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FAA justifies safety-assessment actions
Graham Warwick/Miami THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is defending its International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) programme against criticism that it constitutes the implementation of punitive action against airlines in countries judged not to comply fully with international safety-oversight standards. The FAA has recently added Ecuador, ...
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Delta Air creates cargo unit
DELTA AIRLINES IS to form a new cargo organisation on 1 December, with the aim of generating at least an additional $90 million a year through cost reductions and revenue increases. The Atlanta, Georgia-based airline made $565 million in cargo revenues in 1994. The new organisation ...
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FSF chairman challenges RAA to take pro-active role
FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) chairman Stuart Matthews has hit out at the US Regional Airlines Association (RAA) decision to spend $500,000 on a publicity campaign promoting the safety image of the regional, rather than investing in what he describes as more "pro-active" safety measures. Matthews says that ...
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Fear of litigation threatens US safety, says Hinson
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is planning to "secure" voluntarily reported incident data filed by US airlines, despite problems with the US Freedom of Information Act, according to FAA Administrator David Hinson. Giving the keynote address at the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) 1995 seminar in Seattle on 7 ...
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India prepares for change to CNS/ATM
David Learmount/SEATTLE INDIA HAS DRAWN up plans to replace its terrestrial air-traffic-control (ATC) system with a global-navigation satellite-system (GNSS)-based communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic management (CNS/ATM) by 2015. A Government study shows that the new system has the potential to yield tenfold increases in system air-traffic capacity ...
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Sextant HFDS certificated
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has achieved French certification of its head-up flight-display system (HFDS) for Category IIIB landings in the Boeing 737-300. Launch customer Aeropostal has carried out the first commercial flight using the system. Aeropostal flies passengers by day, converting its aircraft to freight configuration for night-mail services. Director-general ...
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Swissair and Sabena World launch joint sales effort
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SWISSAIR AND BELGIAN Sabena World Airlines are to launch a joint sales operation and offer shuttle services linking Brussels with Zurich and Geneva in 1996. Code sharing is also to be introduced on long-haul flights to the Middle East, Far East and South America. ...
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USA and Thailand talks make 'major progress'
The USA and Thailand have announced "major progress" in talks to agree the basic framework for a new bilateral agreement. As a result, negotiators have been instructed to begin formal negotiations at soon as possible. The two countries have been at loggerheads for several months over the deal. ...
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Brunei chooses ArgoSystems for CN-235
BRUNEI HAS SELECTED ARGOSystem as the tactical integrator for its planned fleet of Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235 maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA). The US company was selected over Racal, after a prolonged competition lasting some five years. It is now hoped to finalise the integration contract with ...
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Tilt at market
Bell Helicopters and Boeing are conducting design and feasibility studies into a civil tilt-rotor aircraft capable of carrying up to 11 people. The study on a vehicle known as the D600 follows work completed by the two companies on the military V-22 Osprey. The work could be completed by the ...
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Defender upgrade
Pilatus Britten-Norman is to assist the Indian navy in upgrading six of its 13-strong BN2A Defender fleet from piston engines to the more-powerful Allison 250 B17C turbine engines. Several avionics improvements and larger wingtip tanks are also included in the work to be undertaken at the Cochin naval base during ...
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Trent leasing
The Rolls-Royce Trent has been selected by Singapore Aircraft Leasing to power six Boeing 777s ordered by the company. The deal completes a clean sweep for R-R in Southeast Asia. It also has orders from Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Airline Systems and Thai International for Trent to power 777s. ...
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Spanish mystery: the answers
Sir - In answer to Marcus Chambers' enquiry (Flight International, 25-31 October, P37) the official publication of the Spanish air force, Revista de Aeronautica y Astronautica, has published two articles on Diego Marin Aguilera. The first, in the December 1993 issue, tells the known facts about Aguilera, born ...
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Don't knock Sir Freddie's return
Sir - I oppose the views of John Byrnes on the return of Sir Freddie Laker (Flight International, Letters, 18-24 October, P64). I was employed by Laker Airways for 11 years and was thrown into the same job maelstrom as everyone else. It is probably true ...
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Welcome common sense on JAA rules
Sir - The editorial "Regulatory fatigue" (Flight International, 1-7 November) was a welcome shaft of common sense in the dreary saga of the move towards European Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) regulations on flight-time limitations and the proposed changes in the USA and Canada. No-one should underestimate the difficulties ...
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Incompatibility
Russia has revealed that the two Soyuz 21 cosmonauts, Boris Volynov and Vitali Zholobov, who flew a 49-day military-reconnaissance mission aboard the Salyut 5 space station in 1976, evacuated the station not because of being almost overcome by an "acrid odour", but because of "their psychological incompatibility". ...
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Mir crew
UK-born NASA astronaut Michael Foale, a veteran of three Shuttle flights, will replace Scott Parazinsky for the STS84 mission in May 1997, to deliver him to the Russian Mir 1 space station for a planned 143-day stay. John Blaha will fly on the STS79 mission in August 1996, and Jerry ...
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Alcatel satellites
The US company WorldSpace has raised $650 million capital to purchase three communications satellites from Alcatel Espace to provide worldwide digital radio programming. The satellites, called AfriStar, CaribStar and AsiaStar, will be launched in 1998-9. Source: Flight International
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Australian Bid
The Australian Space Council has proposed to the Government a A$94.6 million ($68 million), four-year space plan, including the development of a commercial spaceport, to ensure that the country is well placed to capitalise on the opportunities being created by the growing Asia Pacific market. Source: Flight International
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Propelling Derco forward
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Derco Aerospace has been appointed by Hamilton Standard, as exclusive distributor of the 63E60 propeller, used on Alenia G.222 and de Havilland DHC-5 transports. Derco subsidiary DRS meanwhile, has agreed to market Business Express' Beech 1900 surplus inventory. Source: Flight International