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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 ...
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HAECO Franchise
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) has signed a 20-year franchise with the Airport Authority to provide base and line maintenance at Chek Lap Kok Airport. HAECO is to invest HK$1.4 billion ($181.8 million), including a 220m (700ft)-long three-bay hangar due for completion in April 1998. Source: Flight International
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A3XX programme gathers momentum as MoU is signed with Rolls-Royce
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie's plans to compete head-on with Boeing in the large airliner market are gathering momentum, with the consortium concluding the first agreement with an engine manufacturer to provide a power plant for the new aircraft. Airbus and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum ...
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JAL consulting
Japan Airlines and 17 associated group companies, including maintenance, cargo handling and catering, are to form a new aviation-business consulting company to advise on infrastructural development projects. JAL Aviation Consulting will be focusing primarily on airport construction projects in South-East Asia and China. Source: Flight International
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Taped vents probed in Peruvian accident
David Learmount/LONDON The failure by Aero Peru maintenance employees to remove protective adhesive tape placed over an aircraft's pilot/static vents during maintenance may have caused a Boeing 757 to crash on 2 October, says a Peruvian transport ministry statement (Flight International, 9-15 October). Tape covering static ...
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Canadian future is threatened if cost cuts are not endorsed
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Canadian Airlines International could be forced out of business by the turn of the year if employees and shareholders fail to endorse a sweeping programme of cost-cutting being proposed by the management, warns president Kevin Benson. The cost cuts, which are planned to add ...
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German buyers thwart IPTN hopes for stake in ASL
Three anonymous German investors have emerged as buyers for the former Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL), ending plans by Indonesia's Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) to take a 25.1% stake. Two local investors from Lower Saxony, where ASL is based, and a third from ...
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New Snecma chief aims
The new president of French engine manufacturer Snecma, Jean-Paul Béchat, says that the company's debt will be halved by the year-end, with "balanced books by the end of 1997". He is also making headway in attempts to avoid a sell-off of group subsidiaries - the prospect being faced by his ...
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AE-100 engine competition accelerates as rivals fight
The competition to power China's planned AE-100 passenger aircraft is intensifying, with rival engine manufacturers extending increasingly more attractive offers of industrial co-operation and co-production. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has stipulated that the joint venture will select an engine primarily on the basis of performance, reliability and ...
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Acceptable errors
The human-factors element in flight safety is now being taken seriously. David Learmount/WARSAW The world's flight-safety specialists have given up trying to eliminate human error. Now, the aim is to understand error and to control, or "manage" it. This strategy holds the key to improving airline flight ...
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Linear aerospike engine
Much of NASA's investment in the X-33 demonstrator will be in the development of its linear 'aerospike' engines. The aerospike "-is tremendously efficient because it is simpler than the current bell-nozzle rocket engine", says Micky Blackwell, president and chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. "It automatically adjusts itself to ...
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Eurocopter leases EC135s to Bavarian police
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurocopter has won Government approval for a contract to supply nine EC135 light helicopters on a ten-year lease to police in the south German state of Bavaria. According to Eurocopter, the contract will be signed on 13 November, now that the Bavarian regional government ...
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GEC-Marconi struggles for Il-76 data
Paul Lewis/ZHUHAI GEC-Marconi is facing difficulty in obtaining the design specifications from Ilyushin needed to modify its Il-76 transport to take the Argus 2000 airborne early-warning (AEW) sys- tem, now being offered to China. There has been some "foot-dragging" on the part of the Russians to ...
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Russia will privatise Domodedovo
The Russian Government has decided to privatise Domodedovo Commercial Aviation Enterprise, which runs Moscow's main domestic airport and the Domodedovo airline operation. Anew public company, Domodedovo Service, will be set up to run the airport, which handled close to 6 million passengers in 1995, although a majority 51% will stay ...
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MHS Aviation rigs up GPS on more aircraft
MHS Aviation, which primarily operates to oil and gas rigs in the South China Sea, is stepping up trials of the Swedavia-developed Global Positioning & Communications (GP&C) system and plans to use it on its entire helicopter fleet. MHS Aviation initially installed a system on a Sikorsky S-61 in September ...
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Langkawi to expand as training school
Langkawi Helicopter Services (LHS) is set to expand following the purchase of 30% of the firm by Amanah Saham Anak Langkawi. Chief executive Mohammad Abdullah says that LHS will set up a helipad and helicopter-training school in Langkawi on land near the airport provided by the Langkawi Development Authority. ...
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SECA
Henri-Paul Puel, chairman and chief executive of France's Sogerma Maintenance Centre, has been appointed chairman and chief executive of Sogerma subsidiary SECA. Puel is a replacement for Maurice Bloch, who has held the position since 1990, and was deputy executive officer from 1976. Source: Flight International
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GPS venture
Rockwell-Collins has signed a deal with Shanghai Avionics and Shanghai Broadcast Equipment to design, develop and build a global positioning system (GPS) in China. Shanghai Rockwell Collins Navigation and Communications Equipment will supply commercial GPS equipment for local use. Source: Flight International
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OSC hit by another Pegasus failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Orbital Sciences' (OSC) Pegasus XL air-launched satellite booster failed in its mission on 4 November for the third time in six flights. The vehicle's satellite payload - Argentina's first spacecraft, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-B), and NASA's High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) - failed to ...
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Russian Mars 96 probe is ready for November launch
Mars 96, Russia's contribution to an international three-craft exploration of the Red Planet, is due to be launched by a Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 16 November. It will follow the US Mars Global Surveyor, launched on 7 November, and the Mars Pathfinder, set for a 2 ...