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Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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Gale Schluter has been appointed vice-president and general manager of St Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) space and defence-systems operation, replacing Bill Olson, who is to retire. Schluter was formerly vice-president and general manager of the unit's space-transportation business. Source: ...
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Gale Schluter has been appointed vice-president and general manager of St Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) space and defence-systems operation, replacing Bill Olson, who is to retire. Schluter was formerly vice-president and general manager of the unit's space-transportation business. Source: Flight International
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Air India terminates Caribjet wet leases
AIR INDIA HAS terminated its wet-lease contract with Belgium-based Caribjet, which has been flying Airbus A310-300s and Lockheed TriStar 500s on behalf of Air India on certain services. The airline signed a two-year agreement with Caribjet in 1995, which had been scheduled to run to December 1997. ...
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MDC doubts high-capacity need
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) forecasts that the market for the next generation of high-capacity airliners will stand at only 546 deliveries up to 2014. The forecast, contained in MDC's latest outlook for the world's commercial jet-airliner fleet through to 2014, adds to the spat ...
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Pemco will convert UPS 727 freighters for passenger charters
United Parcel Service (UPS) has awarded Pemco World Air Services a contract to convert five Boeing 727-100QF freighters to quick-change configuration for its planned weekend passenger-charter service. Pemco will design and certificate the conversion, and modify the aircraft at its Dothan, Alabama, maintenance centre. The work ...
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BAe succeeds with Airbus cargo conversions
BRITISH AEROSPACE Aviation Services' Airbus A300B4 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme has been boosted by a $25 million order from a US lease-management company, for three conversions. C-S Aviation Services of New York has contracted BAe for the conversion of three ex-Air France A300B4s, to be completed by mid-1997. The ...
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LF507 reliability levels 'not acceptable' says Crossair
Julian Moxon/HANOVER LOWER-THAN-expected despatch reliability of the AlliedSignal Engines LF507 turbofan powering Aero International Regional (AI(R)) RJ100 Avroliners has forced the engine manufacturer to spend $30 million on developing solutions. Crossair president Moritz Suter criticised the engine's 99.3% dispatch reliability during the recent European Regional Airlines ...
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Low Alitalia prices anger low-cost carriers
THE ARRIVAL OF several new low-cost carriers in Italy has prompted flag carrier Alitalia to join the fares war on domestic routes by offering ultra-low prices on some flights. The move, which cuts one-way weekend fares to all destinations to just L99,000 ($66), and to L65,000 on several ...
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Fairchild promises to launch a 30-seat turbofan 328 by 1997
FAIRCHILD DORNIER chairman and chief executive Carl Albert says that there is "no question" about a go-ahead for a 30-seat turbofan version of the Dornier 328 turboprop. "We'll launch it before the end of the year," he says, promising also that a 50-seat stretched version will be launched "about 12 ...
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Lockheed Martin pushes C-130J flight envelope
Testing of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules II is catching up on its delayed start, with rapid expansion of the flight envelope to all-new limits. The first four test aircraft have amassed more than 220 flight hours on 60 sorties. Eventually, nine aircraft will be involved in the ...
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IPTN makes changes to N-250 after early flights
Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) is making minor changes to the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight-control system (FCS) of the N-250, Indonesia's first fully indigenously designed airliner, following early flight tests. IPTN test pilot Erwin Danoewinata says that the general handling characteristics are "very satisfactory", and that the FCS is ...
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NASA looks at ways to save PCA during crises
NASA is studying a potential application of its recently completed Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system, which would allow a twin-engined aircraft to survive a catastrophic engine and flight-control failure. The PCA was developed following the 1989 crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with disabled flight controls. The crew ...
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US Court threatens GAIN safety system
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON A COURT DECISION ordering USAir to provide lawyers with internal safety-audit data which the airline thought was protected from compulsory public release by the Federal Aviation Administration could seriously damage US efforts to set up an international safety programme. The Supreme ...
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R-R invites Bristol division bids
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL ROLLS-ROYCE Industries Canada is selling its Bristol Aerospace division, saying that the Winnipeg-based company no longer fits its long-term plans. The 30-year-old relationship with Bristol is being cut to allow Montreal-based R-R Canada to concentrate on its main businesses of manufacturing aircraft and industrial ...
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R-R develops a low-emissions combustor for RB.211-535E4B
ROLLS-ROYCE is developing a new combustor for its RB.211-535E4B turbofan, which it claims will reduce the engine's nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions by up to 40%. The new variant is due to enter service, powering Condor's first Boeing 757-300, in the first quarter of 1999. According to David Snape, chief ...
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Boeing takes lead in order race
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BOEING HAS edged ahead of Airbus Industrie in turbofan-aircraft sales at the end of the third quarter of 1996, the two manufacturers having effectively matched each other's performance in net-order terms during the first half-year. The US manufacturer, which had around 50% of the ...
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Sabena places new long-haul fleet
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE RATIONALISATION of Sabena's long-haul-aircraft types is the priority item on the carrier's fleet-planning agenda, with a decision expected soon on standardising on a single type. The long-haul decision is seen as a more urgent than the replacement of its older Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Airbus Industrie creates freight airline for Belugas
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has set up a subsidiary to operate its A300-600ST (Super Transporter) "Beluga" outsized transports on commercial cargo charters. It is estimated that the new division, Airbus Transport International (ATI), could earn the consortium up to $15 million-worth of revenue each year using spare capacity on the Beluga fleet. ...
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Germany to lead free-flight trials in Europe
GERMANY'S civil-aviation authority, the DFS, is working with Lufthansa to carry out trials of free-flight technologies in Europe. "We're looking at how to implement free flight in Germany as soon as possible," says Dr Klaus Dieter Ehrhardt, responsible for CNS/ATM planning in the DFS. "We will look at ...