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Teaching practice
The British Aerospace flight-training centre at Prestwick is changing direction. Harry Hopkins/Prestwick A change of name, often reflects a change in direction, which is why the British Aerospace Flying College at Prestwick in Scotland, has been renamed BAe Flight Training. It is part of the company's new ...
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Feel free
The end-of-term report on air-transport liberalisation, for the period 1993-6 from the European transport commissioner Neil Kinnock is full of praise for, and pride in, achievements and future plans. Liberalisation, it says, has worked well, with few major upsets, but, to be completed successfully, needs a little more effort in ...
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Litton
Donald Lepore has been elected, a corporate senior vice-president of advanced electronic, defence and information systems company Litton, of Woodland Hills, California. He joined Litton's Airtron division in 1959. James Benham has been promoted to president of the Electron Devices division, of San Carlos, California. Benham, who succeeds John Middaugh, ...
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Three spacecraft will soon be launched
Three spacecraft will soon be launched to Mars to continue exploration ofthe "red"planet Tim Furniss/London The "life on Mars" hysteria which swept the world's media in August has added a touch of spice to the launch of three new missions to the Red Planet in November and December ...
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Northrop Grumman aids Russian ATC
Northrop Grumman has participated in a Russian air-traffic-control (ATC) demonstration in which remote radar data were digitised and transmitted via satellite to the Vladivostok area control-centre. The October feasibility demonstration was conducted by Primoraerocontrol, the ATC organisation for the Primorski Krai region, in conjunction with Japanese authorities and ...
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CAE Electronics prepares to equip India's FANS centre
CAE Electronics is preparing to deliver a future air-navigation system (FANS) workstation to India, for installation in the Calcutta air-traffic-control centre. The workstation will enable India to offer fuel-saving routes over the Bay of Bengal to airlines operating Boeing 747-400s with FANS-1 avionics. The workstation is similar to ...
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Key free-flight tool evaluated
Evaluation of a conflict probe which, promises to be a key element of the future US "free-flight" air-traffic-management system is under way at Indianapolis. The prototype conflict probe, named the user-requirement evaluation tool (URET), has been developed for the US Federal Aviation Administration by Mitre's Center for Advanced Aviation System ...
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Facing up to the consequences
Sir - I would never wish to set back the cause of aviation safety, but I find it amusing that my colleagues are reluctant to report when things don't go according to plan, unless all is "de-identified" and they are granted freedom from disciplinary action. These chaps are ...
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Who'd set foot on a pilotless aircraft?
Sir - It is common knowledge that the technology for pilotless passenger-aircraft has been in existence since the mid-1940s, but has anyone asked the flying public whether they would fly on such a vehicle? Everyone I have asked has answered "No", including my 12-year-old son, who is heavily into electronic ...
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PRM commissioned
Precision runway-monitoring (PRM) systems are in the running to be commissioned at Minneapolis Airport and Sydney's Kingsford-Smith Airport before the end of the year. The first production version of PRM was installed and certificated at Minneapolis Airport early this year, and is expected to be commissioned before the end of ...
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Satena Dorniers
Colombian airline Satena has ordered three Fairchild Dornier 328-120s to replace its British Aerospace 748s. Source: Flight International
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ERA renames
The 200-strong members of the European Regional Airlines Association (ERA) have agreed to change the word "Regional" to "Regions", effective from 1 December. Source: Flight International
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Air France switch
Air France has switched partners for its Express services between Paris and London City. The route is now being flown under franchise to Cityjet, with BAe 146s replacing Air Littoral Fokker 70s previously operated. Source: Flight International
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Cathay retires L-1011
Cathay Pacific has retired the Lockheed TriStar from its fleet after some 21 years of operations. The last revenue service was flown on 15 October between Nagoya and Taipei. The airline has operated 19 TriStars since 1975, and is replacing them with Airbus A330/A340s and Boeing 777s. ...
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Maldives dash
Air Maldives has placed an order for one Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 Series 200, for delivery in November. The carrier has taken an option on an extra Dash 8-200 for delivery in mid-1998. Air Maldives now operates an Airbus A300 and two Fair-child Dornier 228s. ...
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Sextant supplies MMRs
Sextant Avionique is to supply multi-mode receivers (MMRs) for United Airlines' Airbus A319 fleet. The French firm, a co-supplier of MMRs for Airbus with Collins Avionics, is the first MMR supplier for Airbus narrowbodies. Source: Flight International
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Continental Heathrow
Continental Airlines has confirmed that it is seeking to serve London Heathrow from Newark, Houston and Cleveland. It would maintain existing flights between London Gatwick and Newark and Houston. Source: Flight International
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Army weather systems
AAI/Systems Management has sold four NEXWOS automated weather-observing systems to the US Army, for installation at municipal airports around its helicopter-training centre at Fort Hood, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Argentinian goal
Raytheon is to team with Lockheed Martin for Argentina's requirement for an integrated civil/military airspace-management system. The contract could be worth $185 million. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Venezuela also plan modernisations. Source: Flight International
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Thai order
Thailand's navy has ordered Matra-BAe Dynamics Sadral/ Mistral short-range air-defence missile systems to equip its largest warships. Matra-BAe was competing for the order, reportedly worth more than Fr200 million ($34.5 million), with Hughes, offering the Phalanx gun system, and Raytheon, proposing the Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile. The company has also ...