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Long-Range Tie-Up
Auxiliary-fuel-systems supplier PATS and BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco are to offer jointly long-range fuel-system installations at BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco's aircraft maintenance/modification plant in Everett, Washington. PATS' long-range fuel tanks can be installed as a post-delivery modification, or as a separate installation for in-service aircraft. Source: Flight International
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The truth about Y-12 engines
Sir - There seems to be a persistent misunderstanding about the origins of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines which power the Harbin Y-12 (Flight International, 12-18 April, P10). All engines used in the Y-12, produced both for the export or the Chinese markets, were (and continue ...
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Safety procedures are efficient
Sir - The article "Confidential safety" (Flight International 24-30 May, P49) makes some controversial statements, which need correcting: it is not only airlines which have to report "those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people and damage to equipment". UK Civil Aviation Investigation of Air ...
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Logic behind greater thrust
Sir - I was surprised to read in the article "GE looks at increasing GE90 thrust levels" (Flight International, 26 April-2 May, P6) that the preferred approach to achieving greater power is by removing one or two high-pressure stages from the core. Such a change would allow a ...
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Indian Mode-S First
The Airports Authority of India has begun operation in Trivandrum of the first of four air-traffic-control radar systems to be built and installed throughout India by Westinghouse. The ASR-9 airport-surveillance radar allows controllers to detect and track aircraft under all weather and heavy clutter conditions. Each system contains a Mode-S, ...
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: ...
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Aerosonic Loss
Clearwater, Florida-based Aerosonic, has posted a $211,000 loss on 1994 sales of $24.4 million, up by 2%, compared with an $869,000 profit in 1993. Sales at Aerosonics' Avionics Specialties were up by 13% on increased sales of its turbine-engine power analyser and recorder system. Source: Flight International
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CAE Profits Rise
Canada's CAE reports that profits were up by one-third for its financial year to the end of March, helped by military-simulator sales which offset flat commercial markets. Profits grew to C$47 million ($33 million) as revenues climbed by 11% to the C$658 million mark. The CAE Aviation unit benefited from ...
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Milstar Payloads Grow
A key communications payload and subsystems for the US Air Force Milstar 5 and 6 satellites will be built by TRW, under contracts with Lockheed Martin and Hughes worth $560 million. The Milstar 5 and 6 craft will allow the US Department of Defense to complete the last two of ...
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Genesis Fails
East Midlands, UK-based regional carrier Genesis Airways has ceased operations eight months after starting scheduled flights to Belfast, Northern Ireland, using a British Aerospace Jetstream 31. Genesis began operating as Prospair, in 1990. Source: Flight International
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Malaysian Bilateral
Malaysia and Canada have signed a bilateral air-services agreement for direct service between Kuala Lumpur and Vancouver. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to launch a twice-weekly service in November. Source: Flight International
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NATO Expansion Plan
NATO members will complete a study by September on the pace and extent of the gradual process of NATO enlargement. Key elements of creating a new security architecture for Europe in the post-Cold War era include "a gradual, deliberate, and transparent process of NATO enlargement", and building a more co-operative ...
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Tongan Lease Share
Royal Tongan Airlines, has entered a lease-sharing deal with Air Pacific of Fiji, to operate a Boeing 737-300 on its Pacific routes. It has also won Australian Government approval to carry revenue passengers on its Sydney-Auckland-Tonga route. Source: Flight International
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World Aviation
Colin Smale-Saunders has become managing director of World Aviation Support, part of the British World Aviation Group, based at Southend, Essex. Smale-Saunders has held positions at Wayne-Kerr, Emphenol and Panduit. Source: Flight International
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Flight
Andrew Doyle has joined Flight International as technical reporter, based at the magazine's London head office. Doyle was previously assistant editor on Airline Maintenance World and the Air Letter. He has an honours degree in aeronautical engineering, and will be responsible for general technical and news reporting. Source: ...
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America West
Douglas Parker has been appointed senior vice-president and chief financial officer of America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona. He was formerly vice-president and assistant treasurer for Northwest Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Intertrade
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Intertrade, an aerospace-components redistribution company, has appointed Mike Shojaat senior associate in the avionics-services business unit. He was formerly manager of marketing operations with Rockwell-Collins. Source: Flight International