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White knight rides in for Kiwi
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Kiwi International Airlines, facing permanent shutdown of scheduled passenger services after filing for bankruptcy-court protection, has been rescued by Wasatach International, a Florida-based investment concern. The low-fare US carrier, which filed for Chapter 11, on 30 September and forced to suspend, scheduled ...
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Lockheed Martin assembles F-22 fuselage
Lockheed Martin has assembled the fuselage of the first F-22 following delivery of the aft-fuselage section from partner Boeing. The aft section was flown in a Lockheed C-5 from Seattle to the Marietta, Georgia, final-assembly site on 16 October and mated to the centre and forward-fuselage section. ...
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PZL-Mielec aims to fly modified Iryda I-22 'by the end of year'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec is hoping to fly an upgraded prototype of its I-22 Iryda jet trainer by the end of the year, says the aircraft's chief designer Marek Potapowicz. The first upgraded prototype will incorporate aerodynamic modifications, but will not have the ...
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NH90 production figures shrink
Final planning figures for the industrialisation phase of the four-nation NH90 military-helicopter programme, reveal that the programme has shrunk from the original 726 machines, to 647, with delays to the in-service date for the French Army to 2010. The numbers, were given to NH Industries, in July ...
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Litening Zeiss
Germany's Zeiss is offering the Israeli Rafael Litening laser designator pod (LDP) to the Swedish air force, to meet its requirement for the Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter. Zeiss has already successfully teamed with Rafael in offering the Litening pod for the German air force's Panavia Tornados. Source: Flight ...
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France funds missile project
Julian Moxon/LE Bourget France is pushing on unilaterally with development of a next-generation family of supersonic attack missiles, despite serious doubts over Germany's commitment to the joint programme. France has awarded Aerospatiale a Fr1 billion ($200 million) pre-development project, dubbed the VESTA, to demonstrate propulsion ...
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JSF will save billions, claims Kaminiski
Up to $76 billion in development and operational costs could be saved by developing the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), says US Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition and technology under secretary, Paul Kaminski. Of the total, some $60 billion in life-cycle costs would be saved, said Kaminski, speaking at ...
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The tangled web
As free flight comes closer to reality, all parties involved in the concept find the final details difficult to agree. Julian Moxon and Kevin O'Toole/AMSTERDAM Few concepts have caught the aviation industry's collective imagination as strongly as that of "free flight". The prospect of aircrews being able ...
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CNS/ATM programmes in Europe
PROGRAMME FOR HARMONISED AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN EURO-CONTROL (PHARE) Aimed at demonstrating the feasibility and merits of a future air-to-ground integrated air-traffic-management system in all phases of flight. Now part of Euro-control's European Air Traffic Management System initiative. The last of three demonstrations in 1998 will include ...
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The big turnaround
A pilot shortage may be about to bite, but the major carriers are likely to be unaffected Karen Walker/ATLANTA It seemed almost impossible three years ago, but the airline pilot is a wanted commodity again. In the USA, it is believed that almost every major airline will ...
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Boeing adds to sales of corporate 737-700
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Boeing Business Jets has sold a corporate 737-700 to an unidentified customer. The order marks the first outside sale for the joint venture formed by Boeing and General Electric in July to market the new-generation 737 as a long-range business jet. GE launched the ...
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Automobile engine growth motors on
Rapid growth in the use of modified automobile engines to power amateur-built aircraft was a key feature of this year's US Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Copperstate Fly-In which, was held at Phoenix, Arizona, on 10-13 October. Tucson, Arizona-based SWAG Aeromotive proved the fuel economy of its modified Geo ...
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AlliedSignal puts GPS on the Internet
AlliedSignal Aerospace has introduced a system, which allows operators of its Bendix/King global-positioning system (GPS) products to download database updates via the Internet, rather than waiting for them to arrive on diskettes or cartridges. All GPS-based navigation systems require regular updates of the database to remain current, particularly ...
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Raytheon raises turboprop output rates
Raytheon Aircraft says that deliveries of turboprop aircraft increased in the third quarter, and it expects full-year shipments of all aircraft types to exceed its 1995 total of 409. Deliveries of 16 Beech King Airs and one Beech Starship took business-turboprop shipments for the first nine months to ...
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Bell-Boeing agrees civil tilt-rotor
Ramon Lopez/PHILADELPHIA Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, partners on the V-22 military transport, have agreed to agreed to build a nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor (CTR) aircraft aimed at the corporate market. The corporate aircraft, which will be powered by twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines would ...
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EC believes there is 'room for improvement' in open skies
Julian Moxon/PARIS Europe's air-transport liberalisation has resulted in cheaper fares, new airlines and more routes, but "-there is still room for improvement", says the European Commission (EC) in a report anticipating full liberalisation in April 1997. The EC says that it remains concerned about "excessive" ...
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Russia calls for industry help
Russia is considering protectionist measures to help bolster its ailing civil-aerospace industry and has called for specific support for the country's main commercial-aircraft and engine manufacturers. A Government meeting chaired by Alexei Bolshakov, the first deputy prime minister, on 19 October reviewed and approved proposals from a working ...
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MDC board approves MD-XX for airlines
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is understood to have given board-level approval to its civil-aircraft arm to start offering the MD-XX tri-jet family to airlines. A final board decision was due to be made at a meeting held at St Louis, Missouri, on 25 October attended by MDC president and ...
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Israelis offer Phalcon on AEW 767 to South Korean air force
Paul Lewis/SEOUL Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is offering the South Korean air force its Phalcon phased-array airborne-early-warning (AEW) radar system integrated on a Boeing 767 platform. The Elta system being proposed is based on the multi-sensor L-band Phalcon package already in service with the Chilean ...
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Air Transat takes TAP TriStars
Air Transat, will acquire two ex-TAP Air Portugal TriStar 500s early in 1997, to operate non-stop charters to Canada from Europe, including flights to the UK on behalf of the UK tour operator Globespan. A further two aircraft may be added later. The long-range aircraft will replace Air Transat's shorter-range ...