All aerospace news – Page 1755
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A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...
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Oneworld allies seek codeshares
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways and its oneworld ally, American Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for codeshares on flights serving 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa in a long-awaited move which should breathe new life into the pair's faltering alliance. American ...
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EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers
David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...
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Final Mir, first ISS crews are named
Two Russian cosmonaut crews have been named for the final mission to the Mir space station to be launched in February 2000. The prime crew is rookie Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, a Mir veteran. A two-person back-up crew has been named as Salizham Sharipov - who flew on ...
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Hardware losses top $2 billion
Tim Furniss/LONDON The $300 million-plus failure of Japan's H2 booster and a communications satellite on 15 November has brought to $2 billion the total value of space hardware lost this year. There have been six launch failures and five in-orbit satellite failures, plus satellite in-orbit anomalies. Despite the ...
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Matra Marconi wins Helios deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been selected by the French Defence Agency as prime contractor to supply the ground segment for the Helios II reconnaissance satellite. It is to enter service in 2003 to process data from Helios IB and Helios IIA and B satellites and possibly future military spacecraft. ...
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Another Hubble gyroscope fails as repair mission is prepared
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was placed in a safe mode on 13 November after its gyroscope No 1 stopped operating, leaving just two operational units. Observations have been suspended. The situation, which had been anticipated, adds extra drama to the forthcoming STS103 Discovery mission to conduct the third service ...
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Mars upgrades
Mars upgrades The European Space Agency will upgrade two of the instruments that will fly on the Mars Express orbiter in 2003, to help make up for some of the science activities lost by the recent failure of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter. An infrared channel will be added to ...
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Spy for hire
IAI's EROS satellite will help Israel to catch up in the space market Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Time sharing is usually associated with hotel rooms in exotic resorts. From early next year, the concept will also be linked with observation satellites for civil and military missions. The first Earth remote ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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NTSB urges BK117 airworthiness bulletin
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called on the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an airworthiness directive mandating a two-year-old service bulletin issued for the Eurocopter BK 117. The NTSB believes the service bulletin, issued in 1997 recommending the installation of a hook-type latch, would prevent access ...
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CarinaStar to take more Beeches
CarinaStar Shares, a fledgling fractional-ownership company dealing in top-of-the-range piston aircraft, plans to take its second pair of new Raytheon Beechcrafts in December. Operations at the Hilton Head Island, South Carolina-based company started earlier this year with a Beech Baron B-58. Six months later a Jaguar Edition A36 Bonanza ...
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Emirates eyes 120-seater for new regional network
Emirates will shortly start talks with Airbus and Boeing to acquire 120-seat aircraft to launch a network of regional services from its Dubai hub. The carrier is also studying airline alliances, to allow it to decide whether to join a grouping, says Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. ...
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Air Gulf Falcon will launch next month
Air Gulf Falcon is to launch charter operations with nine Boeing 747s next month and is evaluating narrowbody types for expansion next year. The company is to be launched by the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates-based Falcon Air group, which includes Falcon Air Leasing and Falcon Aircraft Maintenance Centre. Air ...
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737 safety probe prompts tests
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is modifying a 30-year-old ex-United Airlines 737-200 for ground and flight tests of the rudder system as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration-led safety evaluation. The 737 is being leased from Indiana-based Purdue University, which acquired the aircraft after United Airlines retired it in 1997. ...
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Qatar spares
Components remarketer Avatar Alliance and Qatar Airways have signed an exclusive aircraft spares consignments agreement. Under the terms of the deal, Avatar will exclusively manage sales of Qatar Airways' excess parts inventory from its Atlanta, Georgia, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, bases. Source: Flight International
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Repair overhaul
Kuwait Airways has renewed its Airbus landing gear repair and overhaul contract with Messier Services. The $8 million contract covers Kuwait's fleet of Airbus A300-600s, A310-300s, A320s and A340s. The work will be carried out at Messier's Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has also won a six-year $5 ...
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Routes
British Airways is restructuring its Caribbean network from London Gatwick with a redeployment of flights operated under franchise by the paper airline Airline Management (AML) from March. AML services are operated by two-class Boeing 777s, with BA providing pilots and Flying Colours (to be renamed JMC Air) the cabin crew. ...
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Southern Air ready to go after DoT vote
Start-up cargo carrier Southern Air has won US Department of Transportation approval to begin operations, but will have to do so without routes from bankrupt Southern Air Transport (SAT). Services will begin next year. The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to offer aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) wet-lease services ...
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Tatarstan supports Tu-214 lease scheme
Production of the Tupolev Tu-214 in the Russian republic of Tatarstan is gearing up, following agreements to support production and leasing of the 200-seat twinjet. Meanwhile, local carrier Sibir Airlines is finalising a lease deal for three examples. The Perm and Novosibirsk regions of Tatarstan have signed agreements to ...