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737 production recovery disappoints Boeing
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing "is not seeing the improvement anticipated" for its production-recovery programme on the Next Generation 737, admits Commercial Airplanes Group president Ron Woodard. The number of jobs behind schedule have stayed essentially static since October, despite Boeing's efforts to "rebalance" the 737 production line. Woodard ...
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Guarantee allows Garuda to receive 737s at last
Garuda Indonesia will finally begin taking delivery of six completed Boeing 737-300/500s parked in the USA, following a long-awaited guarantee from the Indonesian finance ministry on lease financing. Delivery of the aircraft has been on hold since August after demands from the US Eximbank for a guarantor to agree ...
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Falcon 2000s will swell NetJets fleet
Dassault Aviation has joined the burgeoning aircraft-fractional-ownership market with the $500 million sale of 24 Falcon 2000 business jets to Montvale, New Jersey-based Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) for the NetJets programme (Flight International, 19-25 November). EJA will take delivery of the first ten-passenger Falcon 2000s in the first quarter ...
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Europe signs deal on military satellites
THE GOVERNMENTS of France, Germany and the UK have signed a protocol agreement to start development of the $2.2 billion Trimilsat military- communications satellite system, to be launched in 2005. The Trimilsat system, which is expected to include an as-yet-undecided number of geostationary satellites, will replace the UK Skynet ...
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P&W considers new rival for CFM56
Guy Norris/EAST HARTFORD Pratt & Whitney has begun studies of an advanced-technology geared-fan engine in an initiative to re-enter the narrowbody market and challenge the dominance of CFM International. The study outlines an initial series of engines for the 107-156kN (24,000-35,000lb)-thrust range, and is based around the use ...
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Saab decides to terminate turboprop products
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Saab is to discontinue manufacture of the Saab 340 and 2000 turboprops by mid-1999, shifting the focus of its civil-aircraft operation to support and finance of existing fleets, and to contracting for other manufacturers. The Swedish company is continuing discussions about the possible move of the production ...
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AIDC and Latecoere team to bid for Airbus contracts
Taiwan has signed an agreement with Latecoere of France to team with Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) to bid for Airbus A340-500/600 work. It also expects to start subcontracting to Boeing shortly, as part of a move to reduce the company's reliance on military work. Under a memorandum of understanding ...
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Yak-42 crashes
An Air Ukraine Yakovlev Yak-42 chartered by Kiev-based AeroSvit has crashed near Thessaloniki, northern Greece, with 62 passengers and eight crew on board. The aircraft (UR-42334) disappeared at about 21:15 local time on 17 December after the crew, inbound from Odessa, had made two unsuccessful night approaches to land, in ...
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Branson signs for Trent A340-600s
Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie for eight Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered A340-600s and taken an option on eight more. The UK airline becomes the first firm customer for the A340-500/600 series launched this month. First deliveries are due in early 2002. Source: Flight ...
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APS seeks Level D standard for Runway Performance software
Aviation Performance Systems is seeking Level D status under the Do178B software standard for its Runway Performance computer software. The system can be run on desktop personal computers, or hand-held devices - such as the Psion 3 or 5 series - or new hand-held devices running Microsoft Windows CE. ...
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Precision/Unison in control link
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Unison Industries and Precision Airmotive have teamed to develop electronic mixture-control (EMC) for piston aircraft. It combines electronic ignition-control with automatic mixture-leaning to increase engine fuel-efficiency and power while reducing pilot workload. The development is based on Unison's LASAR engine-control system and Precision's RSA fuel ...
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ARINC purchase
ARINC has bought VHF multi-mode digital radios from Park Air Electronics for use in its ground-to-air datalink network. The terms of the contract won by the Northrop Grumman unit are not disclosed. Delivery of the equipment has begun. Source: Flight International
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Sikorsky begins deliveries of 'all-glass' S-76s
Sikorsky Aircraft has begun delivering S-76 helicopters equipped as standard with a Parker Gull integrated instrument-display system (IIDS). Consisting of three liquid-crystal displays replacing the conventional engine and rotor instruments, the IIDS complements the Honeywell four-tube electronic flight-instrument system which has been standard in the S-76 for some time. ...
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Psychiatrists have too big a say in the selection of pilots
What is the best way to decide who should sit in the flightd Sir - I greatly agree with Mr Julian Ticehurst's letter (Flight International, 26 November -2 December) about "Fliers who lose their way" (Flight International, 5-11 November), but have something to add. The scenario depicted by the US ...
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Arianespace makes claim for independence
Tim Furniss/LONDON Arianespace, the European commercial-launcher organisation, says that moves to integrate it further with European aerospace companies could result in a conflict of commercial interest with some potential customers. The company, which is likely to become fully privatised in 1998, says that stronger links with European satellite ...
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Spanish victory
Aerospatiale and HISPASAT of Spain have concluded a deal to build the HISPASAT1-C telecommunications satellite intended to provide digital-television broadcast. The satellite is expected to be launched in the final quarter of 1999. Source: Flight International
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European manned space hopes dashed
European manned space hopes dashed France has effectively killed off the European Space Agency's (ESA) plans to create an independent manned-spaceflight capability. The French Government says that it will pull out of ESA's proposed Ariane 5-launched Crew Transfer Vehicle project to support the International Space Station (ISS), for ...
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ESA will build nodes for space station
The European Space Agency (ESA) has assigned to Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) the management of a project to build two new nodes for the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS). ASI replaces Boeing, which is building the first ISS Node. The Nodes 2 and 3, which connect modules of the ...
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BA pioneers global monitoring
Ian Sheppard/LONDON British Airways is using an aircraft visual-tracking system which allows it to monitor the position of aircraft and immediately react to unforeseen events which cause flights to be diverted. Previously a diversion decision by a flightcrew would require "a call to tech-dispatch and manual calculation of ...
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Diamonds forever
Thorn Microwave Devices of the UK has developed a new electrical insulation material for microwave tubes in devices such as radars. Chemical-vapour deposited diamond has up to ten times the thermal conductivity of traditional materials and is safer, claims Thorn. Source: Flight International