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NASA releases new services request
NASA has released a complicated request for proposals (RFP) for multiple award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) expendable launch vehicle launch services contracts. The RFP involves heavy, intermediate, medium and medium-light vehicles. Proposals are requested by 7 January. The RFP is open to emerging launchers not available at the ...
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Australia opts for new Optus satellite series
Tim Furniss/LONDON Australia has signed a contract with Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) to provide the satellite and ground infrastructure for a new $327 million hybrid civil-military communications satellite, Optus C-1. The Optus C-1 is to be launched on an Ariane 5 in 2002, although the contract is ...
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Onex raises offer for Air Canada
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The Onex investment group has improved its takeover offer for Air Canada in response to Star Alliance's bid to keep the carrier in the airline grouping, but there appears to be no quick end in sight to the Canadian airline industry's nine-week old merger battle. Onex ...
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US Government wants cash for NASA
The Clinton Administration is to request money in next year's budget for NASA to start a five-year programme to develop technology for a next-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV). NASA has concluded that "the current commercial market and the state of technology are not sufficiently favourable to enable private-sector development of ...
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Breitling Orbiter 3 tops GAPAN Awards
Achievements in ballooning, increasing the safety of escape and survival from helicopters ditching in water and the design and development of autogyros were among the aviation accomplishments of 1998-9 honoured by the UK's Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators (GAPAN) at its annual awards presentation on 27 October at London's ...
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Dragonair hunts A320 customers
Andrzej Jeziorski/HONG KONGHong Kong-based Dragonair expects to sign the first contracts with customers for its new Airbus A320 flight training centre in January. General manager Felix Hart says the centre should become operational next June. The company is in talks with A320 operators in the Asia-Pacific region, with possible customers ...
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Zvezda launch in doubt after latest Proton failure
The launch schedule of the International Space Station Zvezda service module is threatened again following a Russian Proton K launcher failure on 27 October. The booster, which was carrying the domestic Express A-1 communications satellite, was the second Proton launch failure from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome in four months. The ...
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Ibis targets December for roll-out of Ae270
Ibis Aerospace, the Aero Vodochody/AIDC joint venture, expects to roll out the single-turboprop Ae270 multimission aircraft on 10 December. The first production prototype will be an Ae270P variant, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A. The aircraft is pressurised, with retractable landing gear. The non-pressurised Ae207W, which has a ...
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Marketplace
Air New Zealand has begun to update its regional fleet with delivery of the first of seven ATR 72-500s. The new aircraft will replace the airline's older ATR 72-210s. Meanwhile, the airline has sold six 13/14-year-old Nordam Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 737-200Advs to Mexican carrier Aviacsa. Sabena has phased ...
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A330s set to wing their way to Iran
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Iran has reached agreement with France over its planned purchase of four Airbus A330-300s for operation by flag carrier Iran Air, with deliveries of the aircraft to begin in 2001. Iranian transport minister Mohammed Hojjati told the country's official news agency, IRNA, that the $480 million deal was ...
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Eurocontrol steps up air traffic enforcement
Eurocontrol is stepping up its activities to implement a European notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) process. The air navigation organisation is working towards introducing formal contractual arrangements with air traffic management (ATM) service providers after proposals from Eurocontrol's council were approved last month. A European NPRM, which would allow ...
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Sobelair management and pilots face fraud charges
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS The former chief executive, members of the management and pilots of Sabena's charter airline Sobelair face charges of forgery and fraud following a five-year investigation by the country's authorities. Retired former chief executive Pierre Jonnart, 27 Sobelair captains and management members face charges of falsifying flight ...
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Workshop
UK spares specialist Airinmar has signed a two-year agreement with British Aerospace Asset Management, to support its fleet of more than 240 BAe 146/RJs, ATPs and Jetstreams. Airinmar will manage the exchange, test, overhaul and repair of parts removed from BAe Asset Management's aircraft undergoing maintenance and refurbishment between leases. ...
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Europe's Allianz is tipped to acquire Fairchild Aerospace
European insurance and financial services giant Allianz has emerged as a potential buyer of regional jet manufacturer Fairchild Aerospace, which has headquarters in the USA. Allianz will not comment on any possible bid for the 56% share of Fairchild held by chairman Carl Albert, but industry sources say the ...
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F-22 test milestones completed
Lockheed Martin and Boeing have completed all F-22 test milestones originally established for this year. These include engine runs of the third development aircraft. Updated software has been delivered for the Boeing 757 avionics flying testbed. The milestones had been established as prerequisites for a US Department of Defense decision ...
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A lesson in low cost
Debonair's demise has provided a salutary lesson to other of Europe's low-fares carriers not to stray too far from the low-cost formula. Conventional wisdom may be much maligned, but it is not always wrong. Almost from the day that Franco Mancasola sketched out his plans to launch a ...
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More to come says Star, as it welcomes new members
BEN MCMILLAN/ATI TOKYO Singapore Airlines (SIA) took centre stage at the inauguration of Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) into the Star Alliance in Tokyo in October by confirming its widely anticipated entrance into the multilateral airline grouping from spring next year. ANA was to join Star on 31 ...
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Air Canada's allies prepare rescue bid
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE A showdown is expected by 8 November on the bid by Onex to acquire Air Canada and merge it with Canadian Airlines. With high stakes for the Star and oneworld alliances, United and Lufthansa Airlines appear ready to intervene on Air Canada's behalf. Onex ...
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Travel agents outraged by commission reductions
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Taking their lead from United Airlines, most major US carriers have slashed travel agent commission rates from 8% to 5%. The cuts have provoked outcry from travel agent groups, already reeling from efforts by the airlines to steer customers towards Internet bookings. Within days of ...
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Travelocity merger with Preview stirs on-line fight
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK Global distribution system company Sabre has merged its Travelocity unit with Preview Travel in a step-up in the battle for the growing on-line travel market. The new company, Travelocity.com, will have projected sales this year of more than $1 billion. Travelocity was already top-ranked in ...