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BAe flies its first converted A300B4 freighter
British Aerospace's Filton, UK-based division, BAe Aviation Services, flew its first converted Airbus A300B4 freighter on 23 January, and hopes to be able to secure approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration and UK Civil Aviation Authority approval by the end of March. The conversion of the first ...
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CFMI gears up for bumper year
CFM International (CFMI) is stepping up production of CFM56 engines in response to record orders placed during 1996 for 1,280 powerplants valued at $5.5 billion. CFMI president Gerard Laviec says that the company had planned for only "about 700 orders" for the year. As a result of the ...
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Turkey signs up for further 30 Cougars
The Turkish Government has signed a contract for the purchase of 30 Eurocopter Cougar Mk1s, coupled with an agreement on local production. The contract, worth Fr2.5 billion ($434 million), covers ten AS532-ULs for the Turkish army, complementing the 20 ordered at the end of 1993, plus 20 AS532-ALs ...
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Ethiopian nears decision on new fleet
Ethiopian Airlines is studying proposals from Boeing and Airbus Industrie for its fleet-renewal programme, and is expected to be ready to place an order for narrow- and widebodied aircraft before the end of the year. "Most of the background work has been finalised. My expectation is that we ...
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Universal dual-system satnav nears approval
Universal Avionics is on track to win certification of the first satellite-navigation (satnav) receiver capable of using both the US global-positioning system (GPS)and Russian Glonass navigation constellations. The company, best known for its UNS-1 range of flight-management systems, is using a combined GPS/Glonass receiver-processor board provided by US ...
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KLM to upgrade 747-200/300s
KLM is to carry out a $53 million upgrade of its Boeing 747-200/300s and keep the aircraft in service well into the next century. KLM is the first airline to commit to an extensive cockpit upgrade of so-called 747 'Classics'. The package includes a major cockpit upgrade, aimed ...
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Moving production
Italy's Alenia Aerospazio has turned satellite manufacturing on its head at its new Centro Piccoli Satelliti (Small Satellite Centre) in Tiburtina, Rome. In a conventional production centre, satellites are generally built at a central point, with teams of different engineers coming and going, adding new components as they are manufactured. ...
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Airliner Maintenance Directory: Introduction
This Flight International Third-Party Airliner Maintenance Directory Part 1 covers companies in the Americas and is an update of the information published in the issue of 10-16 July, 1996. Part II, covering Africa, Asia, the CIS, the Middle East and Australasia/ Pacific Rim, is to be published in ...
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Fly by net
The AeroNet, SITA's latest data-communications system, could be the aviation industry's answer to the Internet. Long established as a provider of data communications for the aviation industry, SITA recently had a self-contained, high-performance data network grafted on to its support structure. Called the AeroNet, it is aimed at eradicating paper ...
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Spare a thought
Airlines in Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on third-party component support services. Maintaining a comprehensive spare-parts inventory for a modern airline is an expensive business, particularly for a small- or medium-sized operator. Many expensive components may be languishing in storage, under-used but held in case an unforeseen failure grounds an ...
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EAS invitation
The European Space Agency (ESA) has invited the first proposals from European scientists to conduct scientific, technological and applications experiments aboard the Columbus Orbital Facility on the International Space Station in about 2002. Source: Flight International
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Turbomeca approval
The Turboméca Arrius 2F turbo engine, used to power the Eurocopter EC120 light helicopter, was awarded French certification on 22 January. Source: Flight International
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Jetcorp supplementary
Fixed-base operator JetCorp of St Louis, Missouri, has received US Federal Aviation Authority supplemental type certification for its AlliedSignal CAS 66A traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system which has been installed on the Bell 412 twin-engined helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Lighter moments
DeVore Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been granted a supplemental type certificate for its Tel-Tail vertical-tail and rotor floodlights on the Bell 407 and 430 helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Tuned in at Collins
The Rockwell-Collins RTU-4200 Radio Tuning Unit has been certificated for use on the Sikorsky S-76B twin-engined helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Blame CIS aircraft for 'freight fright'
Sir - We were disappointed with the conclusions drawn from the 1996 accidents statistics in the editorial "Freight fright" (Flight International, 15-21 January). Excluding training accidents, in 1996 there were 13 fatal accidents to cargo aircraft above 5,700kg, and ten of these were to Russian aircraft. Only one ...
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Honeywell
Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Bill Bouchard director of operations for its Business and Commuter Aviation Systems division, in Glendale, Arizona. He succeeds Roger Custer, who has moved to Honeywell Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as vice-president of manufacturing. Bouchard, with the company since 1979, was most recently marketing ...
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IAI's expanding Commodore moves into SabreTech's Miami site
Commodore Aviation, the overhaul subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), is expected to complete a deal acquiring the troubled SabreTech's maintenance operation at Miami International Airport within the next two weeks. The IAI unit, which is based at Miami International, will move into SabreTech's much larger site after ...
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Flying high in the USA
There seems to be no stopping the US airline industry. Passenger traffic has set new highs throughout the past year and there are few signs of the growth slowing down. Profits have been spectacular. On almost any measure, the year-end results from the US majors are the best ...
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CIS reports worst-ever airline accident rate
A MASSIVE deterioration in freight airline safety in the CIS countries has given the region its worst fatal airline-accident rate in history, according to figures released by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK). Ten of the year's 13 fatal accidents involved CIS-registered freighters. MAK says that this gives a fatal-accident rate ...