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Belgian police pick Explorer
BELGIUM'S Gendarmerie has selected the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) MD Explorer for its air component, which operates from Melsbroek air base, near Brussels. Two aircraft will be delivered in 1996, with a third on option for 1998 delivery. They will be used for police work throughout Belgium. ...
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USA and China sign new bilateral
THE USA AND China have agreed to a new bilateral air-services pact, which permits the first non-stop service by carriers of both nations. Northwest Airlines has been given approval to begin a thrice-weekly non-stop service between Detroit and Beijingon 1 May, while China Southern, based in Guangzhou, is ...
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Qantas leases Dash 8 simulator from CAE
QANTAS HAS SIGNED a ten-year lease with CAE for a de Havilland Canada Dash 8 simulator. The simulator will be housed at the Qantas jet base in Sydney. Three Qantas-owned regional airlines (Southern Australia, Sunstate and Eastern Australia), along with National Jet Systems, will be among the users, ...
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Airborne chooses 767 freighter
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US CARGO CARRIER Airborne Express has agreed to acquire 12 used Boeing 767-200s for conversion to freighters, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total investment of $600 million over eight years. The 767s will be the first wide-body aircraft operated ...
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Sabena engine deal
The Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company has ordered engine-test equipment for Rolls-Royce Trent 884 engines from Sabena Technics in Brussels. Source: Flight International
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FSI penetrates regional-jet market
FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit Air has ordered a Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet full-flight simulator from FlightSafety International (FSI). The simulator will be installed at the airline's ICARE flight-training centre in Morlaix, alongside an FSI-supplied ATR 42/72 simulator. Brit Air is the first Regional Jet operator to acquire its ...
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Second LM2E success gives China a boost
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA'S LONG MARCH 2E (LM2E) booster had its second successful launch within 30 days on 28 December, 1995, when it carried the Lockheed Martin-built US Echostar 1 direct-broadcasting communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The Asiasat 2, also built by Lockheed Martin, was launched ...
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Lockheed Martin inspects complex part inspection
Andrew Doyle/LONDON LOCKHEED MARTIN Tactical Aircraft Systems has performed an ultrasonic inspection of a large, complex, contoured composite component, by linking the inspection device to a computer-aided-design data file and generating a false external "surface". Components with complex external shapes are notoriously difficult to inspect ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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US airlines 'will make $2 billion'
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, ...
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KLM
P F Hartman executive vice-president for personnel and organisation at Netherlands national carrier KLM is named executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, replacing R G van Groenewoud, who is to leave the company. Hartman is replaced by, C van Woudenberg now executive vice president, for flight services. C J M ...
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DASA
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has appointed Karl Bross head of its Koblenz office. This gives Bross responsibility in particular for contacts with the German military-procurement agency, BWB. He succeeds Dr Heinz Westhoff, who is to retire. The office will now be supervised directly by DASA board member Dr Udo Pollvogt, who ...
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DARCHEM Engineering
DARCHEM Engineering has delivered the first set of thrust-reverser insulation blankets for Boeing's next-generation 737-700. The blankets were manufactured, in accordance with CATIA computer-aided-design data, sent to the UK company by Boeing. A suite of 15 "master" models, assembly jigs, press tools and inspection fixtures were then cast ...
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Beech reaches golden Bonanza
BEECH AIRCRAFT'S most successful light utility and training aircraft, the four- to six-seat Bonanza, has now been in service for 50 years. Since its first flight on 22 December, 1945, a total of more than 17,000 Bonanzas has been built, and the type is still in production, with about 100 ...
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France opens up internal routes
Julian Moxon and Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRANCE OFFICIALLY opened its internal air routes to competition from national airlines on 1 January, marking the final phase of the country's transformation to the fully liberalised European internal air-transport market on 1 April, 1997. All French airlines are now ...
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...
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Sogerma-Socea will lead Turkish F-5 avionics and structural upgrade work
Andrew Doyle/LONDON SOGERMA-SOCEA OF France is to act as prime contractor in the long-awaited avionics and structural-upgrade programme for the Turkish air force's fleet of 70 Northrop Grumman F-5A/B fighter aircraft. The French company, part of Aerospatiale, will perform the structural modifications and act as systems ...
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ANZ takes control at Air Nelson
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), has acquired full control of regional scheduled-service operator Air Nelson. ANZ previously held a 50% shareholding in the carrier. The move further tightens ANZ's hold on the local regional market in the wake of its deal to acquire a 25% stake in Australian carrier ...
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Finmeccanica and Fiat in engine merger talks
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA STATE-OWNED Finmeccanica is negotiating a possible rationalisation of the Italian aero-engine business with the Fiat Group. A successful outcome to the talks would see Fiat Avio merge with the smaller Finmeccanica operation at Alfa Romeo Avio. Previous attempts to marry the ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...