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Eurocontrol members
The Slovak Republic's application for membership of Eurocontrol has been unanimously accepted by the organisation's Permanent Commission. Meanwhile, Croatia's application for accession to Eurocontrol has also been accepted. Source: Flight International
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Finnair leases 757s from ILFC
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON FINNAIR HAS concluded a lease deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) which will lead to the introduction of four new Boeing 757s from September 1997. The airline has signed an eight-year lease agreement, with extension options. All four aircraft, powered by Pratt & ...
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Swanwick delays cost CAA dearly
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority has confirmed that delays to the UK's new Swanwick en route air-traffic-control centre will leave it with a bill of around £10 million ($15.6 million), but says that it hopes to avoid raising user charges to meet the costs. ...
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Aaxico Industries flushes out BA's DC-10 blue-ice blues
BRITISH AIRWAYS hopes to slash the cost of implementing US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directives (ADs) concerning the formation of "blue ice" on aircraft, with the introduction of a testing device developed by Aaxico Industries of the UK. The FAA ADs, which initially apply to the McDonnell ...
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Constellation evaluates A320 and 737 to replace too-noisy 727-200s
CONSTELLATION International Airlines plans to acquire quieter, more efficient, aircraft to replace its Boeing 727-200s, which face a possible weekend noise- ban at the carrier's Brussels-Zaventem, Belgium, base. Constellation chief executive Christian Heinzman says that the airline is evaluating the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-300/400 to replace its Boeing ...
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University software may help pilots to miss obstacles
GKN WESTLAND Aerospace has completed simulator tests of a so-called "neurofuzzy" computer program designed to enable helicopter pilots to avoid obstacles in poor visibility. A neurofuzzy controller, developed by scientists at Southampton University in the UK, processes data from a range of sources to determine where it ...
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Bombardier wants lighter BR710 for its Global Express
BOMBARDIER HAS asked BMW Rolls-Royce to delete a mechanical-overspeed system from the BR710 turbofans powering the Global Express long-range business jet, to reduce weight. Gulfstream has not requested the same change to the BR710s powering its rival Gulfstream V, although it admits that the engine and its nacelle are overweight. ...
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P&WC tests Calcor nozzle
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PRATT & WHITNEY Canada has completed initial tests of Calcor Aero Systems' thrust-reverser/variable-exhaust-nozzle (REVEN) on a PW306. Calcor says that the engine runs, in a Toronto test cell, give it confidence that the nozzle will reduce specific fuel consumption (SFC) and increase thrust in altitude ...
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German authority approves Explorer
Germany's civil-aviation authority, the Luftfahrt Bundesamt, has become the first European agency to type certificate the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems Explorer. The 15 July certification award came within days of a recommendation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) that all 27 of its member nations issue the eight-seat helicopter ...
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Business jets slip in GAMA totals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BUSINESS-JET shipments by US manufacturers slipped in the first six months of 1996, but are expected to pick up in the second half as production increases, initiated in 1995, work their way through. Compared with the first half of 1995, business-jet deliveries fell by almost ...
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Solar prize won
The solar-powered Icare 2 had its first flight at Laupheim air base in Germany on 7 July, winning the DM100,000 ($66,000) Berblinger Prize offered by the city of Ulm for solar flight. The lightweight, solar-powered aircraft has been developed by the Stuttgart University Institute for Air and Space Technology. The ...
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Untested software is blamed for failure of Ariane 5 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE FAILURE of the maiden launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 on 4 June resulted from the booster flying with an Ariane 4 dual-inertial reference system (IRS) untested for use in a new launch environment. The system also had "specification and design ...
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Bangkok Airways president aims for second carrier slot
Julian Moxon/BANGKOK THE PRESIDENT and owner of Thailand's privately owned airline Bangkok Airways wants to start a new airline to respond to the Thai Government's imminent call for offers for a second carrier to operate services on domestic and regional routes. Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, who owns ...
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Latin moves
British Airways will switch its Latin American services from London Heathrow to Gatwick, along with three Boeing 747-400s, next March. The airline will serve Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela from Gatwick's North Terminal. By its 1997 summer season, BA will be operating over 1,000 flights a week from ...
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Suspect parts
The supply of "rogue" aircraft parts is back in the spotlight following New Zealand's grounding of some helicopters. Paul Phelan/NELSON A FATAL helicopter crash in New Zealand has triggered the grounding of about 5% of civil helicopters in that country, the suspension of engineers' licences ...
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The Top Fifty Airlines
The world airline industry made record profits in 1995, but will the boom last? The signs are mixed from this year's ranking of the world's top 50passenger-airline groups. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IT HAS TAKEN a long time to arrive, but recovery in the world airline industry appears to ...
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The mission equipment
THE SENSORS, display and communications units fitted to the Dash 8 maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA) are typical of the large range of such equipment on offer. There were two choices of radar considered: the travelling-wave-tube (TWT) type, or the power-hungry, but cheaper, magnetron variety. The latter has longer ...
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Thai plans MoU for six 747-Xs
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK THAI AIRWAYS International is discussing signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for up to six new Boeing 747-500/600X aircraft, but the carrier is now waiting for Government approval for its earlier fleet modernisation before committing itself. The airline is among a group of ...
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New safety concerns voiced over Shuttle
THE AEROSPACE Safety Advisory Panel has warned NASA that its programme to cut Space Shuttle operations costs is increasing the risk of a serious accident (Flight International, 28 February-5 March). The prime concern is the reduction of safety inspections and the plan to hand over Shuttle operations to the ...
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Aerospatiale tests ARD spacecraft
AEROSPATIALE HAS completed the first descent and recovery test of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator (ARD) spacecraft in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily. The ARD was dropped from a stratospheric balloon at 82,000ft (25,000m) and, after a free-fall of 33,000ft, its parachutes ...