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Daewoo fuels civil expansion with 747-400 frame delivery
Paul Lewis/CHANGWON Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has begun deliveries to Northrop Grumman of the first computer-designed fuselage frames for the Boeing 747-400, as part of wider expansion by the South Korean company of its civil aerostructures subcontracting business. Under a new contract signed with Boeing and Northrop Grumman ...
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Software tool promises fast design choices
European systems consultancy Knowledge Technologies International (KTI) is close to the release of a new software tool which links a system integrator with its suppliers in electronic product definition. The new system represents an extension of the existing ICAD manufacturing tool, which KTI has now acquired from original US ...
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Wicat adds Boeing to training device portfolio
Wicat Systems has seen sales of its flight training devices increase as airlines move to reduce the amount of expensive full-flight simulator time used for transition and recurrent training. Recent sales of flight management and guidance system trainers (FMGST) for Airbus types include six to Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO, A320), ...
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Shuttle threat
The US Clinton Administration is willing to cancel planned non-International Space Station (ISS) shuttle flights to absorb cost overruns on the ISS, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. Only one non-ISS Shuttle flight, to deploy the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, is scheduled for 1999, when a ...
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X Plane progress
The first wing assembly for NASA's Orbital Sciences-built X-34 spaceplane technology demonstrator has been completed in a major milestone towards the first air-launched flights next year. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, meanwhile, has invited proposals for Future X vehicles as part of the continued series of demonstrators to validate technologies ...
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Parc to float
PARC group, the Irish aviation recruitment consultancy, is to seek a listing on the London and Dublin stock exchanges to raise cash for its expansion. PARC, separated from Aer Lingus in a management buy-out three years ago, has grown rapidly, including a series of acquisitions. Annual sales are now running ...
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Piller takes over
Wolfgang Piller has taken over as chairman of the Eurocopter Deutschland supervisory board, succeeding Dietrich Russell, who took up the post of director general of Airbus Industrie on 1 April. Piller is a member of the Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)board of directors, responsible for external relations, and also holds the presidency ...
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Gemini to acquire four of BA's DC-10-30s for cargo role
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Gemini Air Cargo is finalising a deal to acquire four of British Airways' eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s, while the rest of the aircraft are expected to be placed with passenger airlines in the short term. BA's eight DC-10-30s are operated on its long-haul network from London Gatwick, but ...
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Design teams start work on 728JET engine development
Design teams from Fairchild Aerospace, General Electric, Hurel Dubois and Aermacchi are expected to begin the first formal meetings on the design of the powerplant for the 728JET this week, following the selection on 3 August of the General Electric CF34-8D. Although the -8D has 100% commonality in terms of ...
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China Eastern plans to begin conversions after cargo go-ahead
China Eastern plans to begin converting its fleet of five Boeing MD-11 passenger trijets into freighters from September 1999, following Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approval to establish a new subsidiary cargo operation. The carrier is understood to be in negotiations with Alenia-owned Aeronavali and the Boeing Aerospace ...
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FlightSafety Boeing picks London to be European training hub
FlightSafety Boeing Training International, a joint venture commercial training operation between FlightSafety Inter-national and Boeing Enterprises, will decide next month on the final location of a UK based $85 million European training hub. The greenfield site, located near either London Gatwick or Heathrow airports, will be the first of ...
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SilkAir investigations continue as pressure from lawyers mounts
Indonesian and Singapore authorities have indicated that the so far inconclusive investigation into December's crash of a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 is likely to continue for at least a further six months. At the same time, legal efforts in the USA are being stepped up to force Boeing to release information ...
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Uzbekistan Airways takes first production Il-114 turboprop
Uzbekistan Airways has become the first airline to take delivery of an Ilyushin Il-114 turboprop, with the handover of a production aircraft from the Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO). The airline remains the only firm customer for the type, which first flew in March 1990, and received provisional certification in ...
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Cathay makes history with first loss as public company
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways has posted the first net loss in its history as a public company, as the airline struggled with tumbling Asian traffic and plumetting yields. The Hong-Kong carrier announced a net loss of HK$175 million ($23 million) for the first six months, in stark contrast to ...
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Aeromet to Pacific
US aerospace components group Pacific Aerospace & Electronics has completed its acquisition of UK aerospace castings business Aeromet International in a deal worth $69 million. Aeromet brings annual sales of $49 million. Source: Flight International
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Financial crisis prevents GTK Rossiya carrying out overhaul work
Russia's presidential carrier, GTK Rossiya, is reported to have run out of cash to pay for the engine maintenance necessary to keep much of its fleet airborne. Rossiya, the corporatised carrier which handles Government transport, has eight of its 13 Ilyushin Il-62s and four out of 11 Tupolev Tu-154Ms ...
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MIG MAPO to unveil MiG-29UBT at Farnborough
MIG MAPO will unveil a two-seat MiG-29UBT multirole fighter at the Farnborough air show in September, says Mikoyan general director Mikhail Korzhuyev in Russian newspaper Nezavisimoye Voyennoe Obozreniye. The aircraft is a derivative of the MiG-29UB two-seat conversion trainer. Unlike the UB, it will have a fully combat-capable weapon ...
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Station approaches
Tim Furniss/LONDON Late this month, technicians at NASA's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, will begin interlinking International Space Station (ISS) components for one of the largest test operations ever conducted by the space agency. The test will imitate the assembly in orbit of ...
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Parts partnerships
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Fewer air carriers want to be in the business of stocking and maintaining huge inventories of parts, so they are looking to shift the burden to those companies which supply everything from bearings and seals to engines and airframes. "Until the early 1990s, the industry was more ...
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EC135 receives first combined recorder
The first prototype of a new combined solid state flight data (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) has been delivered by AlliedSignal to Eurocopter for installation on the company's EC135 helicopter. The combined recorder has been developed for general aviation aircraft and helicopters where weight and space is critical. ...