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UK NATS trials raise fears over GPS reliability
Data from global-positioning-system (GPS) receivers are too unreliable to be used for sole-means navigation by aircraft, according to a study undertaken by the UK Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS). NATS made the claim after its own trials revealed problems with GPS "outages", availability and integrity, ...
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Snecma declines Trent 900 partnership offer
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat has rejected a Rolls-Royce offer to join in development of its Trent 900 engine for the forthcoming ultra-large capacity aircraft. "Our natural loyalties rest with General Electric," he says, adding that R-R is already a competitor on small, medium and large power plants ."It ...
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SATENA orders three Fairchild Dornier 328s
State-owned Columbian domestic airline Servicio de Aereonavegacion a Territorios Nacionales (Satena) has placed an order for three Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops as part of a fleet modernisation programme. The company has ordered the 328-120 version, with improved hot-and-high performance, to allow services to small fields at remote ...
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CAAC refusal on Airbus forces Xinjiang to turn to Boeing fleet
Paul Lewis/BEIJING China's Xinjiang Airlines is waiting for central Government approval to order up to 15 new Boeing 737s and 757s after being refused permission to purchase Airbus A320/A321s. The Urumqi-based carrier urgently needs new aircraft to revamp its fleet and to phase out older Russian-built ...
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Garuda to float shares in 1998
Delivery of A330s has been pushed back as Garuda prepares to float Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The long-delayed privatisation of flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is now planned for December 1998, according to the country's finance minister Marie Muhammad. The size of the initial public offering remains ...
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Meridiana fights for profit with cost cutting and employee share scheme
Meridiana Is Cutting Its DC-9 Fleet But Adding MD-82 Italy's second-largest airline, Meridiana, is fighting to stay in profit as high operating costs and declining domestic traffic threaten major losses in 1997. The carrier made a L25 billion ($16.5 million) pre-tax profit in 1995, but expects ...
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UNC grows again
UNC has completed the acquisition of the Stearns Company, a components supplier to Boeing in Seattle Washington. Stearns will be integrated into UNC's existing aero-structures unit which is also located in Seattle. Both companies have long-term manufacturing contracts with Boeing for the 777 and for the latest-generation 737. UNC expects ...
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Sextant Avionique pins hopes on its ATM business
Julian Moxon/Paris Sextant Avionique expects its fast-growing air-traffic-management (ATM)-systems business to net more than a one-third share of the market and add nearly Fr500 million ($100 million) in sales by the end of the century. Sextant and its parent, Thomson-CSF, launched a major initiative at ...
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Virgin Express plans 25-aircraft order
Virgin Express has opened talks with manufacturers over its fleet-renewal plans, which could see the European low-fares airline take up to 25 new aircraft over the next five years. The Brussels-based airline is looking at options to acquire Boeing 737-700s, Airbus A319/ 320s or McDonnell Douglas MD-80/95s, says ...
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P&W low-observable nozzle tested on F-16
Lockheed Martin has ground-tested a Pratt & Whitney low-observable axisymmetric nozzle (LOAN) on an F-16 and is planning flight tests. The LOAN, developed for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office, features shaping, cooling and coatings to reduce radar and infra-red signature. Improved cooling also promises to more than double ...
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MAPO MiG buys more Larzacs for MiG-AT
French engine manufacturers Snecma and Turboméca have received a contract for ten Larzac 04R20 engines from Russia's MAPO MiG, to power five prototype MiG-AT trainers. The aircraft, in competition with the Yakovlev Yak/AEM 130, will be delivered to the Russian air force for evaluation leading to Russian certification. ...
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems
L-100 Hercules The L-100-30 is the civil version of the C-130 Hercules military transport. It is certificated under US Federal Aviation Rules Part 25 to carry 97 passengers when appropriately modified or manufactured. The passenger version has structural re-inforcement, windows, additional doors and cabin amenities, plus ...
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Romaero
One-Eleven Series 560 Romanian manufacturer Romaero (formerly IAvB/Rombac) concluded an agreement with British Aerospace in May 1977 to acquire the production rights for the One-Eleven twinjet, and final assembly was transferred from the BAe plant at Bournemouth-Hurn to Bucharest, Romania. The first Romaero-assembled One-Eleven 500, designated the ...
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Shanghai Aviation Industrial (SAIC)
SAIC is the prime Chinese contractor for the TrunkLiner co-production programme with McDonnell Douglas, under which it is assembling 20 MD-90-30s for the Chinese market at its plant in Shanghai. Chinese industrial participation in the SAIC MD-90 programme involves three Chinese companies producing sub-assemblies - Xian Aircraft: wing ...
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SATIC Special Aircraft Transport International
SATICA300-600ST "Beluga" Super Transporter Development of an outsized version of the Airbus A300-600R to carry large aircraft-subassemblies was initiated by Airbus Industrie, which needed a replacement for the aging fleet of four Aero Spacelines Super Guppy turboprops employed to ferry sub-assemblies between the Airbus partner plants. ...
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Tupolev
Tu-154M The Tu-154M is the current production version of the 160- to 180-seat Tu-154 TriJet, which was first flown in October 1968. Initial versions (the Tu-154, -154A and -154B-2) were equipped with Kuznetsov NK-8 engines. The Tu-154M was announced in 1983, powered by Aviadvigatel D-30KU turbofans and featuring ...
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Aero International (Regional) (AI(R))
Avro RJ70/85/100/115 Avro International Aerospace's family of regional jets is marketed under the umbrella of Aero International (Regional), which combines the regional-aircraft activities of British Aerospace, Aerospatiale and Alenia. The RJ70, RJ85 and RJ100 were introduced to supersede the BAe 146-100, -200 and -300 respectively. ...
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Airbus Industrie
A300 Launched in May 1969, the 250-seat A300 was Airbus Industrie's first product, and the first example was flown from Toulouse, France, in October 1972. The first production A300 variant, the -B2, entered service in May 1974. The -B4 growth-weight version followed, while several F4 and C4 versions ...
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Antonov
An-70T The An-70T four-engined propfan-powered military airlifter became the first aircraft ever to take off using propfan power only, when Antonov completed the aircraft's maiden flight in December 1994. The programme was thrown into turmoil , however, after the fatal crash of the single prototype aircraft on 10 ...
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Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
First next-generation 737, a -700, is in final assembly at Renton, Washington British Airways has taken new Boeing 747s, 767s and 777s this year Boeing built 45 of the short-fuselage 747SP The 747 family is set to grow with two new variants, the 462-seat ...