May 1997

TOPIC OF THE MONTH

Air traffic in the CIS states
Catastrophic crashes, scrap value aircraft, a collapsing domestic market: The air traffic in the states of the Ex-Soviet Union is drowning in chaos and anarchism. Are there ways out?

ECONOMY

Lauda Air
Why Lauda and arch rival Austrian Airlines are now forming an alliance
Continental Airlines
New transatlantic route from Düsseldorf to Newark
Airbus Industrie
Will the A3XX be launched to challenge Boeing's supremacy?

CIVIL AVIATION

Image test for the airlines, Part 2
FLUG REVUE readers have decided: How good are the German holiday carriers?
Air France
With full power into the German market
Eurocopter EC 120 Colibri
New light helicopter is challenging Bells JetRanger
Airbus and Boeing
Market forecasts for 16000 new airliners until 2016
Fairchild Dornier 328Jet
The "real" regional jet?

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Hubble telescope
Successful second maintenance check in space
Mir '97
Reinhold Ewald is back
McDonnell Douglas
Good progress with the work for the space station
Space station
Russian cash crisis endangers the project
Hughes Space and Communications
Market leader is holding its position

HISTORY

Sud-Aviation Caravelle
The elegant airliner secured the role of France in the airliner business

MILITARY AVIATION

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
Mega-expensive stealth bomber will soon be operational
Airbus FLA
BMW Rolls-Royce and MTU/Snecma/FiatAvio are offering engines for the as yet unlaunched military transport aircraft
Eurofighter EF2000
All prototypes of the new fighter are now flying, but the political decision for the production investment phase is still delayed

TECHNOLOGY

Honeywell/Rockwell Collins
The third generation of glass cockpits, service for the pilot
German Airline Pilot Association
Alarming results of an internal survey
Cockpit study
Interview with Georg Fongern, Lufthansa captain and board member of the German Airline Pilot Association, concerning the association's internal survey
Lufthansa
Interview with Lufthansa chief pilot Jürgen Raps

COLUMNS

Editorial
News
German Air Force Association
Plastic model service
Readers pages
Afterburner
Preview, masthead

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