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Sabena revives study of off-shore contracts
Sabena has confirmed that it has resurrected cost-saving plans to employ flying personnel on out-of-country contracts. The proposal, which is still under study, would see pilots and cabin crew continue to be based in Brussels, but paid in Switzerland, probably via Sabena's partner Swissair, with the transaction made through a ...
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Czechs approve Vodochody sale
The Czech Government has approved the sale of a stake of around 34% of financially troubled jet-trainer manufacturer Aero Vodochody to a strategic partner. The successful bidder is due to be announced by 2 April. A sale to a foreign investor is not ruled out, although some within ...
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Safety defeated
THE YEAR 1996 SAW the largest number both of airline fatal accidents and of fatalities on record. Other serious worries for the air-transport community highlighted by 1996 include the number of deaths on the ground caused by crashes - also the worst ever - and some compelling trends indicating that ...
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Pentagon approves US Marine Corps UH-1N upgrade
The US Marine Corps has awarded Bell Helicopter Textron a $134 million contract to initiate a UH-1N light-utility-helicopter modernisation programme in preference to buying the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. The project was held up by the Department of Defense (DoD) in October 1996, when further military-helicopter commonality studies ...
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Freight fright
THE AIRLINE-ACCIDENT statistics for 1996 (P31) suggest that there is a serious safety problem in the air-freight market. Over one-third of all fatal airliner accidents last year were to non-passenger aircraft: they caused the deaths of 158 aircrew and other occupants, and more than 350 further deaths of innocent third ...
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France nears final Aerospatiale/Dassault decision
The French government, anxious to kick-start the restructuring of its aerospace industry, is on the verge of finalising the details of the merger between Aerospatiale and Dassault Aviation. It also plans to move quickly towards privatisation of the resulting group. Approval for the merger, by a newly created ...
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Lockheed Martin SBIRS
The United States Air Force has selected a Lockheed Martin-led team to develop its Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) space-surveillance early-warning programme. The total value of the project is estimated at $15 billion. Under SBIRS contracts, five geosynchronous Earth-orbit and two high Earth-orbiting sensors will be delivered. GenCorp Aerojet, Northrop ...
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Kawasaki in the Trent
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rolls-Royce to take a 6% stake in its Trent 900 programme. The 356kN (80,000lb)-thrust engine is aimed at the yet-to-be-launched Boeing 747X and Airbus A3XX projects. The Japanese company is the first risk-sharing partner to join Rolls-Royce on the project, ...
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European research group will study new blade-tip coatings
A consortium of nine European companies and research centres has launched a four-year project to develop advanced coatings for aero-engine turbine blade-tips. The work is aimed at achieving reduced tip-clearances, to improve engine performance without causing excessive wear in the blades. "When the blade tip rubs against the ...
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Five UK police forces opt for Skyquest moving-map systems
Five UK Police helicopter-support units have ordered Skyquest Aviation's EuroNav III moving-map system, for use during airborne-surveillance missions. Using the EuroNav III, an onboard police observer is able to pinpoint a location such as a house address, and provide the pilot with instant navigation data to reach the ...
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Hercules 2 line gets new tooling
Lockheed Martin has introduced a "flow-line" assembly process for the mid-fuselage section of the C-130J Hercules 2. Designed by Hyde Group of Cheshire, UK, the multi-stage jig allows mid-fuselage production to be integrated with the final assembly line. This replaces a 40-year-old practice of assembling the piece in a separate ...
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Rada orders
Rada Electronic Industries has secured orders worth $5.4 million for its CATS, ACE and maintenance simulator products. The CATS orders came from the UK and China, while a weapons-system trainer has been ordered by the Israeli ministry of defence. Source: Flight International
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Tu-224: different class of aircraft
Sir - In the article "Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort", Dr Ibrahim Kamel, president of the newly formed Sirocco, is quoted as saying that the Tupolev Tu-224 (Western-powered Tu-204) will cost about $36 million. You then say that comparative "sticker" prices for the similarly sized Airbus A321-100 ...
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Delaying JAR-FCL is not feasible
Sir - In his letter "Why make changes to UK licensing?" (Flight International, 20-26 November, 1996, P74), M M Jenkins makes points about the European Joint Aviation Requirements for flightcrew licensing (JAR-FCL). JAR-FCL for pilots was formally adopted by the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) on 8 October, 1996, ...
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Donald Lang
Donald Lang, engineer, business executive and pilot, who retired a year ago as president of Pratt & Whitney China, died on 31 December at the age of 54, following heart surgery. Lang joined P&W in 1965 as an experimental test engineer. He helped develop the F100 engine, which powers the ...
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Europe seeks reversal of Air Pacific Boeing order
European governments are putting pressure on Fiji to reverse an Air Pacific order for three Boeing 737-700s with an option on a fourth, and order Airbus aircraft instead. The Fijian flag carrier ordered the aircraft in 1996 to add to its all-Boeing fleet of 737s, a 747 and one 767. ...
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Augsburg considers expansion with Dash 8-400
Augsburg Airways, which recently became the first "Team Lufthansa" franchise partner, is considering further fleet expansion with the de Havilland Dash 8-400. While no firm purchase decision has been taken, the southern Germany-based regional airline says that its partnership with Lufthansa opens the possibility of future operations on ...
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Aviazur modernises Islander fleet
Aviazur has replaced its ageing Pilatus Britten-Norman BN2A piston-engined Islander with a new BN2T turboprop Islander. The New Caledonia-based air-taxi operator required the new aircraft to enable it to operate 460km (250nm) missions with a full payload of nine passengers in a "hot-and-high" environment from short runways. The Islander, one ...
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Collision leads to restructure of Delhi air-traffic-control routes
Arrival and departure procedures in the New Delhi airport terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) have been revised since the collision on 12 November, 1996 between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 which killed 349 people (Flight International, 20-26 November 1996, P8), according to the Indian Directorate ...
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Delta ends intra Europe flights
DELTA AIR LINES is to discontinue the intra-European operations which it acquired from Pan American World Airways in 1991, and instead increase transatlantic flights, principally from New York's J F Kennedy Airport. The restructuring will result in a one-time charge against earnings of up to $60 million, mainly ...