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Long-Range Business
Rockwell's Collins Commercial Avionics division is to supply dual ALT-4000 digital radio-altimeters and dual HF-9000 high-frequency radios for the Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. Source: Flight International
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Chinese Engine Venture
Pratt & Whitney, China Airlines and Singapore Airlines Engineering have formed a joint venture to repair PW4000 high-pressure-compressor stators at a new site near Chiang Kai-shek Airport in Taipei, Taiwan. P&W controls 51% of the business, with the other partners dividing the balance equally. ...
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Aer Lingus C-Checks
TEAM Aer Lingus has completed the world's first C check on an Airbus A330, operated by its parent company. TEAM has also completed its first three-day C check on a Futura Boeing 737-400, including an engine change. Source: Flight International
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Dee Howard B-Checks
Dee Howard is to perform B checks and AD/Service Bulletin work, on Boeing 747-100s for Californian operator Polar Air Cargo. The San Antonio, Texas, company has not undertaken 747 work for some time and the Polar Air deal takes it back into an already highly competitive market. Source: ...
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Lufthansa Technik Deal
Austrian Airlines has signed a deal with Lufthansa Technik for the maintenance and overhaul of its two Airbus A340s. The maintenance arm of Lufthansa has also won a five-year contract to overhaul 100 International Aero Engines V2500s used by United Airlines on its fleet of Airbus A320s. Source: ...
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Indian Trainer Progress
The Indian air force has finally sanctioned the release of $100 million covering the purchase of an advanced jet trainer. The service has short-listed two trainers, the British Aerospace Hawk and the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet. The Indian parliamentary defence committee has recommended to the Government that a low-cost Russian trainer ...
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Russian Frequent Flyer
Transaero Airlines of Moscow is setting up what it says is Russia's first frequent-flyer scheme - called Transaero Privilege. Members earn points towards free flights when they travel on non-discount fares. Transaero is distributing membership cards. The introduction of the scheme comes as the privately owned airline is under fire ...
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Airmanship is flairmanship
Sir - According to a press report from Bucharest, Romania, initial findings by a commission of inquiry into the crash of a Tarom Airbus A310-300 attributed the accident to a fault in the automatic-throttle system. This caused one engine to deliver substantially more power than the other, resulting ...
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Did anyone know Jim Broadbent?
Sir - I am writing in the hope of contacting anyone who knew H F "Jim" Broadbent. He was born in England, but, as he was a resident of Australia when making record solo flights in the 1930s, he was generally regarded as an Australian aviator. At the ...
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Falklands flying as it really is
Sir - In the article "Oil Factor" (Flight International, 26 April-2 May, P40), the "aircraft movements rarely exceeding 50 a week" is a reference to the total at Stanley Airport, not at Mount Pleasant Airport, where military and civil movements average 260 a week. As to the use ...
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Raytheon
Trevor Esling has been named vice-president for international sales in the Latin America/Far East region at Raytheon Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. He was previously director for commercial contracts. Bradley Hatt becomes vice-president for special-mission-aircraft sales, having formerly been director for advertising and merchandising marketing. Peter Herr has been appointed vice-president ...
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SimuFlite
Dick Holland has become manager of Gulfstream training programmes at SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Forth Worth Airport, Texas. Holland, a corporate pilot, has also been director of operations for Alpha Aviation, Dallas, and was a captain with Becker Gaming of Las Vegas, Nevada. Jim Jetton becomes regional sales manager for ...
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Lockheed
Alfred Hansen has been appointed executive vice-president of Lockheed Aeronautical Systems (LASC), of Marietta, Georgia. He replaces John McLellan, who was named president in March. Hansen, a retired US Air Force general, joined LASC in 1990 and is a former vice-president for airlift programmes. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal
Serge Buchakjian has been named vice-president of international business development at AlliedSignal Aerospace's Government Electronic Systems, of Torrance, California. He was formerly regional director of aerospace and defence systems at Smiths Industries' International division, based at Stamford, Connecticut. Source: Flight International
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Northrop
Manufacturer Northrop Grumman, of Los Angeles, California, has appointed Dr Dean Baker vice-president and general manager of precision weapons and electronics systems, based in Hawthorne, California. With the company since 1979, Baker was most recently vice-president and programme manager for the tri-service stand off attack missile at the Military Aircraft ...
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Dangerous occupation
Seismic activity - the search for oil and gas - is booming in Latin America, although it is not an area where exploiting natural resources is easy. The environment is among the most inhospitable in the world, with a huge variety of terrains and climates. The two dominant ...
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Preparing for Paris
There are many signs that the recession in aerospace is over, and the organisers of the 41st Salon International de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace will be hoping that their show at Le Bourget, north of Paris, in June will finally prove the point. Last time round, in 1993, ...