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African Star ships in aircraft as it claims licence approval
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South Africa's first independent and majority black-owned international airline, African Star, may have jumped the gun by announcing that the government has granted it an international air service licence. According to sources at the country's transport department, Pretoria's Air Services Licensing Council has given only ...
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European airlines call for ATC rethink
Emma Kelly/LONDON The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has called for a radical rethink on European air traffic control (ATC), after the latest capacity and delay predictions. European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol had originally targeted accommodating 8% more traffic this year, compared with the previous year, with a ...
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Subduing the shunto
With crisis gripping Japan's airlines, even the trade unions are unwilling to fight cost-cutting measures Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Springtime in Japan is traditionally marked not only by the flowering of cherry blossom, but by the stirrings of industrial unrest. This year's strike season, known locally as "shunto", should be well under ...
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USA and Netherlands to further landing research
The US Federal Aviation Administration and the Netherlands Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have signed an agreement to co-operate on local area augmentation system (LAAS) research and development. Using LAAS, which will augment the accuracy and integrity of global positioning system (GPS) signals, approaches can be designed to ...
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FlightSafety wins Northwest CRJ deal
Northwest Airlines has selected FlightSafety International to provide pilot and maintenance training for Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) on order for its Northwest Airlink regional affiliates. Under the 10-year contract, extendible to 15 years, FlightSafety will locate Level D simulators for the 50-seat CRJ-200 at training centres convenient for Northwest ...
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Northwest Training upgrades systems
Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO), the training arm of Northwest Airlines, is to upgrade the visual systems on eight of its full flight simulators. NATCO, based at Eagan, Minnesota, has awarded Evans & Sutherland (E&S) a contract for nine ESIG-3350 visual systems - eight of them to upgrade Airbus A320, ...
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Upper stage failure imperils Chandra X-ray Observatory
Tim Furniss/LONDON The recent failure of the Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) has put into doubt the planned launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory aboard Space Shuttle STS93/Columbia on 9 July. The IUS, which is due to be used on the Chandra mission, failed to place a Defence Support ...
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Delta launches NASA Landsat 7
A Boeing Delta II carried NASA's Landsat 7 remote-sensing satellite into orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 15 April, a year later than planned. The satellite's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus camera will produce 250 30m-resolution multispectral images a day. The launch had been delayed by electrical problems with the thematic ...
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Dnepr booster lifts Minisatellite
Russia's Kosmotras organisation launched a Dnepr booster - a former SS-18 missile - from a silo at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 21 April. The booster carried Surrey Satellite Technology's (SSTL) 350kg UoSAT 12 Minisatellite into a 650km, 65¼-inclination orbit. SSTL's first $5.5 million Minisatellite will demonstrate high resolution ...
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New Collins avionics go Continental
Rockwell Collins has expanded its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics system with the addition of next-generation radio sensors. The first new aircraft to have the system will be Bombardier's Continental business jet. The Pro Line 21 CNS sensor suite will provide the functionality required for the future communication, navigation, ...
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Sikorsky eyes Latin American Black Hawk orders
Sikorsky has set aside six completed S-70 Black Hawk helicopters for sale to Venezuela, which has yet to conclude a purchase contract, while pursuing follow-on orders from Brazil, Columbia and Chile, and potential new sales in Ecuador and Peru. Venezuela is trying to raise funding for the six machines - ...
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Vietnam seeks maintenance venture partners
Vietnam Airlines is searching for foreign partners for an aircraft maintenance and engineering joint venture. The carrier hopes to find partners and to secure government approval for the venture this year. Vietnam Airlines plans to hold at least 50% of the company, which will operate from the airports at ...
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Airports
Minneapolis/St Paul-based Sun Country Airlines and the local Metropolitan Airports Commission have agreed a deal that makes Sun Country the principal tenant at a new $53 million, 27, 870m2 (300,000ft2) terminal, which opens in April 2001 adjacent to the Hubert Humphrey terminal, where the airline now operates. Sun Country will ...
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Sun Pacific grounded
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has suspended the operating certificate of Sun Pacific International, a charter operator based in Arizona. The FAA says it grounded the Boeing 727 operator after it failed to correct maintenance and record-keeping problems. Source: Flight International
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Windeagle wins first order for Turboprop
Interdoc Aerospace has placed the launch order for the Windeagle Turboprop, a re-engined derivative of the four-seat Windecker Eagle developed by Windeagle Aircraft of Ontario, Canada. The Midrand, South Africa-based company has ordered 15 aircraft, valued at around $9 million, with first deliveries expected by the end of the ...
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Mergers
Pan Am parent Guilford Transportation Industries is planning to buy ailing Nations Air. The purchase could hasten Pan Am's shift to scheduled operations - a move that might also be aided by the US FAA's decision to suspend, rather than revoke, the air operator's certificate of Kiwi International Airlines, in ...
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Mixed picture for B/E
Cabin interiors specialist B/E Aerospace made record revenues of $701 million in the year to 27 February, boosted by the sale of its in-flight entertainment business to Sextant Avionique, but still recorded a net $40 million loss after closing seven sites. Source: Flight International
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Soaring sales
Sales of the Falco kit aircraft have soared by more than 76% in the past year, according to supplier Sequoia Aircraft. The Falco, originally designed by Stelio Frati of Italy and first flown in 1955, was re-introduced by Sequoia in 1979 as a kit aircraft. Sequoia attributes the sales increase ...
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FAA approves modified Kitty Hawk 727 floors
The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved Kitty Hawk's alternative means of compliance for an airworthiness directive (AD) that imposes severe payloads limits on Boeing 727-200 freighter conversions for use by Pemco World Air Services and Aeronautical Engineers (AEI). The kit, which costs $75,000 and involves side restraints, terminates ...
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Marketplace
Boeing has delivered the last 737-500 on firm order, leaving just 26 examples of the 737 "Classic" models (-300/400/500) to be delivered this year. The last -500 was handed over to Air France on lease from Pembroke Capital. Boeing has built 387 737-500s since deliveries began in 1990. CityFlyer Express ...