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CFMI studies service software
SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW JET engines to be more easily serviced is being employed in the development of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7 turbofan engine, which will power the new-generation Boeing 737. The software, known as Product Vision and developed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New ...
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An-32 freighter crashes on take-off, killing 250
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON IN ONE OF THE worst third-party aviation accidents in history, a freighter aircraft taking off from Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire, on 8 January crashed immediately after take-off, killing about 250 people in the Simbazikita marketplace just beyond the airfield boundary. ...
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Pilot fatigue caused Coventry crash
PILOT FATIGUE, combined with a disregard for a published minimum decision height, caused the fatal 21 December, 1994, Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 freighter crash on the approach to Coventry Airport in the UK, according to the official report. The aircraft had been on a surveillance-radar approach (SRA), ...
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Kenya buys VIP Fokker
FOKKER HAS DELIVERED a corporate version of the Fokker 70 regional jet to the Kenyan Government for VIP transportation. The aircraft, modified with the addition of extra fuels tanks to extend its range to 6,300km (3,400nm) is the third Executive Jet 70 delivered by the Dutch manufacturer. The Dutch Government ...
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Seizing the initiative
Russia is taking steps to improve air-safety and save its international reputation. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE INTERNATIONAL furore, which followed the loss of an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines Airbus A310, en route from Moscow to Hong Kong, in March 1994, proved to be the catalyst, which prompted Russia's ...
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Japan sets budget for aerospace projects
JAPAN'S MINISTRY OF International Trade and Industry (MITI) will allocate '11,161 million ($106 million) in fiscal year 1996, to support indigenous and international collaborative aerospace programmes. The budget includes '5,328 million for continued studies into development of the next-generation supersonic transport, and basic research of a super/hypersonic propulsion ...
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Boeing sued over Dash 8 sale
BOEING IS embroiled in a legal action which alleges that it used bribes to secure the sale of five de Havilland Dash 8s to BahamasAir in 1989. The allegations are understood to be contained in documents filed in a Miami, Florida, court by Canadian entrepreneur Craig Dobbin. He claims that ...
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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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China and S Korea wrangle over AE-100 assembly
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA AND SOUTH Korea, have again pushed back their selection of a Western partner, to develop the AE-100 passenger aircraft, until the two countries agree on the location of a final assembly line. Nearly 15 months after the Chinese and South Korean Governments agreed ...
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Loral deal creates $30 billion Lockheed Martin
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN has again raised the stakes in the US defence business with its agreement to buy the bulk of Loral for $9.1 billion. The latest deal, which comes less than a year after Lockheed's merger with Martin Marietta, will create a group with sales ...
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Lockheed Martin tests pre-production APALS
Graham Warwick/ALBUQUERQUE LOCKHEED MARTIN has begun flight demonstrations with a pre-production version of its autonomous precision-approach and landing-system (APALS). Airline demonstrations are scheduled for early February at Richmond, Virginia, following a series of approaches conducted at Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an APALS-equipped Gulfstream II. The ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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Firing tests completed on Vulcain for Ariane 5
THE SECOND AND FINAL qualification firing of the Vulcain cryogenic first-stage engine of the Ariane 5 booster was successfully completed at Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 January, clearing the way for the booster's maiden flight on 7 May. The Ariane 5 will have its first commercial flight for Arianespace in ...
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Varig president leaves within first year
VARIG PRESIDENT Carlos Willy Engels has stepped down after less than a year in charge of the Brazilian flag carrier. Officially, the company cites personal reasons for his departure, although it is believed that results for 1995 were not good enough to satisfy creditors who also sit on the Varig ...
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Dornier and Kulon to develop Open Skies radar for Tu-154M
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace subsidiary Dornier has signed a co-operation agreement with the Moscow-based Kulon Research Institute to develop a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to be integrated into Germany's Tupolev Tu-154M/OS Open Skies aircraft. The 32-month programme is to incorporate the SAR into the aircraft for the second phase of the ...
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BA tries to salvage plan to use USAir 737 pilots
BRITISH AIRWAYS' controversial plan to use 30 USAir Boeing 737 co-pilots at its London Gatwick hub hangs in the balance, after the UK Department for Employment and Education (DfEE) indicated that it is unlikely to grant the pilots work permits. The DfEE told BA on 5 January ...
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Loral pins future on space
IN THE 23 YEARS since Bernard Schwartz acquired control of Loral, he has built the company from sales of only $27 million into a $6.7 billion defence-electronics giant, in one of the most aggressive and sustained acquisition sprees in US aerospace history. The business, which he acquired ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...