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SW-4 takes off
After years of false starts and delays, Polish industry is moving into the light helicopter market. Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW On a blustery Tuesday, 29 October, the Polish press and selected guests gathered at helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik's factory near Lublin to watch an event crucial to the future of the ...
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Air France agrees to take up to 20 777s
Air France will take more Boeing twins, but is moving up from 767 to 777 Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Government has approved Air France's decision to buy up to 20 Boeing 777s (including options), as part of its long-range-fleet renewal programme. The airline has placed orders ...
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AMJ BAe 146s are to be given satellite-navigation capability
British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets (AMJ) is developing a cockpit upgrade for early-build BAe146s, based around the introduction of an AlliedSignal satellite-based navigation system. The upgrade will allow operators of the BAe leasing unit's 146s, particularly in Europe and Australia, to cope with the progressive worldwide phase-out of the VLF Omega ...
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Japan's Skymark will be launched in 1998
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A Japanese business consortium has formally launched Skymark Airlines as the country's next planned carrier to compete for the world's second- largest domestic air-travel market. Skymark Airlines plans to take to the air early in 1998, equipped with three leased Boeing 767s. The start-up ...
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Lockheed wraps up its plans for Loral
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Lockheed Martin has unveiled the final phase of its plans to consolidate the Loral defence businesses, targeting savings of $300 million a year once the restructuring is complete. The consolidation will include the closure of eight plants, eliminating 230,000m2 (2.5 million ft2) of work ...
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A virtual threat
USAir orders up to 400 Airbuses; American Airlines takes 103 Boeings now, with up to 630 in total in the next 22 years; Continental, 90 Boeings; GECAS, 45 Airbuses; Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, 25 Boeings- Is the air-transport industry showing robust and welcome signs of recovery, or unhealthy and unwelcome ...
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T minus 365 days
After long delays, the International Space Station is finally just one year away from its first assembly flight. Tim Furniss/LONDON After a tortuous political and financial gestation period, the International Space Station (ISS) is only one year away from reality. In November 1997, a Russian Proton booster will ...
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Mars probe may be to blame for failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Russia's Mars '96 spacecraft plunged into the Earth's atmosphere on 17 November after its Proton D2 fourth stage failed to re-ignite in low-Earth parking orbit. It was the fifteenth Russian Mars failure in 18 launches since 1960. Even the other three flights were considered to be ...
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Falcon Jet
Dassault Falcon Jet, of Paramus, New Jersey, has promoted Jon Lax to director of service and maintenance engineering. He was formerly manager of special projects and, before that, he was a computer technical-support consultant, an aircraft broker, and chief pilot and flight-department manager for a US West Coast company. ...
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Germany economy
Lufthansa has selected B/E Aerospace's Seating Products division to supply economy-class seats for four Boeing 747-400s, scheduled for delivery in 1997. The German flag carrier's fleet of 18 Airbus A340-200/300s is also equipped with Florida, USA-based B/E Aerospace's Innovator 1 seats. Source: Flight International
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Display progress
Guy Norris/PHOENIX Graham Warwick/CEDAR RAPIDS Another busy day begins for the corporate-jet crew. Today's flight will take them from Dallas to New Orleans and on to Washington DC, weather permitting. The chief pilot moves the cursor to a "soft key" on the multi-function display (MFD) and selects weather ...
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Pedigree preserved
Peter Henley/LUTON By the time British Aerospace sold its corporate-jets business to Raytheon in 1993, the BAe 125 8-14 passenger twinjet had gained a formidable reputation. Since 1962, when the original de Havilland DH 125 was first flown, 850 customers from more than 40 countries had purchased various ...
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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 ...