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-Egyptair has signed a firm contract with Airbus Industrie for four A340-600s, including two orders and two options. It will introduce the 400-seat, Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered A340 in 2003. -Southern Air Transport has taken delivery of a Boeing 747-200F, acquired from Northwest Airlines, which is being operated ...
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South African long-haul airline prepares to launch
A new South African airline, Air South Africa, plans to launch services between Johannesburg and London with a Boeing 747 during the third quarter of this year. Although Air SA's licence was approved by Pretoria's Air Services Licensing Council in 1997, the launch has been postponed twice after delays in ...
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Ratioflug grounded
The German civil-aviation authority (LBA) has withdrawn the operating certificate of Cologne-based Ratioflug because of unspecified financial problems. Ratioflug now has six months to bring its house in order, otherwise "one can assume that the company has ceased operations", says the LBA. The charter carrier operates two Fokker F27s two ...
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Myanmar F27 crash
A 20-year-old Myanmar Airways Fokker F27 600 suffered a fatal accident during take-off from Thandwe, Myanmar, on 28 January, killing 14 of the 45 people on board. An engine problem appears to have caused the aircraft to veer off the runway. Source: Flight International
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R-R reaches deadlock in Trent investment talks
Rolls-Royce has reached an impasse in its negotiations with Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) on taking a risk-sharing stake in the development and production of the new Trent 500/600/8104 engine series. The two Japanese manufacturers had hoped to sign memoranda of understanding with R-R for ...
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Routes
-Northwest Airlines is suspending its three-times-weekly services between Detroit and Seoul, South Korea, from the beginning of February because of the economic downturn in the region.. -Frontier and Mountain Air Express (MAX)will start codesharing on 4 March at Denver International Airport, Colorado. -Canadian Airlines and LanChile will begin an ...
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Crashed SilkAir 737 hinge bolt 'was installed'
Boeing says that an elevator hinge bolt, previously believed to be missing from the SilkAir Boeing 737-300 which crashed on 19 December, 1997, was installed at the time. In a letter sent on 27 January to all 737 operators, the manufacturer says: "An examination of the wreckage gives clear evidence ...
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Wexford adds to Embraer orderbook with letter for 40 ERJ-135s
Wexford Aviation has signed a letter of intent for 40 Embraer RJ-135 37-seat regional jets, worth $500 million. The agreement is similar to an earlier deal for 20 firm orders, with 20 options, for Embraer RJ-145 50-seat regional jets, worth $700 million. Greenwich, Connecticut-based investment firm Wexford plans to ...
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Workshop
-Pemco Aeroplex has been awarded a maintenance contract by Mesa Airlines to carry out line maintenance, technical support and transit checks in support of Mesa's Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets in operation through Birmingham International Airport, Alabama. -AeroCorp has signed a contract with Continental Airlines to undertake heavy scheduled maintenance of ...
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US airline profits are 'best ever'
The major US airlines ended 1997 with their strongest profits on record, but the celebrations were accompanied by the promise of more turbulence ahead, with the fall-out from Asian economic crisis and the prospect of a renewed round of consolidation closer to home following the Continental/Northwest Airlines tie-up. With only ...
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US giants digest their mergers
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON After five years of breakneck consolidation, positions are firming up at the top of the US aerospace league, but attention now turns to digesting the latest, and probably last, series of mergers and acquisitions. With the 1997 round of annual financial results, Boeing reclaims its position at the ...
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Boeing ponders Chinook cockpit avionics choice
Boeing Helicopters intends to select an avionics subcontractor for the $3 billion Chinook Improved Cargo Helicopter (ICH) programme in the next few weeks, following a bidders' conference early in January. Company sources say that Boeing wants to have identified its avionics provider before the requirements document and engineering and ...
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EF2000 is refuelled in flight for first time
The Eurofighter EF2000 test team has carried out its first in-flight refuelling trial, with Development Aircraft 2 being flown on an air-to-air refuelling sortie with a Royal Air Force BAC VC10 K3. Refuelling was carried out from both the VC10 fuselage and wingtip stations. The EF2000 also achieved Mach 2 ...
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IPTN battles to stay in RAAF light-transport competition
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Indonesian manufacturer IPTN has embarked on a desperate political campaign in an attempt to keep its CN-235-330 Phoenix in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) competition for a tactical transport. Indonesian science and technology minister Bacharuddin Habibie wrote to the Australian defence minister, Ian McLachlan, ...
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Russian air force chief overhauls merger plan
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Plans to merge the Russian air force with the country's air-defence forces are being overhauled by Col Gen Anatyoly Kornukov, the recently appointed commander-in-chief. Kornukov inherited the restructuring proposals from his predecessor, Col Gen Piotr Deinekin. While Kornukov, a former senior air-defence forces commander, is pushing ahead ...
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US Navy launches study to look into P-3 replacement aircraft
The US Navy has launched studies into a replacement for its Lockheed P-3 maritime-patrol aircraft. Industry was briefed in late January on plans to field a Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMMA) by 2015, to replace the Navy's land-based P-3s, electronic-intelligence EP-3Es, submarine-communications Boeing E-6s and tanker/transport Lockheed Martin C-130s. The ...
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Dassault for F-5
Northrop Grumman has picked Dassault Electronique as a preferred electronic-warfare supplier for proposed Northrop F-5 upgrades. The French company's EWS-A radar-warning receiver will form part of any baseline upgrade which is offered by Northrop Grumman. Source: Flight International
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Tanker savings
The US General Accounting Office claims that the Department of Defense could save as much as $209 million annually in Lockheed Martin C-130 and Boeing KC-135 costs - yet meet all mobility requirements - by requiring the US Air Force to re-organise the aircraft into larger-sized squadrons and wings. The ...
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Australia could issue Air 87 RFP by May
The Australian Army plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) by May for Phase II of its Air 87 programme to replace six Bell UH-1H Iroquois and 43 Bell 206 Kiowas with a common type. Manufacturers will have "three to four" months to respond. Speaking at a Shephard ...
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France reconsiders multi-year Rafale purchase to aid exports
Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Government is reconsidering approving a multi-year procurement of the Dassault Rafale multi-role fighter in its 1998 defence budget, to bolster the programme's ailing credibility in the export market. Defence minister Alain Richard told the French senate in December that the 1998 defence budget had "no ...