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Atlas deal for GE
General Electric Engine Services has won a $300 million, ten-year contract to maintain and repair CF6-50 engines powering 15 Boeing 747-200 freighter aircraft operated by Atlas Air. The Colorado-based cargo specialist expects to have a further ten freighters enter service by mid-1997. Source: Flight International
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Tangara debut
Socata is to unveil its TB360 Tangara twin-engined light trainer at the Farnborough air show in September. A development of what was originally the Grumman Cougar, a programme which the French company acquired in mid-1995, the aircraft is re-engined with 135kW (180shp) Textron Lycoming piston engines to improve climb performance, ...
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UNS-1 challenge
Canadian-based Innotech has installed dual Universal Avionics UNS-1B Plus flight-management systems on a Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3R. The systems replace standard Honeywell units and will interface with two Universal global-positioning-system GPS-1200 12-channel receivers. Source: Flight International
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Morten Beyer
David Hansen has joined US aviation consultancy Morten Beyer, of McLean, Virginia, as director of research and development. He was formerly with Fokker Aircraft USA for 20 years and, before that, was a senior engineer/scientist for Douglas Aircraft working on DC-9s and DC-10s. Source: Flight International
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MDC
McDonnell Douglas (MDC), of Huntington Beach, California, has appointed Dr Rodney Linford vice-president and general manager for space flight programmes. He succeeds George Kersels, who has left the company. Linford will report to Bill Olson, senior vice-president at MDC Space and Defense Systems. Source: Flight International
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Small business
IAI's Amos communications satellite is attracting customers from outside Israel. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH of the Amos 1 communications satellite on 16 May has proved to be the trigger for a major effort to turn Israel's space capability into a profitable business. Israel ...
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Deutsche Post seeks domestic airmail
GERMANY'S POSTAL service Deutsche Post is to issue, for the first time, an international invitation to tender for internal German nighttime airmail services. The tender will be issued later this month. Deutsche Post says that the new contract will begin on 26 October, and will be worth "three-figure ...
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Allison
Richard Quirin has been named executive vice-president and chief financial officer at Indianapolis, Indiana-based Allison Engine, a member of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group. He was formerly at Lucas Electronics Systems Products and served as vice-president for contracts and business development on special assignment to Lucas Geared Systems. Source: ...
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Times when GPS is of no help
Sir - In response to Derek Colbourne (Letters, Flight International, 26 June-2 July, P40), I, too, have flown into Tregganu, as well as Tauwau, northern Borneo. I have flown into Chin Min on the Taiwanese/Chinese airspace border, to Saana in Yemen, and to most of the marginal airstrips in New ...
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Family fortunes
Braathens SAFE celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with the founder's grandson at the helm Max Kingsley-Jones/OSLO AT THE LAST COUNT, the Norwegian population totalled some 4.5 million. In 1995, Norway's flag carrier, Braathens SAFE, carried more than 4 million passengers on its domestic routes, representing 52% ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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KLM tries to pacify Northwest
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS MOVED to patch up its strained boardroom relationship with Northwest Airlines, proposing that the carriers be locked into their alliance agreement for up to five years at a stretch. Until now, the agreements have been ratified annually, but KLM chairman Pieter ...
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Scientists work on software to help damaged aircraft land
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aircraft, which suffer major equipment failures or explosions, could be landed safely using software developed jointly at NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The new research envisages that in less than 1s a damaged aircraft's computers would be able to "relearn" ...
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Rolls-Royce stands to benefit from turbine-materials study
An UK UNIVERSITY-industry consortium has been awarded a £3.3 million ($5.1 million) Government grant to develop advanced materials for use in aero-engine turbine blades. The consortium, headed by Professor Colin Humphreys from the department of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, will involve engine manufacturer ...
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Theseus flies
The Aurora Flight Sciences Theseus remotely piloted aircraft had a successful 1h 17min flight on 1 July at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, when it reached an altitude of around 8,000ft (2,450m). The first flight of the Theseus was cut short by problems with the propeller controller ...
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Lockheed Martin begins talks with Czech manufacturers
LOCKHEED MARTIN has held negotiations with Aerovodochody and engine manufacturer Motorlet on possible industrial offset packages which could accompany a deal to sell F-16 fighters to the Czech Republic. A team of industrial experts from the US manufacturer arrived in Prague on 1 July for discussions with several ...
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MDC X-36 arrives for flight tests at Dryden
THE FIRST McDonnell Douglas X-36 tailless fighter-agility research aircraft arrived at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California on 2 July. The aircraft, the first of two 28%-scale remotely piloted vehicles to be made for the research effort, will take part in a scheduled 25-flight test ...
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The end nears for limits on passenger liability
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S major international carriers are aiming to abandon cash limits on passenger-liability claims from 1 November. The initiative will mark a radical departure from the existing limits, which have remained largely unchanged for more than 40 years. Under the new rules, passengers ...
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Embraer increases EMB-145 cruise speed
WITH THE Embraer EMB-145 flight-test programme now well on the way towards certification, the Brazilian manufacturer has released more details on the improved performance of the aircraft, with cruise speed and fuel consumption better than originally advertised. At an early stage of flight-testing, Embraer revealed that the aircraft ...
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Unions kill Air France Europe
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONJulian Moxon/PARIS THE GRAND PLAN of Air France Group chairman Christian Blanc to create a single European operation from the merger of Air Inter and Air France's regional operations, has been blocked by the unions' failure to agree to productivity improvements. Instead, Blanc says that Air ...