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Korean Falcon up
Korean Air Lines has received a five-year, $10 million US Air Force contract to perform Falcon Up structural upgrades on Lockheed Martin F-16s at Kunsan AB in South Korea. Source: Flight International
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BAe sea skewered
The long-running battle between Aerospatiale and British Aerospace to sell anti-ship missiles to Kuwait has taken a further twist, with the Kuwaiti parliament insisting that a decision to award the contract to BAe be examined by the public funds protection committee. Aerospatiale has been pushing the MM15 missile and BAe ...
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Bedek approval
Airbus Industrie has certificated the Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries to perform heavy maintenance on all Airbus types. David Arzi, general manager of Bedek, anticipates that the approval will provide a potentially large market. Efforts are being made for work to be performed initially at sites in France and ...
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THY minibus
THY has added its first narrowbodied Airbuses with the lease of three International Aero Engines V2500-powered A320s from Orix (two) and International Lease Finance (one). The aircraft, which are subleased to the Turkish airline via Translift, are based in Antalya. Source: Flight International
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PNG crash
All 18 passengers and the pilot were killed when a Milne Bay Air (MBA) de Havilland Twin Otter crashed into high terrain north of Mendi, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), on 9 July. Preliminary reports suggest that the accident was weather-related. MBA suffered a fatal accident in Papua New Guinea ...
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Allied auxiliary
AlliedSignal Aerospace has launched two auxiliary power units for Airbus A319, A320 and A321 aircraft. One of the engines, the 36-300-4, is already available. This is an upgrade of the standard 36-300 incorporating new technology which includes a dual-alloy radial turbine wheel. The second engine, the 131-9[A], will be available ...
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Litton victory
Litton's victory in its laser-gyro patent-infringement lawsuit against Honeywell has been upheld, but Honeywell will get a new trial to determine damages, now set at $1.2 billion. A jury decided in 1993 that Honeywell had infringed Litton's patent for the coating of mirrors used in ring-laser gyros. ...
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Spanish 737 order
Spanish inclusive-tour operator Air Europa has ordered ten Boeing 737-800s, worth around $510 million, with options for two more aircraft. Deliveries to the Palma-based airline, which operates ten 737-300s and five 737-400s, will begin in 1998 and continue into 1999. Boeing has announced orders for 312 737-600/700/800s. ...
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Wideroe prepares for traffic expansion with more Dash 8s
NORWEGIAN carrier Wider¿e Flyveselskap has ordered a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop for delivery in the third quarter of 1999. The aircraft is part of a $40 million deal which includes two used Dash 8-100s and one used -300. The latter will be delivered by the ...
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Italian decline
Italy's beleaguered aerospace industry continued its steady decline in 1995 according to latest figures from the Italian Association of Aerospace Industries. Turnover stood at L7.4 trillion ($4.8 billion) in 1997, which the association says represents a real decline of more than one-quarter since 1990. Source: Flight International
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BA tones up alliance defence
British Airways' proposed tie-up with American Airlines could be the most scrutinised partnership in airline history Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON RARELY CAN AN AIRLINE alliance have whipped up such controversy. Since it was announced, the proposed tie-up between British Airways and American Airlines has been drawing unprecedented ...
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Air Malta outlines plans for Azzura Air
AIR MALTA has purchased two AI(R) Avro RJ85s to start its new Italian-based venture AzzuraAir. The airline expects to add a third aircraft to the order by the end of July (Flight International, 22-28 May). Joseph Tabone, the Air Malta chairman, says that he expects to launch AzzuraAir ...
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Koala cruise revealed
Douglas Barrie/London THE CONFIGURATION of Russia's canceled AS-X-19 Koala air-launched stand-off supersonic cruise missile has been revealed for the first time. Although the design of the AS-X-19 has previously been attributed to Raduga, it is more probable that the missile was designed by NPO Mashinostroenia. ...
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Taiwan offer
Bell is offering Taiwan's Aero Industry Development Centre licence-assembly of the TH-67 training helicopter is an effort to win a local military order for 30 machines. Bell president Lloyd Shoppa has met Taiwan's Committee for Aviation and Space Industry Development to discuss the proposal. Source: Flight International
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India and Russia close to Su-30 contract
Alexander Velovich/Moscow INDIA AND RUSSIA are on the brink of a deal covering the sale of up to 40 Sukhoi Su-30MK multi-role fighter aircraft. The Indian defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadam is quoted in Russian press reports as saying that negotiations to buy the Su-30MK "-are ...
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US Federal Court blocks JASSM
A US FEDERAL District Court has ordered the US Department of Defense to halt work on the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) programme. The ten-day temporary restraining order (TRO) was granted on 10 July, after Hughes Aircraft filed a protest over the Pentagon's selection of Lockheed Martin and ...
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Gulfstream courts USAF
GULFSTREAM IS offering the Gulfstream V long-range business jet to meet the US Air Force's Small VC-X requirement for two "intercontinental low-volume" aircraft to replace two Boeing C-137s (military 707s) used for VIP transport. The requirement calls for an aircraft able to carry a minimum of 12 passengers ...
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A321 ETOPS
The CFM International CFM56 and International Aero Engines V2500-powered versions of the Airbus A321 received 120min extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) European Joint Aviation Authorities approval in May. Meanwhile, the JAA has approved the A320 family's Auxiliary Power International (APIC) APS 3200 auxiliary power unit for 120min ETOPS. Source: ...
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FAA and NTSB continue to spar over FDRS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US PASSENGER airlines will be required to retrofit their fleets with enhanced flight-data recorders (EFDRs) within about four years under a US Federal Aviation Administration proposal. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meanwhile, continues to criticise the FAA for acting too slowly. ...
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ATR 72 report drives a wedge into bilateral certification
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON THE TRANSATLANTIC bilateral aircraft-certification process has been thrown into turmoil following accusations by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the French aviation authority and the ATR consortium were to blame for an ATR 72 crash in the USA in 1994 which ...