All Safety News – Page 1335
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FAA fuel tank explosion concerns now extended to 737s
Potential explosion danger from fuel vapour in Boeing 737 fuel tanks is to be addressed in a new US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD). The proposed AD, affecting 1,140 US-registered and about 1,600 other 737s, specifies all models from the -100 to the -500. It calls for protection ...
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BA cadets start US training
Paul Richfield/BATTLE CREEK The first class of British Airways cadets has begun training at Western Michigan University (WMU) as part of the airline's drive to take on some 2,500 pilots over the next decade. A second group of BA trainees will arrive at Michigan in May under the ...
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French cargo carrier secures Brasilias to start freighter operations
Start-up French cargo airline Air Open Sky is preparing to begin operating the first of three Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias which have been configured for quick change (QC) passenger-to-freighter operations. The airline planned to start flying the Brasilias late in 1997 but hit delays due to problems in securing the ...
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IAI closes on partners for FedEx Airtruck project
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is in talks with potential partners in Europe and Asia over its Airtruck project for a small turboprop cargo aircraft, and is expected to decide within the next few weeks whether it is able to present formal proposals to customer FedEx. FedEx has a requirement ...
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Thai/Garuda firm up fleet plans as Qantas eyes up Asian 747s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Paul Phelan/CAIRNSThai Airways International has been given approval to take delivery of 17 new aircraft over the next three years, despite Thailand's economic difficulties. Financial problems elsewhere are forcing Garuda Indonesia to seek an early return of six leased Boeing MD-11s, while Qantas is seeking to acquire surplus ...
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Sabbath flights issue is high on El Al privatisation agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV As the Israeli Government attempts again to thrash out agreement on privatising national carrier El Al, the thorny political issue of whether to end its costly ban on Sabbath flights remains high on the agenda. A decision on the long delayed privatisation was due to take ...
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High fidelity pays off
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Simulator manufacturers have started 1998 as they ended 1997 - busy. As expected, orders for commercial flight simulators are tracking closely the recent surge in airliner sales. At least 45 full flight simulators were sold last year, short of the last peak of 55 in 1989, but ...
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Europe and USA on course to clash over FANS datalink
Kieran Daly/LONDON Europe and the USA are once again set for a clash of wills over a key component of the technology to be used in the satellite based Future Air Navigation System (FANS). At an International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO) panel meeting starting this week, European interests ...
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Japanese aircrew strike grinds into its second week
The strike by pilots and flight engineers over salary cuts at All Nippon Airways (ANA)is moving into its second week with no sign of an end to what is an almost unprecedented level of industrial action for Japan. By 17 April, the twelfth day, the number of cancelled international flights ...
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New UK oceanic ATC centre faces major delays
Ian Sheppard/LONDON THE UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) faces another embarrassing delay in upgrading its ageing infrastructure, with warnings that it will have to extend the deadline on completing a new oceanic air traffic control centre within only months of work starting. Design work on the centre, ...
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Delayed UK en route centre is set for clearance
David Learmount/LONDON Lockheed Martin is expected to gain clearance this week to hand over operating software for the UK's long-delayed new en route air traffic control centre (NERC) at Swanwick, near Southampton. This would enable a speedy contract completion for the Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (SCATCC), says ...
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Flight Dynamics confirms ERJ-145
Flight Dynamics has formally announced its selection by Embraer as sole source supplier of head-up-displays for the ERJ-145 regional jet after a long running technical selection battle with GEC-Marconi and Sextant Avionique. The announcement follows the earlier selection of the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance (HGS) system by Luxembourg-based Luxair. ...
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Industry funding will pay for LAAS system
Industry will fund development of the global positioning system (GPS) local area augmentation system (LAAS), the US Federal Aviation Administration has decided. LAAS is a ground-based system which checks and corrects GPS signals, allowing precision approach and landing. Teams certificating next-generation landing systems will get FAA help, which ...
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Embraer converts RJ-145 to -135 prototype
The prototype ERJ-135 is being created by the conversion of an ERJ-145 Embraer has begun modification of an RJ-145 prototype at its Sao Jose dos Campos plant to create the first ERJ-135 37-seater. The first ERJ-145 prototype (PT-ZJA), which originally launched flight testing of the regional ...
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Polar TCAS
Polar Air Cargo has followed FedEx's example and decided voluntarily to fit its fleet with the TCASII traffic alert and collision avoidance system. Source: Flight Daily News
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Air Niugini nears collapse after Qantas is ignored
Papua New Guinea (PNG) flag carrier Air Niugini continues to edge closer to complete collapse, with the Government apparently setting aside salvage proposals put forward by Qantas. The airline was temporarily rescued from insolvency on 13 March when PNG Prime Minister Bill Skate compelled the country's main bank, PNGBC, ...
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Overnight parcel carriers face noisy opposition
Herman De Wulf/Brussels Express parcel carriers, which fly the bulk of their operations at night, are facing growing opposition in Europe on environmental grounds. The latest development is the rejection by a Bavarian court of an appeal by DHL International against a ban on night operations at Nuremberg Airport, which ...
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Routes
++ Continental Airlines and VASP of Brazil will codeshare on flights between the USA and Brazil from mid-1998, pending Government approvals. ++ SAS Cargo is to introduce a DHL-owned McDonnell Douglas DC-8-70 freighter between New York and Gothenburg, Sweden, and will share an Antonov An-26 between Copenhagen and the ...
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Eagle achieves record sale with sports trainer
Australian light aircraft manufacturer Eagle Aircraft has signed its biggest fleet order yet, with the sale of seven of its all-composite tandem-wing Eagle 180 sports trainers to the Civil Aviation Academy (CAA) of Victoria, which already operates three of the two-seat aircraft. The new order, which brings the value of ...
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Rolls-Royce taps Chinese research
Rolls-Royce and BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) have signed agreements with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC), under which two Chinese universities and a research institute will carry out aero-engine research for the European companies. Beijing University will investigate the effects of vane pylon interaction on a low pressure com- pressor ...