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Aerospatiale talks to China about FANS
Aerospatiale is negotiating with China on opening a new Future Air Navigation System (FANS) air-traffic route which would enable Virgin Atlantic to cut up to 45min from its Airbus A340 Hong-Kong-London service. China Airlines, which is due to receive its first A340 in March, is also likely to ...
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FLS completes first 727 cargo conversion
FLS Aerospace has completed its first freighter conversion of a Boeing 727, and the aircraft has now entered service with TNT Express Worldwide on its European network. The aircraft, a -200 Adv, was modified at FLS' Stansted, UK, centre, using the Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services (AEI), Miami, supplemental type ...
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Rossiya takes presidential Il-96-300
Rossiya, the Russian government airline, has taken delivery of an Ilyushin Il-96-300 for use as a presidential transport. The aircraft has been fitted with a new executive interior and a communications suite. The interior was fitted in Switzerland and the aircraft repainted by KLM in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Source: ...
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777 airframe undergoes longest-ever fatigue test
Boeing's 777 full-scale fatigue-test airframe had undergone 120,000 simulated flights between January 1995 and 13 March this year, representing double the aircraft's 30-year design service objective, and making this the most extensive fatigue test to be carried out by the company. Boeing structural engineers are "very pleased" with ...
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Canadian charter carriers expand their long-haul fleets
Canadian charter airlines are boosting their long-haul fleets for their 1997 summer season as the Canada-Europe holiday market continues to grow. SkyService, which began holiday-charter flights in 1994 with leased Airbus Industrie A320s, will become the first North American operator of the Airbus A330 when it receives a ...
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BA warms to A3XX plan
British Airways says that it will buy the Airbus A3XX, "-if it is commercially viable", and has criticised Boeing for dropping its plan to develop the 747-500X/ 600X models. BA chief operating officer Dr Alistair Cumming says: "We frankly commend Airbus for their bravery in taking this step." ...
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Russian Aerospace '97
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com Source: Flight International
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Safety in Colombia
Colombian commercial air transport has a poor safety record by average world standards. This has been spotlighted by the US Federal Aviation Administration's International Air Safety Assessment Programme (IASAP), which gave Colombia's civil-aviation authority (Aeronautica Civil) only a Category 2 "conditional" rating for safety-oversight standards. Keen to earn its IASAP ...
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Maintenance put underthe spotlight
GAMTA has launched a benchmarking study to determine the standards of service and prices offered by maintenance organisations in other parts of the world. The study, to be run on lines similar to a 1996 report on the competition UK flying training organisations faced from foreign schools, will attempt to ...
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Single Euro-safetyagency finds favour
Implementation of the third and final part of the European Union's (EU) single-aviation market, or "open-skies" policy, due on 1 April, has brought into focus the need to establish a European-wide safety authority, with many GAMTA members supporting such a move. Now, each member country of the European ...
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Northrop
Northrop Grumman subsidiary Northrop Grumman International has appointed Brenton Fischmann managing director of a new regional office to be set up this month in Bonn, Germany. Fischmann, who joins Los Angeles, California-based Northrop Grumman from NATO where he was involved in developing US-European co-operation for government and industry, was previously ...
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Oriental Falcon Jet service
Oriental Falcon Jet Service (OFJS), a joint venture of Dassault Falcon Jet, China Xinhua Airlines and Avion Pacific, will begin Falcon 50 charter operations in China during the second quarter of this year (Flight International, 12-18 March, P19). Seen here are members of the Dassault Falcon Jet team responsible for ...
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Rolls Royce
UK engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group has named Bill Madison director of business development for Rolls-Royce Aero Engine Services. He was most recently vice-president for marketing and sales at Greenwich Air Services, based at Miami, Florida. Source: Flight International
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Godfrey Ellis
Blue Streak missile designer Godfrey Harold Ellis has died at the age of 69. Ellis headed de Havilland's development effort on components for the UK's last, and ultimately abortive, attempt to build an intercontinental missile. He was responsible for items such as cryogenic-engineering, gas generators and heat exchangers and co-ordination ...
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M5 aimed at Moon
Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science plans to launch its second M5 solid-propellant booster towards the Moon in August. The 30m-high, three-stage rocket, which had its maiden flight from Kagoshima (left) on 12 February, carrying the Muses B radio telescope into orbit, will next be used to launch the ...
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Regional Airports plans to give Southend an express boost
Regional Airports (RAL) is planning to extend the passenger terminal at Southend Airport in Essex, north-east of London, and to develop the airport's rail link to the capital, as part of a ú3.5 million ($5.6 million) plan to boost passenger throughput. RAL chief executive Andrew Walters says that ...
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Facing the future
The UK General Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA) is maintaining the momentum of a business upturn in the face of new legislation. David Learmount and Forbes Mutch were at GAMTA's conference in London, 5-6 March.Source: Flight International
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The lastpost
It must engender at least a little sympathy when the high point of a man's career is accompanied by the gift of a chalice, containing, potentially, more than a little poison. Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, who took up his post as the Royal Air Force's Chief of the ...
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Launch odyssey
The Galaxy 11, DUE to enter orbit in June 1998, will not only be the first HS-702 spacecraft bus to be built by Hughes Space and Communications , but it will also be the first geostationary-orbit (GEO) communications satellite to be launched from an offshore platform. This space ...
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Avior aims to build fixed-base operator chain across USA
THE AVIOR GROUP, a US company specialising in relief-charter operations in Africa, is expanding into its home market. The Miami-based concern hopes to build up a chain of "a dozen" fixed-base operators (FBOs) and wants to acquire a manufacturing capability to support its growing maintenance business. Avior has ...