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Strategic fall-out
Northwest Airlines is to terminate its codeshare agreement with South Korean airline Asiana. The US carrier says that the alliance, in operation since 1994, no longer fits its long-term strategy. Northwest, which has a major hub in Tokyo, recently signed a frequent-flyer plan with Japan Air System and also has ...
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Medical notes
New European rules, on in cabin airline emergency medical kits have complex implications David Learmount/LONDON Dr Sue Thompson/LONDON EUROPEAN AIRLINES have, until now, satisfied national regulations covering treatment of in-flight passenger accident or illness by carrying simple in-cabin first-aid kits. They are, however, about to ...
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Cabin comforts
Trends in aircraft-interior design are being dominated by the increasing need for passenger comfort and entertainment Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CABIN-INTERIORS market has undergone significant changes in the past few years, prompted largely by the recession in the air transport industry. The inability of airlines to finance ...
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Virtual evacuation
Cabin design and procedures for safe emergency evacuation, may be changed by computer modeling. Martin Hindley/LONDON AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY evacuations are designed as far as possible to work no matter what the nature of the emergency, but passenger behaviour is inherently difficult to define and predict. ...
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Boeing revises Chinese training plans
BOEING HAS SHELVED immediate plans to equip its proposed China headquarters site in Beijing with flight simulators and will instead concentrate on other training initiatives. The company had been considering establishing an integrated pilot- and technical-training centre, fitted with simulators. The proposal was revealed in 1994, by Boeing ...
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Maintenance rates hit SASCO
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe), is urgently looking at ways of reviving its subsidiary maintenance company, Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO), after suffering a large loss in the first six months of the year. STAe made a net loss of S$49 million ($34 million) compared with a small S$12 million ...
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Swidnik wins Sokol successes
POLISH HELICOPTER manufacturer PZL Swidnik has won new orders for two versions of its W-3 Sokol helicopter. South Korea's Citiair has turned its preliminary agreement on the purchase of three transport helicopters into a firm contract, while Polish oil company Petrobaltic has ordered a maritime version. Citiair has ordered the ...
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Contracting the inside out
Bombardier is the latest to contract out interiors Kevin O'Toole/BIGGIN HILL IN AN ERA OF standardisation, the cabin interior remains one of the few parts of an aircraft where the airline customer still has a chance make its mark. For the customer, it ...
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Quiet revolution
A bit of peace and quiet can be a difficult commodity to supply on a turboprop Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE DRIVE TO establish latest-generation cabin noise suppression technology on turboprop-powered regional aircraft is likely to spark a fierce battle between manufacturers clamouring to offer airlines new levels of ...
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Royal Navy opts for Racal GPS units
THE ROYAL NAVY IS to fit all of its front-line helicopters with Racal Avionics' secure global-positioning-system (GPS) equipment. The £25 million ($39 million) upgrade programme, due for completion in 1999, will cover over 150 aircraft. An integrated logistic-support package, which lasts until 2003, is also included. Racal, as ...
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Manchester backs business GA
Sir - I would like to correct a statement attributed to the General Aviation Awareness Council regarding the position of GA at Manchester (Flight International, 16-22 August). Manchester has not said there will be "...no more GA operations after 1997". We do not see recreational flying as an ...
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LongRanger achieves high-altitude record
BELL HELICOPTER Textron has set a new company record for high-altitude operations after a Model 206L-4 LongRanger climbed to 19,300ft (5,880m) to rescue the crew of a Pakistan army Aerospatiale SA.315 Lama which had crashed in the Himalayas. The LongRanger was in Pakistan being demonstrated to the army ...
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Challenger 604 approval expected before time
CANADIAN certification of the Canadair Challenger 604 business jet is expected on 15 September, more than a month earlier than scheduled, and the first aircraft will be delivered at the end of September, Bombardier says. US certification is expected by the end of October, four weeks ahead of schedule, and ...
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Success story
The story behind SIA's, phenomenal success. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has traditionally employed a policy of thinking big. The approach, harnessed with sound financial management and backed by strong governmental support, has resulted in SIA developing into one of the world's most successful international ...
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Successful docking starts second Euromir mission
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Soyuz TM22 spacecraft docked with the Russian Mir 1 space station on 5 September, two days after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. TM22's research engineer is the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter, who is scheduled to make a 135-day space ...
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Shuttle contract 'wide open'
NASA SAYS THAT THE competition for the role of contractor for privatised Space Shuttle operations is "wide open", despite the formation of the United Space Alliance by Rockwell and Lockheed Martin, the leading space-agency contractors for the $3.2 billion-a-year programme (Flight International, 9-15 August). The agency is expected ...
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Intelligent seal may be used to boost rocket performance
AN ELECTRONICALLY controlled "intelligent" mechanical seal could increase the payload capacity of liquid-fuelled space vehicles, claims the Georgia Institute of Technology, which has developed a device with support from NASA's Lewis Research Center. The seal would allow higher payloads to be carried, as it is lighter than other ...
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Rolls-Royce quietly confident
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER THREE years spent re-shaping the business, there is growing confidence within Rolls Royce that the company is now poised for an upturn in its lack-lustre financial performance. Chairman Sir Ralph Robins says that the group's extensive restructuring programme, launched at the start of ...
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Traffic boom boosts European airports figures
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S AIRPORTS have emerged showing the world's strongest passenger-growth over the first half of the year, giving further confirmation of the traffic boom now taking place in the region. Passenger throughput for European airports grew by 7.8%, according to the latest figures from the ...