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Aeroflot plans to create a regional-hub network
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines is considering setting up a series of regional hubs in an attempt to break the dominance of Sheremetyevo Airport at Moscow in its network. The widening of its domestic-flights network in Russia and the CIS are two major factors in Aeroflot's strategy to improve efficiency. ...
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Judging of the 1997 Flight...
Judging of the 1997 Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards took place in London last week. Shortlists chosen by the judging panel (from right, Sir Roger Austin, Tony Broderick, Peter Lok and Prof Rigas Doganis), chaired by Flight International Editor in Chief Allan Winn, will be published next week. The Awards ...
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BA is first to pick Roll-Rolls 'hybrid'
British Airways has become the first airline to select the Rolls-Royce RB.211-524HT "hybrid" engine, having signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the UK manufacturer specifying the powerplant for 14 Boeing 747-400s, ordered in September 1996. The engine deal will be worth more than $500 million to R-R, ...
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Il-114 and An-38 are near approval
The CIS is to certificate the Ilyushin Il-114 and the Antonov An-38 by the end of this month. Valentin Sushko, chairman of the CIS Avia Register, has confirmed that certification work has been completed on the aircraft. Both will receive their NLGS 23 approvals later this month. The ...
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Continental will choose DC-10 replacement soon
CONTINENTAL Airlines says that it could enter a long-term sole-supplier pact with Boeing in the process of picking an aircraft to replace the airline's ageing fleet of 27 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 passenger aircraft. Gordon Bethune, Continental's chairman and chief executive, says that he is initially seeking 40 aircraft ...
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UK fails to deliver Boeing/GEC pact
UK Government attempts to massage a critical ú1 billion ($1.64 billion) Royal Air Force procurement programme to acquire a new maritime-patrol aircraft have ended in near farce. The ministerial promise of a "strategic partnership" between competitors Boeing and GEC has failed to materialise. When the Ministry of Defence ...
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Crossair considers launching airline in France
Swissair regional airline Crossair is studying launching a new airline to be located in France. It would be majority-owned by French investors to get round Switzerland's non-membership of the European Union (EU). Crossair says that it will "...decide on our plan of action in late June." It says ...
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MDC revives YC-15 for a technology-test role
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is to propose the test and development of an autonomous landing system to the US Air Force, using the newly resurrected YC-15 prototype as a technology demonstrator. The autonomous landing system is expected to be one of the first technology-research efforts to be conducted with ...
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Atlantis tool probes CRJ problems
ATLANTISAEROSPACE has launched a troubleshooting tool to help solve elusive problems with complex aircraft systems. The first application of the Canadian company's SpotLight system is to help Bombardier with problems on the Canadair Regional Jet's (CRJ) flight controls, landing gear, doors and ice- and rain-protection systems. Brampton, Ontario-based ...
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Dow-UT manufactures lighter F119 fan-case
A COMPOSITE fan-inlet case for the Pratt & Whitney F119 fighter engine has been developed by Dow-United Technologies Composite Products (Dow-UT). The one-piece component, produced by resin-transfer moulding, is lighter and cheaper than the current fabricated-titanium case, says Wallingford, Connecticut-based Dow-UT. The fan-inlet case is the structural frame ...
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Messier-Bugatti scores brakes-orders success
French aircraft-brake maker Messier-Bugatti has signed orders with seven airlines for its Sepcarb III carbon brakes. China Northwest, Constellation, Croatia Airlines, Iberia, Star Europe, Transasia and Zhejiang Airlines have all, within a month, ordered Sepcarb brakes for Airbus A319s and A320s, on a total of 58 aircraft. ...
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DTI supports UKdrive for A3XX wing work
The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has agreed to help fund a British Aerospace Airbus-led research project aimed at developing large composite primary structures, possibly for the outer wing section of the proposed Airbus A3XX large airliner. The ú10 million ($16 million), three-year, second phase of ...
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Judge by market, not political agenda
Sir - I read the article "The big question", referring to the Boeing 747 versus the Airbus A3XX (Flight International, 19-25 March, P29). The debate really should centre on the cost of acquisition and return on investment. For example, a 747-400 on a Hong Kong-Europe flight may be ...
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SimuFlite first to 142
Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas-based SimuFlite Training International has become the first flight-simulator operator certificated to US Federal Aviation Administration Part 142 rules setting standards for training centres. Source: Flight International
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Russian cash fails to halt space-station delay
Russian president Boris Yeltsin has pledged to transfer funding of $139 million for Russia's participation in the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS) later this month and to allocate a further $121 million in May. This Russian financial commitment will do nothing to avoid the probable 11-month delay in ...
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EAST and WEST satellite projects move forward
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) expects to announce partners for its proposed $1 billion Euro-African Satellite Telecommunications (EAST) system within the next few months. A consortium of investors from southern Africa, the Middle East and Europe is being set up to operate the system. The prime satellite, an MMS ...
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USA gets criticised over 'exaggerated' Mir comments
Viktor Blagov, deputy chief of Russia's mission control centre at Kalinigrad, has criticised the USA's "exaggerated concerns" about the condition of the Mir 1 space station. This follows a small fire caused by an oxygen-generating lithium cartridge, the failure of oxygen-generating system units, and leaking ethylene-glycol coolant loops ...
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Bombardier
Jim McDonough has been appointed south-west regional sales manager for Montreal, Quebec-based Bombardier Aviation Services, McDonough, who will be based in Houston, Texas, was formerly regional sales manager for the AR Group, including Air Routing International and Air Security International. Source: Flight International
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Expectation of reasonable limits?
Sir - Further to your editorial "Bad promises" (Flight International, 19-25 March), several separate, but inter-related, points are touched upon. Firstly, the equation "payload equals profit" puts this fundamental figure at the root of all the arguments. Reduce the payload, and noise limits can be met, irrespective of ...
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What went wrong
For cost reasons, the Ariane 501 was fitted with two Ariane 4 inertial-reference systems (IRS), and no tests were performed with the real IRS to verify that they would behave correctly during the Ariane 5 flight, although simulations were performed. At 6s after main engine start (HO), the Ariane 5 ...