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1988 - 0963.PDF
Asuka stops short Japan's Asuka Stol demonstrator has made its first successful short landing, and required only 439m to land on a runway at Gifu airbase. Based on the Kawasaki C-1 tactical transport, Asuka is the forerunner of a proposed 150- seat Stol airliner capable of operating from 800m runways. First flown in October 1985, Asuka has so far cost Yen35-5 billion ($275 million). China buys Lavi radar BEIJING China is to buy the radar developed by Israel for its cancelled Lavi multirole fighter. Israel officially denies the sale, but Flight understands that defence minister Yitzhak Rabin has agreed to allocate funds to fly the third Lavi prototype partly to test a derivative of the Elta EL/M-2035 multimode radar meeting Chinese require ments. Which Chinese aircraft will receive the radar is not clear. Chinese-built MiG-21s (F-7s) have already been updated with a GEC Avionics Sky- ranger ranging radar, while the indigenously designed F-8-II interceptor is to receive the Westinghouse APG-66 (F-16) radar under a 50-aircraft avionics update programme managed by Grumman. China is reported, however, to be developing new delta- wing and swept- or swing- wing fighters. The Lavi radar is equiva lent in performance to the improved Westinghouse APG-68 radar fitted to the latest F-16s. KLM takes Transavia stake AMSTERDAM ~ KLM is taking a 40 per cent stake in charter airline Transavia, owned by the Nedlloyd Group which last week sold regional carrier Netherlines to the Dutch flag carrier. Transavia is retaining its own identity but will co operate closely with KLM. The airline operates four Metro enlists The first of six Fairchild Metro Ills has been delivered to the US Air National Guard under the ANG operational support transport aircraft (Angosta) programme. In military guise the Metro III is the C-26A. The Guard has an option on seven further aircraft. WORLD NEWS daily scheduled services from Amsterdam to London Gatwick, apart from its chiefly Mediterranean char ter work. The companies say that it is necessary for them to join forces because of increased competition result ing from growing liberal isation in European air travel. Nedlloyd is retaining a 40 per cent shareholding in Transavia, with an undeter mined third party taking the remaining 20 per cent. During the year, Transavia's capital will be increased by about £15 million. The airline insists that it is "a healthy company" and that the move represents a KLM and Nedlloyd policy to strengthen Dutch commer cial aviation. ATC pressure group fights for Fund WASHINGTON D.C. ~ A coalition of more than 20 aviation companies is investing nearly $15 million in a campaign to free the several billion dollars held in the USA's Airport and Airways Trust Fund. The Partnership for Improved Air Travel (Piat), with 16 airlines and five manufacturers and suppliers in its membership, is pressing for more airport improve ment, accelerated develop ment of new air traffic control equipment, and more control lers to staff it. "If we face such mountainous problems today, what's flying going to be like 12 years from now, when traf fic is expected to double to almost two billion worldwide and almost a billion in the US alone?", one coalition member asks. Piat is aiming to influence public awareness and turn that into the Congressional votes needed to spend the Trust's funds. The scheme is planned to last two years. Some of the nation's leading airline chiefs are involved in the campaign's launch, including American Airlines' Robert Crandall and USAir's Ed Colodny. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 16 April 1988
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