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Flight sponsor
Pratt & Whitney is to sponsor Linda Finch's World Flight 1997 attempt to recreate Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight around the world. Finch will fly in a restored Lockheed Electra 10E powered by P&W Wasp radial piston engines. Source: Flight International
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Firefighting crash
A Canadair CL-215 fire fighting amphibian of Italy's civil-protection service crashed on 30 July while scooping water from a lake in Sicily, killing one crewmember and injuring the other. Source: Flight International
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Falcon approval
Dassault has received US certification for the extended-range Falcon 900EX business jet. The first three customer aircraft have been delivered to its Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre. Source: Flight International
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Threat warning
The US Army has awarded a contract, potentially worth $97 million, to Litton's Applied Technology division to produce APR-39A (V)2 threat-warning systems, for US Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The first contract, which is valued at $45.7 million, covers the production of 210 systems. Provision for a ...
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Nellis training
Cubic Defense Systems has won a modified US Air Force contract, now worth $43.6 million, to streamline and accelerate the upgrade work on the Nellis Air Combat Training System. Under the $18.7 million modification to the original contract, completion will now be brought forward by five months, to April 1998. ...
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Litton contract
Litton's Guidance and Control Systems division has won a $41.3 million US Navy contract to support and repair ASN-92(V) inertial-navigation systems on carrier-based Northrop Grumman F-14s and E-2Cs, as well as Lockheed Martin S-3s. Source: Flight International
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Trent 900 partners
Rolls-Royce has asked Kawasaki Heavy Industries to join its planned new Trent 900 engine programme to power the proposed Boeing 747-500/600X growth aircraft. The Japanese manufacturer maintains a close re- lationship with R-R and has a 3% risk-and-revenue sharing interest in existing Trent 700/800 engines. Snecma, a partner with General ...
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Asiana leases
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has leased two new 737-400s to Asiana Airlines of South Korea. The aircraft will be delivered in February and October 1997 on six-year leases and will take the total number of ILFC aircraft operated by Asiana to seven. Source: Flight International
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TWA 757 services
TWA put the first of 20 new 180-seat Boeing 757s into service on 1 August, operating between St Louis, Missouri and Orange County, California. The aircraft is one of three 757s which TWA will take in 1996 on ten-year leases from International Lease Finance (ILFC). Seven more ILFC 757s, plus ...
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Caribbean accident
An AeroCaribe de Havilland Canada Twin Otter crashed in jungle some 20m (65ft) short of the airfield at Playa del Carmen, Yucatan, Mexico, killing one passenger and injuring badly the other 16 on board. One of the pilots reported that a flying-control cable appeared to have failed. ...
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Yunnan's Rolls
Yunnan Airlines of China has taken delivery of its first Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Boeing 767-300, becoming only the second operator of the R-R-powered aircraft, after British Airways. The Kunming-based regional carrier ordered three aircraft in January 1995 in exchange for an earlier order for 757s. The second 767, is scheduled for ...
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Dragonair to Taiwan
After months of delay, Dragonair has initiated its first thrice-daily service between Hong Kong and Kaohsiung in Taiwan. The airline has added a fourth leased Airbus Industrie A330-300 to its fleet for the new route. Under a recently announced agreement with China, it will also launch a new service to ...
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Hot and high
A hot-and-high trials programme for the Perm PS-90A-powered Tupolev Tu-204 airliner was completed in Iran in July. Clearance should pave the way for full Russian certification to be awarded, following the limited approval it received in late 1994. The aircraft has been equipped with a modified version of the PS-90A, ...
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Powering ahead
Matra Marconi Space has introduced a new high-power satellite bus, the Eurostar 3000. Tim Furniss/LONDON MATRA MARCONI SPACE (MMS) has introduced a new spacecraft bus, the Eurostar 3000, designed to play a leading role in the rapidly emerging Global Information Infrastructure (GII), delivering broadband multimedia, advanced hand-held ...
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Charter house
Air London is the one of the largest business air-charter brokers. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AIR LONDON INTERNATIONAL, the UK-based aircraft-charter broker, has grown from modest beginnings at Gatwick over 35 years ago, to become a leading player in the arrangement and management of corporate-aircraft charters. In ...
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Egypt checks up on Russian anti-missile
EGYPT IS CONSIDERING purchasing the Russian made, S-300 PMU-1 anti-tactical ballistic-missile system. Middle East sources say that Egypt is making a renewed effort to increase its tactical-ballistic-missile capability and, at the same time, to enhance its defensive capability against such missiles. In recent months, the North ...
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BAe will offer HUMS on Hawks
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE plans to offer a health-and-usage monitoring system (HUMS) on the latest version of its Hawk advanced training aircraft. The UK company has awarded Analysis Management & Systems (AMS) of South Africa a one-year contract to develop and integrate the system. The ...
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Rockwell directs GPS warfare trial
A NEW TERM has entered the military lexicon, with the award of a $3 million contract to Rockwell, to study ways in, which US and Allied forces can use the global-positioning system (GPS) for "navigation warfare". The 13-month navigation-warfare study, scheduled to begin in August, "-will address methods ...
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Air Nostrum plans for expansion
AIR NOSTRUM may acquire a small fleet of regional-jet aircraft to enable it to expand its European network. The Spanish regional carrier, based in Valencia, flies seven leased Fokker 50s on a network of scheduled routes, within mainland Spain and to the Balearic Islands. Two more Fokker 50s ...