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Antonov rolls outfirst An-140 prototype
Anotonov is beginning flight tests of the An-140 turboprop following the roll-out of the first prototype at the Ukrainian design bureau's base in Kiev on 6 June. The An-140 is designed to replace ageing An-24s for passenger and cargo services, offering twice the fuel efficiency and range, as well as ...
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BA's Paris security dispute settled
British Airways says that it has withdrawn its legal action against Aéroports de Paris (ADP) for failing to provide adequate baggage check-in security at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)Airport. BA says that the action follows ADP's provision of a new passenger check-in location. The seven-week dispute, which BA ...
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Canada considers sanctions over US overflight charges
Graham Warwick/WASHington DC CANADA IS considering sanctions that could be imposed on the USA if it fails in legal efforts to ban overflight fees introduced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in May. Options range from levying similar fees on US airlines overflying Canadian airspace to asking the ...
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PW100 checks urged
Following an engine fire on 21 May in a Skywest Airlines Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, the US National Transportation Safety Board has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order an immediate one-time inspection of all Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 turboprop engines. The checks would ensure that the gas-generator case drain ...
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ICAO plans CNS/ATM implementation conference in Rio
ACKNOWLEDGING that financing the transition costs is the biggest hurdle to introducing satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic management (CNS/ATM), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) plans a conference on the subject in Rio de Janeiro on 11-15 May, 1998. ICAO president Dr Assad Kotaite announced the conference ...
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Bosnia ATC upgrade
Northrop Grumman is to provide Bosnia-Herzegovina with modernised air-traffic-control (ATC)equipment, including a monopulse secondary surveillance radar (MSSR). The US firm will also build an ATC control centre for en route operations. The MSSR is upgradable to full Mode S capability and the ATC centre will be equipped with the AMS-2100 ...
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SIAand Ansett study options for wide-ranging alliance
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is reported to be close to reaching a tentative agreement with Ansett on a potentially wide-ranging alliance, encompassing commercial co-operation and the possible purchase of equity in the Australian carrier. The two are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding as a first step towards ...
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Europe may offer solution to UK cargo singles ban
The UK Civil Aviation Authority concedes that night operations of single-engined commercial cargo aircraft could be accepted under new European regulations, provided that they avoid built-up areas. This comes despite the Authority's own recent legal victory upholding the ban on such flights in UK airspace (Flight International, 18-24 June, P5). ...
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Thomson-CSF and Siemens form ATM joint venture
Thomson-CSF Airsys and Siemens have formed a joint venture to offer air-traffic-management (ATM) systems in the market for "highly complex, integrated ATM systems". Thomson-CSF and Siemens have 60% and 40% stakes in the venture, Airsys ATM. It will be based in France, with operations in Australia, Germany, the ...
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Airbus and Boeing line up corporate battle
Airbus and Boeing are going head to head again - this time in the corporate-jet market. The European consortium has responded to Boeing's startling success with the 737 Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) by launching its new A319CJ (corporate jet). Airbus believes that, with Boeing, it can grab just ...
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Atlantic Coast Airlines raises cash for jets
ATLANTIC COAST Airlines (ACA) has announced a $50 million bond issue designed to help support the introduction of regional jets into the fleet and the repurchase of shares owned by aircraft manufacturer British Aerospace, which had been obliged to bail out the airline. Washington DC-based ACA, which operates ...
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Hainan plans public share offer
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Hainan Airlines is to become China's first domestic carrier to list on the local share market, with a planned stock offer to foreign investors on the Shanghai exchange due to be made by the end of June. The Haikou-based carrier expects to raise ´227 ...
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US Helicopter mergers
US market-analysis firm Teal Group forecasts that the four major rotorcraft prime contractors - Bell, Boeing, Eurocopter and Sikorsky - will reduce to three by 2006, with Sikorsky "most likely" to be absorbed by Boeing. Teal predicts sales of 8,190 rotorcraft over the next decade - 4,635 civil types worth ...
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BMW R-R signs up to power Tu-334s
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) has signed with Russian manufacturer Tupolev to power its Tu-334-120 twin-engine regional jet with BR710-48 turbofans. At the same time, Honeywell has signed an agreement with Russian counterpart Aviapribor to fit the US company's avionics into Russian-made aircraft, with the Tupolev Tu-334 as one ...
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Boeing boss casts doubt on MD-95
Boeing Commercial Aircraft president Ron Woodard has heightened the uncertainty surrounding the future of the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, saying: "I don't know what the contracts are like with the customer-we build a good 106-seat aircraft in the 737-600 that's doing well in the marketplace". Woodard has also expressed ...
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Customers flock to civil tilt-rotor
Bell Boeing has revealed that it has secured orders for 36 Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt-rotor aircraft from 25 customers. Included in the list of those which have been publicly identified are Canadian Helicopter, Helikopter Services of Norway, Helitech of Australia, Petroleum Helicopters of the USA and Sheikh Sultan Maohammed ...
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Lockheed Martin aims AEW C-130J at Europe
Lockheed Martin is pushing its airborne early-warning (AEW) derivative of its C-130J Hercules 2 to meet the needs of several European nations which need to supplement NATO's Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) squadron. Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey have been identified by Lockheed Martin as ...
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Joint venture launches Spartan upgrade
Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport Systems (LMATTS) has launched the C-27J Spartan, a substantial update of the Italian G222 intra-theater transport aircraft. The basic confiÌguration of the C-27J has been finalised, and LMATTS has begun announcing subcontractors. Where possible, the C-27J uses technology from the larger Lockheed Martin ...
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CASA launches stretched CN-235
CASA is to introduce a stretched, updated version of the CN-235 in 2000, as it seeks to capture a slice of the medium-sized military-transport market. The new C-295model incorporates a 3m stretch, increased weights and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127G engines to replace the General Electric CT7-9Cs which ...
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Dassault aims for century of deliveries of business jets
Dassault Aviation will deliver "more than 100" business jets over the next two years, says civil-aircraft director Jean-Francoise Georges. While refusing to comment on actual sales "-they are split about evenly between the aircraft we offer", he says that the market "-remains surprisingly strong. In fact, it is getting better ...