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JSF infrared sensor
Northrop Grumman is to demonstrate a conformal array imaging-infrared sensor for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The Multifunction Infrared Distributed Aperture System will be flight tested in a Boeing TAV-8B in 2001. On the JSF, the system would have six staring-array, infrared sensors, each with a 90° x 90° field ...
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Name change
Jet Aviation's Singapore centre has changed its name from Jet Maintenance to Jet Aviation (Asia Pacific). The change follows approval by the Singapore courts for the Jet Aviation Group of Companies to operate in Singapore under its worldwide trade name of Jet Aviation. Source: Flight International
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100th Citation X
Cessna delivered its 100th Citation X business jet on 23 December, three years after the aircraft entered service. The twin-engined ultra-long range business jet was handed over to US food processing equipment manufacturer Townsend Engineering. It will be used to transport executives between its sites in the USA, Europe and ...
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Internet GV
Gulfstream Aerospace has sold a Gulfstream V business jet in a transaction conducted almost entirely via the Internet. The manufacturer believes the sale, valued at over $40 million, is the largest transaction ever conducted over the Internet, dwarfing the $22.9 million sale in October of a used GIV. The GV ...
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Test flights
Japan is to conduct two test flights of the uprated H2A launcher in 2001. The move follows concerns about the technical competence of the H2 programme after back-to-back failures last year, which caused the cancellation of this year's flight. The H2A, an H2 with new strap-on boosters and uprated first ...
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Hughes-JPL alliance
Hughes Space and Communications and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have teamed to develop and share guidance, navigation and control (GNC) technology for space applications. The alliance will lead to the partners developing and commercialising GNC technologies. JPL will use the new technologies in its space science missions, while Hughes ...
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Ready for work
The European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi Mirror (XMM) space telescope has reached its operational 7,365 x 114,000km, 48h-period orbit after four thruster firings. The XMM is "behaving better in space than all our pre-launch simulations", says Dietmar Heger, ESA spacecraft operations manager. Source: Flight International
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Thomson-CSF confirms Racal interest after Shorts swoop
Chris Jasper/LONDONFrench defence electronics specialist Thomson-CSF has taken full control of Northern Ireland-based Shorts Missile Systems (SMS), previously a joint venture with Canada's Bombardier. Thomson confirms that it has also bid for another UK player, Racal Electronics. Thomson-CSF has bought Bombardier's 50% stake in SMS, and becomes the sole shareholder ...
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In Brief
LOT qualifies for Swiss deal SAirGroup's $33.7 million purchase of a 10% stake in in the Polish flag carrier LOT was officially signed in November. The purchase will be combined with a share issue, increasing SAir's stake to 37.6%. Financial assets from the share issue, equalling close to $150 ...
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JetBlue prepares for February launch
JetBlue Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 and expects another one soon as it gears up for an early February take-off. The 10 aircraft to be delivered this year will sport three different livery patterns using various shades of blue - the favourite colour of chief executive ...
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Meridiana seeks strategic partner after labour deal
Italy's second-largest carrier, Meridiana, has appointed the UK's Lloyds Bank to advise it on seeking a European strategic airline partner. The airline's president Franco Trivi expects a deal to be agreed within six to eight months. Long-established Meridiana had run the risk of losing market share to new rivals, ...
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Peru's skies make room for another domestic starter
Yet another small airline has launched domestic flights in Peru. Aviandina, which won its operating certificate in mid-November, started flying a 10-city network from Lima the next day, using two leased Boeing 727-100s and one Boeing 737. This latest start-up brings to eight the number of local airlines scrambling ...
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Routes
Down Mexico way Continental Express, the regional subsidiary of Continental Airlines, plans to start a service from its hub at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, next March, subject to government approval. By adding San Luis Potosi, Continental and Continental Express will serve 18 destinations ...
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Virgin moves on Australia
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Richard Branson's decision to launch a low-cost domestic Australian airline is the biggest threat yet to the Qantas-Ansett duopoly During a whirlwind tour of Australia, Richard Branson announced that Virgin Australia would start mid-year with five Boeing 737s that could quickly grow. Focusing initially on the busy ...
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New Kennedy terminal opens
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC The west concourse of the new Terminal 4 at New York's Kennedy International Airport is set to open this January. The development was originally scheduled to open by the end of 1999, but managers of the existing terminal and the reconstruction project decided to ...
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China tax threatens leasing company growth
A new Chinese tax on aircraft operating leases is emerging as a potential threat to leasing companies hoping to profit from expectations that China's airline industry will grow at a faster-than-average rate over the next 20 years. The new withholding tax was quietly introduced by the Chinese Government, effective ...
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China, Japan go regional
NICHOLAS IONIDES ATI/SINGAPORE After their success in the USA and Europe, regional jet aircraft makers have at long last cracked two important, but untapped, markets in Asia - China and Japan. Hainan Airlines has become China's first carrier to operate scheduled regional jet services after receiving the first of at ...
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Investors emerge for Ansett New Zealand
News Corporation's efforts to sell Ansett New Zealand may have better luck with a new group of New Zealand investors than it has had over the past 12 years with Qantas Airways. News Corp and Qantas were unable to agree on a price, and there is no assurance the ...
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In Brief
Asiana offer Asiana Airlines expects to raise 375 billion won ($325 million) through an initial public offering of 50 million shares. Shares were made available early in December ahead of a listing on South Korea's secondary Kosdaq share market at the end of the month. Public and institutional investors ...