All Ops & safety articles – Page 1448
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STS71 Atlantis, 23 June, 1995 Mir 19 launch-phase crew: Anatoli Solovyov, Nikolai Budarin. Mir 18 re-entry and landing phase crew: Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard. Gibson will fly the Atlantis towards the Mir from below and will perform the docking using television monitors ...
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Avro tackles RJ100 London City Airport weight limit
AVRO INTERNATIONAL Aerospace is working to boost the RJ100's payload capacity for operations at London City Airport, by introducing a new 33° flap setting for take-off, and reducing airframe weight. The work is being carried out to enable Crossair to operate its recently ordered RJ100s into the airport ...
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MDC polls MD-11 freighter operators on smoke rules
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is canvassing MD-11 freight operators on proposed changes to the freighter configuration, which would meet new smoke-rules of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and reduce maintenance costs. The alterations would allow loads of up to 79,450kg, while producing a net reduction (of around 130kg) ...
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Saab Aircraft celebrates major 340B order spree
SAAB AIRCRAFT has landed significant orders for its 340B Plus turboprop from two of the largest regional operators in the USA. In addition, the Swedish manufacturer has almost completed a deal to sell a large number of Saab 2000s to one of the carriers. The biggest single order ...
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Ariane 5 evolution
The need for an early growth version of Ariane 5, to meet the demand for higher launch weights, has been deemed essential by Arianespace if it is to compete with other launchers into the next century. A decision on development of the Evolution will probably be taken at the Toulouse ...
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Launching the Ariane 5
The Ariane 5 ground operation at Kourou covers 2,500Ha (5,190 acres), and is split into three main areas: the ELA3 launch site; booster zone (containing the solid-propellant plant, booster-integration building and solid-booster test stand) and cryogenic-fuel preparation zone. The site is new, and cost around Fr6.3 billion ($1.27 billion). ...
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GE90 test delay could hold up 777
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING AND General Electric are believed to be making contingency plans, for a possible delay in the certification and delivery of the first GE90-powered 777 following a fan-balance problem experienced during ground tests. Test flying of the two GE90-powered Boeing 777 test ...
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Dash-8 crashes in New Zealand
THREE PEOPLE WERE killed, and four seriously injured, in the crash of an Ansett New Zealand de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 on 9 June. The crew, who were among the injured, did not report any emergencies before the crash. The aircraft, which was approaching Palmerston North airport on ...
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KLM profits news marred by strike action
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS REVEALED record profits, although some of the shine was taken off the announcement by pilots staging a second one-day strike. The Dutch carrier reports net profits of DFl470 million ($300 million) for its financial year to the end of March, staying ...
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FAA reviews air-tour safety advice
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is reviewing recommendations designed to increase safety for US air-tour firms operating fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The move follows recommendations from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which resulted from an in-depth review of the 139 air-tour accidents or incidents since 1988. ...
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Jeppesen launches on-line dispatch aid
JEPPESEN HAS launched a new OnSight integrated operations- management and flight-dispatch system for airline and fleet-operators. The OnSight delivers on-line flight-management and dispatch information in near-real time, via Unix-compatible workstations. The Denver, USA-based international aviation-information services company says that the OnSight is offered as a modular system, including ...
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UK airports fit approach monitors
PRECISION AIR traffic control (ATC) approach-monitoring equipment has become fully operational at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, says the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Known as the approach-monitoring aid (AMA), the system - the first of its kind - alerts the tower controllers to aircraft deviations from a normal ...
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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Instruments blamed in UK Bandeirante crash
STORMY WEATHER, combined with the apparent failure of at least one artificial horizon, may prove to have been contributory factors to the Knight Air Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante crash on 24 May (Flight International, 31 May-6 June) says the investigators' preliminary report. All 12 people on board died when ...
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Logic behind greater thrust
Sir - I was surprised to read in the article "GE looks at increasing GE90 thrust levels" (Flight International, 26 April-2 May, P6) that the preferred approach to achieving greater power is by removing one or two high-pressure stages from the core. Such a change would allow a ...
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Reverse gear is being considered
Sir - The idea of a powered landing gear, or reverse gear for aircraft, is receiving the consideration of the Italian Office of Intellectual Property (file RM95A00318 0f 17 May, 1995, for the granting of a patent) to try to save the fees for pushback. Airbus Industrie says ...
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Safety concerns hit Express One
EXPRESS ONE International, the Dallas, Texas-based cargo and charter carrier, has grounded its 39-aircraft fleet voluntarily after a US Federal Aviation Administration audit discovered serious safety concerns. The FAA says that Express One International, which operates Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s, failed to produce documentation on compulsory ...
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No definition
The European Commission (EC) does not want member nations of the European Union (EU) to negotiate bilateral air-transport agreements with foreign countries - especially with the USA. It has long wanted to take on that duty itself, on behalf of the EU as a whole. The trouble is that the ...
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Thawing the frozen East
User fees could pay for the modernisation of Russian far-east airspace. Kieran Daly/LONDON The task of modernising the air-traffic management/control of the former Soviet Union is awesome. For those faced with the challenge, it is hard to know where to begin. The signs are, however, ...
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EC sets open-skies schedule
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) wants to achieve a full open-skies air-transport agreement with the USA within five years, and will ask European transport ministers at the end of this month for a mandate to carry out negotiations. In a 20-page draft proposal to ...