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USAfrica fights for frequencies
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAFRICA AIRWAYS IS challenging a US Department of Transportation (DoT) decision to reallocate the carrier's seven frequencies in the US-South Africa market to World Airways and Southern Air Transport. USAfrica, which shut down operations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, ...
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Five C-130Hs bound for Malaysia
THE MALAYSIAN air force has purchased five of Lockheed Martin's nine remaining unsold C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, say local sources. Lockheed Martin reveals that it has only four military transports, together with two civil L-100s, left to place, after recently selling five stretched C-130-30Hs. The aircraft are the ...
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Quality business puts Avro on track for profit
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that its regional-jet operation, which brought the company close to collapse two years ago, will be back in profit by 1997. BAe had already promised that the Avro regional-jet business would approach break-even by 1997 following its dramatic slimming down, ...
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Trent 777 testing resumes after vibration is remedied
CERTIFICATION FLIGHT-testing of the Rolls Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 has resumed after engineers tackled a rear-bearing vibration problem caused by "distress of the aft-strut fairing and primary nozzle". The test programme has been held up for "about a week", says Boeing, which grounded the aircraft in the first ...
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Weak dollar ravages DASA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) racked up massive losses in the first half of the year as the weakness of the US dollar against the deutsche mark ravaged its civil-aircraft sales. The German group posted a loss of DM1.6 billion ($1 billion) for the period, ...
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France loans Snecma funds for CFMXXX turbofan work
FRENCH ENGINE manufacturer Snecma is to receive a Fr2 billion ($396 million) reimbursable loan from the French Government to help develop the 135-220kN (30,000-50,000lb)-thrust CFMXX turbofan. The agreement effectively launches the engine, which is needed by Airbus Industrie for growth versions of the A340 and, possibly, the A321. ...
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US anti-trust immunity sought
DELTA AIR LINES, Swissair, Austrian Airlines and Sabena have filed for US anti-trust immunity, allowing for closer co-operation between the carriers, once Belgium signs an "open-skies" air-services agreement with the USA. Northwest Airlines and KLM already have anti-trust immunity. Delta now has code-sharing/blocked-space agreements with the three European ...
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Uncomfortable with 777 ETOPS
Sir - The article on the British Airways Boeing 777 General Electric GE90 delivery date and extended twinjet operations (ETOPS) certification (Flight International, 6-12 September, P4) makes me feel uncomfortable. ETOPS, I am told, is a means by which a two-engine aircraft can be flown over water. The ...
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NASA tests hypersonic design
Andrew Doyle/LONDON A HYPERSONIC-aircraft concept, known as the "wave-rider", which would be capable of speeds ranging from Mach 4 to M6, is undergoing wind-tunnel tests at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. The wave-rider series, powered by air-breathing hypersonic engines, would be particularly suitable as ...
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Denel makes its mark
Denel has progressed rapidly in a short time. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON DENEL HAS COME a long way in a short time, says its chief executive Johan Alberts. It is hard to disagree. The group was formed a little over three years ago, as South ...
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Champion
Stephen Straub has been promoted to manager of aviation for Champion Aviation Products, of Liberty, South Carolina, a subsidiary of Cooper Aviation. Formerly director of product development, Straub replaces William Dillon, who becomes director, Nicholson operations of the Cooper Hand Tools division. James Foreman is promoted to manager of manufacturing ...
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NTSB
Dr Bernard Loeb has been named director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), heading its 100-plus aviation-accident investigators. Loeb, formerly head of the Office of Research and Engineering, replaces William Laynor, who is to retire. John Goglia is named a member of ...
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Cabin comforts
Trends in aircraft-interior design are being dominated by the increasing need for passenger comfort and entertainment Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CABIN-INTERIORS market has undergone significant changes in the past few years, prompted largely by the recession in the air transport industry. The inability of airlines to finance ...
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Virtual evacuation
Cabin design and procedures for safe emergency evacuation, may be changed by computer modeling. Martin Hindley/LONDON AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY evacuations are designed as far as possible to work no matter what the nature of the emergency, but passenger behaviour is inherently difficult to define and predict. ...
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Boeing revises Chinese training plans
BOEING HAS SHELVED immediate plans to equip its proposed China headquarters site in Beijing with flight simulators and will instead concentrate on other training initiatives. The company had been considering establishing an integrated pilot- and technical-training centre, fitted with simulators. The proposal was revealed in 1994, by Boeing ...
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Maintenance rates hit SASCO
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe), is urgently looking at ways of reviving its subsidiary maintenance company, Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO), after suffering a large loss in the first six months of the year. STAe made a net loss of S$49 million ($34 million) compared with a small S$12 million ...
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Contracting the inside out
Bombardier is the latest to contract out interiors Kevin O'Toole/BIGGIN HILL IN AN ERA OF standardisation, the cabin interior remains one of the few parts of an aircraft where the airline customer still has a chance make its mark. For the customer, it ...
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Quiet revolution
A bit of peace and quiet can be a difficult commodity to supply on a turboprop Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE DRIVE TO establish latest-generation cabin noise suppression technology on turboprop-powered regional aircraft is likely to spark a fierce battle between manufacturers clamouring to offer airlines new levels of ...
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Challenger 604 approval expected before time
CANADIAN certification of the Canadair Challenger 604 business jet is expected on 15 September, more than a month earlier than scheduled, and the first aircraft will be delivered at the end of September, Bombardier says. US certification is expected by the end of October, four weeks ahead of schedule, and ...
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Success story
The story behind SIA's, phenomenal success. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has traditionally employed a policy of thinking big. The approach, harnessed with sound financial management and backed by strong governmental support, has resulted in SIA developing into one of the world's most successful international ...