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Talking Lauda
Lauda Air has ordered Honeywell's Airline Maintenance and Operations Support System (AMOSS), designed for air-to-ground communications between aircraft and an airline's flight operations and maintenance departments. Source: Flight International
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Huygens milestone
Aerospatiale has delivered the Huygens spacecraft to the European Space Agency for launch with the NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter aboard a Titan 4B booster from Cape Canaveral on 6 October. The Huygens craft is due to land on Saturn's moon, Titan, in 2004. Source: Flight International
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Should licence rules be adapted?
Sir - From studying the European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment, I would like to put forward a comment. For maintenance engineers who already hold technical qualifications and experience equal to, or greater than, the knowledge required by the Joint Aviation Authorities for the ...
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All change
The final countdown has begun to tick over Chinese rule over Hong Kong. With the clock ticking away, senior airline executives in the colony have been engaged in a last-minute game of musical chairs, before the Union Jack is hauled down on 30 June. The end-of-year departure of ...
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Maintenance DirectoryPart 2, Africa, Asia and Australasia
The growing importance of the Asia-Pacific market for aviation is attracting considerable investment in the region's airframe and engine repair and overhaul capabilities. With large numbers of new Airbus and Boeing aircraft entering service with Asia's carriers, local-airline engineering divisions and third-party maintenance companies are wanting to cash in on ...
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Grizzly delivery
Kaman has delivered a K-MAX external-lift helicopter to Grizzly Mountain Aviation, of Prineville, Oregon. The company has now sold 13 of the intermeshing-rotor helicopters, and two are on lease to operators. Grizzly Mountain will use the single-seat, single-engined aircraft for logging operations. An aircraft was also recently handed over to ...
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MDHS promises first MD 600N delivery
McDONNELL Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) will deliver its first MD 600N in early June, to Grand Canyon tour operator AirStar Helicopters, following delayed US certification. The company has seven aircraft ready for hand over, and hopes to deliver up to 30 of the tailrotor-less MD 600Ns this year. ...
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Aeronautique Services will run Avions Mudry
In what may prove to be a landmark decision for the French general-aviation industry, a French commercial court has decided that bankrupt Avions Mudry will be taken over by the Avions Robin holding company, Aeronautique Services. Aeronautique Services owner Jean-Paul Pellissier says that he plans to re-establish the ...
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NTSB urges action on 747 fuel-tank safety
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has added safety enhancements to commercial passenger-aircraft fuel tanks to its list of "most wanted" transportation-safety improvements. In late 1996, the NTSB urged the US Federal Aviation Administration to require air carriers to reduce the possibility of build-ups of explosive vapours ...
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EC threatens to ban Boeing/MDC imports
The European Commission (EC)has told Boeing that its proposed merger with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) will lead to the resulting company holding a "dominant" position in global markets, and has threatened to ban imports of Boeing/MDC aircraft to European Union markets if its objections are not satisfied. A letter ...
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BFGoodrich plans to expand Skywatch
BFGOODRICH PLANS to begin shipping its Skywatch traffic-advisory system in June, following USFederal Aviation Administration approval of the system. The company says that it has taken 65 orders since launching the Skywatch, which is aimed at the general-aviation market, at the beginning of April. Flight International was given ...
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Notes on tables
This Flight International Third-Party Airliner Maintenance Directory Part 2 covers Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Rim. It is an update of the information published in the issue of 6-12 November, 1996. Part III, covering companies in Europe and the CIS is to be published in our 22-28 ...
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The aircraft after the explosions
Container No 1 is the US Federal Aviation Administration-manufactured "hardened" container, which was placed close to the cargo-hold wall where the fuselage is externally marked with the black grid lines. In each container, a "bomb" was placed against an outboard-facing wall to test for "worst-case" results. Immediate external visual inspection ...
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Station to be manned in early 1999
NASA has released a new 45-flight assembly schedule for the International Space Station (ISS) under which permanent manned operations of the station are due to start in January 1999 and reach completion in 2003 - nine years later than planned when the programme was inaugurated by US President Ronald Reagan ...
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Teledesic selection is due by year end
Payload specialists, launchers and other major suppliers and components for Teledesic's global "Internet-in-the-sky" concept will be selected by Boeing by the end of the year. Boeing is prime contractor for the Teledesic Network which will involve a constellation of 288 low-Earth-orbit satellites providing affordable access to telecommunications services ...
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Airbus will limit A3XX engine choice
Airbus Industrie says that it will give airlines a choice of two engines only for the 550- to 650-seat A3XX. Three are now being offered: the Rolls-Royce Trent 900, a Pratt &Whitney PW4000 derivative, and a new engine from General Electric Pratt &Whitney Engine Alliance. "We are evaluating ...
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British Midland plans a foray into third-party maintenance market
British Midland is planning a major expansion into the third-party maintenance market, with the formation of British Midland Engineering, a new subsidiary company based at East Midlands Airport in the UK. The airline is also setting up a separate ground-handling company to expand its services in this area. ...
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FAA grounds Great Lakes Aviation
GREAT LAKES Aviation suspended flights on 16 May in the face of a US Federal Aviation Administration-imposed shutdown because of alleged deficiencies with maintenance operations. The action forced codeshare partners United Airlines and Midway Airlines to accommodate stranded passengers. Great Lakes served 82 cities in 21 US states ...
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US Federal Aviation Administration demands EMB-120 ice-detection
The US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed an airworthiness directive (AD) calling for the installation of ice-detection systems on the Embraer EMB-120 regional turboprop. The AD follows the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report into the crash of a Comair EMB-120RT in Michigan on 9 January, which ...
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Affordable start
Remarkably, Skyfox has been awarded the first certification for not one, but two aircraft under European/ Australian joint airworthiness regulations for very light aircraft (JAR/VLA). As a result of the certification of the tailwheel CA25 Impala, and its newer derivative, the nosewheel-equipped Skyfox Gazelle, the Queensland-based manufacturer is now promoting ...