3XX costs
Airbus president Jean Pierson has warned that the A3XX 550-650 seat airliner should not be launched until the consortium is satisfied that the programme can meet its promised target of delivering significantly better economics than those offered by the Boeing 747. Speaking at his last official press conference before ...
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Fairchild Dornier examines 728JET partners
From Flight International Principal risk-sharing partners in Fairchild Dornier's proposed new 728JET family of regional aircraft should be known by the end of the month. The main design configuration is expected to be frozen by May. The company's regional and business aircraft president Earl Robinson says that a total ...
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AirTran aims for 'fresh start' after making heavy losses
US low fare airline AirTran says that it is "positioned for a turn-around", despite posting heavy losses for last year. The former ValuJet has reported a net loss for 1997 of $96.7 million, more than double its 1996 loss, on operating revenues that fell slightly, to $211.5 million. One-time ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:Rockwell Collins (Avionics)
Improving cockpit awareness through a 3D flight planning mapAdvances in flightdeck technology have brought major benefits to the cockpit but also some new potential concerns. Among them is the need to ensure that pilots retain good situational awareness despite the increasing volumes of data that they have to handle from ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:Alenia Difesa and Swedavia (Infrastructure)
The FarAway project, co-ordinated by Italy's Alenia Difesa, represents another step in the development of the future air traffic management concepts that Europe will have to adopt if growth is to continue in its overcrowded airspace. The project, financed by the European Commission, aims to validate the benefits of ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:AMECO-Beijing (Maintenance & Modification)
AMECO-Beijing took its first important steps into the international market for heavy aircraft maintenance in 1997, showing how far the Chinese joint venture has come over the past eight years. AMECO was set up at Beijing's Capital Airport in 1989 as a joint venture between Air China and Lufthansa, ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:British Aerospace Aviation Services (Maintenance & Modifications)
British Aerospace Aviation Services set out just over two years ago to produce a realistically priced passenger to freighter conversion for the Airbus A300B4. In 1997 its plans became reality as the first three freighters left for customers. Last year's first milestone came in June as the conversion won ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:CFM International (Propulsion)
Increasing life cycles and lowering costs with the new CFM56-7 When Boeing delivered the first of its new generation 737 family towards the end of 1997, the event also marked the entry into service of CFM International's latest CFM56-7 engine, bringing with it significant advances in operating and maintenance costs. ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:Russian Space Agency and NASA (Space)
Combined work to rescue the damaged Mir space station No review of space achievements in 1997 would be complete without mention of the rescue drama surrounding Russia's Mir space station. Working in the full glare of world publicity, the Russian Space Agency and Mir crew worked to overcome what ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Space)
On 4 July 1997, NASA had special reason to celebrate as the Mars Pathfinder made a perfect landing on Mars after seven months in space. The mission has not only provided important new scientific evidence about the planet, but also helped capture the imagination of a public already fuelled by ...
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Eastern premise
The abiding lesson from the recent Singapore air show is not the magnitude or nature of the present economic unrest in the Asia-Pacific region, but the vulnerability of the aerospace community in the region to such a crisis. Much as time and effort needs to be expended in countering the ...
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Fighting for Florida
Tim Furniss/CAPE CANAVERAL Despite hosting 23 of the 86 successful satellite launches made around the world in 1997, the Cape Canaveral launch base and the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, are facing a challenging future. The Cape Canaveral base in particular, and supporting local industries, could be driven ...
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A3XX collaboration initiative speeds up
Two of Europe's leading avionics companies are collaborating with Aerospatiale in a programme backed by the European Commission (EC) aimed at improving the ability of system suppliers to work together. The concurrent engineering project, one of several centred around the proposed Airbus A3XX, has entered the demonstration phase and ...
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Innovative engine fuel controller proven
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A new gas turbine fuel control technology offering potential weight, cost and power savings has been tested successfully on an AlliedSignal TFE731-5 turbofan. The system combines a Lucas Aerospace fuel control unit with a split discharge pump produced by US company Vickers. In conditions when ...
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Norway completes evaluation of landing system
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Complex precision approaches to some of the world's most inaccessible airfields could soon be possible after the Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration (NCAA) successfully completed evaluation trials of a new satellite navigation landing system. The trials were conducted at the northern Norwegian airport of Bod¿, where Raytheon ...
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Range, range...range
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Confused over Boeing's plans for future 747 derivatives? Take heart. For two years since the cancellation of the ambitious 747-500X/600X development, Boeing appears to have been as perplexed as anybody. Devising a strategy for product development is, at best, an inexact science. Boeing knows this ...