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Swisscargo capacity
Swissair cargo subsidiary Swisscargo has signed an agreement with Belgium's new low-cost long-haul scheduled airline City Bird, to take the total freight capacity of City Bird's two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The airline will start operations on 27 March. Source: Flight International
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Can anybody find a Sunderland?
Sir - Can anyone enlighten me as to the whereabouts of a Shorts Sunderland flying boat, in flying condition, or otherwise? Alternatively, I would appreciate some further technical or operational information about the Sunderland, or a similar type of aircraft. BRENTON de la HARPE 10A Coral ...
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Why doesn't BA invest in Northolt?
Sir - It was with regret that I learned of British Airways' wish to cease flights between Newquay, Cornwall, and London Heathrow from 30 March, and fly Newquay-Gatwick instead. Many business people who wish to travel on BA's long-haul flights to the Far East and the USA will ...
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Blended- bodies: not the right mix?
Sir - Although I am a life-long flying-wing fanatic, I do not see how blended-body airliners can work. The aerodynamic advantages are real, and avionics - fly-by-wire - cure the stability snags, but there is still pressurisation. The standard 0.55bar (8lb/in2) represents a lot of pressure on the 280m2 (3,000ft2) ...
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West Star
Greg Laabs has been appointed director of aircraft maintenance at maintenance company West Star Aviation, of Grand Junction, Colorado. He was previously with Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Joe Kendrick has been promoted to director of customer service. He has been with the company for 20 years. Source: Flight ...
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Falcon Jet
Dassault Falcon Jet, of Teterboro, New Jersey, has appointed Al Zito director of its Service Parts Center in Moonachie, New Jersey. His area covers the Western hemisphere (North and South America, the Pacific Rim and China). Source: Flight International
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NATA
Fred Workley, manager of maintenance operations at the US National Air Transportation Association (NATA) of Alexandria, Virginia, is to become a contract technical advisor on aviation matters for the Association. He wishes to focus on his own business, Workley Aircraft & Maintenance, at Dulles International Airport. ...
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MDC
McDonnell Douglas (MDC), of Hunting Beach, California, has promoted Ronald Elkins to general manager of the Engineering Services division and programme director at Goddard Systems Engineering, Integration and Management Support Services. He succeeds Jerry Allen, who has retired. Elkins has been with MDC for 31 years. John Feren is named ...
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NPO/P&W
Bob Monaco has become president of RD AMROSS, LLC, a new joint venture between NPO-Energomash and Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion, based in Florida. He has been vice-president of finance for P&W Government Engines & Space Propulsion, and was on the founding team which established the International Aero Engines consortium, ...
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Ultra NIMROD 2000
Ultra Electronics Holdings has won a ú48 million ($78 million)contract from Boeing Defense and Space, to supply integrated acoustic systems for the British Aerospace Nimrod 2000 maritime-patrol aircraft. UK- based Ultra is developing the systems in collaboration with Computing Devices Canada and Flightline Electronics of the USA. ...
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DAC deals heads up
Banner Aerospace subsidiary DAC International is to market and distribute worldwide Heads Up Technologies' line of passenger-briefing and pilot's-checklist systems and annunciator panels. Source: Flight International
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Tyrolean adds GPS/FMS
Austria's Tyrolean Airways is to retrofit its 17 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s with Universal Avionics' UNS-1C global-positioning/flight-management system, beginning in April, to meet European basic area-navigation requirements. Source: Flight International
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Wayfarer expands
White Plains, New York-based corporate-aircraft charter company Wayfarer Aviation has added a fourth Bombardier Canadair Challenger to its managed fleet. Source: Flight International
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Chicago Meigs re-opens
Operations have resumed at Chicago's Meigs Field, after the city's plans to close the lakefront airport were overturned by the State of Illinois. Source: Flight International
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Premier Fuselage
Raytheon Aircraft has fabricated the first carbonfibre-composite forward-fuselage for its Premier I business jet, using its Viper automated fibre-placement system. Source: Flight International
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MDC reveals FedEx MD-10 freighter-conversion sites
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has chosen US and European sites to convert up to 60 ex-United Airlines and American Airlines DC-10-10s to phase 1 of the MD-10 freighter specification. The aircraft are destined for FedEx. Phoenix, Arizona-based Dimension Aviation, a division of Sabreliner (previously SabreTech/ DynAir Tech), has been ...
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Airbus outlines business case for launching its large airliner
Airbus Industrie is building a business case for launching the A3XX based on prospects of winning around 650 orders for the programme over the next 20 years, says John Leahy senior vice-president Commercial. The comments came as Airbus and Boeing used the release of long-range forecasts to justify ...
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GE Engine Services FedEx CF6s
GE Engine Services is to support 125 CF6-6 engines powering FedEx McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, under a ten-year maintenance cost-per-hour contract. Source: Flight International
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Aerospatiale reports improved results
France's biggest aerospace manufacturer, Aerospatiale, returned to profit in 1996 and saw its work backlog increase by 61%. Performance of the state-owned manufacturer, which is likely to be privatised at the end of the year as part of its forthcoming merger with Dassault Aviation, was considerably improved compared ...