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Embry-Riddle opens simulation centre
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University's Advanced Flight Simulation Centre has opened at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, equipped with a Raytheon Beech 1900D full-flight simulator built by FlightSafety International. The centre is a joint venture between Embry-Riddle and FlightSafety, and offers training to airlines as well as to the university's students. ...
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NATCO and BSC to move Cathay simulators
CATHAYPACIFIC Airways has selected Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) to move its simulators to Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport. NATCO, a Northwest Airlines subsidiary, has teamed with Binghamton Simulator (BSC) to carry out the project. Planning began in June, and the simulators will be moved early in 1999. ...
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ESA will propose a rescue vehicle for Space Station
Tim Furniss/PARIS A European Space Agency (ESA) Council of Ministers meeting in the middle of 1998 is to decide whether to go ahead with the development of a Crew Transport Vehicle (CTV) capsule or a new proposal of a lifting-body Crew Rescue Vehicle (CRV), for use in the ...
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Pathfinder is poised for historic landing
NASA's ambitious plans for a series of Mars Surveyor landers and orbiters, leading to a sample return mission in 2005, depend upon a successful touchdown of the Mars Pathfinder at Ares Vallis on 4 July. The landing site is at the outflow at the bottom of a valley ...
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Techspace Aero
Emeric d'Arcimoles has been appointed managing director and general manager of Belgian aircraft manufacturer Techspace Aero, of Herstal. He was formerly general manager of the Aeronautical Equipment division of Snecma subsidiary Hispano-Suiza. D'Arcimoles takes over from Pierre Cognet, who will manage newly formed Snecma Services, and who will remain a ...
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Senate grills the two Bobs
As theatre goes, it was in a class of its own. And as the curtain went down on a US Senate hearing into the US-UK open skies talks in early June, the prospect of progress seemed as remote as ever. The general consensus was that Robert Crandall and ...
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Airlines unite over Africa
Rising concerns over air safety in most of Africa have spurred several major European carriers to support a South Africa Airways' initiative that could see some countries boycotted if they do nothing to improve the parlous state of their air traffic control systems. In May SAA put forward ...
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BA places a no strike bet
British Airways' plan to reap £1 billion a year in efficiency savings by March 2000 could suffer a severe blow if two separate ballots of cabin crew and ground staff, the latter over the airline's plan to sell its catering operations, result in support for strike action. Both ...
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We win together
Profits and a healthy cash balance once seemed impossible goals for Continental Airlines. Having achieved them, chairman and chief executive officer Gordon Bethune has turned his attention to the fight for global market share. Interview by Richard Whitaker Working together worked! So says the banner headline on the front cover ...
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Friendly skies? Let's get honest
Blame it on the lettuce leaf liner. Just a few years ago, when airline CEOs across the US were nervously eyeing their costs per available seat mile, the challenge was to trim costs without upsetting the passenger. An easy throwaway was the limp piece of lettuce that lined the trays ...
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What's left for France?
Is it a case of plus ça change or will the new French socialist government compromise Air France's planned privatisation and the integration of the Airbus consortium? The French airline industry is waiting with bated breath to see whether France's new socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, is a ...
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Leap of faith
Having been forced to abandon its multi-company structure, the Mesa Air Group is now concentrating on new developments, like its operation at Fort Worth.Karen Walker talks to chairman Larry Risley. Larry Risley, chairman and chief executive officer at Mesa Air Group, has become an expert hurdles jumper over the last ...
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Florida cocktail
The battle for control of the fast-growing market from the US to Latin America is being fought in Miami, but American Airlines' dominance means some US majors are shifting their sights elsewhere. Karen Walker reports. A tornado touched down in the heart of Miami earlier this year. Had the Wizard ...
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Network agility
Will the gap widen between the most sophisticated European players in network management and those that have not yet grasped the concept fully? By Luis Rivera, Lucio Pompeo and Alberto Martin. Five years ago, network management was still quite an abstract concept for most European airlines. Though many had heard ...
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Shuttle is in Wolf's court
Few expect US Airways to give up its Shuttle, but a move by American Airlines to purchase the prestigious east coast operation, as well as possible interest from United Airlines, has introduced another twist in the carrier's continuing battle with unions. US Airways operates, but does not own ...
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Two to tango
The Taca Group was once held up as a model for Latin American airline cooperation, but now stands accused of selling out through its planned alliance with American Airlines. But does Taca chairman Federico Bloch have any choice? Doug Cameron reports. Please don't tell officials at the US Department ...
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New Labour sets trend in Europe
The conservative free-market revolution, which reached its high point during the Reagan-Thatcher era and lingered on into the mid-1990s, shows increasing signs of being politically vanquished as the industrial world moves towards the millennium. Although many of the substrates of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution live on in the shape of the ...
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Empire builders in fight to the finish
Make no mistake, it's a battle - a fight to the finish. A battle for territory, for customers, for markets, for revenue streams. A strategic war in which treaties are made with friendly powers, only to be abrogated when those powers turn out to be not quite as friendly as ...
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Space link
United Space Alliance and Spacehab have agreed jointly to develop commercial markets for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. United operates the Space Shuttle for NASA, while Spacehab operates habitable extension modules in the Shuttle's mid-deck. The firms will focus on expanding the non-government market for life and ...