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NTSB proposes more 737 rudder system changes
Boeing will have to revise the design of 737 rudder control system components, develop a cockpit display showing rudder position, and establish service life limits for certain rudder control parts if several proposals under study by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are made compulsory. The aim is to ...
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GE expands with overhaul buys in Malaysia/Brazil
General Electric is forging ahead with international expansion of its growing engine overhaul business, with deals agreed in the last few days to take controlling stakes in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) engine- overhaul unit and Brazil's CELMA repair centre. Under an agreement understood to have been signed between ...
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DASA and Bonn lock horns over Eurofighter cash
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is at loggerheads with the German defence ministry over Euro-fighter funding, as the deadline looms for the presentation to parliament of the 1997 defence budget. There is still no funding allocated to Euro-fighter production investment in the draft budget, with the cash-strapped ministry hoping to ...
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'Mechanical problem' confused crew of crashed Aero Peru 757
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON A possible flight-instrument or air-data-computer problem is likely to be the initial focus of the investigation into the 2 October loss of an Aero Peru Boeing 757, which crashed into the Pacific Ocean killing all 70 people on board. Peruvian transport minister Elsa Carrera de Escalante ...
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V-22 team proposes rate increase
The Bell Boeing joint venture has proposed to the US Department of Defense that it could save $9 billion over the life of the V-22 Osprey programme if it were allowed to accelerate production of the tilt-rotor aircraft. At present, the joint venture will deliver 425 MV-22Bs to ...
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Airbus puts on AIRS for human-factor reports
Airbus Industrie is to provide customers, free of charge, with the software and training to record and share information on human-factors (HF)-related incidents with the con- sortium's safety department. To be known as the Aircrew Incident Reporting System (AIRS), it will be the first such manufacturer-provided service. Four ...
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Naval Mapo MiG-29 makes a comeback
The MAPO MiG-29K naval Fulcrum has re-appeared at an air show four years after being cold-shouldered by the Russian navy, which chose the Sukhoi Su-27K to equip the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, effectively ending the rival Mikoyan programme. Rumours attributed to MAPO sources were circulating at the Ghelendjik Hydroaviation ...
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Airbus pushes on with new versions of A340
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to challenge Boeing's 777-300 stretch with an enlarged, rewinged A340 which carries as many passengers and flies further, says the European consortium's A330/ A340 commercial programme manager David Pound. The European consortium is effectively launching the -500 and-600 variants of the ...
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Airbus moves closer to forming AE-100 partnership
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE members and Alenia have reached a broad consensus on the need to establish a new European aerospace joint venture to partner China in the development of the proposed AE-100 regional jet. The planned new Airbus-led consortium is intended to take over Aero International (Regional)'s (AI(R)'s) partnership ...
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Lawyers link TW 800 loss to Iran air force 747 explosion
Alan George/LONDON Relatives of passengers killed in July's Trans World Airline (TWA) Flight 800 crash in which 230 people died when a Boeing 747-100 crashed off Long Island, New York, plan to sue the airline and the Boeing company for compensation, says their lawyer. The move ...
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You have control
Several recent airliner accident reports have identified problems with cockpit automation as principal or contributory causes of the accidents. Much of the conventional reaction (especially by pilots) to these incidents is of the "automation must be stopped" or "automation has gone too far" variety. That reaction, in human terms, is ...
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Allison and BMW Rolls-Royce hold co-operation discussions
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ALLISON ENGINE, Rolls-Royce and BMW Rolls-Royce are set to co-operate in a three-way development of the US company's AE3012 turbofan. The engine is already a contender to power the Aero International (Regional) AIR 70 regional jet. Detailed talks now under way are expected to ...
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LucasVarity investment dispels doubts
Lucas Aerospace is to acquire the Boeing Georgia cargo handling systems operation, in a move, which appears to dispel speculation that the newly merged LucasVarity group would quit the aerospace sector. The acquisition will bring sales of around $90 million, taking the Lucas cargo-handling business above the $200 ...
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What's on
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Honeywell
Don Schwanz is to become president of Honeywell's Phoenix-based Space and Aviation Control business. He succeeds John Dewant who plans to retire on 31 December. Schwanz, now vice- president and general manager of Air Transport Systems joined Honeywell in 1979 and has held several management positions in the commercial and ...
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Recommendations for improved safety
THE HUMAN-FACTORS TEAM makes a large number of recommendations for action by the FAA and other agencies. There are eight main headings, but some basic demands, like the need for better information-exchange on incidents, is repeated in varying forms under several of them. The principle recommendations for each heading include: ...
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Roger Green
Professor Roger Green BSc, FRAeS, AFBPsS, died on 25 September, 1996, following a long illness, aged 48. As head of the UK Defence Research Agency's Centre for Human Sciences, he had been a world leader in bringing aircrew human-factors (HF) awareness to the civil and military front-line, including making HF ...
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Cathay Pacific
David Turnbull has been named as the new managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways. He is also chairman of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. He replaces Rod Eddington, who moves to Ansett Australia as executive chairman. Turnbull is replaced as director of corporate development by Tony Tyler, who is currently ...
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Unwanted demands
According to the FAA, flight-deck automation confuses pilots too often. David Learmount/LONDON HIGHLY AUTOMATED aircraft with digital flight-management systems (FMS) often surprise pilots and sometimes leave them dangerously confused. This is the basic conclusion of the US Federal Aviation Administration from its two-year review of modern airline flight-decks. ...
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AlliedSignal Engines
AlliedSignal Engines revealed earlier this year that it is studying the economic feasibility of regional jets with fewer than 50 seats. The company hopes that its LF507, the AS309 derivative, or a new-centre-line engine, could potentially find applications in this sector of the market. Meanwhile, AlliedSignal is involved ...