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Turkish evaluation
The Turkish Government has concluded its evaluation of bids from Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to supply up to 50 aircraft for THY Turkish Airlines, under a 50% offset agreement. The deal will call for an initial batch of 34 aircraft Source: Flight International
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Japan cargo growth
Japan has approved daily FedEx flights from New York, Chicago, Anchorage and Houston to Tokyo and Naha, Okinawa, continuing to other Far East destinations. Another US parcels carrier, UPS, has substituted a Boeing 747-100 freighter for a 767-300 on five-times-weekly flights from Chicago to Tokyo Narita. ...
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ANZ and CAI to part
Air New Zealand and Canadian Airlines Inter-national will end their six-year-old codesharing agreement in October, because the New Zealand carrier's new alliance with United Airlines conflicts with the Canadian carrier's relationship with American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Closer approaches
Final-approach aircraft separations of 4.5km (2.5nm) rather than the present 5.5km are to be allowed at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports in the UK from 1 July following a three-year trial and the comparison of approach occurrence-report data before and during the test period. The new minima may only be ...
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JAL turbulence
Eleven passengers and crew were injured, four seriously, aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) McDonnell Douglas MD-11 after the aircraft encountered severe air turbulence on 8 June. The aircraft was en route from Hong Kong to Nagoya carrying 169 passengers and 11 crew, when it encountered the turbulence about 25min before ...
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Fire supression
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a long-anticipated notice of proposed rule-making requiring fire-suppression systems in aircraft cargo holds by 2001. This would directly affect about 2,800 passenger aircraft, and some 300 all-cargo aircraft would also be required to have hold fire-detection systems and a means to shut off ...
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Sighting success
The South African Air Force has purchased a monocular helmet-sighting system, called the Guardian, for use on Cheetah fighters and Oryx medium-lift helicopters. The system has been developed by Denel of South Africa and Pilkington Optronics of the UK. Denel says that the Guardian is expected to be test-flown on ...
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Meggitt on target
Meggitt Aerospace Components has launched a composite thermal shield to protect wiring and ducting inside the engine cowlings of the Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130J. Source: Flight International
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Steeling the show
British Steel is to raise production of specialist steels for the aerospace sector by 30%. The company is adding a fourth vacuum-arc remelting furnace at its dedicated aerospace plant in Sheffield. Source: Flight International
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World TriStars
British World Airlines will introduce Lockheed L-1011 TriStars in August, following the award of a contract from Classic Airways and Independent Aviation Group. The TriStars, which will be acquired from Trans World Airlines and/or Delta Air Lines, will be based at London Stansted Airport in the UK. ...
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AAR/GE join up
AAR has formed an engine parts joint venture with General Electric, named Turbine Engine Asset Management, which will supply CF6-6, -50 and where common, -80A engine parts worldwide. The joint venture will be housed at a new site in Wood Dale, Illinois. Source: Flight ...
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Contract cleared
A review of a US Federal Aviation Administration decision to award a $250 million computer operations contract to another US Government agency shows that the FAA did not break any rules. Private contractors contend that they can not compete effectively against government agencies whose operating costs are subsidised by taxpayers. ...
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Runway safety
Northrop Grumman's Norden Systems unit has received $20 million from the US Federal Aviation Administration to produce and install 20 airport-movement area safety systems (AMASS) at major US airports. The safety device, which is integrated with the ASDE-3 surface surveillance radar, automatically alerts controllers to potential runway conflicts under all ...
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Advantage ATI
The Aerospace community has a seemingly insatiable demand for ever more high-value information, delivered with ever greater frequency and speed. Nowhere is this demand more visible than in the airline sector, where information (on competitors, suppliers and customers) has become as powerful a competitive tool as any. Historically, the ...
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Proper fractions
One of the biggest revolutions ever to hit the air-transport industry came when airlines realised that, to run a profitable business, you no longer had to own your own aircraft, but merely to own the access to aircraft. Leasing was the key: let somebody else own the aircraft; even let ...
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Keeping air traffic flowing
Sir - In a recent weekday attempt to recover an unpressurised jet transport from the Mediterranean area to the UK, France's Paris Control objected to the flight plan because the route did not conform to the traffic-orientation scheme (TOS-17). It was explained that the flightplan route was selected to avoid ...
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Expanding European egos
Sir - The Comment page on the proposed Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger (Flight International, 21-27 May) highlights the way in which Europe is set to go. The inflated egos of European Commissioners grow larger day by day. Not only are they intent on poking their noses into every aspect ...
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Electromagnetic hazards
Sir - Much has been documented about the effects of electromagnetic interference on modern aircraft-navigation systems, particularly those elements of the "glass-cockpit" electronic flight-instrument system, and how to deal with those problems. It has been only recently that passengers have become aware of the effects of electromagnetic interference. ...
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Chipmunks stay the course
Sir - Private owners have long made long-distance flights in De Havilland Chipmunks (Flight International, 14-20 May). In the USA in 1983, three privately owned Chipmunks were flown from Alberta, Canada, to Clark County Airport, Indiana, USA. All of them were flown over a distance of 2,700km (1,455nm), ...
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Raytheon
Gary Hart is president of Raytheon Travel Air, the USA company's fractional-ownership programme, based at Wichita, Kansas (Flight International, 11-17 June). He was previously vice-president - operations at Business Jet Solutions. He heads a team including vice-presidents Bill Wallisch (controller), formerly manager - financial analysis at Raytheon; Curtis Schalk (operations), ...