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Airbus will offer RAF early VC10 replacement option
Airbus Industrie is to offer to replace the Royal Air Force's Vickers VC10 tanker/ transport fleet as early as the turn of the century, more than a decade before the service originally planned to retire the aircraft. The consortium is preparing to submit an unsolicited proposal to the ...
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Malaysian F-18s arrive
The first four of eight Royal Malaysian Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-18Ds were delivered to Butterworth AB in late May. The remaining four will be delivered in August. Source: Flight International
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Turkish clearance
US manufacturers have been cleared to bid to provide Turkey with more than 100 advanced attack helicopters. The US Government says that it is in the US national security interest to provide assistance to Turkey. In 1996, political controversy over US concerns that they would be used against Kurdish civilians ...
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The cost of free flight
RUNNING an orderly air-traffic-management (ATM) system using airways, by definition, confines aircraft to a fraction of the airspace available. At a time when the skies are becoming increasingly crowded - particularly in Europe - any ATM system which fails to use all available airspace is, therefore, giving up part of ...
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Duncan Aviation completes Dassault Falcon 900 RVSM update
DUNCAN AVIATION has modiÌed a Dassault Falcon 900 business jet to comply with reduced vertical-separation minimum (RVSM) regulations now in force on North Atlantic routes. The update involved the upgrade of both air-data computers, a visual inspection of skin waviness around the pitot and static ports and a test ßight ...
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Paperwork holds up Il-103 sales
Russia's new light trainer, the Ilyushin Il-103, will realise its sales potential once outstanding certiÌcation paperwork issues are resolved, according to the aircraft's chief designer, Andrei Pupkov. The four-seat aircraft received Russian certiÌcation to AP-23 standards in February 1996, but to date just two aircraft have been delivered to customers, ...
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Kitplane popularity soars as sales increase
WORLDWIDE Kit sales could total around 7,750 aircraft annually by the end of the decade, according to research published by the US magazine Kitplanes. A survey examined the expected growth in sales of kitplanes and plans-only designs for 95 home-build aircraft manufacturers, around 60% of the industry, from 1990 up ...
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Kestrel funds
Kestrel Aircraft plans a public offering in 1998, to raise $30 million to build a factory able to produce up to 500 of its K-250 all-composite aircraft a year by 2001. Source: Flight International
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The necessity for European mergers
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) appropriately addresses the real problem of European aerospace-industry integration. This difÌculty is also highlighted in the problems surrounding Aerospatiale and the valuation of its intellectual property rights in the negotiations to formalise Airbus Industrie as a standalone corporation. ...
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Competition: or is it not competition?
Sir - Am I the only person to have identified a huge degree of inconsistency recently among European Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock and his cohorts in Brussels of competitive issues? As an example, following the Office of Fair Trading report into the proposed alliance between American ...
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BAe
British Aerospace has named Dr Geraldine Kenney-Wallace managing director and vice-chancellor of its new "virtual university" for the 21st century, which will use information technology for educational purposes. She joins BAe from the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has held senior positions since 1974. Source: ...
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RAeS
Stewart John has been inaugurated as president of the UK's Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) for 1997-8. John, with more than 40 years' experience in aviation, started with BOAC as an apprentice. Among the other airlines he has worked for are Cathay Pacific, Kuwait Airways and Malaysia-Singapore Airlines. He also spent ...
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KLM
The supervisory board of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines intends to appoint Peter Hartman, now executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, as a managing director. He has been with KLM since 1973. From 6 August, the board of managing directors will be Leo van Wijk, the new president and chief executive; ...
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H+S Aviation
UK engine-overhaul company H+S Aviation, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, has appointed David McRobert to the new position of marketing and business-development director. He was previously responsible for H+S' Pratt & Whitney Canada and Allison repair and overhaul businesses. Source: Flight International
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BAA
John Stent, managing director of airport owner BAA's proposed UK London Heathrow Terminal 5 project, has been appointed managing director at London Stansted Airport. He replaces Terry Morgan, who becomes managing director of Melbourne Airport, Australia, now to be managed by BAA-led consortium Australia Pacific Airports. Stent, who joined BAA ...
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C-S aviation
Jeffrey Erickson has become a member of the board of aircraft-leasing firm C-S Aviation Services, of New York, USA. He was most recently president and chief executive of Trans World Airlines, and started his airline career in 1969 as a senior engineer with Pan American World Airways. ...
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Twinjet
Andrew Lee, formerly with Falcon Jet Centre at the UK's London Heathrow Airport, has been named commercial manager for Twinjet Aircraft of London Luton Airport. He will be responsible for the lease of Twinjet's Boeing 727-200 and Hawker 800, and will also establish a corporate-aircraft charter sales division. Source: ...
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Associated Air
Louis Churchville has joined US maintainer and modifier Associated Air Center, of Dallas, Texas, to take responsibility for sales of corporate/VIP/head-of-state completions and modifications. He was previously senior director of sales and marketing at Aero, of Lake City Florida, and is a former vice-president for sales and marketing at Page ...
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Magellan
Satellite-navigation and communications-equipment manufacturer Magellan Systems, of San Dimas, California, has appointed Chris Carver marketing manager for aviation products. Carver, with Magellan since 1992, was most recently marketing manager for the CNS-12 avionics unit for two-way digital-data communications. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Greg Wedding has been named assistant manager at the Gulfstream Learning Center, in Savannah, Georgia, by FlightSafety International (FSI), of LaGuardia Airport, New York. Wedding, who served with the US Navy for 25 years, was previously assistant manager at FSI's Teterboro Learning Center. Source: Flight International