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WORLD NEWS Delta leases 737s ATLANTA Delta has just made an inter esting tactical move by bring ing Boeing 737s into its fleet for the first time. The airline is to lease 33 brand-new 737-232s in a complex deal with the manufacturer whereby Boeing will buy 11 of Delta's older (amortised) Tri- Stars when the 737s start to arrive in this year's third quarter. The leasing deal is not con ducted directly with Boeing. A "major capital finance organisation" buys the 737s and leases them to Delta. The airline explains its move as a transitional one: these aircraft are to work at feeding Delta's major hubs—Atlanta, Boston, Cinci- natti, and Dallas—while the carrier waits for the "Delta 3" new-technology 150-seater that it hopes one of the major manufacturers will produce before 1990. There is a pro vision in the leasing terms to cancel after eight years if Delta buys the "Delta 3" or another Boeing aircraft. "It lets us keep our options open," a spokesman explains. McDonnell Douglas, with its DC-9 Super 80, was "a major contender right up to the last minute" for this deal. Mirage IIING flies ISTRES The prototype Mirage IIING made its maiden flight at Is- tres on December 21. Dassault-Breguet says that the aircraft reached Mach 1 and a height of 35,000ft dur ing its successful lhr flight, with Dassault test pilot Patrick Experton at the con trols. Designed and built in a year, the Mach 2+ fighter is based on the Mirage III air frame but has the Mirage F.l's Snecma Atar 9K50 tur bojet, intake-mounted ca nards, leading-edge root ex tensions, and avionics from the Mirage 2000 and F.l. The fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control system is de rived from that of the Mirage 2000, and the IIING has the Thomson-CSF Cyrano IV air- to-air and air-to-surface radar from the F.l. The Sagem in- ertial navigation system and Thomson-CSF headup dis play are fitted. Egypt to assemble F-7s Egypt intends to buy 60 to 80 Shenyang F-7s for local as sembly under Chinese super vision, according to the coun try's defence minister, Field-Marshal Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala. The F-7 is the Chinese-built MiG-21 Fish- bed F, which is understood to have better engines and weap ons then the Soviet-built MiG 21s. Egypt already operates at least 100 Soviet- and Chinese- built MiG-21/F-7s. Soviet cruise missile on test Soviet Premier Yuri An dropov says that the Soviet Union "is testing a long-range cruise missile to counter the United States' long-range cruise missile". In a speech to the Kremlin, Andropov said the Soviet Union was prepared to cut back strategic arms by more than 25 per cent if the USA would do the same. Stansted or T5? HEATHROW British Airways is about to launch officially its campaign for a fifth terminal at Heath row as an alternative to devel oping Stansted. The Stansted Inquiry Board, as part of its investigation into whether London needs a third airport developed, starts to look at the Heathrow fifth terminal idea from January 11. BA says it does not want to find itself operating from three bases—Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted. Politi cal opinion, influenced by slow traffic growth in the re cession, is swinging away from the Stansted idea. RAF to buyBAel46 The Royal Air Force is to buy two British Aerospace BAe 146-lOOs for £15 million, with delivery early next summer. The 146s will be evaluated over a two-year period, mainly for inter-Europe passenger/ general transport with a secondary aeromedical-evacu- ation role. The aircraft will be based at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire. After the evaluation, which will include use by the Queen's Flight, the Service will consider the longer-range BAe.146-200 as replacements for the Queen's Flight An- dovers. The 146-lOOs Might then be traded-in for -200s. FLIGHT NEXT WEEK Scandinavia's aerospace industry is the subject >>! a study l,v Peter MiddletotV an-J T'K'i'fi'd Whitaker. Cliff Harnett describes the. qualities of Finland's Pik- r tug. A>tKik:. ulan.!-, ti> fivcud $9,000 million on ATC asd ,la« t i'h by >' year WQG We show how the money ant. Have -A' Va- yudoot? In five ye&is* time it may be the biggest cma-r • muter carrier in. the VASkl Chris Kjelgaarf explains. -. Graham Warwick -.reports on the Hughes Wasp aiiit- armour missile.:: ;-.'•;•;-'; Cessna launches the Caravan Cessna's Caravan, now flying from Wichita, has ended a long period of speculation about the company's new tur boprop single. Engine is a PT6A-114 flat-rated to 600 h.p., and gross weight is either 6,7001b (land) or 7,0501b (seaplane/amphibian). Total cabin volume is 340ft3, with rear-fuselage air-stair door and two-piece cargo doors. Fuel capacity is 330 US gal and payload 3,0001b. FAA cer tification is expected in 1984 with full production in 1985. Cessna's Caravan spans nearly 52ft and should have a 3,000lb payload 1 P • :ujnm rw m N208LP jfflUi- •'-•• •••''''?'' •Mggfm f^$$$3m ,.-™J 'Mivfffi-tf^nE'fflffiMflW mi mmmuvi FLIGHT International, 1 January 19'
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