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SASCommuter confirms selection of 15 Dash-8 400s
SASCOMMUTER confirms that it plans to sign a $350 million deal for 15 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops, plus 18 options, representing the largest single order to date for the Canadian manufacturer's new high-speed 70-seat aircraft. The Dash 8-400 selection will fill a gap between the mainline ...
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Swissair and Lufthansa study 747 replacements
Airbus could land two more prestige customers for its A340-600 later this year, as Swissair and Lufthansa examine the aircraft to replace their Boeing 747 "Classic" ßeets. Swissair says that it expects to make a decision on the long-term future of its 747-300 ßeet by the year-end. The Ìve aircraft ...
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British Army bargains more WAH-64s against tank cuts
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The UK could acquire an additional 20 Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64 Apache attack helicopters if the British Army succeeds in an attempt to trade off cuts in heavy armour with more attack helicopters. Tank units now attached to the British Army of the Rhine are ...
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Aircraft makers join forces for worldwide software standards
Ian Sheppard/LONDON A collaborative project in concurrent engineering, involving some of Europe's leading aerospace companies, is about to expand into the global arena. The Advanced Information Technology (AIT) project is a wide-ranging attempt to combat the burgeoning costs of information technology (IT) and to work with ...
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Stretched 757 advances
The first pressure bulkhead web component for the tail section of the new Boeing 757-300 is checked at Northrop Grumman's Commercial Aircraft division in Dallas, Texas. Boeing's fuselage-assembly-improvement team has transferred the 757 design into electronic CATIA three-dimensional models, allowing the shortest design-to-production time of any Boeing derivative programme. The ...
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Global Aircraft puts flexible propeller under test
A flexible self-optimising propeller which combines the advantages of fixed-pitch and constant-speed units is being tested by US firm Global Aircraft of Starkville, Mississippi. Production of the Quasi-Constant-Speed (QCS) propeller, priced at $3,500, is set to start this month, initially aimed at experimental aircraft. Production of units certificated for general-aviation ...
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Robst controls
Penny & Giles has developed a rotary variable-differential transformer for the automatic roller-decoupler device of the McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, which, on damage to the primary flight controls, informs the flight-management system when control has passed to the back-up system. Production of the units will begin in November. ...
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Home-base time needs more work
Sir - It was with cynical amusement that I read the article "Trans-Tasman partners study operations link for efficiency" on the proposals by Air New Zealand and Ansett of Australia for mixed-crewing economies (Flight International, 20-26 August, P16). Savings in crew utilisation and accommodation costs, with crews getting ...
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Two captains could enhance safety
Sir - The crew of the Korean Air Boeing 747 which crashed 5km (2.5nm) short of the runway at Guam on 6 August was executing a non-precision approach at night and in poor visibility. The instrument-landing-system glidepath was known to be inoperative, and there were no visual-approach-slope indicators. ...
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Georgia Tech
Maj Gen George Harrison has become director of the Electronic Systems Laboratory at Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Research Institute. He was formerly commander of the US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, retiring in July. Source: Flight International
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Anglo American Airmotive
Anglo American Airmotive sales and marketing director John Norris (left) and sales executive Derrick Ings stand in front of a Piper Seneca V at the company's Bournemouth base. Orders have been placed with the company for 17 new Piper aircraft, 12 of them during June and July, making Anglo American ...
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Cimber Air
Carl Jorgen Pedersen has been appointed purchase and sales manager at Cimber Air of Denmark. He was previously senior supervisor, support shops, at Saudi Arabian Airlines (formerly Saudia). He has also been a heavy-maintenance mechanic with the Royal Danish Air Force, and has worked for US carrier Sterling Airways, and ...
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Cassini stays on schedule
The NASA Cassini spacecraft and its European Space Agency Huygens piggyback probe are now back on schedule for a launch to Saturn from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 6 October. The Titan-Centaur launch had been threatened by a propellant leak in the Centaur upper stage. The Cassini will become the first ...
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Japan's H2A comes to market for LEO launches
Andrew Mollet/Tokyo Japan's Rocket System is now marketing launches for low-Earth-orbit (LEO)satellites from 2001. It has given Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) a contract to develop a mounting device which enables the launch of up to five such spacecraft on a single lift-off on the country's H2A launcher. ...
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NASA loses contact with Lewis after four days
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has lost contact with its Lewis remote-sensing and technology satellite, only four days after a successful launch into initial orbit on 23 August. The craft could have just weeks of life left unless contact is regained. An unplanned thruster firing sent the spacecraft ...
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The right attitude
Tim Furniss/BRISTOL If a communications satellite's antennas are not pointing towards the Earth, or a space telescope's lenses are not aimed at the stars, they become not only useless, but an expensive waste of time and effort. Spacecraft only point accurately if their attitude and orbit control systems ...
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More codes
Canadian and American Airlines will extend their codeshare agreement to UK and Central American routes from 1 November. Canadian's codes will appear on American's services from Chicago to Birmingham and Manchester and on its flights from Los Angeles to Guadalajara, Guatemala City, San Salvador, and San Jose. ...
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Airline Business 100 - 1997
Rank Airline Revenue US$M OpResult US$M NetResult US$M net margin % fleet Total emps Revenue Tonne kilometres (mil) Revenue Pax km Pax millions Load Factor % Year End 96 95 Pax ...
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Fokker finance
Daimler-Benz has set up debis AirFinance to take over Fokker's portfolio of leased aircraft. The service division of Daimler-Benz, debis, has a 35 per cent stake and Dasa holds 10 per cent. The remaining 55 per cent is held by one Dutch and three German banks. Fokker has transferred aircraft ...
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Appointments
Royal Brunei Airlines has appointed Pg All bin Haji Ahmad as director of corporate affairs, Haji Yahya Cheman as director of customer services, George Tan as director of sales, and Brian Johnson as director of technical services. Don Washburn has been named executive vice president flight operations at ...