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EMB-145 'exceeds expectations'
EMBRAER'S EMB-145 regional jet is performing better than predicted, the Brazilian manufacturer says. One prototype and two pre-series aircraft are now in flight-test and a fourth EMB-145, is scheduled to have been flown, by 20 March. Engineering director Luis Affonso says that the performance is exceeding specification because ...
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EMB-120 cleared for flight in icing
EMBRAER'S EMB-120 Brasilia regional turboprop has been cleared for flight in super-cooled large-droplet (SLD) icing, without modification, following a series of ground and flight tests. The tests were required by the US Federal Aviation Administration following the October 1994 crash of an ATR 72, caused by SLD icing. ...
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Air Canada chairman Harris to step down
Hollis Harris, Air Canada's chairman and chief executive, will step down at the airline's next annual meeting on 14 May. His replacement is Lamar Durrett, a former Delta Airlines executive who came to Air Canada with Harris in 1992. Harris stays as executive chairman. Durrett worked at Delta ...
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New technique speeds wing design
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHROP GRUMMAN is testing a pressurised wing concept using rapid prototyping methods at its B-2 plant in Pico Rivera, California (Flight International, 28 February - 5 March). The "distributed exhaust" or high-tolerance "blowing-wing" design, forces pressurised air bled from the engine through ...
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Air Atlantic sold
Canada has approved the sale of regional carrier Air Atlantic to the IMP Group. Air Atlantic was temporarily rescued from bankruptcy in 1995 by British Aerospace, which had an interest in the airline's five Jetstream 41s, but rules requiring 75% Canadian ownership of domestic airlines led to IMP taking over ...
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NASA orders inquiry into loss of Tethered Satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA HAS FORMED an independent panel to review the loss of the Italian Tethered Satellite (TSS 1R) from the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS75 mission on 26 February. A report into its findings will be made available within 70 days. "Given the ...
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Northwest takes A320s and defers A330 deliveries
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NORTHWEST AIRLINES has postponed and may eventually cancel delivery of 16 Airbus A330s in favour of acquiring 20 more A320s and hushkits for its 32 Boeing 727-200s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s. The decision puts in doubt the US carrier's intentions of ever ...
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Hughes pockets Asiasat 3
ASIA Telecommunications Satellite (Asiasat) has ordered an HS-601 high-power spacecraft from Hughes to be launched in 1997 as the Asiasat 3. It will be the 61st three-axis-stabilised HS-601 model to be ordered since the world's best-selling satellite series was introduced in 1988. Hughes provided the Asiasat 1 - ...
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Inertial platform fault to blame for Chinese Long March crash
CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) says that telemetry data from its failed Long March 3B booster indicates that the control system's inertial-guidance platform failed T+2s after lift-off from Xichang on 14 February. The maiden flight of the LM3B carried the Intelsat 708, which was lost in the crash ...
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Launch dates
The European Space Agency says that the launch of the first Ariane 5 booster from Kourou in French Guiana is scheduled for 15 May. Israel's $200 million Amos communications satellite will be launched on an Ariane 4 on 7 May. The first Inmarsat 3 communications satellite will be launched on ...
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Spain follows US C-130 update lead
SPAIN IS TO update its 12 Lockheed Martin C/KC-130Hs with new avionics developed for the US Air Force's programme to upgrade C-130s and Lockheed C-141s. CASA is managing the programme, with Lockheed Martin responsible for integration and AlliedSignal Aerospace supplying the avionics. The first Spanish ...
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ARIA prepares to expand Shannon hub
Paul Duffy/SHANNON THE AEROFLOT Russian International Airlines (ARIA) hub, set up at Shannon in the west of Ireland in 1995 to transfer Russian and CIS airline passengers to transatlantic services to the USA, is to be expanded to take in more airlines and routes. Set up ...
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US Navy recovers 757 recorders from sea
THE US NAVY has found the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders of the chartered Boeing 757, which plunged into the sea north of the Dominican Republic on 6 February. An USN recovery vessel retrieved the critical components from the aircraft, operated by a Turkish aircraft charter company, Birgenair, which ...
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IAI joins Core in imagery venture
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) has formed a joint venture with Core Software Technology of Pasadena, California, to enter the satellite-imagery market. The two companies plan the launch of a low-cost, high-resolution satellite. The venture will allow IAI to enter the commercial-satellite market after the Israeli defence ministry, under ...
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UK Ministry of Defence clips Pegasus wings
GEC-MARCONI'S PEGASUS bid for the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) requirement, has become the first casualty in the competition, having been effectively eliminated by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Although the company has received no formal notification from the MoD, senior-level unofficial channels appear ...
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Fokker given two more weeks to secure its survival
THE DUTCH Government has allowed Fokker a two-week stay of execution until 15 March, to give the ailing aircraft manufacturer time to talk with potential rescuers. The decision to extend Fokker's credit for another two weeks followed the announcement by the Bombardier group that it would not be ...
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Turning on cost
Substantial civil helicopter sales are at stake, if manufacturers can bring costs down. Graham Warwick/DALLAS WHEN BUYING A house, the adage goes, the requirements are "location, location and location". When operating a helicopter, it seems, the concerns are "cost, cost and cost". Certainly all the news, and ...
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UK shortlists helicopters
Ramon Lopez/DALLAS BELL AND EUROCOPTER helicopters have been short-listed following a six-week UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) fly-off as part of its £300 million ($450 million) tri-service helicopter training-school competition. The fly-off, carried out at RAF Shawbury, examined the Bell 206 and 412, the Eurocopter ...
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Nepal looks to modernise fleet
NEPAL'S FLEDGLING airline industry is looking for more modern aircraft, in response to market deregulation, growing competition and new regulations forcing the retirement of older equipment. The number of fixed-wing Nepali carriers has grown to four since deregulation of the country's domestic services in 1992. State-run Royal Nepal ...
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World accidents and incidents fell in 1995
PRELIMINARY statistics from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) show that airline fatal accidents and security-related incidents declined in 1995. The scheduled airlines of the 184 contracting states of ICAO experienced 26 accidents involving passenger fatalities, compared with 28 fatal accidents in 1994. The number of fatalities came ...