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Jet Aviation
Business aviation service company, Jet Aviation, has appointed Walter Berchthold vice-president for aircraft maintenance, at its West Palm Beach Florida headquarters. He was formerly maintenance planning manager at Jet Aviation, Geneva, Switzerland. Source: Flight International
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Former GPA executives back Pembroke Capital
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A GROUP OF former GPA executives, including part of the team which ran the Irish leasing company's innovative aircraft financing arm in Dublin, are behind the setting up of Pembroke Capital, a new independent financial-services operation. Pembroke was initially established by three senior ...
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Fire-proof seals for EMB-145
A SPECIAL fire-proof radio frequency interference (RFI) shielding seal to help protect the engine nacelles of the new Embraer EMB-145 regional jet against lightning strikes has been developed by Dunlop Precision Rubber of Shepshed, UK. The seal is a "J-section" design and fits around the cowl doors. The ...
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Bright idea excludes unwanted daylight
INTEGRATED PHOTOMATRIX (IPL) HAS DEVELOPED a system designed to make liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in cockpit panels and head-up displays (HUD) easier to read. The Dorchester, UK-based company's 10530-AAE detector monitors incident daylight and specifically excludes any near infra-red radiation, ensuring that the illumination of the LCD is instantly adjusted ...
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Spar markets 'virtual-reality' ADAAPS safety-analysis system
David Learmount/ LONDON SPAR AEROSPACE is to market the "virtual-reality" safety-incident analysis system developed by Canada's National Research Council (NRC). The Canadian Company says that almost all the major North American carriers are showing significant interest (Flight International, 5-11 July). Spar Applied Systems is to ...
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F-18 tests
Endevco has won a contract from McDonnell Douglas Aerospace to supply DC accelerometers for the F-18E/F flight test programme. The accelerometers will be used to study aircraft structural characteristics under a variety of flight-test conditions. Testing will be performed using seven aircraft from December. Source: Flight International
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Primal screen show
Avionics usually come first when it comes to upgrades to military aircraft such as the F-15, F-16 and F-18. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S F-16 and McDonnell Douglas' F-15 and F-18 represent the single largest constituency of modern Western-built fighters in service worldwide. With some 6,400 F-15s, ...
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Passengers become more sophisticated
Sir - The recent stand made by a group of UK charter carriers against low-quality flight operations is long overdue (Flight International, 12-18 July, P8 and Letters, 26 July-1 August, P39). In all markets, passengers are price-sensitive, but they are also quality-conscious. Premium-class passengers, in particular, have become ...
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Lufthansa and BA step up pilot hiring to beat shortage
Andrew Doyle/FRANKFURT Lufthansa and British Airways are to draw up plans for large-scale pilot recruitment for the first time since the recession began. Both carriers will be seeking candidates for ab initio training, as well as direct-entry pilots, while Lufthansa is also chasing foreign pilots ...
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Ringing in the new
What does the new Bell 407 offer over its predecessors? Graham Warwick/MONTREAL IF BELL IS renowned for two things in the commercial-helicopter field, they are the Model 206 and the two-blade rotor. These traditional Bell strengths have threatened to become weaknesses, however, as the prolonged ...
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RAF deal clinched by Reflectone
REFLECTONE HAS finalised its contract with Lockheed Martin to provide training equipment and services to support the Royal Air Force's purchase of 25 C-130J Hercules 2 transports. The $77 million contract, is the largest in the US simulation company's history. Reflectone will supply two full-flight simulators, a flight-training ...
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Aeroservice aims for expansion
AEROSERVICE AVIATION Center, plans to triple the size of its Miami, Florida flight simulator training base, following the acquisition of a new site adjacent to the international airport. The new site will have eight bays, and plans call for the company to operate simulators for the Boeing 727, 737, 747, ...
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E&S achieves its first sale as independent
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA EVANS & SUTHERLAND (E&S) has secured its first contract to provide commercial flight-simulator visual systems since establishing itself as an independent supplier in 1994. Airbus Industrie has ordered two E&S visual-systems for installation on A320 and A330/A340 simulators to be built by Thomson Training and ...
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FlightSafety makes plans for Vital installations
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) plans to begin installing its latest Vital ChromaView visual system on company-operated simulators by the end of 1995. ChromaView launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) is completing installation of three systems on Boeing 737 and 777 simulators, and the first training approval is imminent. FSI ...
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USAF Upgrade
FlightSafety International has received a $52 million US Air Force contract to upgrade seven Lockheed C-5 simulators with articulated, 225° field-of-view, MultiView display-systems, Lockheed Martin CompuScene PT2000 image generators and database-generation systems and larger motion bases. FlightSafety Services operates the C-5 simulator on behalf of the US Air Force. ...
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Taking the heat
CASA president Raul Herranz talks about his successful business strategy. Julian Moxon/MADRID WITH VIRTUALLY no rain in recent months, and the city now suffering the hottest weather in recent memory, the atmosphere in Madrid this summer is hardly refreshing. Unless, that is, one ...
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Canadian Airlines shakes up as results continue to weaken
DETERIORATING financial results at Canadian Airlines have prompted a top-management shake out at the carrier. The day after reporting worsening losses for the second quarter (Flight International, 2-8 August) the airline's president, Kevin Jenkins, announced that seven of his top 22 executives would be departing. They will be ...
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Bouncing back
The Oshkosh '95 show provided clues for those on the trail of a GA comeback. Karen Walker/OSHKOSH RECENT INDICATIONS that the US general-aviation (GA) industry is turning the corner out of recession have been reinforced by Oshkosh '95, the annual convention and fly-in of the ...
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Canadian turnaround
Bombardier is setting world standards for manufacturing methods. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL BOMBARDIER, ALMOST single-handedly, has restored Canada to a position in the major league of aerospace nations - initially through acquisitions, then with product launches, and now in sales growth. Next, it aims to lead the ...