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Derlan contracts
Derlan Industries has received contracts totaling C$17.6 million ($13 million) to supply GE Aircraft Engines with inlet gearboxes for the CFM56-5 and accessory gearboxes for the F110-100, and to supply the US Army with spare gears for the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Anonymity is important
Sir - The leader "No-gain pain" (Flight International, 16-22 October) made interesting reading. Protecting the identities of those accused under confidential-reporting systems is important. Not all systems protect the identity of the accused. I attended a tribunal in Sydney, Australia, where a pilot had been trying to get ...
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The cockpit secret of flying safely
Sir - Your Comment "You have control" (Flight International, 9-15 October) was spot on about automated cockpits. Twenty years ago, we did not need to fly with fancy autopilots or flight directors. We flew well with what we had and did so safely. That was because basic training ...
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Hughes
Dr Charles "Chuck" Krumm has been appointed manager of the Microelectronics division of El Segundo, California-based Hughes Aircraft's Radar and Communications Systems. He was formerly manager of the division's Gallium Arsenide Operations business unit, based in Torrance, California. Source: Flight International
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Airbus
Henri Courpron has been appointed vice-president of sales and Earl Odom has been named vice-president for marketing and business development at the US arm of French-based aircraft manufacturing consortum Airbus Industrie, at its office in Washington DC. Coupron joined Airbus in 1989 from Aerospatiale of France, and Odom was formerly ...
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Swearingen
John Karamanian has been named director of product support at Sino Swearingen Aircraft, of San Antonio, Texas. Karamanian is a former director and vice-president of flight operations at US carrier Air Wisconsin Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Air France
Jean-Marie Leroi, vice-president of Air France Industries, has left the company. He will be, succeeded by Philippe Lazare, who will continue as vice-president of Air France Maintenance. Didier Lux, now director of Air France Europe's engineering division, is due to succeed Lazare as head of, Air France Maintenance. ...
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Continental
Barry Simon has been promoted to senior vice-president, international, at Continental Airlines of Houston, Texas. Ralph Schulz becomes vice-president for Latin America and Caribbean marketing and sales. Source: Flight International
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AirKenya
The biggest and most prominent of Kenya Airways' domestic competitors is Airkenya Aviation, formed in 1987 by the take-over of Sunbird Aviation by Air Kenya. Today, it carries some 120,000 passengers a year, two-thirds of them scheduled. Roughly one-third are charter, but "-we don't always know exactly ...
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Royal Air Maroc's plans for Israel flights founder as peace crumbles
Royal Air Maroc has postponed plans to start direct flights to Israel following the near-breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the accompanying upsurge of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, Israel and Morocco reached agreement providing for flights between the two countries, ...
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Flightwest forced to halve fleet size after regulations foil expansion plan
FLIGHTWEST AIRLINES of Australia is to slash its fleet capacity by diposing of more than half of its aircraft after expansion plans were thwarted by Government regulations and a lack of support from its partner, Ansett. The Queensland-based regional airline will dispose of its ten Embraer Bandeirantes, six ...
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Nordem/GE venture
GE Engine Services and the Nordam Group of the USA are to form an aero-engine component-overhaul joint venture in the UK. The plant is scheduled to begin operations in May 1997. Nordam Europe will be 51%-owned by Nordam, with GE holding the balance, and based at a $9.3 million unit ...
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IATA raises five-year passenger forecast
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has raised its five-year growth forecast for international passenger traffic, predicting an average yearly increase of 7.1%, to give an annual total of 522 million passengers in 2000. The organisation's two previous five-year forecasts both envisaged lower annual growth of 6.6%. ...
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BA 777 transatlantic
British Airways initiated transatlantic services with its Boeing 777s on 27 October, between London Heathrow and Boston. Until now, the airline has been forced to deploy the 777 on its Gulf routes, because of the delay in extended-range twin-engined operations approval of the General Electric GE90-powered version. BA will launch ...
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Warming relations
China Airlines of Taiwan has for the first time in 47 years opened a representative office in Beijing, further fuelling speculation that direct flights between the island and the Chinese mainland might soon be allowed. All traffic must now be routed through a third country, like Hong Kong or Macau. ...