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Jersey
George McKenzie has been appointed to the new position of Stansted route manager for Jersey European Airways, of the UK. He was formerly a station manager for Air UK. Marsall Barrand becomes retail sales manager. Andrea Hayes is appointed commercial accounts manager with responsibility for Ireland, the Isle of Man ...
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London City
Karen Osborne has been appointed public relations/press officer for London City Airport. Source: Flight International
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Globalstar
Telecommunications-services provider Globalstar, of Arlington, Virginia, has appointed Reid Stephenson director of business development operations. He was formerly managing director of Asia/Pacific operations for Motorola's Iridium, another wireless global communications operation. Source: Flight International
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NASA plans to test forward-looking helicopter radar
NASA WILL flight-test Honeywell's HG9500-based multi-function radar in its Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter testbed in late 1995, to demonstrate the unit's terrain- and obstacle-warning capabilities. The UH-60 Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory will carry the radar as part of the NASA Ames Research Center's automated nap-of-the Earth (ANOE) ...
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Cutting edge of training
The Diamond Katana provides a low-cost alternative to other two-seat trainers. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY AN UNUSUAL, but highly fuel-efficient, lightweight powerplant, all-composite construction, and an airframe design which clearly reveals its sailplane lineage, are among the distinctive features which set the Diamond DV20 Katana aside from more orthodox two-seat ...
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Safety review
If world airline safety in 1995's first six months continues to be as good through the whole year, it could set a record. David Learmount/LONDON THERE WERE 305 deaths in world air transport during the first six months of 1995, but 150 of them were caused by hostile ...
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Lufthansa extends Airbus cowling life
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK claims to have developed a low-cost method of repairing composite parts of Airbus A300 and A310 engine cowlings which have been damaged by moisture and hot air from anti-icing ducts. Engineers at the company's Hamburg maintenance site repair damage using a bonding system, cure it at ...
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Environmental issues
Sir - The train is hardly "more environmentally friendly" in densely populated areas of Western Europe and E F Chase (Letters, 12-18 July, P54) ignores the staunch opposition from environmental groups against the European high-speed transport (TGV). I agree that trains are safe, but the BFr170 billion ($6 ...
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LOT adds 737
LOT Polish Airlines is to add another Boeing 737-400 to its fleet. The aircraft will be the eleventh 737 in LOT's fleet when it is delivered in 1996. Source: Flight International
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Optical sensors reach the heart of gas turbines
Andrew Doyle/LONDON SIRA HAS demonstrated a multiplexed optical-fibre sensor system capable of providing immediate and precise data on rapidly changing conditions at the heart of gas-turbine engines. The UK contract-research company says that its optical system is simpler, lighter and cheaper than comparable hard-wired electronic systems. ...
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R-R solves RB.211-524H combustor problem
David Learmount/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE HAS introduced modifications and additional inspection procedures to the RB.211-524H turbofan following an in-flight incident in which a core fairing just aft of the combustion chamber burned through. A UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report of an incident involving a British Airways ...
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Planar Advance wins first contract for new colour display
US DISPLAY manufacturer Planar Advance has received its first contract for a colour display using field-sequential device (FSD) technology. The contract is for a 75mm monitor to be incorporated into a gunnery and missile simulator being developed by Thomson Training and Simulation France and Alcatel STR Switzerland for the Swiss ...
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Thomson comes back to low-cost market with helicopter trainer
Julian Moxon/PARIS THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation (TTS) has re-entered the low-cost helicopter-trainer market with a fixed-base device primarily aimed at military customers. The device is dedicated to visual flight-rules/instrument flight-rules ab initio training. TTS France military programmes director Emanuel d'Ayguesveves says that it will meet what ...
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DC-X demonstrates rotation
THE McDONNELL Douglas Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X) re-usable launch vehicle executed a successful critical-rotation manoeuvre on 7 July as part of a series of flight tests at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. During the 2min 4s flight, the DC-X climbed to 8,200ft (2,500m) at a ...