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Japan and USA agree common ground
JAPAN and the USA have reached temporary agreement on outstanding route disputes in an effort to clear the way for broader negotiations on revising their 1952 bilateral air-services treaty. Under the deal, Japan Airlines (JAL) and United Airlines will be allowed to add new passenger services and ...
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DASA develops a towed radar decoy for Transall
Douglas Barrie /LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) Airborne Systems is developing a towed radar decoy for transport- and combat-aircraft applications, for use against radar-guided air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. The decoy has been successfully test-flown against monopulse radar emitters. In the transport-aircraft variant, the towed decoy would ...
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RAF will pull out of Germany by 2002
THE Royal Air Force is to withdraw its last combat-aircraft units from Germany by 2002 with the closure of RAF Bruggen and the relocation to the UK of its four Panavia Tornado squadrons. The decision to end the RAF presence in Germany was announced in the 1996 Statement ...
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Thrust-vectoring Sukhoi Su-27M flies
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW SUKHOI HAS BEGUN flight testing from the Zhukovsky flight-test centre, near Moscow, the first pre-production Su-27M (Su-35) Flanker variant equipped with thrust-vectoring nozzles. The aircraft, Su-27 number 711, had five flights in April, apparently with the axisymmetric nozzles in a fixed configuration. ...
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Phoenix survives scrutiny by VIPs
THE GEC-MARCONI Phoenix reconnaissance unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) survived a critical test at the end of April, when it was successfully operated at the British Army's Larkhill test range in front of an audience of key decision-makers. In the second quarter of 1995, GEC-Marconi was given 12 months to ...
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Defence cuts threaten Franco-German programmes
GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Ruhe is threatening that Bonn may have to "reconsider" its bilateral co-operation programmes if France fails to commit itself fully to its joint helicopter programmes. The French Government is debating possible cuts to the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 programmes, which Germany ...
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Boeing thrashes out offset with South African Airways
BOEING and South African Airways (SAA) are continuing discussions over the amount and method of paying offset counter-trade payments attached to the airline's $960 million order for seven Boeing 777-200s and two 747-400s, six months after the deal was signed in November 1995. Concern has been growing ...
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Bombardier regroups
BOMBARDIER IS TO reorganise, following the resignation of president Raymond Royer. The Canadian company is to split into five operating groups, each headed by a president. Robert Brown, president of Bombardier Aerospace, North America, (Canadair, de Havilland and Learjet) will be president of Bombardier Aerospace Group, which will now include ...
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Reconnaissance Office may get new Darkstar
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Congress may subsidise the cost of building a replacement for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III Minus Darkstar unmanned air vehicle destroyed on its second flight on 22 April, says US Air Force Gen Kenneth Israel, who heads the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO). ...
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Loral books five Ariane launches in $400 million deal
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL has booked a total of five satellite launches with Arianespace in a deal which could be worth over $400 million by the year 2000. It is the first block booking by a satellite manufacturer with the European launcher organisation. The first launch is scheduled for ...
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Doubts rock KLM and Northwest alliance
THE FUTURE of the transatlantic alliance between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines has again been thrown into doubt, following the apparent failure of the two airlines to agree on whether the tie-up should be expanded. The latest wrangle has reportedly prompted KLM to consider dissolving the ...
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IPTN founds German subsidiary for N-250
INDONESIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer IPTN is to establish a new marketing subsidiary in Lower Saxony, Germany, to promote its N-250 turboprop in Europe.The company is to be founded in co-operation with former Deutsche Aerospace maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL). Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed ...
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Unique Internationalism
THE UK'S OLDEST flying-training school is to close. Air Service Training (AST) blames not the now-ended airline recession, but its own regulator for allowing overseas schools with lower costs to train ab initio pilots for the full UK commercial pilot's licence, and its Government for giving UK students tax incentives ...
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DASA ready to finalise sale of Dornier unit to Fairchild
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) hopes to complete the sale of of its Dornier Lufthahrt regional-aircraft manufacturing unit to US manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft before the end of the month, according to Manfred Bischoff, DASA's president and chief executive. Speaking in Washington on 30 April, ...
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Boeing concedes defeat over China AirExpress
Paul Lewis/Singapore BOEING IS SEEKING alternative partners to develop a 100-seat aircraft, having conceded defeat in its bid to join with China in the development of the AirExpress AE-100 regional jet. The US manufacturer threw in the towel after Commercial-Airplane president Ron Woodard admitted that ...
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FiatAvio sells off its shareholding in IAE
FIATAVIO has sold its holding in International Aero Engines (IAE) to its four partners. The deal maintains the Italian engine manufacturer's place on the programme, but as a subcontractor rather than as a shareholder. The Italian company, which is in the throes of merger talks with local rival ...
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Powering into the future
Germany's two engine manufacturersstill have one programme in common. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace problem-child MTU Munchen and its upstart rival BMW Rolls-Royce, along with the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), are participating in a Government-sponsored research programme to develop technology for the next generation of ...
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Australia to make TCAS compulsory for transports
AUSTRALIA's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plans to order the use of the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS) for transport aircraft. CASA has circulated an industry discussion paper following a 1995 Bureau of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) report recommending that TCAS be compulsory for all public-transport Australian ...
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VIP Puma
Denel Aviation of South Africa has launched a retrofit VIP conversion for the SA330C Puma Helicopter. The six-seat luxury configuration incorporates additional soundproofing and carpeting. A range of technical upgrades is also available, including improved avionics, long-range fuel tanks and uprated engines. Source: Flight International
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Carbon customers
Three more airlines have selected Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for their Airbus aircraft. Vietnam Airlines has ordered new-generation Sepcarb III brakes for ten A320s. Belgian national carrier Sabena will use carbon brakes on its four A340s, while Turkey's Onur Air has ordered them for three A321s. The brakes for the A321 ...