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UPS ups orders
UPS has announced orders for five additional Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Boeing 757-200PFs for delivery in 1998, which will bring its orders for the aircraft to 75. The express-parcels carrier operates more than 50 757s, including 35 powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW2000. Source: Flight International
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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Transatlantic target
European and US requirements will have a high profile at this year's Farnborough air show Douglas Barrie/LONDON THREE ISSUES, two of them involving programmes and the other industrial, will dominate discussions among missile vendors at this year's Farnborough air show: the USA's competition for an AIM-9 Sidewinder replacement; ...
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taylor's aims
EARTH OBSERVATION To develop a fully competitive commercial industry by 2005, with a supportive research-and-development programme, which will be driven by predicted market requirements. To secure continuity of global data for operational meteorology and climate monitoring and, by 1999, establish a better understanding among potential users ...
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Millennium Satellite
A UK SATELLITE, to be used by schools to enhance education and to stimulate interest in space science and the Earth's near-space environment, may be launched to celebrate the Millennium, with financial support from the Millennium Commission. The Millennium Satellite Centre has been established to build, launch and ...
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Talking business
The major teams will be at Farnborough, but without some of their star players. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOME OF THE business-aircraft industry's hottest talking points will remain just that at the 1996 Farnborough air show - talking points. For several reasons, many companies are not showcasing their ...
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BAe wins Nulka decoy contract
BRITISH AEROSPACE Australia has won a A$58 million ($46 million) contract to supply the ship's equipment component of the Nulka missile-decoy system for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The contract covers fire-control systems and launchers for the Navy's eventual eight Anzac and six FFG frigates. Australia signed a ...
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Estimated cost of Pentagon's weapons bill escalates
THE ESTIMATED cost of US Department of Defense weapons purchasing rose by $6 billion in the second quarter of 1996, from the $702 billion first-quarter estimate to a mid-year projection of $708 billion. The so-called Selected Acquisition Report summarises the latest schedule and cost estimate for the Pentagon's major weapons ...
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Better late than never
The Eurofighter EF2000 is expected finally to make an appearance at a Farnborough air show. Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE 1992 AND 1994 FARNBOROUGH air shows passed without the Eurofighter EF2000 making an appearance. The 1996 show will have not one, but three EF2000s on show, along with the ...
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Powering fourth
The Saab JAS39 Gripen remains central to Sweden's plans for a "fourth-generation"air force. Andrzej Jeziorski/SATENAS SWEDISH AIR FORCE chief Lt Gen Kent Harrskog says that the Saab JAS39 Gripen "-has actually given us a whole new air force". This new force, dubbed "Air Force 2000", is one ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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Developing power
New military engines, as well as old, will be under discussion at the Farnborough air show this year. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Andrew Doyle/LONDON IF THEY CAN MAKE themselves heard above the roar of the performing combat aircraft, visitors to this year's Farnborough air show will ...
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Offensive ambitions
After Eurofighter comes the Future Offensive Aircraft... perhaps. Douglas Barrie/LONDON A DECADE AFTER the baseline configuration for the European Fighter Aircraft was agreed, the Royal Air Force is behind a push to develop a next-generation - the Future Offensive Aircraft (FOA) - to complement that air-superiority fighter. ...
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RAF extends Tornado upgrade plans
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE has specified a further series of upgrades for its Panavia Tornado GR1 fleet, to be undertaken at the same time as the mid-life upgrade (MLU) programme, which takes the aircraft to GR4 standard. The additional work covers software and hardware upgrades, ...
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Former EBA team sets up long-haul charter
BELGIAN entrepreneur Victor Hasson, who established Euro- Belgian Airlines (EBA) as one of Europe's first low-cost carriers, is preparing to launch a new charter business based on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. Details of the new operation will be revealed shortly, but Hasson is understood to be considering a ...
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Australia and South Africa reach agreement on capacity boosts
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS AUSTRALIA HAS AGREED to several capacity increases on international routes, which will enable carriers to step up the number of services operated. South Africa and Australia have lifted capacity restrictions and approved codeshare arrangements between the two countries. This will enable a fourth ...
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Another Chinese launch fails
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) failed to place the Hughes HS-376 ChinaSat 7 communications satellite into the correct geostationary-transfer orbit (GTO) after launch aboard a Long March 3 from Xichang on 18 August. China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite's 24-transponder spacecraft was stranded in orbit, ...
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Korean Air plunges into losses in first-half
KOREAN AIR (KAL) plummeted into losses over the first half of the year, largely as a result of massive foreign-exchange losses from the steady rise of the US dollar so far this year. The South Korean national carrier made a net loss of 254 billion won ($309 million) ...
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STAe is back in the black
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) managed to show a modest profit for the first half of the year, boosted by strong growth from its restructured maintenance businesses. The group ended the half year with a profit of just under S$7 million ($5 million), turning round a loss of $47 ...
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Fourth Japanese H2 sends the Adeos into polar orbit
JAPAN'S ADVANCED Earth-observing satellite, the Adeos, and an amateur radio satellite, were successfully launched into 800km circular polar orbits by the fourth H2 booster from Tanegashima on 17 August. The 3,500kg Adeos, has a suite of five national and two NASA instruments, and one French instrument. It is ...