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United celebrates successful union
UNITED AIRLINES has hailed as a success its first year of operations as an employee-owned company. The carrier attributes its return to profitability and improved operating performance to the deal struck in July 1994, when United employees traded $4.9 billion in wage and work-rule concessions for a 55% stake in ...
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Apache wins UK helicopter battle
Douglas Barrie/LONDON AFTER A TWO-and-a-half-year battle, the Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache Longbow has won the British Army's attack-helicopter requirement. The UK Government announced its decision on 13 July. The winner secures a deal worth some £2.5 billion ($4 billion), while the losers - GEC/Bell, with the ...
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747X studies go on as VLCT plans are frozen
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS CONTINUING studies of 747 stretch designs, despite the suspension of joint studies with the Airbus partners of a very large commercial transport (VLCT) on the basis of insufficient market potential. The company is concentrating on two design options - the largest able to ...
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GE90 777 prepared for flying restart
THE FIRST General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 was expected to begin flying again around 17 July following the installation of new platform spacers in the engines. Both GE-powered aircraft were grounded for more than seven weeks by the discovery of a fan imbalance during ground-based birdstrike tests on ...
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FAA and airlines launch next-generation communications
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has joined with industry to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) offering rapid and reliable information exchange, including air-traffic-control instructions and engine-performance data, among pilots, controllers and airline operations worldwide. The deal was struck between the FAA and ...
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Continental in leasing rethink
CONTINENTAL Airlines has renegotiated the leases on most of the 35 aircraft (mainly Airbus A300s) grounded in January in a move to cut capacity. The aircraft have been returned to lessors, but Continental will save $152 million in 1995 and 1996, eliminate substantial operating-lease payments after 1996, and defer certain ...
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OH-X progresses
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has begun final assembly of the first OH-X light scout helicopter, for a planned roll-out in March 1996. The twin-engined OH-X is expected to have its first flight in July 1996, and will be delivered for testing the following May. Source: Flight International
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Europe to take action on unsafe nations
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPE IS PREPARING to impose sanctions on nations which fail to exercise effective air-transport safety supervision. The UK Department of Transport (DTp) has confirmed that the 31-nation European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) is looking at the possibility of operational sanctions against countries. The action ...
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UK will abandon LR Trigat project
THE UK MINISTRY of Defence has signalled its intent to abandon the collaborative Long Range (LR) Trigat anti-tank missile programme at the end of the development phase, and writing off the better part of some £220 million ($350 million). The future of the Long Range Trigat was intimately ...
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Harrods Air Service Now!...
Harrods Air Service Now! At Harrods Passenger Service Bureau on the 2nd floor, adjoining the Library Lounge, you can now book for journeys by air with exactly the same ease as you book for travel by sea or land. Air travel is now a proved, safe and established thing, ...
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FLS aerospace
Henrik de Jonquieres has been named vice-president for sales and marketing at FLS Aerospace, of Stansted Airport, UK. Yiorgos Palierakis becomes vice-president for operations. Source: Flight International
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The fuel-efficient, all-composite, Diamond Katana...
The fuel-efficient, all-composite, Diamond Katana is evaluated from the pilot's point of view.26 How are the much-heralded East-West joint programmes progressing? Flight International takes a look at the Ilyushin Il-96M/T, among other projects. number 4481 volume 148 International Offices UK Head Office, Reed Business Publishing,Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey ...
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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 ...