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KLM strike plan
LM has drawn up plans to reschedule or cancel up to 72 flights if the Dutch AirLine Pilots Association goes ahead with its threatened strike on 23 May. The action is due to run between 10.00 and 16.00. KLM says that it will be forced to cancel 20 out of ...
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Fulcrum flies back into favour
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW IN AN EXTRAORDINARY volte face, the Russian Government is to renew funding for the Mikoyan MiG-29M advanced Fulcrum. The project had been originally halted over three years ago after Moscow decided to withdraw its support. The move comes at a critical time for Mikoyan. ...
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Maintenance-subsidies inquiry starts at EC
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has launched an investigation into illegal state subsidies to Germany's Lemwerder airliner-maintenance operation. It has also promised a second inquiry to look at the Irish Government cash due to be injected into the troubled Shannon Aerospace venture. The Lemwerder aid dates back to 1993, ...
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MDC goes Dutch
The Royal Netherlands Air Force signed a letter of acceptance with the USA on 24 May covering the purchase of 30 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) AH-64D attack helicopters. Rival Eurocopter had alleged that the competition was unfair. Source: Flight International
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Bridging the gap
The launch of the PW500 series completes a turbofan product range for Pratt & Whitney Canada. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL In a single month in 1994, Cessna launched two business jets and gave Pratt & Whitney Canada the first two applications for its new PW500 small turbofan. ...
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Pavement design package tested
BAA, the UK airports authority, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and the US Federal Aviation Administration are among concerns testing a new Australian computer-aided airport-pavement-design package, called Airport Pavement Structural Design System (APSDS). The product, marketed by Mincad Systems of Melbourne, predicts the impact of aircraft types on pavement design, ...
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Final assembly of Gulfstream V wing starts at Northrop
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has begun final assembly of the wings for the first Gulfstream V long-range business jet at its Commercial Aircraft division, formerly Vought Aircraft, in Dallas, Texas. Northrop Grumman, along with its revenue-sharing partner, ShinMaywa Industries of Japan, is supplying Gulfstream with the complete wing assembly, including ...
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Ready for business
Lockheed Martin is replacing its controversial Series 7000 bus with the new A2100. Tim Furniss/LONDON Most of the proposals for new satellite contracts being made by the Astro Space division of Lockheed Martin in New Windsor, New Jersey, feature the new A2100 spacecraft bus (Flight ...
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ATARS F-15 Tests
McDonnell Douglas has suspended flight tests of an F-15 equipped with a reconnaissance system after just two sorties, claiming that all goals have been achieved. Six to eight flights of the F-15, fitted with the Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) pod had been planned. Source: Flight International
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Germany tests hydrogen fuel on APU
GERMAN SCIENTISTS are preparing to rig-test an auxiliary power unit (APU) fuelled by gaseous hydrogen as part of a study aimed at reducing the nitrous oxide component of aircraft-exhaust emissions. The tests, scheduled to begin later this year, will be carried out on an AlliedSignal GTCP 36/300 ...
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Sydney airports to be sold as a package
SYDNEY'S KINGSFORD Smith Airport (KSA) and the new Sydney West Airport (SWA) at Badgerys Creek will be packaged together when operating leases come up for sale in 1996 under the Australian Government's plan for the privatisation of airports. The lessee will have to agree to complete the development ...
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IATA urges consensus on raising passenger-liability restrictions
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S major airlines are due to meet in June in an attempt to break the deadlock over raising the international passenger-liability limits laid down in the Warsaw Convention. Insurers have welcomed the initiative to make the existing $75,000 limit more realistic, but ...
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Assertive cabin crew save lives
David Learmount/COPENHAGEN ASSERTIVE ACTION, by cabin crew, could greatly increase passengers' chances of survival after a crash-landing, new research has shown. Assertively applied emergency-evacuation drills can accelerate airline-passenger emergency-evacuation markedly, the study demonstrates, whereas, non-assertive cabin crew make little difference to egress rates. ...
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Contran heads for FAA trials
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is to begin trials of a system designed to prevent simultaneous air/ground voice-communication transmissions. UK purchasers of the system, however, are complaining about the UK Civil Aviation Authority's attitude to it. The FAA will shortly receive four examples of the ground version, and ...
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China's Hong-7 may never enter service
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA'S INDIGENOUSLY developed Jian Hong-7 strike aircraft is unlikely ever to enter service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) naval air force, because of its relatively poor performance and outdated design, say Western military sources. The tandem-seat JH-7, or B-7, has been under ...
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MATRA/BAe Tie-Up Drags
Matra and British Aerospace's tortuous negotiations to merge their respective missile units have hit further delays, with the deal not now likely to be formalised by September, according to No%l Forgeard, Matra Defense chairman. Tie-up talks originally began in early 1993. Source: Flight International
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The dangers of in-house training
Sir - Authorised Examiner (AE) courses conducted by the UK Civil Aviation Authority are due to end soon, because of the requirement to harmonise with European Joint Aviation Authorities Regulations. The AE course is to be replaced with a new concept, aimed more at the instructional element of ...
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Change of mood
SAS president Jan Stenberg has brought a new realism to the airline Kirean Daly/LONDON Even in the difficult days of the early 1990s, few airlines saw their fortunes tumble quite so rapidly as did Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). Under the leadership of Jan Carlzon, the tri-national carrier ...
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Laser alignment used on F-18E/F
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has joined the forward and centre/aft fuselage sections of the first F-18E/F fighter, using a laser-alignment technique pioneered on the MDC C-17 transport. Computer-controlled alignment reduces assembly time and results in a "near-perfect" splice, MDC says. The F-18E/F is the first US fighter to be ...