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'Freeze JAA rule-making', says IFALPA
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) should be barred from developing or adopting new aviation regulations (JARs) until its status as a European rule-making body has been established, says the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA). The objection follows a European Commission (EC) Transport Directorate working paper ...
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Training trial
Peter Gray/FAIROAKS The Bell TH-67/206 is being offered in the UK's all-service military-helicopter training competition.The BELL TH-67/206 is one of the main contenders for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) requirement for ab initio and advanced training helicopters to train all services at a combined defence-training school. It was put ...
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Technology challenge
Making it easy is not part of the latest Branson challenge. Andrew Doyle/LONDON WHEN VIRGIN AIRWAYS chairman Richard Branson and balloon manufacturer Per Lind- strand launch their attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, it will be more than a test of human endurance. The performance of ...
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E&S secures final piece in bid to be system supplier
EVANS & SUTHERLAND (E&S) has signed an agreement with SEOS Displays covering the supply of display equipment for the US company's visual systems. E&S says that the agreement with UK-based SEOS completes the company's strategic plan to establish itself as an independent supplier of visual systems, rather than remain just ...
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Flightline to take surplus BAe146s
THE FIRST OF 18 surplus USAir British Aerospace 146-200s will soon re-enter commercial service with UK-based Flightline. The UK firm formally accepted the aircraft from USAir Leasing on 5 January. The aircraft, leased via Alpine Aviation, will be used on a London-Switzerland route. Before its acceptance, ...
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MDC improves China training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRCRAFT manufacturers are moving to upgrade training for Chinese airlines. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has ordered a Vital ChromaView visual-system from FlightSafety International to upgrade an MD-82 simulator operated by China Northern Airlines. In January, MDC ordered a ChromaView visual to upgrade a China Eastern MD-82 simulator. ...
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FlightSafety adds Regional Jet
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is to install its first Canadair Regional Jet flight simulator at its Cincinnati, Ohio, training centre. Cincinnati is the home base of regional carrier Comair, the largest operator of 50-seat Regional Jets, with 29 in service, 16 more on firm order and options for a further 25. ...
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'More electric' brakes
Messier-Bugatti says that it is developing a "more-electric" concept for use in aircraft-braking systems. The French company's computerised electro-hydraulic actuator is operated as a "smart" independent subsystem, capable of controlling and monitoring its own functions. Its compact design allows it to be fitted very close to the brake, eliminating the ...
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Mike Ambrose
Mike Ambrose has been director general of the European Regional Airlines Association since 1987, helping to build up its profile and give a stronger voice to Europe's regional carriers. Ambrose began his career in the UK airline industry in 1996, when he joined the flight-operations department at British European Airways. ...
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Avcon flight-tests improved Learjet stability fins
AVCON INDUSTRIES IS flight-testing an improved version of its Avcon Fins aerodynamic-stabilisation device on a Learjet 35 business jet. Newton, Kansas-based Avcon says that the fins provide additional lift and stability at lower airspeeds and enhance controllability during approach and landing. The angled vertical surfaces, mounted under the ...
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Working up demand
Canada's CAE Electronics plans to add more than 200 new employees to its 3,300-strong workforce, citing increased demand for military simulators and an "anticipated upswing" in the commercial flight-simulation market. Source: Flight International
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USAF upgrades KC-135 devices
MORE US AIR FORCE Boeing KC-135 training devices are to be upgraded. Motion systems have already been added to two fixed-based KC-135 operational flight trainers (OFTs), and two more are being upgraded. Now the computers will be replaced in all 19 OFTs, new instructor stations installed and the ...
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Global Express wing ready for final assembly
THE WING AND CENTRE-FUSELAGE sections for the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet arrived at de Havilland in Toronto, Canada, in late January. The sections, produced in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, were flown in by an Antonov An-124. The forward-fuselage section was scheduled to arrive from Canadair in ...
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Shuttle director quits over safety concerns
Tim Furniss/LONDON BRYAN O'CONNOR, NASA's director of the Space Shuttle programme in Washington DC, has resigned in protest at management changes, which he argues could jeopardise safety. The changes come in the wake of controversial plans to privatise Shuttle operations. Safety concerns have already been raised ...
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X-34 programme halted
ORBITAL SCIENCES (OSC) and Rockwell have stopped design work on the X-34B launcher project, although NASA, which is partially funding the work, has not yet cancelled the programme. The choice of propulsion system for the X-34B, which was to have been launched atop a Boeing 747 NASA Shuttle ...
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Russia plans launches from Sovbondy base
THE FORMER missile-launch base of Sovbondy, in the Amur region of the Russian Far East, will become operational for satellite launches later this year, when a Start booster is to lift a small research satellite into orbit. Sovbondy will become Russia's third satellite-launch base after Kapustin Yar and ...
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Near thing
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft will be launched aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 16 February. The NEAR will enter orbit around the asteroid Eros in 1999 (Flight International, 17-23 January). Also planned for 16 February launches are China's first Long March ...
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Turbine backlogs build up
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US MANUFACTURERS are reporting significant order backlogs for business aircraft. Cessna says that orders for its Citation business jets are at their highest level since the end of the 1970s. Raytheon has reported record sales for its Beechjet and Hawker ranges. Cessna's deliveries reached ...
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...while piston sales increase
OPTIMISM IS GROWING within the US general-aviation (GA) industry that the promised steady long-term growth in piston-engined-aircraft sales is beginning to materialise. Presenting a strong set of figures for 1995, Ed Stimpson, president of the US General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), commented that reform of US GA product-liability ...
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Forward-looking windshear radar
SINCE CERTIFICATION of the first forward-looking windshear radar in late 1994, airline installations have gathered pace. Three systems are now certificated: the AlliedSignal RDR-4B, the Collins WXR-700X and the Westinghouse MR-3000. Using Doppler-processing technology, the sensitivity of weather radars has been increased to the point where it is ...