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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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Aviall
Robert Lambert, chairman, president and chief executive of Aviall, has announced several management changes, to the company's airline engine-repair business. Coinciding with the resignations of John Nicholson, senior vice-president of Aviall Engine Services and Steve Gorman, vice-president of operations at Aviall Dallas Engine Services, Lambert has named Frank Leftwich as ...
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United Industrial
United Industrial of New York has announced the election of Edward Aldridge, a former Secretary of the Air Force, to its board of directors. Aldridge is an aeronautical engineer who has served as both Under Secretary and Secretary of the Air Force from 1981 to 1988. During this period he ...
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DC-9 update
BFGoodrich Aerospace is to supply new landing-gear indication and warning systems for 106 Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. BFG is also to supply fuel-measurement system upgrades for Northwest's 34 Boeing 747s. Source: Flight International
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Raisbeck
Tom Halvorson has joined Raisbeck Engineering as vice-president marketing. Halvorson's 35-year aviation career has spanned marketing, fixed base operations, aircraft sales and regional-airline management. He joins Raisbeck Engineering after 15 years with Western Aircraft of Idaho where he has held a variety of positions, most recently company president. In the ...
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Radio success
Park Air Electronics is to supply the air-traffic-control communications system for Guilin Airport, China, which is due to become operational in the second half of 1996. The VHF radio system will be delivered during the first quarter. The company, part of Westinghouse Electronic Systems (now Northrop Grumman), has also received ...
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Mitsubishi contract
Tracor subsidiary GDE Systems has received a Mitsubishi contract, potentially worth $85 million, to supply 23 core test-units and test stations for the F-2's (formerly FS-X) radar and electronic-warfare system. Deliveries begin in 1997. Source: Flight International
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In the can
Lucas Industries has won a $1 million contract from McDonnell Douglas to supply launch canisters for the ship-launched version of the Harpoon missile. The canisters will be manufactured, by Lucas Aerospace Fabricated Systems in Burnley UK. Source: Flight International
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Seven-league leader
Gulfstream is first into the air with a global-range business jet. Cut away poster by Tim Hall. Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH GULFSTREAM IS NOW officially a two-aircraft company, for the first time in its history. While flight-testing of the 12,000km (6,500nm)-range Gulfstream V gathers pace, production of the 7,800km-range Gulfstream IV-SP ...
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Safety: who is really to blame?
Sir - I refer to the Airline Safety Review (Flight International, 17-23 January), which gives a table of the most common reasons for airline accidents. The top five causes (aircrew error, controlled flight into terrain, weather, loss of control, engine failure/fire) can all be brought together, under one ...
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American West
American West Airlines has appointed Michael Carreon as vice-president and controller. He will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining internal accounting controls. Carreon joined American West in 1994 as senior director of corporate audit. Source: Flight International
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Pakistani first
First officer Maliha Sami of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has become the first woman pilot in the company to fly an Airbus A310. Sami was also the first woman pilot to fly the Airbus A300 as co-pilot, and was the first woman pilot to join PIA in 1990. Before that ...
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Bombardier lands new Dash-8 and Regional Jet deals
BOMBARDIER IS to supply private Romanian airline DAC Air with a mix of 50-seat Dash 8-300s and Regional Jets to replace its aging Antonov An-24s. The Canadian company has also landed a Dash-8 deal with UK carrier Brymon Airways. The Romanian deal is potentially worth $425 million, and ...
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DASA folds its wings
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE DECISION BY Daimler-Benz, to abandon its Dutch regional-jet associate Fokker to its fate, is the final nail in the coffin of the German company's hopes, of dominating a united European regional aircraft industry. With the policy in tatters, little remains for Daimler-Benz other than to ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Brake selection
Korean Air has selected Messier-BFGoodrich carbon brakes for its seven firm-ordered Airbus A330s. Deliveries of the brakes, jointly developed by France's Messier-Bugatti and BFGoodrich of the USA, will begin in February 1997. Source: Flight International
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FAA reverses ban on Boeing STARS bid
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has reversed its decision to block Boeing from competing for the $1 billion Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) programme as a prime contractor, allowing the company back into the competition. Boeing, BDM and Oracle had teamed to compete for STARS, with Boeing ...
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Rybinsk sale
Managers, at Russia's Rybinsk Motor, have suffered a set back in their legal battle, to prevent a privatisation auction of the engine plant. Russia's supreme court, has dismissed their argument that, a Government order to float a 37% share in the plant was illegal because Rybinsk was still on the ...
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USAir turnaround ends six straight years of losses
PROFITS HAVE continued to roll in from the US airline industry, with USAir delivering on its promises of a dramatic turnaround, producing its first annual profit since 1988. USAir ended the year showing net profits of $120 million, against a loss of $685 million a year ago. ...