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Airbus unveils details of A330 derivative
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie has revealed details of the A330-100 derivative it is offering airlines to replace the A310 and A300-600 medium-range airliners. Demand for a new aircraft in the 165-250-seat range is growing, and Airbus and Boeing are preparing solutions based around the A330-200 and 777 (Flight ...
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Boeing lifts space business with Hughes satellite buy
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is buying Hughes Electronics' satellite manufacturing business for $3.75 billion in cash. The deal will boost Boeing's space revenue by 35%, to $10 billion a year - a figure the company expects to double by 2009. Renamed Boeing Satellite Systems, the El Segundo, California-based unit ...
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Bigger and better
Eurocopter says its new EC155B medium helicopter is more than just a larger version of its long-established Dauphin A casual observer might think that the EC155B is just a stretched development of the AS365 Dauphin. Not so, says Eurocopter, although the manufacturer did incorporate some features from its experimental AS365X ...
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A brighter future
The Helicopter Association International's Heli-Expo exhibition promises better times ahead Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe helicopter industry may reflect on the past year as a period of mixed fortunes, during which sales for some manufacturers have excelled. For others there is the hope that the Helicopter Association International's (HAI) Heli-Expo 2000, to ...
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Creatively buoyant
The USA, Russia and the rest of Europe have seen plenty of civil helicopter product developments in the past 12 months Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe civil helicopter industry remained creatively buoyant last year, with the launch and certification of new US and European developments and a continuing proliferation of Russian designs. ...
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Time travel
Helicopter fractional ownership is still at the embryonic stage - but operators have bigger plans Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe concept of fractional ownership has grown to be a phenomenal success with the business jet fraternity, but it is at the embryonic stage in the rotary-wing world. Selling a timeshare in a ...
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Mergers
Menzies Transport Services (MTS) has acquired the London Heathrow cargo-handling facility of Aer Lingus, with a 10-year contract to handle the airline's cargo there. Austrian Airlines, Olympic Airways and Air Algerie are other customers. MTS is the second largest cargo handler at Heathrow. Acquisitive Smiths Industries of the UK is ...
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R-R and AVIC sign collaboration deal
Rolls-Royce and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have signed a five-year agreement to collaborate in aero-engine research and development work. Joint projects will focus on high-pressure (HP), core engine and system integration technologies. The new contract extends the co-operation with AVIC begun by the former BMW R-R, now wholly ...
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Marketplace
Atlas Air has signed an aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) lease contract with China Southern Airlines for a Boeing 747 freighter which will begin later in the first quarter. Flight International's sister on-line news service Air Transport Intelligence reports that Krasnoyarsk Airlines' (Kras Air) plans to acquire up to ...
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ANA assists latest Japanese regional
All Nippon Airlines (ANA) will provide operational assistance to Japan's latest regional newcomer, Fair Inc, as Japan's aviation market continues to liberalise. The agreement comes as Japan's government prepares to drop restrictions on route entry and withdrawal and remove all ticket price controls at the start of February. "The ...
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Workshop
Gemini Air Cargo has contracted Boeing Wichita and Israel Aircraft Industries to undertake freighter conversions of two leased ex-Varig McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. London Heathrow-based British Airways franchise operator British Mediterranean Airways has awarded Monarch Aircraft Engineering a four-year base maintenance contract for its three Airbus A320s. Overhaul specialist Triumph Air ...
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Standard contract
Scheduled helicopter airline Helijet Airways of Vancouver, Canada, has awarded Winnipeg-based Standard Aero of Canada a $1 million contract to overhaul 10 Rolls-Royce Allison 250 powerplants, which drive its Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Offshore contract
Bond Helicopters has clinched a C$4 million ($2.75 million) one-year contract from UK oil company ARCO. Bond will deploy a Sikorsky S-76 from its Great Yarmouth base to fly personnel to and from ARCO's oil fields in the southern North Sea. Source: Flight International
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Bell debut
Bell Helicopter Textron hopes to start deliveries of the Model 427 light turbine twin later this month at the Helicopter Association International show in Las Vegas. Deliveries are a year later than planned. The 427 received Canadian certification in November and Bell awaits US approval. Source: Flight International
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Spacehab contract
Spacehab has been awarded a $4.2 million NASA contract to supply an Integrated Cargo Carrier and two Spacehab Oceaneering Space Systems Boxes - unpressurised tool boxes - for the Space Shuttle International Space Station assembly flight 7A.1 to be launched in 2001. Source: Flight International
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UPS to fit freighter fleet with satellite navigation systems
United Parcel Service (UPS) is to equip its 229 freighters with next-generation satellite navigation systems using the global positioning system (GPS)-based wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The equipment will be made by the US express parcels specialist's subsidiary UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT). Development of the GPS/WAAS combination is expected ...
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Indonesia and South Korea in quest for fresh launch sites
Indonesia is considering developing a $1 billion satellite launch centre on the 52km² (20 miles²) Lembe Island, in the province of North Sulawesi, close to the port of Bitung, according to the province's governor. Two more of Indonesia's 17,000 islands - Biak Island in the Bay of Cendrawasih and ...
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Uncertainties hit NASA's Space Shuttle schedule for 2000
Tim Furniss/LONDON This year's first Space Shuttle mission - the 11-day STS99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission by the orbiter Endeavour (left) - will not be launched before 31 January, according to NASA's preliminary Space Shuttle schedule. This will be followed by STS101 Atlantis on an International Space Station ...
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NASA picks partners for race into space
NASA has selected six contractors for its Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition (Rapid II) programme, intended to reduce the time required to procure satellites for science and technology missions. "Indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" contracts covering 14 different types of core spacecraft bus have been awarded to Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences, ...
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Orbital wins NASA science contract
NASA has awarded Orbital Sciences a $35 million contract to launch two science satellites in 2002, using its Pegasus air-launched booster. The US/Canadian SCISAT-1 mission to study ozone production in the upper atmosphere will lift off from Vandenberg AFB, California, in the second quarter of 2002. The Orbital-built ...