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Pilots enjoy job boom as US airlines increase personnel
US AIRLINES HIRED more than 8,000 new pilots in 1994, up by 55% over 1993, says Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The Atlanta, Georgia-based consultancy forecasts that US carriers will recruit more than 9,000 new pilots in 1995. AIR says that the 201 US airlines it monitors hired 8,044 ...
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P&W and MTU name engine project chiefs
PRATT & WHITNEY and MTU have named former PW4084 programme manager Tom Davenport as head of the new Mid Thrust Family Engine (MTFE) project, marking the formal start of the joint initiative. MTU's Rainer Schwab has also been named deputy manager of the project, which aims to design ...
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Luxair kills Sabena's Luxembourg pilot-pool plan
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS LUXEMBOURG'S LUXAIR . has rejected a pioneering proposal by Belgian national airline Sabena to form a joint pool of aircraft and pilots across the border in lower-cost Luxembourg. Luxair says that the proposed co-operation, possibly involving an equity stake, would "...involve operational and ...
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Pilots to influence flight-time limits?
Sir - On flight-time limitations, you say ("Duty bound", Flight International, 14-20 December, P32) that: "The International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) is convinced that the proposed European rules are dangerous..." It is entirely legitimate that professional bodies should say and do whatever they can to further ...
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Comparison means objectivity
Sir - The letters from Capt John Lewis and D R MacDonald (Flight International, 21 December-3 January, P46) include some emotive comments and inaccuracies. Safety is Airbus Industrie's top priority - as I am sure that it is with other manufacturers - and we welcome objective discussion on ...
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Snecma to lead CFM56-XX development programme
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH ENGINE manufacturer Snecma and its CFM International partner General Electric expect to agree by the end of the year to launch the CFM56-XX turbofan for the growth Airbus A340 variant and other Airbus and Boeing derivatives. New Snecma president Bernard Dufour has made ...
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Snecma-Mikoyan deal
French engine manufacturer Snecma is hoping to conclude a licence-production agreement with Mikoyan in the next few weeks, according to Snecma chairman Bernard Dufour. The two companies have been involved in prolonged negotiations about a licensing agreement covering the Snecma-Turbomeca Larzac 04-R20 engine for Mikoyan's MiG-AT jet trainer. ...
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EC.135 heads for Heli-Expo
FRANCO-GERMAN MANUFACTURER Eurocopter is to display the third pre-production EC.135 powered by Turbom‚ca Arrius 2B turboshafts at the forthcoming Heli-Expo '95 show in Las Vegas. Eurocopter has flown the type for more than 150h, achieving a service ceiling of 20,000ft (6,100m), cruising at up to 140kt (260km/h), diving at 160kt, ...
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Rolls-Royce cuts
Rolls-Royce is to shed 600 jobs from the aerospace engineering operation at East Kilbride, UK, leaving 1,000 workers. The site will focus on repair, as design work moves to the firm's Derby and Bristol, UK sites. Source: Flight International
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Orders hit the bottom
Orders for jet-powered airliners in 1994 were the worst for more than a decade Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The jet-airliner market provided little to shout about in 1994, but the performance may prove more encouraging than some of the headline figures suggest. Boeing is right to point out ...
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Expensive mistakes
The number of airline accidents rose a little in 1994, and insurance costs beat all records. David Learmount/LONDON World airline accident fatalities increased in 1994, compared with 1993, and exceeded the decade annual average. The increase is an insignificant variation in the context of annual figures during the ...
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Too close for comfort
The TCAS 2 mandate is being met as the FAA pushes the TCAS 1. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC For the past year, all civil airliners with more than 30 seats operating in or into the USA have been equipped with the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). ...
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Interstate signs GPS landing deal
INTERSTATE Electronics and Airport Systems International have combined to develop ground-based landing systems based on global-positioning-system (GPS) technology. Interstate will supply the differential-GPS (DGPS) system while Airport Systems will provide the datalink radio, installation hardware and services. Anaheim, California-based Interstate, which has developed GPS receivers and tracking systems ...
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SABCA chosen to carry out Indonesian F-5 upgrade
INDONESIA has chosen SABCA of Belgium as a systems integrator to upgrade 12 Northrop F-5E/F fighters. A contract is to be finalised shortly. SABCA, together with Smiths Industries, was shortlisted in December after a year-long evaluation (Flight International, 21 December, 1994 - 3 January, 1995, P16). Other companies ...
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R-R wins China Yunnan 767 deal
CHINA YUNNAN Airlines is to become the second operator of Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 767s when it takes delivery in May 1996 of the first of three aircraft on firm order. The subsequent RB.211-524H-powered -300s will be delivered in June 1996 and January 1997. Until Yunnan's order, only British Airways ...
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FAA acts on PW2000 icing in Boeing 757
US OPERATORS of Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 757s are being required to perform engine run-ups in cold weather to remove ice which may form in the compressor. The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness-directive (AD) following incidents in which ice broke loose from low-pressure-compressor stators ...
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Grob aims to regain Strato 2C financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is expecting a decision to be taken this month on further Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, which has overshot budget estimates. The company says that the programme requires DM30 million ($19.5 million) extra cash from ...
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ATR/BAe ready to tie regional-airliner knot
Kieran Daly/LONDON ATR AND BRITISH Aerospace are on the verge of announcing the long-awaited combination of their regional-airliner activities. Under the deal, BAe's Jetstream operation will merge with the Franco-Italian consortium. Its Avro regional-jet division will also be brought into the deal, possibly through a joint marketing arrangement. ...
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France firm on Rafale cuts
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH DEFENCE minister Francois Leotard has dismissed industry opposition to the Government's aim of cutting 2% a year from the costs of the Dassault Rafale combat aircraft as part of its overall drive to curtail defence expenditure (Flight International, 11-17 January). Commenting on the ...
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Re-engined Il-86s return to agenda
FIVE RUSSIAN airlines have confirmed renewed interest in re-engineing their Ilyushin Il-86s with CFM56 turbofans. According to Il-86 chief designer Igor Katyrev, the five responded to a business proposal from Ilyushin, pointing out the advantages of replacing the Kuznetsov NK-86s with the CFM56s. The Western powerplants, ...