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Rolls-Royce sets the pattern with spares deal
Rolls-Royce is changing the way it handles internal spares supply in a deal with outsourcing specialist Pattonair International. The initial agreement could lead to a wider tie-up, including the involvement of overseas operations such as R-R's US subsidiary, engine maker Allison. A memorandum of understanding has already been signed ...
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Controlling interest
Privatising the UK's ATC service is part of a world wide move to put control of the airways on a commercial footing Having swung between ambiguity and hostility over possible privatisation of the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) while in opposition, the UK's Labour Government caught everybody flatfooted ...
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Ariane 5 hit by W-2 withdrawal
Tim Furniss/PARIS Eutelsat has withdrawn its W2 communications satellite from the next Ariane 5 development flight, leaving the European Space Agency (ESA) to fill the void with a mock-up of the Aerospatiale spacecraft. As a result, ESA's Ariane 503 development flight this October will not carry a commercial ...
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MMS delivers X-ray telescope control system
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) of Bristol has delivered the $47 million Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) for Europe's largest spacecraft, the X-ray Multi Mirror (XMM) telescope, to prime contractor Daimler-Benz Aerospace Space Systems. The AOCS is the "heart of the mission" of the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM, ...
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On the horizon
The Inmarsat Council has approved steps to establish interim funding to allow for the start of the Horizons project in advance of Inmarsat's transition into a private company. Horizons will involve a constellation of four geostationary-orbiting satellites to offer broadband, high speed, mobile multimedia services. Source: Flight International
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CHC to float overhaul
Canada's CHCHelicopter plans to float all its repair and overhaul operations, to be separated into a separate division as Vector Aerospace. The helicopter operator expects to raise C$192.5 million ($132 million) from the public offering. It will initially retain a 20% stake, but plans for this to be sold if ...
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Heico buys again
Within days of announcing a major merger with French ground support equipment (GSE)company Teleflex-Lionel-Dupont (TLD), Heico has revealed two new cash deals to buy engine parts makers. It will pay $41 million for McClain International, which serves the general aviation market, and $15 million for PTM International, which serves airlines. ...
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IATA seals Afghanistan deals
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Afghanistan Government and national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines have concluded a series of wide ranging agreements with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to overhaul local air traffic communications as well as to improve aircraft and airport safety. Under an $8 million deal concluded with ...
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BA demands give Airbus and Boeing delivery headaches
Max Kingsley Jones/LONDON British Airways is entering final negotiations with Airbus and Boeing to acquire its new short haul fleet, but the two manufacturers are having to discuss deals with leasing companies to help them meet the airline's requirements for early delivery slots. The UK carrier is aiming ...
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Cimber picks ATR 72s in fight to win Danish rail travellers
Julian Moxon/SONDERBORG Danish regional airline Cimber Air is to expand its fleet with the purchase of ATR 72s and, eventually, regional jets. The plan follows the airline's sale of a 26% stake to SAS. The carrier has been linked with SAS since October 1995, operating feeder services into ...
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Lufthansa looks at cargo version of Tu-204
Sirocco Aerospace demonstrated the Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120C to Lufthansa in early June as a potential medium haul freighter for the airline's cargo division. Lufthansa is the technical advisor to the Sirocco programme, but wanted to check the freighter version's capacity to load/unload the containers and pallets used by ...
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Marketplace
-Air Macau is subleasing an Airbus A320 and five crews to TAP Air Portugal for six months during the period of the Lisbon Expo. The airline, in which TAP holds a 25% stake, has been suffering from falling demand on some Asian routes. -US Airways has accelerated deliveries of its ...
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New group set up for transpolar routes
The outgoing governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Central Siberia, Valeri Zubov, has established the Krasnoyarsk Aerospace Consortium to develop transpolar air routes to link North America with a range of Asian cities. It is also planning to develop new routes over the region linking Western Europe with Eastern Asia. ...
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Workshop
-Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO) and Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services have signed a memorandum of understanding to "-further define business arrangements" to incorporate GAMCO into its global engine support operation. -Rotables management specialist Arinmar has signed a three-year agreement with British Aerospace RegionalAircraft to manage the repair and overhaul of ...
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Airline comeback disguises Asian crisis
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Airline profits rebounded strongly to near record levels last year, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA),but director general Pierre Jeanniot again warns that margins remain too low and that the headline figures disguise the crisis still unfolding in Asia. The detailed figures, issued in the ...
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Aerospatiale continues work on long range UAV
Julian Moxon/Paris Aerospatiale is working on a follow-on to work on high altitude, long endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) in a programme, called SAROHALE. Delivery of the initial system is set for "around 2007-10", says project manager Philippe Matharan. The project aims to develop a fully automated twinjet-powered ...
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Supersonic rising sun
Paul Lewis/MITIKA Japanese engineers have long displayed a distinctive flair for futuristic transportation thinking. While there may be a tendency in the West to confine many such notions to the realms of science fiction, it is worth remembering that Japan is the home of the Shinkansen "bullet train" and the ...
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Countdown to Sea Launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON Paul Duffy/MOSCOW A precise satellite launch service to all orbital inclinations from a single location is something that, until now, no launch site operator could claim. Payloads cannot be launched into polar orbits safely from Cape Canaveral in Florida, for example, without flying over the USA. Meanwhile, the ...
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Cirrus SR20 flies closer towards certification
Cirrus Design flew its production prototype SR20 single-engined light aircraft on 3 June and is now hoping to receive US certification by the end of this year. The second and final prototype (C2), which will be the primary aircraft for testing the fuel, avionics and electrical systems, reached 135kt ...
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Corporate A319
Airbus Industrie has selected Switzerland's Jet Aviation and Germany's Lufthansa Technik as approved cabin outfitters for the A319CJ corporate aircraft. The European companies will offer a choice of six standard cabin layouts ranging from 10 to 39 seats, with prices starting at about $4 million. Source: Flight International