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MD-17 certification
Boeing has received an Organizational Designated Airworthiness Representative delegation from the Federal Aviation Administration as part of steps towards commercial type certification of the MD-17, a civil version of the C-17. This allows authorised employees to inspect parts on behalf of the FAA. Source: Flight International
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BA aims to fly Qantas 747-400s in stopover periods
British Airways is seeking clearance from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to allow its pilots and cabin crews to operate Qantas Boeing 747-400s on routes from London Heathrow Airport for an unlimited period. An application to the CAA from BA says that the approval is "-initially to facilitate ...
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Europe aims to keep pressure on USA over subsidies issue
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European aerospace industry is considering calling for the cancellation of the 1992 transatlantic agreement on aircraft subsidies as one of its options to keep up pressure on the USA in the wake of the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) merger, say sources in Brussels. The ...
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STAe thinks again on AE31X
Paul Lewis/BEIJING Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is having second thoughts about participating in the planned joint Sino-European AE31X aircraft programme because of financial and workshare uncertainties. According to industry sources, STAe has in recent weeks voiced reservations to partners Airbus Industries Asia (AIA) and Aviation Industries ...
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Boeing may install new cockpit on 767-400ER
Boeing is considering the introduction of a new cockpit on the recently launched 767-400ER, in a move which could result in existing versions of the 767, the 757 and, eventually, the 747-400, being updated. Air Transport Intelligence, the new Reed Aerospace on-line news service, says that a decision ...
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AlliedSignal reveals China manufacturing plans
AlliedSignal Aerospace is aiming to finalise the first of three planned manufacturing joint ventures with Chinese industry by October, strengthening its bid to participate in the Sino-European Airbus/Avic/Singapore Technologies AE31X programme. The first joint venture involves a partnership with China Aero Technology Import & Export (CATIC) to produce ...
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FADEC is replaced on Eurofighter engine
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Initial production-standard Eurojet EJ200 engines installed on the Italian DA3 Eurofighter EF2000 prototype have been fitted with a new full-authority digital engine-control (FADEC) system after the original unit was found to be overweight and unreliable. The engines are undergoing ground runs in Turin before ...
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Aid for Concorde
British Airways Engineering is testing an artificial-intelligence maintenance aid with the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde's Rolls-Royce Olympus engines. Source: Flight International
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Keeping promises
Emma Kelly/London The in-flight-entertainment (IFE) industry has undergone a radical change this year, with the leading hardware providers finally conceding that they are guilty of over-promising and under-delivering to their airline customers. After years of trying to meet airline requests for ever-more ambitious IFE applications, the makers have ...
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A 'super jumbo' by any other name could fit the bill
Sir - I read with interest the article "MDC flies new concept demonstrator" (Flight International, 13-19 August, P26), about the 6%-scale model of a blended-wing-body aircraft (which should be capable of carrying up to 800 passengers) designed, built and flown for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) by Stanford University, California. ...
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EU Single-engine operations
Sir - I believe that your readers, the industry and the European Commission (EC) should be made aware that the Executive Committee of the UK Civil Aviation Authority intends to propose an amendment to the Air Navigation Order (ANO) (No2). This is in clear breach of EC Regulations, according to ...
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Missing the bandwagon?
The Jospin Government is to reveal its strategy for French aerospace which will also determine the fate of Europe Julian Moxon/PARIS At the end of this month, Lionel Jospin's new socialist Government is scheduled to reveal its plans for the re-organisation of France's still largely state-owned aerospace ...
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Hughes Arabia
Hughes Arabia, based in Riyadah, Saudi Arabia, an affiliate of Hughes Middle East Operations, which is a business area of Hughes Information Systems, has appointed retired US Air Force Lt Gen James (Jim) Record president. He was with the USAF for 35 years before joining Hughes this year, where he ...
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British International
Seen here (centre) is Neil Calvert, engineering manager of helicopter repair and overhaul company British International, of Aberdeen, Scotland, with the successful applicants for the Helicopter Engineering Apprenticeship Training Scheme initiated by British International and Air Service Training (Engineering). Seen with him at a recent "open evening" (left to right) ...
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Second Boeing Delta launches ACE
NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) on 26 August, using a Delta 2 rocket. On 21 August, the first Delta 2 launch by Boeing since its acquisition of McDonnell Douglas placed five craft into orbit. The first of the two Delta 7960 two-stage models was launched from ...
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EOS array arrives at Lockheed Martin
TRW has delivered to Lockheed Martin the solar array for NASA's Mission to Planet Earth spacecraft, the Earth Observing System, EOS AM-1 is planned for launch in June 1998. The 5,400kg craft will carry five synergistic instruments to study the Earth's clouds, water vapour, aerosol particles, trace gases and other ...
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Abu Dhabi signs Hughes for $1.2 billion Thuraya deal
Hughes Space and Communications has won a $1.2 billion contract to build and launch a communications-satellite system, including the ground segment of the installation, for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications of Abu Dhabi. One ground spare will also be constructed. The satellite, to be launched in 2000, will extend mobile-communications ...
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PanAmSat PAS 5 is put in orbit
Tim Furniss/LONDON A Russian Proton K booster, operated by ILS International Launch Services, placed PanAmSat's PAS 5 communications satellite into orbit on 28 August after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch brings to 16 the number of PanAmSat communications satellites in orbit. The constellation also ...
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Insurance consortium
China has established its first space-insurance consortium consisting of nine insurance companies, including People's Insurance of China, China Pacific Insurance and Pingan Insurance. It will complement its commercial-launcher service, which received a boost on 20 August with the successful launch of the Long March 3B, China's most powerful geostationary-orbit launcher. ...