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Boeing milestone
On 1 March, a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 767-300ER became the 8,000th commercial jet airliner to be delivered by Boeing. On average, Boeing has delivered airliners at the rate of one every 1.2 working days since the first 707 was handed over to Pan American World Airways in August ...
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Predator returns
US Army General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are being redeployed to the Balkans and will be flown in reconnaissance missions over Bosnia. The UAVs were withdrawn in 1995 after one was shot down and one destroyed. New radar-equipped Predators will be based at Taszar, Hungary, until early November. ...
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Northern exposure
Annual exercises inside the Arctic Circle prepare UK commandos for cold-weather operation. Patrick Allen/BARDUFOSS, NORWAY THERE IS NO secret art to operating successfully in Arctic conditions - it is a matter of careful training. As a result, every winter since 1969, UK Royal Navy Commando aircrew and ...
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PHI and FSI forge training link
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) and Petroleum Helicopters (PHI) have agreed to establish a joint helicopter aircrew and ground crew training programme. Integrated PHI flight training and FSI simulator training will be offered to helicopter operators. The link results from PHI's recent expansion from visual-flight-rules offshore-support operations into instrument-flight-rules emergency-medical ...
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Danish simulation
Hughes Training is to supply two Lockheed Martin F-16A Mid-Life Update unit-level trainers to the Royal Danish Air Force in 1997. The trainers include a Silicon Graphics Onyx Infinite Reality image-generator with 120°-wide display, and head-up display and infra-red sensor simulations. Source: Flight International
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USA proposes new Intelsat structure
COMSAT AND the US Government have agreed a joint proposal for restructuring Intelsat, the international telecommunications-satellite organisation. Intelsat is now a consortium owned by 136 governments, with Comsat as the US stakeholder. Under the US proposal, a new affiliate company would be created to operate as a "fully ...
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Ground work
Tests being carried out in the USA are proving the worth of ground-proximity warning systems for helicopters. Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO THE US NAVY AND a civil-helicopter operator have begun evaluation of the world's first ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) to be tested successfully in a helicopter ...
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JAL in the year 2000
Japan Airlines is sharpening its act for the new century. Kevin O'Toole/TOKYO JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) has no intention of seeing out the millennium quietly. Under its latest five-year plan, the group aims to emerge in the year 2000 having captured one-third of Japan's sizeable domestic ...
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Air France
Jean-Claude Baumgarten has become executive vice-president of the Air France Group, in charge of corporate, international and industry affairs. Jean-Luc Galzi is promoted to advisor to chief executive Marc Veron; Veron will take over corporate marketing and sales, assisted by an advisor for sales, marketing and FFP, yet to be ...
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Professionalism is being pursued
Sir - I agree with Peter Lindell on lowering salary scales and the "deprofessionalisation" of skills (Letters, Flight International, 28 February-5 March, P37). This is an issue, which I have just raised in a letter to the editor of the British Airline Pilots Association Log. Mr Llendell is ...
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Development problems continue
Sir - Further to my letter on solving problems in development (Flight International, 7-13 February, P44), barely was the ink dry when, in the next issue (Flight International, 14-20 February), two further examples are given. The first relates to the BR710 (P12), with problems on the bird-strike test ...
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IL abandons D-18A engine
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW THE WARSAW-BASED Aviation Institute (IL) has shelved development of its D-18A twin-shaft turbofan engine because of lack of funds and doubts over its applications. The 18kN (4,000lb)-thrust engine, which had its first bench test on 16 April 1992, was intended to power future ...
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Italy takes upgraded variant of A.129
THE ITALIAN army has decided to take the last 15 of the 60 Agusta A.129 Mangusta attack helicopters in "international" export configuration, although without the LHTEC T800 engine. The helicopter, which was first used on active service during 1995 in Somalia, will be equipped with a 20mm gun, ...
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CFMI forced into redesign of CFM56-5A/B
Andrew Doyle/LONDON CFM INTERNATIONAL has been forced into a redesign of a turbine rear-frame (TRF) destined for use on all CFM56-5A/B turbofans, after cracks were discovered in the double-annular combustor (DAC) variant, powering Swissair Airbus A320s and A321s. The problem was uncovered, by Swissair engineers ...
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USAF keeps weather eye on radar coverage
THE US AIR FORCE IS USING COMPUTER MODELS to gain a better understanding of how weather and terrain affect radar transmissions. The image was produced by, the variable-terrain radio parabolic equation (VTRPE) model, and shows a weather "inversion" deflecting radar signals. The image is a "mathematical" cross-section of radar energy ...
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Olympian effort
Atlanta businesses hope to rise above traffic problems caused by the Olympic Games - with the help of helicopters. Karen Walker/ATLANTA IT IS BEING BILLED as the largest organised event in history. The centennial Olympic Games will be staged in the capital of the USA's Deep South ...
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Horizon markets high-power battery
A LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH-power aircraft battery, which requires no maintenance, is to be marketed by Horizon Aircraft. The Austin, Texas based company has been formed to distribute the Horizon advanced lead-acid battery, which has been developed by Electrosource. Ground tests of prototype Horizon batteries in fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft ...
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Peaks of promise
Deregulation is opening up Nepal to start-up airline operations. Paul Lewis/KATHMANDU FOR ADVOCATES OF A more-liberalised Asian aviation scene, the mountain kingdom of Nepal presents an encouraging picture. This impoverished nation of fewer than 21 million inhabitants supports seven domestic fixed-wing and helicopter operators, and ...
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BTG breathes LIVE into ASTA project
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM A BRITISH TECHNOLOGY Group (BTG) system which provides airport ground-movement controllers with real-time identification of all categories of aircraft and vehicles may provide a solution to one part of the US Federal Aviation Administration's all-airport surface-traffic automation (ASTA) project, according to the manufacturer. ...
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Vertical virtuality
Peter Gray/FORTWORTH If "flying" the simulator is any guide, Bell Boeing's V-22 Osprey proves the tilt-rotor concept. THE PRINCIPLE behind tilt-rotor aircraft has been around almost since the Second World War. Bell developed the first experimental design in the mid-1950s, carried the idea forward with the XV-15 technology demonstrator, ...