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Lockheed
Dr Hugo Poza has been appointed executive vice-president of Lockheed Martin company Sanders, of Nashua, New Hampshire. He succeeds Richard Reed, who is to retire. Dr Ehtisham Siddiqui takes over from Poza as vice-president and general manager of the Sanders avionics division. Poza, with Sanders since 1988, was previously a ...
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GE F414 qualification
General Electric has received preliminary flight qualification for the F414-400 engine, clearing the way for the first flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F in December. Two 98kN (22,000lb)-thrust F414s have been installed in the first F-18E. GE's $741 million development contract includes eight ground-test and 21 flight-test engines. Source: ...
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Lockheed simulation
Lockheed Martin has won a five-year $146 million contract to support US Air Force special-operations training at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The company has also won a US Army contract, potentially worth $500 million over five years, to develop distributed simulation technology. Under the USAF Mission Training Support ...
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Beech Scandanavian sale
Scandinavian regional Air Express has ordered a Raytheon Beech 1900D for delivery by the end of 1995, with an option for a second aircraft. The Norrkoping, Sweden-based airline operates Beech King Air 300s and Embraer Bandeirantes. Source: Flight International
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L-1011 replacement
Delta Air Lines chairman Ron Allen says that the carrier is "looking at" the Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 twinjets as potential replacements for its 56 Lockheed L-1011 tri-jets. He admits that Delta is experiencing reliability problems with the L-1011, introduced in 1972. Source: Flight International
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EVA order signed
Eva Air of Taiwan has formally signed a contract to purchase six McDonnell Douglas MD-90s. The previously announced deal calls for the delivery of the first aircraft in October 1996 and the final two by the first quarter of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Right Royal bid
Royal Aviation has made an improved, C$63 million ($45.9 million) take-over offer for Montreal-based Transat AT in a bid to create Canada's largest charter carrier, with a 19-aircraft fleet. Transat rejected Royal's original C$52.5 million offer. Source: Flight International
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Caribbean airlines make fleet plans
Graham Warwick/MIAMI NEWLY PRIVATISED Caribbean airlines Air Jamaica and BWIA International Airways are moving ahead with fleet replacements and acquisitions of local regional carriers. Progress was detailed at the SH&E/Airline Business conference on Latin American aviation in Miami, Florida, held on 2-3 November. Air Jamaica has ...
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Atlas conversion
Atlas Air of the USA has awarded Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) a contract to convert ten Boeing 747-200s to freighters over the next 24 months. The first aircraft, an ex-Alitalia -200 Combi, was delivered to HAECO on 1 November, for conversion to a full freighter. Source: Flight ...
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Strato 2C funding hinges on contract negotiations
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) is negotiating a new contract with composite-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob, which must be completed by mid-November to save the Strato 2C programme. Grob says that outstanding funding of DM46.74 million ($31 million) is being withheld by the German ...
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FAA independence plan faces veto
US TRANSPORTATION Secretary Federico Pena is to recommend that US President Clinton veto a measure that would take the US Federal Aviation Administration out of Department of Transportation control. The pending FAA Reform Bill before the House of Representatives would establish the FAA as an independent agency governed ...
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UK companies breached UN Iraqi Scud embargo
Alan George/LONDON A WEST LONDON trading firm run by an Iraqi-born Briton supplied Baghdad with 500 UK-made guidance systems for Scud missiles, worth about £6 million, an 18-month UK Customs investigation has established. The shipments were made over a three-year period ending in November 1991 - ...
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Israel fails FAA safety inspection
ISRAEL HAS FAILED an aviation-safety audit by US Federal Aviation Administration inspectors. The US agency is working with Israel to correct deficiencies. Israel's failure to meet International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) aviation-safety standards has earned it a conditional rating from the FAA - limiting operations to the USA ...
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BA's Marshall eases back into non-executive role
British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall is to hand over his executive responsibilities to the group's current managing director, Bob Ayling, on 1 January, 1996. Under the changes, Ayling becomes chief executive, and Marshall becomes non-executive chairman. Ayling is a solicitor who joined BA in 1985 as legal director. He ...
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Harrods buys Hunting FBO
HUNTING HAS announced the sale of its business-aviation unit, which runs fixed-base operations (FBOs) at London's Heathrow, Stansted and Luton airports, to the owners of the London department store Harrods. The operation, a joint venture with BP Oil, has been acquired for nearly £1 million by Harrods Holdings. ...
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Boeing triumphs in S African contest
BOEING HAS EMERGED as the winner of the South African Airways (SAA) aircraft competition with an order for seven 777-200s and two extra 747-400s. Engines have yet to be selected, says SAA, but the airline has asked for proposals from General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, with ...
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Anti-aircraft weapon
Raytheon and Rockwell International have been awarded contracts by the Pentagon to build a Small Low-Cost Interceptor Device (SLID) to protect tanks and other armoured vehicles against airborne attack. Source: Flight International
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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Europe remains a player
It was close, but Europe will have a place on Alpha, the international space station. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Perhaps it was the fabulously opulent setting of Toulouse's seventeenth century town hall that stimulated the eleventh- hour release of sufficient funds to guarantee Europe's future aboard the Alpha international space ...