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Process improvement
OVER THE PAST few years Europe's aerospace industry has inevitably been preoccupied with the impact of defence-budget cuts and a depressed airliner market, but, as recession ends, so the priorities are beginning to change. European aerospace research shows clearly that the new drive is for production efficiency and ...
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Stake approved
The European Commission has approved the 100% take-over of French carrier TAT by British Airways. The UK flag carrier has owned 49.9% of TAT since 1992, and had announced its intention to take total control on 1 April, 1997, which is the date of full European air-transport liberalisation. ...
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High-visibility F-18E prepared for test
McDONNELL DOUGLAS F-18E SUPER Hornet prototype number four has been painted in a high-visibility scheme in preparation for high-angle-of-attack tests at the US Naval Air Warfare Centre at Patuxent River, Maryland. The F-18F two-seater, meanwhile, underwent its first catapult launch on 6 August. Source: Flight International
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First Boeing 737-700 fuselage approaches completion
THE FIRST fuselage for Boeing's New Generation 737 family is nearing completion at the company's Wichita factory. The 737-700 fuselage, pictured above in an integration tool, will be shipped by train to the final assembly line at Renton, Washington, in one piece. The first flight of the new 737 has ...
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Difficult journey
Competition is heating up in the regional-jet market. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE RACE TO build Asia's first regional passenger jet is warming up, with as many as four competitors now in the contest. Given the hefty entry fee demanded of newcomers and the limited worldwide demand being ...
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Boeing will step up 777
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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Krypton factor
A modified Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) anti-radar/anti-ship missile was successfully used as an aerial target on 13 August at the US Naval Air Warfare Center's missile test range at Point Mugu, California. The missile has been modified into the MA-31 supersonic target by a team from Russian manufacturer Zvezda, McDonnell ...
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Iranian trainer
The Iranian air force has purchased six Socata TB21s and six TB200s, according to local press reports. The aircraft have been delivered and negotiations are under way for additional aircraft, says a local Iranian news agency. The French general-aviation company refuses to comment on the claims. Source: Flight ...
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AOPA is unhappy with wake-vortex
NEW WAKE-VORTEX approach-separation standards imposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration fail to consider general aviation (GA), says the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). The GA group joins the US Air Transport Association and the Regional Airline Association in criticising the aviation agency's rule changes which ...
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Military mapper
The US Department of Defense plans to fly a Space Shuttle mission tomap the Earth in close-up. Tim Furniss/LONDON ACCORDING TO DR MICHAEL Kobrick of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, "-we have a better global map of Venus than we do for the Earth". He has conceived ...
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British Airways
BRITISH AIRWAYS John Wood has been named director for Asia-Pacific at UK national carrier British Airways. Wood, most recently general manager/ vice-president for Canada, based in Toronto, replaces Val Gooding, who is to leave the airline. LITTON Steven Lambert has been appointed president ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...
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Congress digs its heels in over Pakistani F-16s for Indonesia
MEMBERS OF THE US Congress are threatening to block a $160 million sale to Indonesia of nine former Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, because of concerns about human rights in Indonesia. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has warned US Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the proposed sale could ...
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Radio RAF
UK-based Park Air Electronics, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, has been selected as prime contractor for the Royal Air Force's air-defence ground-environment re-equipment programme, aimed at providing the RAF with ground-to-air Have Quick II voice-communications. The deal is worth almost £5 million ($7.7 million). The first of 32 sites will be ...
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Joint trainer
Raytheon's Beech MkII may bury the jet-versus-turboprop debate forever. Graham Warwick/WICHITAILLUSTRATION BY Giuseppe Picarella BY EARLY NEXT century, US Air Force and Navy pilots will undergo primary training on the same aircraft type - the Raytheon Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII. This unprecedented co-operation will be made possible ...
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UK puts Commander through its paces
THE FIRST SIEMENS PLESSEY Systems AR327 Commander tactical long-range air-defence radar for the Royal Air Force is being tested by the UK Ministry of Defence, following successful factory-acceptance tests. The latest trials are aimed at proving the system's transportability by air or land, its ability to be operated at extremes ...
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RAF installs GPS moving maps
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE has ordered the Skyforce Avionics Skymap II global-positioning-system (GPS) moving-map displays to equip the British Aerospace Hawks of 100 Sqn and those of the Red Arrows aerobatic-display team. The contract, worth around £50,000 ($78,000), follows a six-month in-service evaluation carried out by the RAF. ...
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Aerospace top 100
Industry consolidation is beginning to make its mark on the ranking of the world's top 100 aerospace companies. Compiled by Flight International and Booz¥Allen & Hamilton Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER THE turbulence of the past few years, it would be reasonable to assume that the world aerospace industry ...
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Airbus is poised to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINESE AND European aerospace-industry negotiators are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the month for Airbus Industrie to join the proposed Chinese AE-100 regional-jet programme. Under a plan which is now in the process of being finalised, Airbus will assume a leading role in Aero ...
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NTSB asks TWA to help
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is asking Trans World Airlines (TWA), Boeing and Pratt & Whitney for $8 million towards accident-investigation costs in the continuing probe of the July TWA Boeing 747 crash. Meanwhile, traces of a chemical used in plastic explosives have been detected on ...