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WestPac agrees big 328 deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT has secured the first new orders for the Dornier 328 turboprop since a majority of the company was sold to Fairchild in June. Western Pacific Airlines ("WestPac") has placed an order for up to 24 328s, which it selected over the Aero International (Regional) ...
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Airbus keeps pace with Boeing-
Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AFTER A POOR SHOWING of aircraft orders in 1995, Airbus Industrie appears to have held its own against Boeing in the first half of 1996, while the overall jet-airliner market continues to recover for both manufacturers. Although the headline figures show ...
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Test of faith
NO-ONE BENEFITS when accident-investigation agencies clash over the cause of an air crash. The arguments may be based on genuine grievances, but they only serve to deflect attention from the wider issues at stake. It has happened this week because the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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Pentagon torpedoes Marine Apaches and Black Hawks
THE AMBITIONS of McDonnell Douglas and Sikorsky to sell, respectively, the AH-64 Apache and UH-60 to the US Marine Corps have been dealt a serious blow by a US Department of Defense (DoD) report recommending that upgrading the USMC's existing fleet is the most cost-effective approach. The DoD ...
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Brussels Airport to be closed at night
A BELGIAN COURT ruling that aircraft cannot fly over certain Brussels suburbs between 23.00 and 06.00 will effectively close the capital's international airport during that period. An 11 July ruling means that the main runways, 25R-07 and 22, cannot be used at night. Brussels Airport night traffic is ...
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- and heads for new structure
Kevin O'Toole/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has committed itself to becoming a fully fledged company by the end of the decade, with the partners promising that this will also be a catalyst for broader civil and military mergers within Europe. No firm timescale has yet been set, but ...
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China nears European deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA HOPES to finalise a workshare agreement with European manufacturers and Singapore Technologies (ST) before the end of the year, following the signing of a letter of intent (LoI) last week to develop a 90- to 140-seat regional jet. Signature of the LoI officially ...
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Diamonite delivers refitted Tu-134
DIAMONITE HAS delivered its 26th interior refurbishment of a Russian aircraft. The latest refit, a Tupolev Tu-134A, was sent to Moscow on 12 June. The aircraft is for a major Russian bank and is managed by the Kasparov Consultancy. Kasparov, owned by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov, ...
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Market change
ARIANESPACE HAS analysed three major factors for the reduction of GEO civil-communications satellites. The globalisation (or regionalisation) of space projects has caused a significant change in the telecommunications market. National projects are tending to disappear, replaced by projects "without borders". The monopolies held by organisations such as Intelsat are at ...
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Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 noses ahead
STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY of the first Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 forward fuselage is complete and installation of tubing, wiring, cockpit instrumentation and avionics racks is under way at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems in Marietta, Georgia. Visible (see picture, right) is the radar bulkhead, which is canted to reduce radar cross-section, ...
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Jet finalises regional-fleet plan
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON JET AIRWAYS IS finalising plans for the acquisition of a fleet of regional aircraft to operate on services in north-eastern India. ,Jet Airways' chairman Naresh Goyal says that the airline is committed to initiating regional services: "We are vigorously pursuing plans to induct smaller ...
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Equal rights
Paul Duffy/BOCA RATON, FLORIDA THE DEMAND FOR OLDER aircraft, particularly for freighters, is rising strongly because operators are beginning to realise that the economics of using older aircraft can result in considerable cost savings. According to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC), world air cargo will continue ...
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Lockheed
Vance Coffman has been appointed president and chief operating officer at Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Maryland. Former president Norman Augustine remains vice-chairman and chief executive. Coffman, who joined Lockheed in 1967, served as president of the Space and Strategic Missiles sector following the March 1995 merger with Martin Marietta. Earlier ...
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GKN Westland uses CATIA on Dash 8 nacelles
THE STRUCTURES division of GKN Westland Aerospace has taken delivery of 12 new Dassault Systemes CATIA computer-aided design (CAD) workstations, and established a separate internal department to handle the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 nacelle-manufacturing contract which the company won in November 1995. John Harris, sales manager of ...
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Flying into the future
Communications, navigation and surveillance in European airspace will be substantially different in the next decade - but how different? Kieran Daly/LONDON AROUND THE WORLD, air-traffic-services (ATS) providers are coming to terms with how the advent of the future air-navigation system will affect their airspace. For dozens of nations, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo cuts costs and capacity
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LUFTHANSA CARGO IS clamping down on costs and capacity, as the world's largest international freight carrier steels itself for another couple of tough years in the heavily oversubscribed international freight market. The operation ended its first year of independence in 1995, showing a DM20 ...
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Gavilan flight-testing resumes
COLOMBIAN manufacturer El Gavilan has begun flight-testing the Gavilan 358 single-engined utility aircraft. The second prototype - the first crashed in 1993 after engine failure - is being flight-tested at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and US certification is planned for later this year. Designed and built at Lock Haven ...
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Kenya soars despite pilots pay award
PROFITS CONTINUE TO soar at Kenya Airways, but the newly privatised carrier has outlined a major round of cost cuts following the court award of a massive pay hike to pilots. The pay award, which virtually doubles salaries, came after the airline's 108 pilots referred a pay dispute ...
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PMAT for 747-400
California-based Demo Systems and Boeing have signed a licensing agreement for a software package which will enable Demo's portable maintenance access terminal (PMAT) - originally developed for the Boeing 777- to interface with the Boeing 747-400 central maintenance computer. The development has been asked for by several airlines, which would ...