Saab 2000 Certification Delayed: Early customers for the Saab 2000 regional turboprop face hefty delivery delays and the operational and scheduling problems associated with that due to the aircraft’s certification being put back a year while ongoing longitudinal stability problems are solved. Certification is now planned for the end of 1994, the problems necessitating the
Antonmoy Design Bureau World Record Airlift Lifting a single shipment weighing a total 135. 2 tonnes, an Air Foyle/Antonov An-124 has set a new world record for the heaviest ever transported by air. The massive 124 tonne Siemens powerplant generator core, together with its specially developed load spreading skid meaured 13. 4m in length by
Raaf to Exercise With Indonesia: In what is considered as a major diplomatic breakthrough, Australian airmen will soon be exercising directly with their Indonesian counterparts. Air combat manoeuvring exercises will take place for four to five days during routine deployments of RAAF F/A-188 from Australia to Butterworth, Malaysia. These deployments occur several times each year
Usmc Grounded: Almost the entire US Marine Corps fleet of 1150 aircraft was grounded for two days in late September as a ‘safety exercise’ following six accidents since the middle of August. The only USMC aircraft exempt from the grounding were the helicopters of the Presidential Fleet (although ironically one of its Sikorsky Black Hawks
The air transport industry in New South Wales according to Max Hazelton has a good future. Despite a drastic curtailment of regional operations in 1991, his airline, which started services some 40 years ago, has enjoyed incredible growth and popularity as “The Big Country Airline”. However, Hazelton Airlines is climbing out of the doldrums of
People Two appointments at Ansett see Barry Robinson become General Staff Manager, and Ron Entsch become the new General Operations Manager. Mr KWLiu has taken up the position of District Manager Queensland/Papua New Guinea for Malaysia Airlines. Restructuring of Qantas’ Australian sales division seen a number of key appointments, with John Borghetti becoming Passenger Sales