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Boeing hopes for more from China despite Airbus
Boeing is hoping to secure follow-on orders for a large number of 737s and 757s from Chinese operators, despite a push by Airbus Industrie to place up to 100 new jet airliners with China Aviation Supplies (CASC). According to Boeing, a series of different proposals have been made ...
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Australia and Indonesia plan a defence for disputed territory
In an unprecedented move, Australia and Indonesia are putting together a $1 billion defence package, covering the acquisition and deployment of air- surveillance and air-defence equipment, to protect key economic assets in the South China Sea. Defence officials from both countries have been working since November 1996 to ...
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Dunlop invests in structural analysis
Dunlop Aviation has invested over £3 million ($4.9 million)in advanced analysis and upgraded test equipment intended for its new Structural Dynamics department. The "top priority" for the department is achieving a reduction in brake and landing-gear vibration during taxiing, and take-off and landing rolls, says Dunlop. The effects ...
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Novel simulator attracts trainers
The world's military pilot-training providers are showing interest in a "revolutionary" simulator visual system which is being designed as a development tool for the Saab JAS39 Gripen multi-role fighter, according to the system's software developer Equipe Electronics. The visual system gives not just the full lateral "wrap-around" picture ...
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Hughes NIMs contract
The US Federal Aviation Administration has named Hughes Information Technology Systems as integration-services contractor for its National Airspace System Infrastructure Management System (NIMS) programme in a seven-year contract. The NIMS will be used to manage US National Airspace System operations. Source: Flight International
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Academic drive can do no harm
Sir - I can see no reason why the European Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA's) call for higher academic standards among pilots would touch a raw nerve with Capt John Raby (Flight International, 16-22 April, P40) other than because he feels personally threatened. The JAA makes no mention of ...
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Clinton stymied by vested interests
Sir - Why cancel the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F22, McDonnell Douglas F18E/F, or even the Joint Strike Fighter, purely to accelerate delivery of the Bell-Boeing V-22 tiltrotor? (Flight International, 23-29 April, P18). I had wondered why certain US politicians had been trying to make out that the F18E/F "-didn't ...
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Commercial moves
LOCKHEEDMARTIN IS poised to return to commercial aerospace, through a possible alliance with Airbus Industrie and by expanding its existing aircraft-maintenance capability. Micky Blackwell, president of Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics sector, says that the US company must increase its international business and boost its share of the maintenance market if it ...
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Information on EBAS '97
By Air There are direct airline services to London Stansted Airport from most European destinations. A shuttle bus will transport visitors to the exhibition site. Arrivals by business aircraft should make arrangements with one of the following Stansted-based companies: Inflite; tel: +44 (1279) 680373. Metro Business Aviation; tel: ...
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GOES goes up
The final Lockheed Martin Atlas 1 booster launched the Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite, GOES-K, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 25 April. Designated the GOES 10, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spacecraft will be an in-orbit spare, complementing the GOES 8 and 9 craft launched in 1994/5. The Lockheed and ...
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Regional jets find a home
LABOUR TURMOIL and strike threats spawned by the introduction of new-generation "regional jets" have diverted attention away from an evolution that is taking place in both the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries. This is the opinion of aircraft manufacturers, airline-industry pundits and air-carrier officials who say that the ...
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Historic manufacturers return
Two famous names from German aviation history staged a comeback at the Aero '97 show, with the presentation of new prototypes from Zeppelin and Junkers. The general-aviation show, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from 23-27 April, featured the public debut of the Zeppelin New Technology (NT) airship, the LZ N07. ...
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Diamond reveals four-seat Katana
Austrian manufacturer Diamond Aircraft Industries has displayed a mock-up of a four-seat addition to its Katana aircraft family for the first time. The DA 40 Katana is set for its maiden flight by July, and Diamond hopes to certificate it to European JAR 23 standards by the end ...
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Wankel examines multi-fuel engine
German engine manufacturer Wankel Rotary is studying the development of a multi-fuel rotary engine for aircraft and helicopter applications. Wankel says that the variable installation position (VIP) engine will be able to run on avgas, kerosene, diesel, natural gas, methanol or hydrogen, and will offer substantial weight savings ...
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Operators alerted on Cessna-twin fire risk
OPERATORS OF CESSNA turbocharged piston-twins have been urged to inspect the exhaust systems, while the US Federal Aviation Administration considers action to prevent leaks which could cause in-flight fires. The Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has advised operators of 300- and 400-series turbocharged twins to inspect the exhaust systems ...
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FAA re-issues Teledyne crankshaft AD
A PROPOSED airworthiness directive (AD) requiring replacement of the crankshafts in some 10,000 Teledyne Continental 360-and 520-series piston engines has resurfaced, with the US Federal Aviation Administration citing an abnormally high failure rate. The original July 1993 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) was strenuously opposed by the US ...
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Third Global Express joins flight-test programme
BOMBARDIER HAS flown the third Global Express long-range business jet. Aircraft 9003 was flown for the first time on 22 April, from the de Havilland final-assembly plant in Toronto, Canada. It is scheduled to join the first two Global Expresses at Bombardier's Wichita, Kansas, fiight-test centre in early May. ...
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Orenda picks engine site in Nova Scotia
Orenda Aerospace has selected Truro, Nova Scotia, as the site for an engine manufacturing and aircraft remanufacturing plant. The Canadian company which will produce the OE-600-series vee-8 piston engine will be known as Orenda Recip, and it will be the first private aerospace company at Debert Airport, a former Canadian ...
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New Delhi collision is blamed on Kazakhs
Lawyers for Saudi Arabian Airlines have testified to the Indian Court of Inquiry that the Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crew descended through their cleared altitude, causing the 12 November 1996 fatal collision with the Saudi Boeing 747-100 near New Delhi, India. Saudi Arabian claims that its crew carried ...
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Germany risks further EF2000 delays
Concern is growing among Germany's Eurofighter partners over the country's continuing inability to approve EF2000 production investment, with the threat of further programme delays now looming. The UK, with the support of Italy and Spain, has been pressing Germany to approve next phase of the EF2000 programme for ...