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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Air Methods delivers modular medical interior for MD900
Air Methods has delivered its first modular, multi-function, medical interiors to operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopter in Europe and the USA. Boise Life Flight in Idaho, and HSD in Germany, have taken delivery of Explorers equipped with the new multi-role interiors. Denver, Colorado-based Air Methods ...
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Raytheon unveils all-new Hawker
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Raytheon Aircraft has launched development of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet to replace the current Hawker 1000. The first flight is scheduled for late 1999, leading to US certification in the second quarter of 2001. Raytheon is planning to build 20-25 aircraft a year. ...
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Blanc insists on fleet mixture
Julian Moxon/Paris Air France president Christian Blanc has made it clear to the French Government that he wants to order a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s as part of the flag carrier's fleet-renewal programme. Up to ten of each type are likely to be ...
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Fokker rescue plan put on hold
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SAMSUNG'S PROPOSED rescue of Fokker has been put on hold until the South Korean Government and other other local aerospace manufacturers decide whether or not they should back the programme. The deal ran into a last-minute delay when Samsung sought South Korean Government approval ...
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The sequence of events leading to the mid-air collision
The Boeing 747, one of eight Series 168Bs (ie, the -100B) operated by Saudi Arabian, departed New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 18.33 local, and headed on a westerly course (270¹) from the Delhi VOR navigation beacon (DPN). The 747, which seems to have been operating ...
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Reasons for A3XX wing arrangement
Sir - Airbus Industrie is glad to see the interest that the A3XX is creating among Flight International readers. This is reflected in the recent proposals for the wing arrangement which we have read in your magazine. Since the mid-1980s, during the development of the A3XX, various configurations ...
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Vanguard Variations
The Merchantman's origins lay with the 100- to 140-seat Vickers Vanguard of the early 1960s. The four-engined turboprop was first flown from the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands on 20 January 1959, and entered service with British European Airways (BEA) in December 1960. Although very economical to operate, the design was ...
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Lockheed Martin wins $1.8 billion SBIRS contract
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.8 billion contract to build the five-satellite geostationary orbit Space Based Infra Red System (SBIRS) missile early-warning fleet, which will be launched in 2006. One ground spare will also be built. The satellites will be based on the Lockheed Martin A2100 spacecraft ...
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Russia will ditch automatic docking system on Soyuz
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian space industry's cash crisis has claimed another victim. Future manned Soyuz TM spacecraft will no longer be fitted with the Kurs S-band automatic docking system. The spacecraft is a key part of the Russian manned space programme and is used to shuttle ...
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Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November,...
Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November, Hanoi, Vietnam. Contact: Adsale Exhibition Services, 14/F Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; tel: +852 2811 8897; fax: +852 2516 5024. Airport Regions Conference 28-29 November, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Congress Team/Area Travel AGency, PO Box 6 (Päivärinnankatu 1), FIN-00251, Helsinki, ...
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Boeing plans tail-strike safeguards for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is developing a series of design changes for the 757-300 to reduce the potentially greater risk of tail-strikes affecting the stretched aircraft. The -300 will be 7m longer than the current -200 production model and is almost exactly the same length as ...
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FSF launches final assault on 'killer' CFIT accident rate
David Learmount/DUBAI THE FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) is this week launching the final phase of its attack on the airline industry's worst killer-accident category, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), insisting that it intends to halve the annual number of CFIT accidents by 1998. Over the last ...
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ModiLuft grounded by Lufthansa action
INDIAN DOMESTIC carrier ModiLuft has been effectively grounded following court action by Lufthansa, which is trying to repossess lease-expired aircraft. The case is the latest in a series of disputes which have arisen between Western aircraft lessors and private Indian carriers which have allegedly failed to meet their financial obligations. ...
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In-flight Trent 700 failure forces Cathay A330 back to Saigon
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating the involuntary in-flight shutdown on 11 November of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine, which forced the crew of one of its Airbus A330-300s to return to Saigon shortly after take-off. The engine suffered a suspected internal gearbox failure as ...
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Without authority
On the question of the status of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and of Eurocontrol, the decision to fudge the issue of by making them "official international bodies" but not single European authorities will, like most similar compromises, do more to salve bureaucratic consciences than to solve European problems. ...
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-while US Army pursues anti-satellite weapon
As the US Air Force moves towards fielding an airborne laser designed to destroy theatre ballistic missiles, the US Army is working on a weapon able to knock out enemy reconnaissance and communications satellites. The anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon being developed by Rockwell International's Rocketdyne Division for the US ...
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FAA improves US fire and rescue services
Technology designed to assist airport rescue and firefighting crews at night and in bad weather has been deployed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Driver's Enhanced Vision System (DEVS), developed at the FAA's research-and-development centre, combines satellite navigation, digital datalink and infra-red (IR) technologies. Using the DEVS, ...
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Bell
Terry Stinson, president of Textron's Aerospace Systems and Components, has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Bell Helicopter Textron, of Fort Worth, Texas. He will take up the position in January 1997. The present president, Lloyd Shoppa, who is due to retire in August 1997, will become vice-chairman ...
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It's now time to think of engineers
Sir - Aircraft engineers worldwide are aware that, if the airlines do not make a profit, they will go out of business. The trend is for airlines to expect the maximum from their aircraft, but they do not keep enough spares to maintain their fleets. Maintaining a large ...