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Spinetta takes the Air France helm
Jean-CYRIL Spinetta has been confirmed as the new president of Air France by the airline's board of directors, and has promised to "continue the strategy" put in place by his predecessor, Christian Blanc, who resigned over the Government's refusal to privatise the airline (Flight International, 24-30 September). Spinetta ...
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FAA conducts key wide-area augmentation system test
The US Federal Aviation Administration successfully demonstrated the wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) in Mexico on 23 September. In the test, a NAVCANADA Bombardier Canadair Challenger using the WAAS was flown on approaches to Tijuana International Airport. The FAA says the flight evaluation is "the first big step" towards ...
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AECMA uses figures to urge European shake-up
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA), making its debut as official provider of Europe's aerospace statistics, has added its weight to growing efforts to accelerate restructuring in the region. AECMA was relaunched and retitled in 1996 in an attempt to give European industry ...
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Cathay warns of a terrible year
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Leading finance houses are cutting their year-end profit forecasts for Cathay Pacific Airways by as much as 30% after a fourth month of sharply curtailed passenger traffic for the Hong Kong carrier which has coincided with its hand-over to China at the end of June. ...
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Single track
If the single-engined business jet is such a good idea, why are the big corporate-aircraft manufacturers staying away from it? Certainly, as a group, they have not shied clear of entering a new market when one has been identified before - even if not every manufacturer has entered every new ...
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FLA partners wait on Germany to confirm development funding
Julian Moxon/PARIS Optimism over the prospects for the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military transport is being tempered by continued uncertainty over the commitment of Germany, which has the largest requirement of the six partners. Doubts centre on whether Germany will sign up for its share ...
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Global Hawk first flight scheduled for November
The Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk high-altitude endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) will have its first flight in late November at Edwards AFB, California, says the company. The first flight of the Tier II Plus Global Hawk, now designated the RQ-4A, was planned for early 1997. The delay ...
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-as Gripen enters air force's combat aircraft inventory
The Swedish air force has completed its first base-battalion dispersed-operations exercise involving a squadron of Saab JAS39 Gripen aircraft, clearing the final hurdle to declaring the aircraft combat ready. According to the air force, the existing JAS39 Operational Test and Evaluation Unit will officially become the first combat-ready Gripen squadron ...
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GAO claims JPATS project is flawed
The US General Accounting Office (GAO) says that the US Air Force should rewrite the procurement plan for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) to give the taxpayer a better deal and create a more realistic training-aircraft requirement. The USAF is buying 740 Raytheon T-6A Texan II ...
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Malaysian programmes face delays after defence review
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Malaysian defence ministry is conducting a sweeping review of planned weapon procurements in response to a Government call to cut costs because of economic difficulties. Kuala Lumpur has instructed all ministries to make an immediate across-the-board cut of 2% in expenditure, as it ...
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RAAF 748 upgrade
British Aerospace Australia has won a A$22 million ($16 million) contract to upgrade the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) fleet of eight British Aerospace HS748s, which are used as navigator trainers for the RAAF School of Air Navigation. The project will update the navigation instructional suites on six of the ...
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Fiar for L-159
Italian companies Fiar, a unit of Alenia, and Finmeccanica have signed a $60 million contract with Boeing to deliver 70 Grifo-L multi-mode pulse-Doppler radars for the Czech Aero Vodochody L-159 combat aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Jayhawk finale
Raytheon has delivered the final Beech T-1A Jayhawk tanker/transport trainer to the US Air Force, completing a six-year, 180-aircraft production run. The T-1 is a version of the company's Beechjet 400A business jet. Source: Flight International
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UK will upgrade Omani Jaguars
Oman and the UK have signed a £40 million ($63million) deal to upgrade the Omani air force's SepecatJaguar strike aircraft. The project will see the aircraft brought up to the same standard as the Royal Air Force's Jaguar Standard 97 aircraft. It covers avionics and navigation upgrades, as well as ...
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RAF EF2000 BVR missile hit by further delays
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The UK Ministry of Defence has delayed by a further two years the in-service date (ISD) of its next-generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) for the Eurofighter EF2000. An ISD of 2007 is now expected. The lengthening delays to the BVRAAM project make ...
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Romania bites into Dracula
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The Romanian Government and Bell Helicopter Textron have been given a 31 December, 1997 deadline to obtain financing for the country's AH-1RO Dracula programme. The deadline for the deal, which gives Bell the right to buy 70% of Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR Brasov, which ...
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Matra BAe Dynamics secures Sea Skua Kuwaiti order
After a prolonged and highly charged competition, Matra BAe Dynamics has finally secured an order from Kuwait for the ship-launched variant of its Sea Skua anti-ship missile. Matra BAe Dynamics was competing for the Kuwaiti order in competition with Aerospatiale. The latter was offering a ship-launched ...
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Sweden funds JAS39 demonstrator-
AndrzejJeziorski/TROLLHATTAN The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) is to fund a flying technology demonstrator for future upgrades of the Saab JAS39 Gripen. Mats Hugosson, head of marketing at Gripen engine manufacturer Volvo Aero, says that the demonstrator will be flying in three to five years, and ...
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Italy and USA fund missile study
Andrea Spinelli/Genoa The italian and US navies are to launch a joint study into a future family of anti-ship and land attack missiles. If the study succeeds, the Ìrst missiles could enter service in 2004. The navies recently signed a memorandum of understanding covering a $2 ...
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A new vision in Rome
Kevin O'Toole/ROME It was something of a homecoming for Dominico Cempella when he was asked to take up the reins at Alitalia in March 1996. Having started out as a check-in agent at Rome Airport 40 years ago, he was now returning as chief executive charged with leading ...