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FLIGHT *m!mmm:m.<m.mmm.m!mmm NUMBER 4646 VOLUME 154 HEAD OFFICE Quadrant House, The Quadrant. 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Cheques made payable to Flight International Distributed by Marketforce Flight International is a weekly news magazine tor professionals working in all sectors of the aerospace industry worldwide, serving all branches of airframe systems, support equipment and component manufacture and all sectors ot opera tion, including air transport, general aviation, defence, spaceflight and regulatory and other authorities. & REED BUSINESS INFORMATION VBEft • Comment 3 • Headlines A320 wing work heads for China.. 6 PAL starts last-minute revival Doubt over Crossair 728JET order 7 Ageing aircraft programme is expanded FAA plans airspace system update 8 EC refused full air-services mandate • Air Transport Go aims to boost its routes 10 MD-11 wreckage yields few answers Comair orders Canadair RJs 11 Marconi conducts 737 HUD flight tests Southern Air goes out of business 12 EVA looks at alliance options SAS studies widebody choices 14 MTU/Snecma sign Asian deals 15 Frosch to found its own airline 16 DHL standardises on A300B4 freighters Garuda warning system suspect.... 18 Flight West takes on embattled Air Niugini • Defence Boeing wins Hercules support work 19 Cyprus favours Russian Tor missile Tamam will upgrade Hinds 20 Fuji will make Japanese unmanned helicopter Japan poised to test attack helicopter 22 / f mm ^£mW WBMJM m^^\ gf"~ rfej i tf# ry Kawasaki looks at attack role for OH-1 • Business Tumbling shares delay flotations.. 23 AMR puts fixed-base operations up for sale • General Aviation Proteus market set to take off. 24 Asian customers look at Sikorsky Firehawk Bombardier extends fractional plans 25 Kaman warns on K-MAX fuel pump problems • Spaceflight Ariane 503 launch date is set 26 CONTENTS • Industry Dow to develop improved fen blades 27 • Newsmakers New goals 28 Lockheed Martin heads in different direction • Features Reconnaissance empire 29 Anglo-French Avicore plans expansion "JGHT Proteus test pilots were among those comparing notes at the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Symposium in California. 30 O- I SCHM ''"'J as o K- (ft ft, III > o o Change for the better 34 In-flight entertainment: a changing industry Securing the future 36 WAEA aims to avoid past technology problems Try, try and try again 37 North Korea plans further satellite launches Apache Longbow: mean machine 38 AH-64D Apache flight test Tried and trusted 44 Updating outsized transport methods • People 46 Letters 48 Uncle Roger has joined the holiday hordes Classified. 49 ||| The Dassault Falcon 900B is among the 2 aircraft featured in the Flight International corporate jet special. ISSN0015-3710 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 7 - 13 October 1998
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