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SIA may beat Indian ban with support for new TATA airline
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has acknowledged that it has a provisional agreement with the TATA Group to provide technical support for its planned start-up carrier, despite an Indian Government ban on allowing any equity investment by foreign airlines. The company stresses that while SIA will provide "assistance and advice," the ...
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Funding cut signals end to Japan regional jet
Japan is preparing to call a halt to its long-running YS-X regional-aircraft study, with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) refusing to pump further funding into the project beyond the end of the financial year. The Japan Aircraft Development (JADC) consortium is understood to be drawing up ...
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Dasa achieves record figures
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has underlined the turnaround in Germany's long-suffering aerospace industry, revealing record sales for 1997 and promising profits across the group. Full profit figures will be revealed on 8 April, but Dasa chairman Manfred Bischoff claims that the results will exceed expectations, with every business unit back ...
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Boeing faces losses from Douglas Products
Boeing is to take a higher-than-expected charge of $1.4 billion to cover post-merger write-offs on the Douglas Products business, pushing the group to the first annual loss in its corporate history. The charge comes on top of the $1.6 billion already put aside to cover Boeing's own production problems, ...
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Continental and Northwest lead profit surge in USA
Continental and Northwest Airlines remained tight-lipped on their pending alliance talks as the two carriers led the US airline industry in a spectacular round of profit announcements destined to make 1997 the best year on record. Neither of the two airline managements were prepared to answer direct questions on ...
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SAS buys in Finland
In another twist in the fast-consolidating Scandinavian air market, SAS has put down a foothold in Finland with the acquisition of Air Botnia, a small domestic carrier with a fleet of five Jetstream J31s. Source: Flight International
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P&W's Eagle soars to bolster perch in overhaul business
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney expects to see its engine-services sales reach $1 billion this year as its Eagle Services business continues to expand in the repair and overhaul sectors. Eagle Services generated roughly $600 million in 1996, representing around 10%of P&W's sales, but will have added another $400 ...
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Snecma returns to profitability
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat says that the group is back in profit and may not need to pursue its long-running call for fresh cash from the French Government. He also confirms that the re-organised group is keen to grow. Final figures for 1997 are not yet available, but Bechat ...
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Fair enough ?
What is a slot, and why does the European Commission (EC) want so desperately to become involved in its future? A slot is not a physical entity, it is merely a permission for a particular airline to land an aircraft, or have that aircraft take off, at a particular time ...
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Boeing holds fire on Harpoon upgrade until export decision
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is awaiting permission to export the AGM- 84 Harpoon Block 2 before launching private-venture development of the upgraded anti-ship missile. An agreement on the missile's releasability is being circulated by the US Department of Defense, Boeing says, and the company has scheduled an internal review for ...
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South Africa lines up three contenders for fighter requirement
South Africa is expected to issue formal requests for information for its future combat-aircraft requirement to British Aerospace/Saab, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) and Dassault in March or April. The Dasa-led AT-2000 advanced trainer, the BAe/Saab JAS39 Gripen and Dassault Mirage 2000 are the three types shortlisted to meet its air ...
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Brunei clears deck for BAe deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Royal Brunei Armed Forces defence planners are expected to focus their attention on concluding a deal for ten British Aerospace Hawk 100/200 trainer/light-combat aircraft, after signing an order with GEC-Marine for three missile-armed frigates. The planned $300 million purchase of six Hawk 100s and four single-seat ...
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Lockheed Martin plans C-130J world sales tour
Lockheed Martin will launch a world tour with the C-130J in February in a bid to stimulate sales for the improved Hercules transport aircraft. The 15-week tour will be conducted in five stages, using a US Air Force aircraft which is not involved in the continuing commercial-certification flight-test programme. ...
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Iryda teeters as Mielec decides to sue Polish defence ministry
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec is suing the country's defence ministry over its alleged failure to stick to the terms of a contract to upgrade the I-22 Iryda advanced-jet-trainer. While Mielec declines to comment on the case, the ministry says that the manufacturer is claiming Pzl17.7 million ($5.5 million) in ...
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Lockheed Martin will offer Elta radar for Israeli air force F-16
Lockheed Martin is to offer the Elta El/2032 multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar as part of its F-16 bid for the Israeli air force's $2 billion fighter-procurement competition. The Israeli air force, say sources close to the competition, has made it clear that installing the El/2032 on the F-16 is a priority ...
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KTX-II faces new threat from cuts
South Korea's on/off development of the Samsung/ Lockheed Martin KTX-II advanced-trainer/light-combat aircraft is again facing the threat of delay, as the country's defence ministry conducts an across-the-board review of military expenditure. Seoul is cutting the 1998 defence budget by 10% after the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent $57 billion ...
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Pakistan threatens legal action on F-16s
Pakistan has renewed threats to sue the US Government for the return of $656 million paid for 28 undelivered Lockheed Martin F-16s. According to local reports, the Pakistani prime minister has approved plans to file a lawsuit in the USA within "the next few weeks". The US Department of ...
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Danish Challenger
Denmark has purchased a special-mission Bombardier Challenger 604, with options on two more, to replace the air force's Gulfstream IIIs. Bombardier Services will equip the aircraft for maritime-surveillance, search-and-rescue, VIP-transport and medical-evacuation missions and will train pilots. Source: Flight International
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An NMD test
An exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) infra-red sensor successfully detected a simulated missile warhead and several decoys launched on a specially adapted US Air Force Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile. The exercise was a crucial test of the troubled National Missile Defense (NMD) system now in development, and was the second ...
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Boeing tests F-22 radar against T-33 target
Boeing is evaluating the radar cross-section (RCS) of a Lockheed T-33 which will act as a calibrated airborne target during tests of the Northrop Grumman APG-77 radar under development for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor fighter. "We hung the T-33 in our compact range chamber and took measurements across a ...