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Most regionals meet FAA safety...
Almost all US regional airlines have met the US Federal Aviation Administration's 20 March deadline for tougher safety rules, with only six out of the 39 affected carriers failing to do so. The new regulations require regional operators to meet the same standards as those operating large jet-powered ...
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Lufthansa finds partners for global alliance
Lufthansa is expected to host the signing of an informal agreement on "comprehensive co-operation" with Air Canada, SAS, Thai Airways and United Airlines, in Frankfurt on 14 May, as the next step in turning an existing partnership into a cohesive global alliance. According to Thai press reports, the ...
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IAE studies latest V2530-A5 failure
International Aero Engines (IAE) is working to determine the cause of a third incident of high-pressure compressor (HPC) damage occurring to a V2530-A5 turbofan operated by Lufthansa on its Airbus A321 fleet. The latest discovery followed an engine stall and rejected take-off on 25 March. HPC blade damage ...
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NASA names its Hyper-X team
NASA has awarded a $33.4 million contract to a team led by MicroCraft to build four experimental aircraft which will be used to demonstrate hypersonic propulsion technologies as part of the Hyper-X project. The other team members joining Tullahoma, Tennessee-based MicroCraft are Boeing North American, GASL and Accurate ...
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Ill fated ambitions
The Romaero Rombac BAC One-Eleven programme is rooted in former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu's ambitions to make Romania independent of the Soviet Union. As a maverick among the former Communist Bloc leaders, Ceausescu had refused to take part in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and later exploited initially good ...
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International Space Base
The name Kourou has become synonymous with that of Arianespace, but the European launcher organisation is only a user of the launch site. The CSG is operated by the French space agency CNES but was developed with funds from the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA). ...
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Lunar prospector construction complete...
Construction and assembly of the NASA Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been completed by Lockheed Martin in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 24 September, on a mission to obtain the first complete compositional and gravity maps of the moon. The $63 million, low-cost, Discovery mission will carry ...
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MDC talks up MD-80 freighter for China
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) remains optimistic that its MD-80 cargo conversion plan proposed to Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) earlier this year will receive the go-ahead before the end of 1997, despite uncertainty caused by the planned merger with Boeing. A key aspect of the plan is the supply ...
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Euro liberalisation could still cause problems
The final stage of European air-transport liberalisation came into effect on 1 April, to the accompaniment of predictions that airlines will be unlikely to take full advantage of the increased market access contained within the legislation. "In most important respects, the European market has been fully liberalised since ...
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Gulf Air reactivates TriStars following disposal of 767s
Gulf Air is planning to return up to three of its five stored L-1011 TriStar 200s to service, for operation on services within the Gulf, and to the Indian sub-continent. The move comes in the wake of the sale of six Boeing 767-300ERs to Delta Air Lines. One ...
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NASAselects two satellites to study...
NASA has selected two small, low-cost, satellites to study the distribution of the Earth's forests and the variability of its gravity field under a new Office of Mission to Planet Earth, Earth System Science Pathfinders, programme. The vegetation-canopy lidar (VCL) mission will use a multibeam laser-ranging device to ...
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Integrating information
LOW-OBSERVABLE AIR superiority places severe requirements on avionics that can only be met by the degree of integration evident in the F-22, says Marty Broadwell, deputy avionics team-leader. "We are collecting snippets of information, with minimum illumination, pencil beams, sensors that are passive or barely on. Alone, ...
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Airbus offers extended-range HGW A330-300s
Airbus Industrie is actively offering an increased weight, extended range derivative of the A330-300 twinjet, as final assembly of the first A330-200 progresses at Toulouse. The range of the new high-gross-weight (HGW) version of the -300 would typically be boosted by some 1,300km (700nm) to around 10,200km. The ...
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EJI adds to Gulfstream IV-SP order
Executive Jet Inter-national (EJI), the US business aircraft fractional ownership organisation, has contracted for 11 more Gulfstream IV-SPs, taking its orders for the model to 27. The new agreement, which includes one additional aircraft for delivery in 1997, accelerates the exercising of five GIV-SP options due in 1999, ...
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No turning BAC
Typically for the East European industry, Romaero's base at Baneasa Airport in northern Bucharest consists of pockets of activity interspersed with large areas of empty factory floor. On the one hand, there is the lively Pilatus Britten-Norman Islander assembly line, or the busy section of an otherwise empty production hall ...
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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 ...