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Millenium scare?
Sir - The aviation industry depends on computer systems which handle dates, ranging from seat reservations to flight-data processing. Typically, 80% of systems which process dates can not handle the end of the century. There are similar problems in payment systems, building security, test equipment and, possibly, navigation ...
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Pen Air launches Alaskan Saab 340 operations
Peninsula Airways, which trades as Pen Air, has introduced two Saab 340Bs on its regional network from its hub in Anchorage, Alaska. The airline, which is an Alaska Airlines codeshare partner, is operating the aircraft in a 30-seat configuration, with a specially enlarged cargo compartment, created by moving the rear ...
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NTSB may probe pay for training
A US aircrew-training practice in which airlines require pilots to pay for their own training has prompted one of the country's leading pilot associations to call for an investigation into the practice by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) The practice is already under examination by a Federal Aviation ...
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United drives hard to gain a place in the training market
UAL Services is about to install the first of up to 15 new full-flight and fixed-base simulators at its Denver-based Flight Training Center, in a determined attack on the burgeoning US third-party aircrew-training market. The installation, on 15 April, will set a milestone in a $130 million expansion, scheduled to ...
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Insurers seek increase
Aviation insurers are seeking increases of up to 25% in premiums to cover the likely cost of ending limits on passenger-liability claims under the new International Air Transport Association (IATA) regime, which is now being put into effect by airlines around the world. Limits set under the longstanding ...
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Airbus/AVIC AE-100 agreement is not expected until year-end
Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA) is not now expected to reach a full agreement with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Singapore Technologies (ST) on the joint development of the planned AE-100/A318 until the end of the year. The three sides are hoping to sign a "framework agreement" by ...
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Finnair order contest warms up
Finnair has invited final bids from Airbus and Boeing to replace its fleet of 12 ageing 121-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51s, after completing technical evaluations of the A320 family and next-generation 737. The carrier also plans to eventually replace its 25 142-seat MD-80s with whichever type is selected. The ...
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HONEYWELL...
Top managers at avionics manufacturer Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, have changed jobs. In the commercial-aviation-systems division, Dean Vittetoe, formerly customer-support director for the Americas, becomes director of strategic-supply management. He is succeeded by Bertrand Dunou, who previously headed customer support in Europe. Dunou's replacement is Adrian Paull, who has worked ...
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Snecma president's restructuring pays off
Snecma has announced a major cut in its losses for 1996 and expects to return to the black this year, following continued recovery in the aerospace business after restructuring under new president Jean-Paul Béchat. Only group figures have been released, so that it is difficult to estimate the ...
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Seasons on Mars...
The latest images from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, since its servicing in orbit by the crew of the STS82 mission, show changes between Mars' northern-hemisphere spring and summer. The annual north-polar, carbon dioxide frost cap is vanishing, revealing the smaller, permanent, water-ice cap. Also ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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Hunting will sell off its non-core businesses
THE UK'S Hunting group has announced plans to disband its aviation division in a move expected to lead to the quick disposal of its aircraft-interiors businesses and the eventual sale of the cargo airline. Hunting chief executive Ken Miller says that the group wants to sell off its ...
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Racal develops hand-held IFF
With an eye to Europe's developing "open-skies" approach to civil-aircraft routing, Racal Wells has launched a private-venture programme to develop a hand-held identification friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder for use aboard balloons, gliders, para and hang gliders, microlights and light aircraft. Work on the design is based on a study ...
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Rising star
In the byzantine world of the Russian aerospace industry, perhaps nothing should come as a surprise.The emergence, however, of Alexei Fedorov as Sukhoi's general director was an unexpected triumph for the boss of the Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association. Fedorov's ascension has come at the expense of Mikhail Simonov, ...
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Tests prove Pioneer's CARS compatibility...
THE PIONEER unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has undergone compatibility testing with the Common Automatic Recovery System (CARS). A series of seven shipboard recoveries was successfully completed during testing in the Atlantic Ocean. The Pioneer UAV was flown into the recovery net by means of commands received via datalink ...
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Special relation
Rolls-Royce executives have often been heard to remark that, when it comes to selling engines in Asia, there is, arguably, no better sales tool than Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways. The unique relationship which the engine manufacturer has with the Swire Group's airline operation is about to be strengthened further ...
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Piper's two tunes
New Piper aircraft has hit its mark, it seems, with its first new model since emerging from bankruptcy nearly three years ago. Its Seneca V is a high-flying, fast, efficient aircraft which delivers equally in both aviation benefits and office ac- coutrements. With its blend of near-turboprop speed, high-altitude cruising ...
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UK pilot-training scheme comes under threat
UK flying training schools fear that they are in danger of losing a Government scheme which can give degree status for professional-pilot graduates, along with tax relief which reduces course prices by up to ú20,000, according to a leading flying-training school. Training-industry concern has been growing about the ...
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Supporting roles
The maintenance market is evolving rapidly to meet airlines' needs for lower costs and higher efficiency. By George H Ebbs After decades out of the limelight, MRO - the business of maintaining, repairing, and overhauling commercial aircraft - is finally receiving attention, and with good reason. Annual MRO expenditures ...
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Miami stuck in legal vice
A US Department of Transportation ruling on how payment should be divided for the new terminal at Miami International Airport could have a big impact on future airport funding. The $975 million project, planned to be completed by the year 2003, became the centre of a legal dispute ...