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Russians seek new US routes
TWO RUSSIAN airlines, Transaero and Krasnoyarsk Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) to start passenger services from Russia to the USA. Three Russian airlines now hold DoT licences to operate to the USA, but only Aeroflot carries passengers. The others, Moscow Airways and ...
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Insurers face record claims bill
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE GROWING COST of passenger-liability claims has begun to raise alarm in insurance markets, following early predictions that 1994 was a record year for airline losses. The total bill for major hull and liability losses on Western-built passenger jets leapt to more than $1.5 ...
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Flutter heads suspect list in BD-10 crash
FLUTTER IS SUSPECTED as the cause of the in-flight break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10 turbojet-powered light aircraft, which killed the pilot (Flight International, 11-17 January). The aircraft was being used for flutter testing in a programme intended to lead to certification of the BD-10 for production by ...
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Creditors baulk at TWA proposals for recovery
TRANS WORLD Airlines (TWA) has run into fierce opposition from some creditors to its restructuring plan, which would see some of the carrier's $1.8 billion debt converted to equity. TWA hopes to reduce its debt by $500-600 million by offering creditors an increased stake in the airline. A ...
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New momentum, but little new in safety summit
A two-day aviation safety .summit held in Washington DC on 9-10 January produced a list of 70 safety recommendations for the US Federal Aviation Administration and the US airline industry. The meeting, attended by 1,000 airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was held in the wake ...
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Alitalia pilots to strike over wages
ALITALIA PILOTS planned a . strike on 18 January, in an attempt to apply further pressure on the carrier's management to concede pay increases in return for productivity improvements. The strike threat comes amid talks between Alitalia and its two pilots' unions over the need for major cost-savings ...
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Aerospatiale president attacks FAA
AEROSPATIALE president Louis Gallois has hit out at the US Federal Aviation Administration for its "unique" treatment of ATR following the crash of an American Eagle ATR 72 in Chicago in October 1994. Aerospatiale owns ATR jointly with Italian company Alenia. "It took 32 days for the FAA ...
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ILS less effective than the MLS
Sir - Mr Montel's proposal for differential instrument landing systems (ILS) (Flight International, Letters, 14-20 December, 1994, P44) does not address another principal disadvantage of the ILS - its inability to be used to determine the position of the aircraft other than within a narrow angle close to the glideslope. ...
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NASA plans new spacelab mission
NASA IS PLANNING TO FLY a new multi-disciplinary life and microgravity sciences Spacelab research mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia STS78 flight in 1996. The picture shows six of the crew of the earlier STS47 Spacelab mission. The new 16-day mission, with a crew of seven, will involve 21 investigations, ...
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Air Inter/Air Liberte start price war
A SAVAGE PRICE WAR has broken out on the newly liberated Orly-Toulouse route between French state-owned carrier Air Inter and private domestic airline Air Liberte. On 5 January, Air Inter launched a Fr450 ($84) return "super leisure" fare between the two destinations, cutting its own standard fare by ...
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Hexcel sales
Composite-materials specialist Hexcel has completed the sale of its European resins business to an investor group led by the management of its former subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The US company, which plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the first quarter of 1995, realised around ...
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LCA first flight
India's long-running Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project is now scheduled to have its first flight in June 1996, according to Abdul Kalam, scientific advisor to the defence minister. The programme has been under way since the early 1980s. Source: Flight International
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Croatia seeks code-share as long-haul plan is deferred
Andrzej Jeziorski/ZAGREB CROATIA AIRLINES has shelved plans to buy long-haul aircraft this year and is instead seeking a code-sharing partnership with a US airline. According to senior vice-president Kresimir Magdic, the airline had intended this year to purchase either an Airbus A340 or an extended-range Boeing ...
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LTS101 directive
The US Federal Aviation Administration proposes an airworthiness directive to enforce a 1988 service bulletin from Textron Lycoming requiring cast axial-compressor rotors in LTS101 turboshafts and LTP101 turboprops to be replaced with improved machined wrought rotors. Source: Flight International
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GPS giant awakens
Rockwell-Collins ventures into the commercial-aviation GPS receiver market. Graham Warwick/CEDAR RAPIDS Rockwell-Collins has delivered more than 100,000 global-positioning-system (GPS) receivers since flight-testing its first operational unit in 1978, but is only now developing its first commercial-aviation receiver. The company cites its busy production line for ...
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Government study recommends tougher Indian offset demands
Vivek Raghuvanshi/NEW DELHI INDIA HAS a multi-billion dollar requirement for new civil aircraft, but its manufacturing industry risks missing out on offset- contract opportunities, according to a Government-sponsored study. The report, from the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) and Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, says ...
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Military conversions
Small-launcher companies are being encouraged to use former military launch pads in the USA. Tim Furniss/COCOA BEACH With the help of industry and the US Air Force, the states of California and Florida are refurbishing former military launch pads, at Vandenberg AFB and Cape Canaveral ...
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Avionics sensors certificated
ROCKWELL-Collins Series 900 avionics sensors have been certificated on the Boeing 747-400. Approval on the Boeing 777 is scheduled for April 1995 and certification efforts are under way on the 757 and 767, Collins says. The Series 900 product line covers VHF communication and navigation, high frequency and ...
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FAA tackles icing problems on Beechjet and Diamond types
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) designed to prevent Raytheon Aircraft Beechjet 400 and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond aircraft from suffering un-commanded nose-down pitch at certain flap settings during icing conditions. The Beechjet is based on the Diamond design, which Beech Aircraft acquired from ...