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Inventory overhaul
AAR is implementing an inventory-supply and management programme at MTU Maintenance in Hanover, Germany, under a five-year agreement with the Daimler-Benz Aerospace subsidiary. Source: Flight International
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Fuelling business
BFGoodrich Aerospace is to supply fuel-quantity, indicating systems to UPS for retrofit to 12 Boeing 747-100s. Source: Flight International
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Brazilian repairs
UNC has opened a hot-section shop in Sorocaba, Brazil, to maintain and repair Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As, PT6Ts and JT15Ds. Source: Flight International
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CATIA Teaming
IBM and Dassault Systems have teamed with Rockwell to develop a "seamless" computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system to support the latter company's bid for NASA's X-33 advanced-technology demonstrator programme. Under the process-managed-environment initiative, the three companies are working to extend the use of the IBM/Dassault CATIA CAD/ CAM package ...
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Fourth EMB-145
The fourth Embraer EMB-145 was flown for the first time on 2 April. One prototype and three pre-series aircraft have now accumulated 340h flight-testing. Source: Flight International
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Shangdong delivery
Shangdong Airlines of China has taken delivery of the first of three Boeing 737-300s. The 141-seat aircraft will be used for domestic flights from Jinan to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Source: Flight International
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Piper tunes up
New Piper Aircraft has appointed Hanagr Uno in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ITC-Aerospace in Tokyo, Japan, as authorised distributors for its line of piston-engined light aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Socata spreads
Aerospatiale General Aviation in the USA has changed its name to Socata Aircraft as part of a strategic plan to establish the Socata name worldwide. Socata Group Aerospatiale, the light-aircraft subsidiary of the French aerospace company, produces the TB series of piston singles, the TB320 piston-twin and the single-turboprop TBM700. ...
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Troubleshooting
FlightSafety International is developing troubleshooting-training programmes for AMR Eagle, to train ATR 42/72 and Saab 340 maintenance technicians. FlightSafety has developed similar programmes for American Airlines, for the Boeing 757, Fokker 100 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80. Source: Flight International
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Beech update
IVEX has sold a three-channel/four-window VDS-2000 visual system to Englewood, Colorado-based Training Devices, for use on a Raytheon Beech 1900D Level B full-flight simulator. Source: Flight International
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New X-33 step
NASA has issued a government-industry co-operative agreement notice for the demonstration of single-stage-to-orbit technologies through the design, fabrication and flight testing of the X-33 advanced technology demonstrator by 1999. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell, have been working on a Phase 1 X-33 concept definition and design programme ...
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Novator arrest
A man has been arrested by the Russian police and charged with the contract murder of Valentin Smirnov, the head of the Novator strategic cruise missile design bureau. Yuri Pinzhenin a colleague from Novator, is accused by legal officials, of orchestrating the murder. Source: Flight International
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Bunch of spares
The US General Accounting Office says, that the US Air Force and US Navy, budgeted $132 million more than needed for aviation spare parts, because of questionable policies concerning requirements. It says that the USAF failed to consider $72 million in on-hand assets when it prepared its fiscal year 1996 ...
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Archana expands
Archana Airways has embarked on an expansion of its Indian domestic services with the purchase of four Dornier 328s. Source: Flight International
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Cargo increase
Gemini Air Cargo is to provide World Airways with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F freighter service between New York and Seoul, South Korea, with three flights weekly. Reston, Virginia-based Gemini purchased six DC-10s from Potomac Financial in September 1995, for freighter conversion by Aeronavali. Three of the aircraft are in service ...
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Bond
Stephen Bond has been appointed executive chairman at Bond Helicopters. He will continue with his group responsibilities as chairman of Australia's Lloyd Helicopters and Bond's sister aviation-engineering company Rotortech, and as a director of Helikopter Service of Norway. Trevor Larman succeeds Bond as managing director. Larman is a former director ...
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Air Niugini
Air Niugini, based in Papua New Guinea, has named Moses Maladina its new general manager and chief executive, replacing Dieter Seefeld, who resigned recently. Maladina, a Papua New Guinea national, was formerly the carriers' company secretary. Source: Flight International
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FAA
The US Federal Aviation Administration has appointed John Stenbit, executive vice-president and general manager of TRW Systems Integration Group, as chairman of its research, engineering and development advisory committee. Dr Wesley Harris, Dr Aaron Gellman and Brian Rowe have also joined the committee. Harris is a visiting professor of aeronautics ...
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FlightSafety
New York-based Flight-Safety has enhanced its national and international marketing team: Steve Gross is the regional marketing manager for New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Jose Kling becomes new regional marketing manager for Latin America; Dan Yuen is the new regional marketing manager for the New England region and ...