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Yakovlev dropped from Galaxy prototype work
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT company Yakovlev is to be replaced as the manufacturer of the fuselage and empennage on the prototypes of the Galaxy business jet being built in association with Israel Aircraft Industries. The Israeli Company is searching for an alternative-manufacturing source, with ...
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Norman floats Triloader freighter
AFTER TASTING success with the Islander/Trislander series of light multi-purpose aircraft, and failure with his subsequent Firecracker and Field- master models, UK design veteran Desmond Norman is trying again. His latest project, in which he is teamed with ex-Hawker employee Alec Clark in Clark-Norman Aircraft, is the Triloader, ...
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US improvement continues in GA
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE HEALTH of the US general-aviation (GA) industry continues to improve. Aircraft makers shipped 445 aircraft, worth $1.3 billion, in the first six months of 1995, compared with only 406 aircraft, worth $973 million in the same period of 1994. The industry rebound, ...
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ARIA believes the worst is over
Paul Duffy/SHANNON AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) could now be over the worst of the transition to market economics, suggests director general Vladimir Tikhonov, presenting the carrier's latest annual results. The 1994 figures show that ARIA's passenger volume fell for the fourth year in succession, edging ...
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Asiana invites bids for fleet expansion
ASIANA OF SOUTH Korea is understood to have asked Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to provide pricing for around 40 new narrow body and wide body aircraft for delivery from 1998/9 onwards. The airline has divided its projected future requirement between about 20 new 100- to 150-seat ...
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FANS datalink component becomes operational
A PROTOTYPE OF the new oceanic-sector workstation - the controller's link to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) - is now in operational testing at the US Federal Aviation Administration's Oakland, California, air-route traffic-control centre. The workstation, called the telecommunications processor, represents the first phase of the ...
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Taiwan carriers get ready for re-equipment
TAIWAN'S TWO major carriers EVA Air and China Airlines (CAL), are close to finalising orders for a total of up to 22 new 150-seat narrow bodies, as part of planned major re-equipment programmes. EVA is understood to be finalising the purchase of an initial six McDonnell Douglas (MDC) ...
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Japan/USA disagree on cargo agreement
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE JAPANESE and the US Governments have offered different interpretations of their recent air-cargo agreement, opening the door to possible further disputes in the future. According to Japanese transport minister Shizuka Kamei, the US Government has given a verbal undertaking to revise the ...
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China is poised to receive its first A320
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SICHUAN AIRLINES IS expected to take delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A320 by the end of July, following recent certification of the aircraft by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The airline still requires final approval from China's State Planning Commission to ...
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AL-41 engine problems are over, says Lyulka Saturn
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW MIKOYAN'S FIFTH-generation fighter, the Article 1.42, has been fitted with Lyulka Saturn AL-41 next-generation engines, with the engine-design bureau claiming that previous engine problems have been overcome. Victor Chepkin, Lyulka Saturn president and chief executive, says that the AL-41s installed in the Mikoyan ...
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Boeing/Lockheed show losses
THE COST of restructuring caught up with Boeing in the second quarter, sending the group to its first quarterly loss in decades. Merger costs have also left Lockheed Martin with a deficit for the quarter. Boeing ended the three months to June with a net loss of $231 ...
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Virgin to enter South Africa
Chris Yeats/MANCHESTER VIRGIN AIRWAYS is to enter the South African market in 1996, according to company boss Richard Branson. Speaking at the launch of Virgin's new scheduled service from Manchester to Orlando, Florida, he said: "We are 90% sure we'll be flying the route early next year." ...
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Aero Lloyd Selects APU
Germany's Aero Lloyd has selected Auxiliary Power International's APS 3200 auxiliary power-unit (APU) for 16 Airbus A320/A321s on order and six on option from International Lease Finance, for delivery beginning in January 1996. Source: Flight International
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DASA/Collins team succeeds with GPS-based landing tests
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH A TEAM FROM Collins Commercial Avionics of the USA and Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has carried out successfully what is claimed by the companies to be the first fully automatic satellite navigation-based landing. The trials were part of the Boeing-led GPS Landing System ...
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China continues airline constraints
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA IS TO continue its two-year-old policy of restricting the start-up of new carriers, while encouraging smaller airlines in financial difficulty to merge with larger operators. "We will not in principle approve new airlines. We are controlling the number of airlines very strictly," ...
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Daimler-Benz ex-finance chief blasts Dornier deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ'S acquisition of Dornier has been labeled "...the most miserable contract we have ever completed" in a fierce written attack on retired Daimler-Benz president Edzard Reuter by the company's former finance director. Gerhard Liener wrote a 76-page diatribe against Reuter after quitting the ...
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International Aero Engines
International Aero Engines (IAE), a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, is working with Calcor Aero Systems of the USA to develop a variable-area exhaust nozzle for IAE's V2500 turbofan. The nozzle will vary the exhaust-exit area by around 15%, and ...
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Klimov
Klimov manufactures the RD-33 low-bypass turbofan, which powers all versions of the MiG-29 fighter aircraft, and upgraded MiG-21s. The RD-33K is the latest version and is fitted to the MiG-29K and MiG-29M. Klimov also builds TV3-117 and TV7-117 turbo-shafts for a range of airframe applications. Source: Flight International
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MTU/Pratt & Whitney
MTU and Pratt & Whitney are jointly designing and developing the Mid Thrust Family Engine (MTFE) to rival the BMW Rolls-Royce BR700 series of engines. The MTFE family would eventually cover the 65-105kN range. With MTU parent Daimler-Benz Aerospace understood to be negotiating the sale of 51% of ...
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Emirates 'pauses for breath' before next spurt of growth
EMIRATES reports that its spectacular growth slowed a little during the last financial year, but managing director Maurice Flanagan promises that this is no more than a "pause for breath". Passenger numbers rose by over 12%, while cargo traffic grew by nearly 25% during the 1994/5 year. Flanagan ...