All Ops & safety articles – Page 1470
-
News
Information required, please, on the Fairey Gannet
Sir - I am researching UK carrier aircraft and would like to make contact with the designers, pilots and engineers who flew and maintained any Fairey Gannet. Is there a flyable aircraft somewhere? Where can one be seen? Those residing in the USA can call collect to ISAM, Neil ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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, ...
-
News
Peregrine founder killed in BD-10 private jet accident
A BEDE JET BD-10 turbojet-powered private jet crashed on 30 December, 1994, killing the pilot, Michael Van Wagenen - president and founder of Peregrine Flight International, the company which recently acquired the rights to certificate and manufacture the BD-10 for the general-aviation market (Flight Inter- national, 4-10 January). ...
-
News
Telstar 4 mystery delays Asiasat 2 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON ASIASAT HAS DELAYED the launch of its Asiasat 2 on a Chinese Long March booster, originally scheduled for this month, until at least the middle of the year while the September 1994 failure of a similar Martin Marietta Astro Space-built satellite, the Telstar 402, is ...
-
News
MDC plans to test new aft- nozzle design on Harrier II
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) plans to begin flight-testing a new aft-nozzle design on its AV-8B Harrier II technology demonstrator, beginning in February. The aircraft has been used to evaluate wingtip-mounted AIM-9 Sidewinders since its first flight on 30 November 1994. The "zero-scarf" aft nozzles have been developed by Rolls ...
-
News
Weak demand forces Air Hong Kong to cut fleet
CARGO CARRIER Air Hong Kong has cut its fleet from three to two Boeing 747 freighters as it continues to suffer from poor demand and heavy financial losses. The 747-100F is to be returned early to leasing company GE Capital Aviation, as the carrier is able only to ...
-
News
UK still wants to privatise air traffic control
THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority is encouraging the Government to press ahead with the privatisation of the nation's National Air Traffic Services, despite the collapse of the first attempt in 1994. CAA chiefs say that the air-traffic-control system has a £100 million-a-year investment requirement, largely for modernisation, which ...
-
News
Airbus cockpit/control milestones
1982 Garuda Indonesian Airlines takes delivery of its uniquely ordered A300B4-200s, the world's only two-crew conventional-cockpit wide-bodied type, which has a fully electro-mechanical (E-M) instrument fit but a "forward-facing crew-cockpit" (FFCC) employing the revolutionary "dark, quiet cockpit" (DQC) design philosophy. In the DQC, selector-switch lights turn off, when a system ...
-
News
No worries for Astra operators
Sir - In the article "Astra owners face disc work" (Flight International, 30 November-6 December, P17), it was reported that US Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive (AD) 94-23-05, had been issued against AlliedSignal TFE731 engines installed on Israel Aircraft Industries Astras. In reporting the technical facts of the ...
-
News
ATC Start-Up
Mexico City's air-traffic-control (ATC) centre has been inaugurated. The Thomson-CSF-supplied Eurocat 2000 system is part of a major contract awarded in 1993, under which a further four centres are scheduled to be opened in the next 18 months. The Mexico City system will receive and process data from eight radar, ...
-
News
ATR: maybe the FAA got it rightt
Sir - Your article "ATR restricted while FAA examines flight in icing" (Flight International, 16-22 November, 1994, P10) does not mention the opinions of the pilots. Regulatory bodies and aircraft manufacturers seem to favour data from equipment, rather than the opinions of those who fly the aircraft. Perhaps, ...
-
News
US aviators discuss safety in Washington
THE PLANNED two-day US aviation safety summit, called after the fourth major airline crash in recent months, was scheduled to have begun in Washington DC on 9 January. The US Transportation Department says that the meeting, intended for airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was to ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
Broadening horizons
Times are hard at home, so All Nippon Airways is looking abroad for its growth. Kieran Daly/Tokyo and Kansai Throughout the world, governments are cheerfully embracing the concept of instant deregulation of their air-transport services. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic, frequently unforeseen and, ...
-
News
Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
-
News
FAA compromises on its regional TCAS I deadline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC REGIONAL AIRLINES in the USA are being given until the end of 1995 to fit the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS I) on their aircraft, even though manufacturers are warning that they may struggle to deliver kits in time. The US Federal ...
-
News
Rudder ruled out in Coventry
UK INVESTIGATORS are virtually certain, that control difficulties played no part in the crash of an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 on approach to Coventry Airport. They have found no evidence of rudder-control malfunction in the 21 December 1994, accident and believe that the aircraft's impact with an electricity ...
-
News
Duty times are no threat
Sir - In "Duty bound" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P32) you say that "...IFALPA [International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations] is convinced that the proposed European rules are dangerous". It is a nonsense for pilot unions to pretend to be prepared to leave decisions to the Aeromedical ...