All air transport news – Page 2690
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George Mikelsons
Appointing American Trans Air (ATA) chief-executive George Mikelsons chairman of Allison Engine is a sure sign that new owner Rolls-Royce intends to continue the US power plant manufacturer's drive into the commercial arena. Indianapolis-based ATA is the USA's biggest charter carrier and the nation's tenth-largest airline. It is ...
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AlliedSignal launches GPS receiver
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has introduced the world's first hand-held combined global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver and VHF communications transceiver. The company booked orders for more than 1,000 Bendix/King KLX 100s within days of launching the $1,400 GPS/comm. unit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n Fun fly-in at Lakeland, Florida, ...
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Big business
Of all the Western companies to tackle the risk-laden challenge of doing business in the CIS, two can look back on the experience with more satisfaction than most. Their ventures were among the first East-West links forged after the opening up of the USSR, and have proved among the most ...
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Cessna flies piston and jet on same day
Cessna accomplished two first flights on 19 April, flying the Citation Bravo business-jet and Model 172 piston-single prototypes from different airports in Wichita, Kansas, within 45min of each other on the same day. Certification of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A-powered Citation Bravo is scheduled for April 1996. ...
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Boeing places drawings on-line
AIRLINE ENGINEERING departments are to gain, for the first time, direct on-line access to a Boeing technical-drawings database covering all its aircraft from the 707 onward. Called REDARS (reference engineering-data automated-retrieval system), the subscription-based system gives maintenance engineers on-line access to "...the technical drawings and parts-lists needed for ...
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CAAC caution holds up Sichuan A320 handover
An agreement for International Lease Finance (ILFC) to supply three Airbus Industrie A320's to Chinese domestic operator Sichuan Airlines, is being delayed by the failure of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to approve the deal. ILFC, under an agreement signed in March with China Aircraft Supplies ...
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PW150 for Dash 8-400
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW150 to power the planned de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The company received board approval on 24 April to offer the 70-seat aircraft to airlines and is aiming for a June launch. First flight of the Dash 8-400 is ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...
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JAA is still cautious over Russian types
RUSSIAN AEROSPACE officials are voicing concern at the lack of progress with the European Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) over agreement on certification procedures for Russian aircraft, despite progress with the US Federal Aviation Administration on the same issue. Tupolev, which is working on having a Rolls-Royce-powered variant of the Tu-204 ...
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Manufacturers vie for SAA order
HIGH-RANKING executives from Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are due in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 5 May to brief board members of South African Airways (SAA), and its parent company Transnet, on their proposals to fulfil a planned R4 billion ($1 billion fleet requirement. The meeting is the ...
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CNAC challenges Cathay at Hong Kong
China National Aviation (CNAC) has applied to the Hong Kong Government for an air operators' certificate (AOC), threatening Cathay Pacific Airway's virtual monopoly and undermining confidence in its post-1997 position. Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department (CAD) has confirmed that CNAC, a subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Authority of ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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DASA ready to join GTAR radar partners
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is in the final stages of negotiation to join GEC-Marconi and Thomson-CSF in a next-generation combat-aircraft radar programme. Go-ahead for the deal could come as early as June. The agreement will clear the way for the present GEC-Thomson Radar (GTAR) company becoming GEC-Thomson Daimler-Benz Radar, ...
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CIS engine head defends PS-90A
THE HEAD OF THE CIS aero-engine manufacturers' association (ASSAD) has hit out at Western and Russian firms which, he claims, are plotting against the Aviadvigatel/Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan. Victor Chuiko, president of ASSAD, failed to show up at the conference for unspecified reasons, but his presentation was included ...
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FDRs ruling unites carriers/airframers
OPPOSITION IS growing to the US proposal to force the retrofitting enhanced flight-data recorders (FDRs) to early-model Boeing 737s and other aircraft. Airlines and manufacturers insist that the proposed installation deadlines are unrealistic and that, in any case, the move is not economically justifiable. The ...
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Lockheed Martin in US Starstreak deal with Shorts
UK MISSILE manufacturer Shorts is about to sign an agreement with Lockheed Martin under which the US manufacturer will promote Shorts' Starstreak air-to-air missile for the US Army's McDonnell Douglas Helicopter (MDH) AH-64 Apache fleet. Shorts is already representing Lockheed Martin in the UK in the latter's attempt ...
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Alitalia selects Fokker 70
ALITALIA HAS selected the Fokker 70 to boost its presence on regional and feeder routes. The Italian carrier has agreed to lease 15 of the aircraft from the Dutch manufacturer. The aircraft will be operated by Avianova, a Rome based regional carrier in which, Alitalia has a ...
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Lockheed Martin displays 3D graphics engine
Lockheed Martin has announced a new low cost, open architecture, real time three-dimensional graphics engine, for use in simulators. The R3D/PRO-1000 is a stand-alone system offering 750,000 textured, shaded, anti-aliased polygons per second, pixel write rates of up to 200 million pixels per second, 60Hz update rates and ...
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Canadian opens Russian route
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has become the first carrier to use a newly agreed cross over point between Russian and Chinese airspace, which will cut 2-3h off the flight-time between Vancouver and Beijing. Designated ARGUK, the crossing, lies between Khabarovsk in Russia and Haiqing in China. Previously, flights had ...
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Bombardier set to launch jet-share network with AMR
Bombardier and US fixed-base operator (FBO) AMR Combs are planning a business-jet fractional-ownership programme. The scheme will involve Bombardier Learjet 31A, Learjet 60 and Canadair Challenger aircraft, covering the light, medium and large business-jet markets. The venture is likely to be modeled on Executive Jet Aviation's (EJA) ...