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FLIGHT wm:mmm:m m.mmm.m!m.mm NUMBER 4739 VOLUME 158 HEAD OFFICE Quadrant House. The Quadrant. Sutton. Surrey SM2 5AS, UK. Telephone +44 (20) 8652 3842. 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Cheques made payable to flight International Newstrade Distributed by Marketforce (UK) Ltd Flight International is a weekly news magazine lor professionals working in all sectors of the aerospace industry worldwide, serving all branches of airframe systems, support equipment and component manufacture and all sectors of opera- lion, including air transport, general aviation, defence, spaceflight and regulatory and other authorities <& REED BUSINESS INFORMATION ^BPA Aermacchi and Yakovlev are expected to select the Honeywell 124 engine for the renamed Aermacchi 146 aircraft. 8 • Comment 5 • Headlines Airbus signs JSF support deal 6 R-R and Snecma close on A400M engine deal PW6000 may get new HPC 7 NATS suspends oceanic ATC contract • Farnborough First News 'Westernised' Yak-130 launched.. New version of A340-300 launched CRJ900 development on fast track Major increase in rotorcraft production IAE to reveal new V2500 engines CFM studies 737 engine upgrade 8 10 14 Air Transport SI die in 737-200 air crash -PI 6 Trent 600 offered for 767/747X.... 16 Seven survive Alliance Air 737 crash in India Fokker 100 boosts Montenegro.... 17 Eurocontrol stresses RVSM compliance Deutsche BA chooses A3 2 Os 18 BAe 146 to get cockpit upgrade.... 21 TWA selects feeder service at LAX 23 • Defence UK delays tanker schedule 24 Boeing begins final AFL test phase for JSF Australia floats helicopter change 25 Eurofighter DAI to test thrust vectoring USAF awaits armed Predator trials 26 EPTN wins Super Puma contract.. 28 • Business Aerojet/P&W joint space venture 30 CAL discusses stake in mainland cargo carrier CONTENTS Airtours and C&N in merger talks 32 Rockwell Collins forms alliance with Hamilton Senior seeks growth after revamp. 35 • General Aviation Continental fuselage complete 41 CitationShares set to undercut rivals xMalibu Meridian certification due 42 • Spaceflight Boeing gets go-ahead for EELV.... 44 Microsatellites to test formation flying Starsem launches first Clusters 47 • News Analysis BAE raid tests US resolve. 48 • Features • Sikorsky's $-92 Split personality 50 Exclusive: S-92 put to the test All aboard 58 Sikorsky's gamble pays off as orders grow Airline safety review 62 Fewer accidents, more deaths so far this year Building to win 70 How JSF will be a low-cost fighter Toughing it out 76 Indonesia's IPTN struggles to find its feet Private Thais 80 Thai Airways' slow steps to privatisation Trent 500 shapes up 82 The A340-500/600 engine's tough schedule • Letters 88 • Straight and Level 89 Classified Appointments I Employment Services Index 116 Get beneath the skin of Bell-Boeing's V-22 rotorcraft in an exclusive Flight International cutaway and technical report Flight Internationalwebsite http://www.flightinternational.com ISSN0015-3710 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 25 - 31 July 2000
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