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Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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Consulting with success
Kenya Airways' successful privatisation is raising hopes for a renaissance in African aviation Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRIAN DAVIES admits that it was an opportunity that no self-respecting aviation consultant could have resisted. After being called in to lead a six-week study on how Kenya Airways should ...
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Bombardier plans improved CL-415
BOMBARDIER PLANS a six-point product-improvement package to diversify the capabilities of the Canadair CL-415 water-scooping amphibious fire bomber. A finite fire-fighting market and interest from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand (for additional aircraft) and Turkey in "missionised" derivatives has prompted the manufacturer to consider ...
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Safe keeping?
Can the safety of the Space Shuttle fleet be maintained by privatising the programme? Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA'S CHOICE of the Rockwell/Lockheed Martin joint venture United Space Alliance to operate the Space Shuttle privately may be logical, but to many observers concerned about safety, the privatisation plan itself ...
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American in Paris
Boeing is trying to interest Air France in the purchase of the Boeing 777. An Air France Boeing 747 pilot, Andre Groppo of the airline's evaluation division, flew the aircraft between Dubai and Paris in late February. Air France directors, headed by chairman Christian Blanc, also attended a presentation of ...
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Prospects of new Airbus structure hits debt rating
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON GROWING anticipation of a change in Airbus Industrie's consortium structure has helped prompt a downgrading of the European air-framer's debt rating. Airbus is established in France as a GIE, which is similar to a partnership arrangement, under which each of the partners takes ...
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MDC offers on-line configuration
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is developing an on-line configuration-definition system, which is expected to reduce the time taken to deliver commercial aircraft. The configuration-definition and management system (CDMS), developed jointly by Douglas Aircraft and management consultancy A T Kearney, is to be completed by July 1996. The system will ...
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Cessna's 500th Grand Caravan bound for Malaysia
CESSNA, WILL DELIVER the 500th Grand Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft to Transmile Air, of Malaysia, in mid-August. The company plans an Asia-Pacific demonstration tour with the aircraft, which was displayed at Asian Aerospace '96 in Singapore, before Transmile places it into service on mail and overnight package-delivery operations. ...
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UAV promises satellite shake-up
AN ISRAELI COMPANY is developing a unique high-altitude long-endurance hovering platform designed to act as a low-cost substitute for a communications or surveillance satellite. The Rotostar, is being developed by Silver Arrow, one of Israel's leading unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) manufacturers. The Israeli Government, is funding part of the ...
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Extra EA400 tourer nears maiden flight
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Extra-Flugzeugbau expects to conduct the maiden flight of its Extra EA400 touring aircraft by mid-March. The company says that the aircraft is in a final round of ground tests leading up to its aerial debut. The exact date of the ...
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Fairchild delivers Metro 23s to Orca
FAIRCHILD HAS delivered the first of two Metro 23s equipped with an electronic flight-information system. The 23E as the version is known, is also fitted with a digital autopilot and was delivered recently, to Egyptian carrier Orca Air. The airline, which has options on a further four 23Es, will operate ...
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Canada's WestJet ready for take-off
LOW-COST CARRIER WestJet Airlines plans to begin operations in western Canada on 29 February. The Calgary-based airline intends to operate 96 flights a week initially, increasing to 152, between Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The carrier owns three Boeing 737-200s and has a "substantial pool" of working capital. ...
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Hungary to buy satellite
THE HUNGARIAN Government is to buy an Israeli-made communications satellite, to be launched in 1998. The contract was signed on 13 February. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Hungarian communications company Antenna Hungaria signed an agreement to form a joint company to build, launch and operate a communications satellite, ...
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Air London
Air London, of Crawley, Sussex, UK, has appointed Vincent Essex operations officer, the first such appointment, by a charter broker. Essex, who joined Air London in January, was formerly with Air 2000. Source: Flight International
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Ozone production is of greater concern
Sir - The two recent, and excellent, articles, "A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'" and "Emission control" (Flight International, 17-23 January, P20, and 31 January-6 February, P69), contain some misinterpretations on the MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-service Aircraft) programme. Both mention ozone depletion, but, ...
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Remember French input to Bosnia
Sir - In the article "Reasons for being" (Flight International, 24-30 January, P25), you wrote about the NATO engagement in Bosnia, discussing the threat and, in particular, the associated suppression of enemy-air-defence missions. Although you mention the various US and UK assets, you do not refer to the ...
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Clearer vision
Created in 1989, Sextant Avionique has totally refocused its strategy to cope with an ever-tougher global marketplace Julian Moxon/PARIS FEW WOULD DENY that US manufacturers have made most of the running in the race to adapt their aerospace industry to the shrunken markets of the post-Cold War ...
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European laminar-flow project accelerates
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE EUROPEAN Commission is extending a key programme investigating the benefits of hybrid laminar-flow technologies for a further 12 months, after the original project showed that it could yield significant reductions in fuel consumption, while avoiding reliability problems. Berhard Dziomba, the European Laminar ...
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DGPS approaches
Airport interest in satellite-based precision approaches is growing, as the potential benefits become evident. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA IN 1995, THE INTERNATIONAL aviation community, granted a stay of execution, to the venerable instrument-landing-system (ILS), while paving the way for its eventual replacement, by the global-positioning system (GPS). ...
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Playing tag
Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE US FEDERAL AVIATION Administration plans to award two contracts in March for competitive development of a system which "tags" returns from an airport surface-movement radar with aircraft identity. AlliedSignal and Cardion plan to bid for the airport-traffic identification system (ATIDS), one element of the FAA's ...