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Frontier lease
US start-up carrier Frontier Airlines has leased two additional Boeing 737-200s from GECAS, taking its fleet to nine. The Denver, Colorado-based airline has also completed a $3 million private placement to raise funds for additional aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Delta approves
Delta Airlines' pilots have approved a new four-year contract, which provides increased job security, and a seat on the board, in exchange for concessions to allow Delta to start low-cost short-haul operations to compete with low-fare carriers. Source: Flight International
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Water in space
The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory has recorded a space first with the detection of more than 20 water-vapour emission lines in the far infra-red spectrum around the pulsating cool red-giant star, W Hydrae, 300 light years away in the constellation of Hydra Transbrazil. Source: ...
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The X-prize
The X-Prize Foundation, has been established to find private benefactors, to provide $10 million funding to award to the first private team, to build a re-useable space craft to carry three people on a sub-orbital space-flight, "...doing for space what the Orteig Prize, "won by Lindbergh" did for aviation", say ...
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NATO Harmonisation
The US Department of Defense is drawing up requests for proposals (RFPs) for the equipment needed by Eastern European nations to harmonise their military and civil airspace-control systems. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are the first four countries to agree to step up civil/military and cross-border co-operation as ...
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Aviall sale
Curtiss-Wright has agreed to purchase Aviall's Miami-based Accessory Services business. The unit will become a division of actuator manufacturer Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems. Source: Flight International
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GE on F-15E
General Electric has completed qualification flight tests of its F110-129 engine on a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E at Edwards AFB, California, after 44h and 19 sorties. The programme was used to assess engine/aircraft handling, including tests at high Mach numbers and altitudes and manoeuvre transient testing during, which ...
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JPATS hydraulics
Raytheon Aircraft has selected Dowty Aerospace to supply most of the hydraulics system for the Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainer selected for the 712-aircraft US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) programme. The contract could be worth more than $40 million. Source: Flight International
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Concord cats
British Airways has ordered a Smart CATS automatic-test-equipment system from Israeli firm Rada, to support the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde. BA has previously bought two systems for maintenance of its Boeing fleet. Source: Flight International
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BAe
Allan MacDonald has been appointed managing director for marketing and sales for the Association of South-East Asian Nations and Southern Africa at British Aerospace. He was formerly director of regional marketing and, before that, managing director of Jetstream Aircraft. Jerry Wooding becomes managing director for marketing and sales in the ...
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Ansett NZ
Kevin Doddrell has been named chief executive at Ansett New Zealand, replacing Rick Ellis, who is to take up a senior executive position with Ansett Australia, based in Melbourne. Doddrell, a former managing director of U-Bix Business Machines, has acted as consultant to Ansett New Zealand for the past four ...
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Polar Air Cargo
Peter Hansen is named vice-president for Asia at Polar Air Cargo, of Long Beach, California. He was formerly regional director of cargo sales for the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico at American Airlines and, before that, he spent 17 years with Flying Tigers. Source: Flight International
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Simona
Sunjoo Advani has been appointed director of the International Centre for Research in Simulation, Motion and Navigation Technologies (SIMONA), of Delft, the Netherlands. Advani, programme manager (and primary founder) of SIMONA since 1992, replaces Max Baarspul. Source: Flight International
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Northwest
Northwest Airlines, of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, has appointed Jeff McClelland vice- president for system-operations control. An ex-US Navy aviator and with Northwest since 1991, he was most recently vice-president for planning and finance for the technical-operations department. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Gaylon Chamberlain has been appointed director of standards at Flushing, New York-based FlightSafety's Cessna Citation Learning Center at Wichita, Kansas. He was previously a simulator/flight instructor for the Citation. Harry Houckes becomes assistant manager of the Savannah, Georgia, Learning Center. He joins the firm from Mobil Oil, where he was ...
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MDC
Gerald Daniels has become vice-president and general manager of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 strike-fighter programme. He succeeds Michael Sears, who has been named president of MDC's commercial aircraft company. Daniels was previously deputy to Sears on the F-18. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon
Raytheon Corporate Jets, the UK subsidiary of Wichita, Kansas-based Raytheon Aircraft, has named Ian Atkinson manager of its new Hawker service centre at Chester, in the UK. He was formerly with Metro Business Aviation, based at London Heathrow Airport, responsible for engineering services. Source: Flight International