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All Nippon Airways is to launch a twice weekly service between Osaka and London/Heathrow - ANA's first European service from Osaka. The British government has rejected complaints from the Civil Aviation Authority that British Airways overcharged business class passengers on its flights from London/ Heathrow to Madrid, Milan ...
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Team tactics
International joint ventures pave the way for an expansion of the maintenance market in China. Paul Lewis/BEIJING/GUANGZHOU/XIAMEN A WORLDWIDE OVERCAPACITY in aircraft maintenance and overhaul has left many companies struggling under the weight of intense competition and uneconomical work rates. This gloomy global picture, however, has not ...
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Catching up
Large numbers of personnel and aircraft are no compensation for the Chinese air force's lack of modern technology. Paul Lewis/BEIJING THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China has attracted considerable international attention in recent years. Reports of large-scale purchases of Russian arms, underwritten by double-digit ...
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Digital selection
The use of computer techniques for selecting candidates for pilot training is on the increase. Brian Walters/MAASTRICHT IT COSTS A GREAT DEAL to train an airline pilot (around £100,000) and even more (about £2 million) to train a fighter pilot - which is why the ...
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ANA signs up for 777
All Nippon Airways (ANA), has formally signed a contract for its previously announced purchase, of ten stretch Boeing 777-300s, following final approval from the carrier's board. ANA 777-300s are planned to carry 480 passengers in a two-class configuration. The aircraft will be a replacement for the airline's Boeing 747SR on ...
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Two-man 727 flightdeck offer
AEROWORKS AND Gull Electronic Systems have teamed to offer a two-man Boeing 727 cockpit, eliminating the flight-engineer's position. The "DuoDeck" conversion is "largely based on the proven design reliability of the two-position Boeing 737-200 cockpit", says Incline Village, Nevada-based AeroWorks. Gull, a division of Parker Bertea Aerospace, based ...
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US companies join up to home in on automated ATC market
BDM INTERNATIONAL, and International Air Safety have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a new company to pursue the market for automated air-traffic-control (ATC) and airspace-management systems. The new company, BDM Air Safety Management, will bid for the US Federal Aviation Administration's pending STARS programme, under which ...
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FSI/Embry co-operate on training centre
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are to establish an airline flight-training centre at the university's Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, to be operational by the end on 1996. FSI has agreed to equip the centre, which is to be built by Embry-Riddle, with two Level D full-flight ...
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KLM Era helicopters expands
WITH OFFSHORE exploration in the Dutch Continental Shelf going into reverse, KLM Era helicopters is now planning to expand its UK operations. A large recruitment drive is being mounted on the expectation of winning additional contracts to service oil and gas fields offshore from East Anglia. Diversification into ...
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Thailand prepares for AV-8A arrivals
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE ROYAL THAI NAVY has begun training pilots to fly the British Aerospace McDonnell Douglas AV-8A Harrier in anticipation of concluding a deal shortly to buy eight surplus Spanish navy aircraft. An initial, 12 Thai pilots have been sent to the USA for ...
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Satellite launcher directory
Compiled by Tim Furniss/LONDON The futures of several launchers could be decided over the next 12 months THE NEXT YEAR will be critical for the future of several launch vehicles. Europe's Ariane 5 is due to have its maiden flight in 1996. Commercial operations by Arianespace, are scheduled ...
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The truth about Greek airspace
Sir - The article concerning the state of the Greek air-traffic-control system (Flight International, 13-20 September, P9) accurately sums up the frustration shared by those who use Greek airspace. You concentrate on the problems at Athens Airport, but there are problems throughout the system. For instance try obtaining ...
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DERA investment expected to cut costs of UK research
THE UK DEFENCE Research Agency (DRA) has moved into the first part of its £71 million ($110 million) research site, construction of which has reached the half-way stage. The DRA, a division of the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA), took possession of ...
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Letov co-operation extended
EUROCOPTER Deutschland and Letov signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 14 September, extending their co-operation to include helicopter parts manufacture. Letov has been manufacturing components supplied by Eurocopter for the Airbus A321 airliner programme. The new agreement foresees Letov preparing airframe components "primarily" on the German-built ...
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Lucas studies 'more-electric' technologies
Andrew Doyle/LONDON LUCAS AEROSPACE's Power Systems division is studying the next stage in the development of so-called "more-electric" aircraft concepts, following its successful bid to introduce variable-frequency generators on Bombardier's Global Express business jet. The company is focused on developing high-power variable-frequency generators for larger ...
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Czech parliament and MoD lock horns over fighter requirement
Andrzej Jeziorski/Jiri Kominek/PRAGUE THE CZECH DEFENCE ministry says that it cannot consider buying Western fighters until 2003, despite mounting parliamentary pressure to drop plans to upgrade its obsolescent Mikoyan MiG-21s. The 14 September closing date for bids to upgrade some 24 Czech air force MiG-21MF Fishbed ...
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Thai plans A300 update renewal
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK THAI AIRWAYS International is negotiating to purchase five additional Airbus Industrie A300-600Rs and two Boeing 747-400s as part of a long-term plan to rationalise and modernise its fleet. The A300-600Rs are needed as replacements for Thai's elderly A300B4s, now used on domestic and ...
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Eurocontrol starts Magyar ATC trials
ONE OF THE most complex real-time air-traffic-control (ATC) simulations ever carried out by Eurocontrol is under way at the organisation's Bretigny-sur-Orge research centre near Paris. The trials are for the new Magyar automated and integrated ATC system (Matias) under development for Hungary, which is undertaking a complete ...
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AlliedSignal develops GPWS for GA aircraft
Guy Norris/WICHITA A LOW-COST TERRAIN-warning system for single-engine general-aviation (GA) aircraft is being developed by AlliedSignal and will be available from around April 1996. The development of the terrain-warning system (TWS) was prompted by the re-emergence of Cessna's light-single product line. "Cessna's going back into ...