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Right direction for Raytheon?
Sir - I read the story "Raytheon light jet will have composite fuselage" (Flight International, 5-11 July, P4). If Raytheon believes that it is going to beat the Cessna CitationJet, it is throwing money down the drain. What Raytheon has done best is to perfect other fine designs ...
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Can anyone unveil Disrobe's position?
Sir - On 6 June 1944, I was on night-fighting patrols in a Mosquito between Sword and Utah beaches, Normandy. While heading towards France, the UK controller told me to change channel and to call "Disrobe". Disrobe's confident voice and the separation he maintained between me and US ...
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The costs of timesharing
Sir - In the article "Jet Aviation backs business-jet timeshare-scheme launch" (Flight International, 19-25 July, P13) there is a mistake. Part owners will not have to pay $150,000 a year, then pay $500 per flight hour, but, for one-third of an aircraft, they will have to make a ...
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Baltic Boeings are burgeoning
Sir - I refer to the article "Baltic first for Boeing" (Flight International, 19-25 July, P12). While it is correct to state that, this was the first delivery of a new Boeing to a Baltic States operator, it is not the first to be operated in that region. That honour ...
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Mission Delay
The 135-day flight aboard the Mir 1 space station by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, scheduled for launch on 22 August, has been delayed by at least two weeks to allow the resident Mir crew to carry out major work. Source: Flight International
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Huygens Arrives
The Aerospatiale-built, European Space Agency Huygens Titan lander craft has been delivered to NASA for integration with the Cassini Saturn orbiter. The craft will be launched on 6 October 1997. Alenia Spazio has also delivered the Cassini's 3.96m-diameter high-gain antenna. Source: Flight International
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Fire-Fighting Offer
The Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is offering to provide fire-fighting services using Russian-made aircraft such as the Antonov An-32 on seasonal dry or wet lease. Bedek is also offering kits, which enable cargo transports such as the Lockheed Martin C-130 to be converted quickly into fire-fighting aircraft. ...
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Sentry Tunes In
The US Air Force says that the crew of a Boeing E-3A Sentry en route to Seattle in April helped guide the pilot of a Piper Comanche through mountainous terrain in poor visibility to a landing at Butte, Montana, after his aircraft had struck a tree at low altitude. ...
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Carib Expands
Carib Express, the Caribbean airline in which British Airways has a 20% holding, introduced new services to Antigua and Georgetown, Guyana on 31 July. Served by 76-seat BAe 146-100s, the Georgetown service operates direct from Barbados, while the six weekly flights to Antigua have a varied routing, linking in at ...
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Hartsfield Goes Dutch
Martinair will become the 21st international airline to serve Atlanta, Georgia's Hartsfield International Airport, when the Netherlands airline begins all-cargo services from Amsterdam on 6 August. Hartsfield says that international cargo volume increased more than 20% in the first five months of 1995. Source: ...
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Inflight Service Improves
The International Inflight Service Management Organisation will merge with the Montreal, Canada-based International Air Transport Association (IATA) from 1 September, becoming the IATA Inflight Service Management Council. IATA says that the move reflects "a growing need for action on common problems". Source: Flight International
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Nations Air Resumes
Nations Air resumed flights on 22 July, about one week after voluntarily suspending them. The US carrier, which began FAR Part 121 operations in March, ceased operating its two Boeing 737-200s after safety questions were raised during a routine US Federal Aviation Administration inspection. The FAA authorised Nations Air to ...
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Jet Airways Expands
Jet Airways (India) has signed a deal with GE Capital for the lease of two Boeing 737-400s. The first of the aircraft will arrive in September. The carrier is thought to have posted a $2.87 million net profit on a turnover of around $100 million in the 1994/5 financial year, ...
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SR-71s Work-Up
A detachment from the US Air Force's 9th Reconnaissance Wing began a month-long, 13-flight, work-up on the first two of three refurbished and re-activated Lockheed SR-71s at Edwards AFB, California, on 26 July, and is due to be ready for reconnaissance missions by 1 September. Source: ...
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Fairchild Supports VIPs
Fairchild Aircraft Services has been awarded a contract to provide total support for the Belgian air force's five VIP-transport Fairchild Metro IIIAs. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Donnie Nunn has been named manager of FlightSafety's centre in San Antonio, Texas. He was formerly director of training at the company's LaGuardia centre. Roger Wilcox is appointed director of pilot training at the Tucson Learning Center in Arizona. He has been a FlightSafety Learjet instructor for ten years. Dan ...
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Euro Direct
Euro Direct Airlines of Slough, Berkshire, UK, has appointed Rex Lezard managing director. Lezard, who has previously held senior management positions with British Airways, was most recently chief executive of Air Malawi. ...
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Harris
Robert Chism has been appointed director of technical and production operations at Harris Computer Systems, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was previously director of Harris' simulation business area, responsible for Night Hawk computers in military and commercial simulators. Source: Flight International