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Prestwick incentive
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport in Scotland is trying to encourage carriers to launch transatlantic services from the airport by offering to pay them some £1 million ($1.6 million) a year if they make a five-year commitment. Source: Flight International
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Royal's fleet plans
Canadian charter airline Royal Airlines has sold its last five Boeing 727-200s for C$31.5 million ($22.6 million) to CLA Canada of Miami, USA, a company set up for the transaction. Royal will use the proceeds to help renew its fleet, and says that it is considering "a minimum of three" ...
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MAS Virgin freighter
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Virgin Atlantic launched a twice-weekly joint freighter service on 1 October. Source: Flight International
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Fast forward
Singapore Airlines (SIA) claims to have introduced the world's first video-and-audio-on-demand system, developed by Matsushita. The WISEMAN system allows passengers to rewind, fast forward and pause video programmes, as well as select and skip compact-disc audio tracks. SIA plans to fit the WISEMAN system to all of its Boeing 747-400s, ...
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Southwest quiets 737s
Southwest Airlines has increased its order for AvAero Stage 3 hushkits for the Boeing 737-200, from 20 shipsets to 33. Installation will be completed over the next two years, says Safety Harbor, Florida-based AvAero. Source: Flight International
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ISS modules
NASA has informally included Spacehab single and double modules on Space Shuttle International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, the STS95 and STS96 in October and December 1998, raising the company's hopes that it will be used widely on Shuttle ISS missions after the end of the Shuttle Mir Mission programme ...
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Lewis plunge
NASA's $64 million, TRW-built Lewis remote-sensing satellite plunged into the Earth's atmosphere on 28 September. The satellite went into an uncontrolled spin four days after its launch on 22 August aboard a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (Flight International, 3-9 September). Source: Flight International
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Launch date
The NASA/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite will be launched aboard an H2 booster from Tanegashima on 18 November, following delays to the launch caused by problems with the Engineering Test Satellite 7 companion payload (Flight International, 24-30 September). Source: Flight International
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Wallops contract
H&H Consolidated, Alabama, has been awarded a $25 million contract from NASA to operate and maintain the agency's Wallops Island flight and launch centre in Virginia. Source: Flight International
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Space damage
The Intelsat 605 satellite located at 24.5íW over the Atlantic Ocean has experienced a "telemetry deficiency" and will be replaced by the 603, moved from 34.5íW. The 603 will be replaced in turn by the 601, which moves from 27.5í, where it will be replaced by a newer Intelsat 7 ...
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Hughes
Marcy Tiffany has been named general counsel of Los Angeles, California-based Hughes Electronics, succeeding John Higgins, who is to retire. Tiffany also becomes a corporate vice-president. For the past six years, she has been US trustee for the Central District of California. Source: Flight International
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Sabena
Marc Petit has been appointed executive vice-president of finance at Belgian national carrier Sabena with effect from 20 October. He is to succeed Peter Ramel, who will take up other responsibilities within the SAIR Group. Petit was general manager of Eridania Oilseeds division of the Eridania Behin-Say Group of Ravenna, ...
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US Airways
Frederick Sine is Arlington, Virginia-based USAirways' new vice-president for line maintenance, in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of the carrier's fleet. For the past two years he has been executive vice-president of Atlanta, Georgia-based aircraft-parts supplier Avatar Alliance. Source: Flight International
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Rand
Natalie Crawford has become a vice-president of Santa Monica, California-based "think-tank" Rand and director of Project Air Force (PAF), one of its principal research divisions. Crawford, a Rand analyst since 1964, succeeds Brent Bradley as director of PAF. Bradley will work with Rand president and chief executive James Thomson on ...
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Northrop
Northrop Grumman has promoted three executives at its Commercial Aircraft division. Bill McKenna has become vice-president and site manager of the division's site in Milledgeville, Georgia; Tom Risley is now vice-president and integrated-product team (IPT) leader for empennage programmes, based in Dallas, Texas; and Mark Tucker has been appointed vice-president, ...
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Transworld
Components and spare-parts supplier Transworld Aviation, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has appointed Stephane Tillon business-development manager. He was formerly sales manager of a UK-based export aviation firm. Source: Flight International
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AAR
AAR Advanced Structures (ASD), of Wood Dale, Illinois, has named Ron Kelner president and general manager of its cargo-loading-system factory in Livonia, Michigan. He joins ASD from Outokumpu Copper Kenosha, where he had profit and loss responsibility for a $70 million business. Source: Flight International
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team GCAS
Teledyne Controls and Dassault Electronique have signed an agreement to jointly market and support the French company's recently developed Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS). Dassault will manufacture the GCAS and support the product throughout territories of the world not covered by the agreement with Teledyne. Source: ...
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Viking supports DHC-6
British Columbia-based Viking Air is to manufacture wing subassemblies for the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter under contract to Bombardier. The Twin Otter has been out of production since 1986, but has a life-limited wing. Source: Flight International