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Anglo-Tunisian venture to develop cargo trade
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE ANGLO-TUNISIAN all-cargo airline, North African Airlines (NAA), has received the first scheduled air-cargo licence in Tunisia. In partnership with the Tunisian Government, which has granted the airline important fiscal advantages, including waiving corporation tax for ten years, it has been charged with the ...
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Ethiopian Airlines signs understanding for Fokker 50s
NATIONAL FLAG carrier Ethiopian Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding for the acquisition of five Fokker 50 turboprops to replace its two 46-seat ATR 42-300s and some 18-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. Delivery of the new aircraft, which will be acquired on a ten-year finance ...
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Frontier lease
Frontier Airlines, the new Denver-based low-fare US entrant, is to lease two Boeing 737-300s from GE Capital Aviation Services. Frontier recently closed a public offering, which yielded sufficient financing to lease up to four Boeing 737-300s. The aircraft, which will go into service in November will join Frontier's present fleet ...
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Slovakia in MiG-29 deal
RUSSIA AND SLOVAKIA have concluded an agreement covering the delivery of a further seven Mikoyan MiG-29 single-seat fighters and one MiG-29UB two-seat trainer as part of a debt write-off package. The aircraft will be ferried to Slovakian airfields by December. The Slovakian air force took delivery of five ...
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BAe aims Gripen at Saudi Arabia
Douglas Barrie/LINKOPING SAUDI ARABIA HAS emerged as a key target of the British Aerospace/Saab joint venture marketing the JAS-39 Gripen fighter. BAe has briefed Saudi Arabia on an export derivative of the Gripen to meet its Northrop F-5 replacement programme. BAe has teamed ...
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Midway Beech 1900DS
Great Lakes Aviation subsidiary, Midway Connection, has taken delivery of two Raytheon Aircraft Beech 1900D regional airliners for use in a new code-sharing arrangement with Midway Airlines. The two aircraft will fly from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, to Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Source: Flight ...
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CF34 variant launched
The new, 3B1 variant of the General Electric CF34 turbofan, has been launched by Austrian operator, Tyrolean Airways. The Innsbruck-based carrier selected the engine to power four Canadair Regional Jets, the first of which will be delivered in December 1995. The -3B1 has a redesigned first-stage compressor blisk and more ...
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ATR supporter
DRS has signed a product-support agreement with TAC, the Belgian manufacturer of mechanical rods installed on ATR 42/72s. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA-based DRS becomes North and South American Product Support Center. Source: Flight International
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Export Credit
The UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department has completed its first loan securitisation to help finance the sale of an Airbus A330 to Malaysia Airlines. The use of securitisation deals, which opens new low-cost sources of financing from capital markets, is expected to grow, says ECGD. The £51 million loan for ...
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Lockheed Martin
Thomas Salvaggio has joined Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems as director of business ethics. For the past three years he has served as resident manager at the Lockheed Air Terminal in Honolulu, Hawaii. Salvaggio's responsibilities will include establishing an effective business ethics programme and monitoring the company's ethics help line. ...
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Honeywell
Gary Kivela has been named vice-president of engineering for Honeywell's business and commuter aviation systems. Kivela joined Honeywell - then Sperry - in 1966 as an engineer, and has held several positions in systems and applications design and engineering management. Source: Flight International
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MHI takes major share in Dash 8-400 programme
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE has signed up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as a major risk-sharing partner in its recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop programme. The Japanese company will be responsible for the design and manufacture of the aircraft's forward-, mid- and aft-fuselage sections, wing-to-body fairing, and vertical ...
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Europeans in split over Asian regional plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DAIMLER-BENZ (DASA) has withdrawn from the European team competing to develop a new 100-seat regional aircraft with China and South Korea, after failing to solve major differences with its partners. The German manufacturer could not agree on a common proposal with Aerospatiale and ...
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Aer Lingus withdraws its last 747
AER LINGUS WITHDREW ITS last Boeing 747 from revenue service on a Boston-Shannon-Dublin flight on 1 October. The 747 entered service with the Irish carrier in December 1970 and, since then, the three aircraft in the fleet have carried 8 million passengers. All three aircraft are now in storage. Aer ...
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Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS considering launching a family of stretched 747 derivatives in 1996 if market conditions are right. The possible introduction of the 700-seat aircraft emerged in evidence given by British Airways to a public inquiry on the expansion of London Heathrow Airport. ...
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Crack causes delay in Trent 777 ETOPS tests
THE START OF extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 is to be delayed by "two to three weeks", says the engine maker, after a seal crack developed in the low-pressure (LP) turbine. The crack, in the seal arm of the LP1 turbine disc, ...
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ValuJet goes back to MDC and Boeing as Airbus waits
VALUJET HAS re-opened negotiations with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing after failing to reach agreement with Airbus over the seemingly imminent sale of up to 25 A319s. The negotiations with Airbus, were expected to be sealed by the beginning of October, but appear to have foundered, primarily ...
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Shuttles mean business
CORPORATE SHUTTLES are becoming more commonplace, with the NBAA debut of a corporate version of the Saab 2000 high-speed regional turboprop. The aircraft was one of three ordered by General Motors to replace its aging Convair 580 shuttles. Inside, the aircraft is outfitted with 36 passenger seats instead of the ...
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Beware non-EU pilot licence-holders
Sir - Capt. Rackham would appear to be confused on the subject of licence validation within the European Union (Flight Inter-national, 20-26 September, P76). A European Commission directive in 1991 brought down his perceived barriers to the movement of labour within the EU. All EU licence-holders are subject ...
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Fibre-placement fuselage
PREMIER I FUSELAGES will be produced in two sections, which will be bonded together at the aft pressure-bulkhead. The skins are a sandwich of Nomex-honeycomb core between carbonfibre-reinforced plastic layers, formed on a wooden mandrel using automatic fibre-placement. First a bladder is slipped over the mandrel, then ...