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GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DCBombardier is prepared to take Messier-Dowty to court if the two companies fail to reach an agreement on covering the $35 million cost of retrofitting 815 CRJ100/200s and Challenger 800s with new main landing-gear fittings to overcome cracking. Although it expects to reach an agreement with the landing-gear supplier soon, Bombardier says it has filed a motion to initiate proceedings against Messier-Dowty to protect its legal rights .Beginning in June 1998, fatigue cracks were discovered in the landing-gear main fittings of three CRJs operated by Austria s Lauda Air. In one incident, in November 1999, the right main gear broke off after touchdown. As a result, 392 aircraft were retrofitted with new parts with a thicker barrel, but Bombardier says two further incidents i
owala canada n 2002 indicate the design is still deficient.Bombardier says Messier-Dowty has designed a new fitting, which is expected to be certificated later this year. The affected fleet will be retrofitted over the next five years, the company says. This will terminate an airworthiness directive that requires operators to perform repetitive eddy-current inspections of the landing-gear fittings. Bombardier s Quebec Superior Court filing alleges Messier-Dowty has refused to cover the hardware-only r
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Tagalog-language SXSW Jury prize-winner is set inside Canadas Filipino communitySource: Circus Zero FilmsIslandsDir/scr: Martin Edralin. Canada. 2021. 94 mins.Unassuming, like its central character, Martin Edralins debut feature Islands tells a small story in an overlooked bu
hydro flask bottle t large, far-flung community 鈥?that of Filipino expatriates. Joshua Rogelio Balagtas lives in Canada with his ageing parents, having swapped his life as a dentist at home for janitorial work in their adopted country. But what next as they all grow older Edralins film aims to talk about life and loneliness in that bubble as the tight-knit family unit shrinks inexorably.Theres a cheerful pragmatism to the characters and the film i
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yeezy website won a Jury prize at SXSW for Balagtas performance . Theres a cheerful pragmatism to the characters and the piece itself, a reflection and distillation of the caring, musical, religious community in which it is set. Deliberate and unhurried, Islands is also the type of quiet film that happily watches a microwave as it warms chicken adobo for a full minute.The world around the family unit is gradually growing smaller 鈥?older son Paolo has left to marry and bring up his own children, so its only Joshua and his increasingly frail parent
