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Planetary passport
Will there ever be a universal pilot's licence? David Learmount/LONDON LIKE THE "UNIVERSAL" language Esperanto, a world-standard for pilots' licences seems like a good idea, but no-one puts it into practice. Unemployed pilots dream of being able to follow work wherever in the world the ...
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MDC
Kenneth Reed will become president of St Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Canada from 3 June. He was most recently vice-president/general manager of quality systems-integration at the company's headquarters. Andrew Quinn has been named regional vice-president for product at MDC China, based in the country's capital, Beijing. He will be ...
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Training must be a viable industry
Sir - I refer to your leader "Unique Internationalism" and story "AST becomes first victim of UK training policy" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3, P6). Rumours of the demise of Air Services Training (AST) predate either National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) or foreign training. In fact, the school is ...
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JAR-FCL update
THE JAR-FCL COMMITTEE meeting to approve draft five of the regulations was held in Dublin, Ireland, during the week ending 10 May. Draft five, having taken account of all input, is intended to form the JAR-FCL regulation for fixed-wing-aircraft pilots. JAR-FCL Part Two, for helicopter pilots, is not ready yet. ...
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Dynamic duo
Europe's missile-makers have finally started the merger motor, a sign that defence consolidation is on the way Douglas Barrie and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WHILE THE ALACRITY of the Lockheed Martin merger may have left observers breathless, the £1 billion ($1.5 billion) tie-up between Matra and British Aerospace Dynamics would ...
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US Air Force will upgrade E-4B command posts
US AIR FORCE Boeing E-4B national command-and-control aircraft are to be upgraded to act as airborne operations centres for the US Secretary of Defense. The four modified 747s are to be equipped with a fibre-optic communications "backbone", or local-area network, and UHF and commercial satellite-communications (satcom) capability. The ...
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Israeli expansion
Israeli regional airline Emek Wings is expanding its fleet to compete on domestic scheduled services with Arkia. The airline operates three Shorts 330/360s and is to acquire two ex-Continental Express ATR 42-300s in July. Source: Flight International
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SIA struggles with depressed yields
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DESPITE RELEASING another strong set of group results for its latest financial year, Singapore Airlines (SIA) admits that its core airline business is coming under intense pressure from increased competition and a strengthening Singapore dollar. The overall group profit climbed by 12%, to ...
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CAE/TTS share 737-700 spotlight
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING HAS selected CAE Electronics to build the lead simulators for the new generation 737-700. Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), meanwhile, has won a Southwest Airlines contract for a 737-700 simulator, and 737-300 desktop trainers, for delivery to its Dallas, Texas, training centre by the ...
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Wicat pulls in trainer sales
WICAT SYSTEMS has secured contracts for McDonnell Douglas MD-80, MD-90 and MD-11 part-task trainers and unveiled plans to develop similar devices for the Boeing 777. SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System, has ordered an MD-90 systems trainer for delivery in the third quarter of 1996. It ...
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An-2 production poised to restart at PZL-Mielec
POLISH AIRCRAFT manufacturer PZL-Mielec is considering restarting production of the Antonov An-2 biplane. A batch of 22 aircraft could be built initially. Mielec says that no formal decision has been made on the subject, adding that it is still awaiting the results of market research before giving ...
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Simcom expands training
SIMCOM International is to expand its training to include the Raytheon Beech King Air 300/350. The US firm now provides King Air 90, 100 and 200 training at its simulator centres in Orlando, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona. The 300/350 course will use existing King Air 200 simulators, with ...
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FlightSafety fields its first cabin trainer
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has installed its first business-aircraft cabin trainer at its Atlanta, Georgia, training centre. The device, built by FSI's Simulation Systems division, is being used for corporate flight-attendant training. The 12m-long cabin and door/hatch trainer represents a Gulfstream business jet, but is being used to provide ...
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Brussels chooses Swedish parking systems
THE FMT GROUP OF SWEDEN has secured a deal with Brussels International Airport for the supply of more than 40 aircraft-parking and information systems. The £13.5 million ($20 million) deal involves installation of the units at 23 gates to provide guidance information to the aircraft flightdeck, and important flight-arrival and ...
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Solar wind identified as satellite-failure culprit
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE UK'S DEFENCE Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) has produced "...conclusive evidence that many satellites are at risk from electrostatic discharges while in orbit". The threats result from the "surprising" interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetic fields as they occur ...
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Capital gains
Overcoming finance-house ignorance of product and market is the first problem for private purchasers attempting to buy an aircraft. Karen Walker/ATLANTA BUYING A HOUSE is often listed as a high-stress activity, but for those people interested in owning an aircraft, obtaining a mortgage can seem enviously ...
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Hughes plays down satellite problems
IN-ORBIT PROBLEMS experienced by three Hughes Space and Communications spacecraft are being played down as "isolated incidents" by the company. American Mobile Satellite's HS-601, MSAT 2 spacecraft, launched in April 1995, lost power on one of its spot beams. Hughes says that this was caused by a ...
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FCC says yes to LoralSat system
THE US FEDERAL Communications Commission has given Loral Space and Communications the go-ahead to develop and launch two LoralSat high-powered satellites to provide a full range of digital voice, data and television services to commercial and private users in the USA, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. ...
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Eutelsat insures for Russian risk
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $60 million repayment guarantee to European communications-satellite operator Eutelsat, following its award of a contract to the Russian company NPO-PM to build and launch the Sesat spacecraft in 1998. Under the terms of the guarantee, non-performance of ...
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Ariane 5 launch slips
The maiden launch of the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 booster, with its payload of Cluster science satellites, from launch pad ELA 3 at Kourou, French Guiana, has been put back to at least 30 May (Flight International, 15-21 May). The launch-readiness review ends on 25 May, when the final ...