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Bell makes LongRanger the basis for new 407
BELL HELICOPTER Textron Canada is modifying two Model 206L-4 LongRangers into certification-test aircraft for the new Model 407 light turbine. The first 407 is scheduled to be flown at Mirabel, Quebec, in the third week of June. Certification, is planned by the end of 1995, says programme ...
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Peregrine to press on with BD-10 despite accident
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PEREGRINE FLIGHT International (PFI) is proceeding with plans to certificate the Bede BD-10 jet-powered light aircraft after determining the cause of the crash on 30 December 1994, in which the company's founder was killed. Investigators have concluded that the in-flight break-up of the aircraft ...
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AAI keeps up with the weather
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AAI SYSTEM Management (AAI/SMI) has introduced a next-generation automated weather-observing system (NEXWOS), aimed at more than 5,000 airports and 1,000 heliports worldwide. The NEXWOS is a commercial derivative of the company's ASOS automated weather-observing system, more than 1,000 of which are being produced for the US ...
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other ...
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All Nippon continues with cost-cutting measures
ALL NIPPON AIRLINES (ANA) has announced further cuts in expenditure and staffing, alongside a drive to boost revenues by 10% through increased aircraft utilisation. The latest cost-cutting drive, which will run over the next three years, comes as part of the second phase of the airline's extensive ...
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Vietnam looks for A320 substitute
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE VIETNAM AIRLINES IS negotiating for the supply of new Western-built 150-seat passenger aircraft to replace its Airbus Industrie A320s wet-leased from Air France. The carrier operates seven A320s, three of which are due to be returned to owner Air France by the end ...
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Altair makes light work of HUMS
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES ALTAIR, a Massachusetts-based avionics company, has introduced the first health and usage monitoring system for light turbine and piston helicopters. The Altair HUMS, weighing less than 1kg, has already been fitted to Enstrom 480 and Bell 206 helicopters and is scheduled for ...
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Australia licenses AWA for Nulka
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has licensed AWA Defence Industries to market the Nulka active missile decoy. The move follows sea trials conducted by the US Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The all-weather hovering rocket decoy was developed under a collaborative programme with the USN from a concept conceived ...
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UK CAA calls for changes to be made to slot rules
THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority is calling for Europe's airport slot-allocation rules to be changed, to make slot trading for cash legal and to use vacant slots more efficiently. It says that the existing, two-year old, European Commission (EC) regulation "...is not working" and warns that the business ...
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Chess master moves in
AAI keeps up with the weather There is little doubt that Russia's occasionally chaotic aviation industry could benefit from the application of a fine strategic mind. It is about to get one. World chess champion Gary Kasparov has now formally launched a consultancy, aimed at helping ...
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Discovery paves way for Mir space station docking
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE SPACE SHUTTLE STS63/Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center on 11 February after an eight-day 6h mission, which included a rendezvous with the Russian Mir 1 space station on 6 February. The rendezvous was a major step towards the planned seven Shuttle ...
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MDC will deliver first MD-90-30
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is to deliver the first MD-90-30 to launch customer Delta Airlines on 24 February, for service entry in early April. Steve Atkins, MDC twinjet-programmes general manager, says that the goal is to have "98.4% dispatch reliability" within the first six months of service. ...
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Old-age problem
Russia faces a cash crisis as it attempts to replace aging fleets and infrastructure. Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW ...
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MDC returns assembly to Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to build MD-11 fuselage barrels at its Long Beach final-assembly site after a coalition of California state, local city, union and local utility officials agreed a cost-saving package worth up to $138 million over the next five years. ...
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GAMA encouraged by law change and output figures
The easing of general-aviation product-liability legislation in 1994 has left the US light-aircraft industry "...at the threshold of a new era and stands poised for recovery", according to David Burner, chairman of the US General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Burner, president of BFGoodrich Aerospace, notes that piston-powered production ...
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DASA/DLR push for test aircraft funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace Airbus (DAA) and the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) are pushing for Government funding to refit a second MBB VFW 614 as a testbed for a new electronic flight-control system (EFCS). According to DAA, discussions are now under way with the ...
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An-70 crash threatens programme's future
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE ANTONOV AN-70 four-engine military transport-aircraft programme faces collapse following the loss of the prototype aircraft, only two months after its first flight. The prop-fan-powered aircraft crashed on 10 February, following a mid-air collision with an Antonov An-72 Coaler chase aircraft. All seven ...
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Canadian carriers ask Government for slots
AIR CANADA and Canadian Airlines International have asked their Government for all of the slots which available to Canadian carriers at New York La Guardia and Chicago O'Hare airports under the proposed open-skies agreement with the USA. The pact, is expected to be signed when US President Bill Clinton visits ...
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German Navy Tornado bombs civilian ship by mistake during target practice
THE GERMAN NAVY IS blaming sun-blindness for an incident in, which a civilian ship at the edge of a firing range in the western Baltic was accidentally bombed by a naval Panavia Tornado. According to the Federal Ministry of Defence, the incident occurred on 9 February, when two ...
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Training snags hit Malaysian Fulcrums
TRAINING PROBLEMS may delay the initial delivery of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). Senior Malaysian officials have admitted that coordinating the training of pilots and technicians in India and Russia has proved a problem. There is also a shortage of trained personnel. ...