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Ukraine International on course to make first profit
Forbes Mutch/KIEV UKRAINE International Airlines (UIA) believes that it is on course to post its first profit since starting trading at the end of 1992. The carrier also says that it is looking for investment from an airline partner. UIA deputy president Dick Creagh estimates that ...
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Expansion piece by peace
As peace settles in Lebanon, British Mediterranean Airways continues to carve out a niche service to Beirut - and beyond. Alan George/LONDON BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways (BMA) managing director Des Hetherington sums up his airline's underlying philosophy by saying: "If it is better than our opposition and ...
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Repairing the damage
Despite having its fleet scattered or destroyed during the Gulf War, Kuwait Airways has resumed successful operations. Alan George/LONDON AS KUWAIT AIRWAYS continues to expand its route network with new services to Chicago, Copenhagen and Malaga, using new Airbus Industrie and Boeing aircraft, it is hard ...
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Orenda aims at King Air re-engineing
THE FIRST FLIGHT of two aircraft types re-fitted with Orenda 600 piston engines made by Hawker Siddeley Canada will take place by the end of 1995, says Orenda. Orenda plans to deliver two development engines in November to Merlin Products, which will be working on a Beech King ...
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Bell/Allison team tests helicopter safety devices
BELL HELICOPTER and Allison Engine have started flight-tests on an AlliedSignal device which reduces rotor droop in helicopters. Rotor droop is similar to power hesitation in a car, which can occur after the accelerator is quickly depressed. It occurs when the available torque of a helicopter's rotor blades ...
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Ogling profits, not design
Sir - Good luck to Ogle Design ("Visions of splendour", Flight International, 13-19 September, P33). Whatever success it may achieve is likely to be pretty evanescent, given the greed of airlines and the penny-pinching attitude of so many passengers. Who can forget the fanfare which accompanied ...
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Dubai air show '95 preview
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH THE MIDDLE EAST celebrating its position as one of the fastest-growing markets in the aviation industry, it is not surprising that the fourth Dubai International Aerospace Exhibition, which opens on 12 November, is set to surpass all expectations. According to show organiser Fairs ...
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Making a comeback
Beirut International Airport is upgrading to meet the return of passenger traffic. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is benefiting from its first substantial facelift for nearly two decades, following the cessation of hostilities and the ravages of the Lebanese civil war in 1991. Up to $590 ...
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Embraer signs S-92 gear deal
EMBRAER DIVISAO EQUIPAMENTOS (EDE) has signed a $110 million contract with Sikorsky to develop the landing gear for the S-92 19- to 22-passenger helicopter. Sikorsky plans to fly the first of five prototypes in 1998 and certificate the S-92 in 2000. The helicopter is being developed jointly by Sikorsky, EDE, ...
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Uprated S-76C+ on course for November approval
THE IMPROVED Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter is on schedule for certification in November. A test-bed aircraft is being flown by Turbomeca with the up-rated, digitally controlled Arriel 2S1 engines planned for the C+ helicopter. It underwent a 150h endurance test in August. Certification flight-testing is to begin ...
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Latvian airlines plot new courses
THE NEW LATVIAN flag carrier, Air Baltic, started operations on 1 October, coinciding with the withdrawal of all scheduled-service licences from the Government-owned Latavio. Air Baltic, a joint-venture between the Latvian Government, Baltic International USA, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Swedish and Danish investment funds (Flight International, 6-12 ...
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Air New Zealand to start Sydney-Bangkok service
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) is to begin once-weekly Boeing 767-300 flights between Sydney and Bangkok from 8 November, under rights awarded before the Australian Government's freeze earlier this year on the granting of additional fifth-freedom rights to the New Zealand carrier. The new service follows the carrier's entry ...
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Lucas 'learns lesson' over US defence contracts
LUCAS INDUSTRIES admits that it has "learned its lessons" from doing business in the US defence market, following the heavy penalties imposed on its Western Geared Systems division (GSD) for failure to carry out proper test procedures on a US Navy contract. Reporting its 1994/5 annual results to ...
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Brazil's budget jet
Delivering on its promises for the EMB-145 regional jet is the first challenge for newly privatised Embraer. Graham Warwick/SAO JOSE DOS EMBRAER HAS YET to capitalise on the success of its EMB-120 Brasilia 30-seat regional airliner by bringing a second product to the market. Its first ...
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Dutch report criticises pilots
PILOT IGNORANCE of technical systems, poor asymmetric-power handling skills and inadequate cockpit-resource management (CRM) training have been cited in the official report into the 4 April, 1994, KLM CityHopper Saab 340B accident at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The captain and two passengers were killed and nine ...
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Lockheed Martin and AT&T enter high-power satellite market
Tim Furniss/LONDON LOCKHEED MARTIN and AT&T have joined Space Systems/Loral and Hughes in the bid to capture a newly emerging geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellite-communications market. The companies have filed applications to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate high-power, Ka-band satellite systems offering a ...
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Russian link with Australia studied
A RUSSIAN SPACE delegation, led by officials from the Russian Space Agency and Khrunichev, is to visit Australia in November to discuss joint space ventures, including a joint commercial project to launch Cosmos boosters from the Woomera rocket range, delivering small satellites to low-Earth orbit. Also being discussed ...
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Second Shuttle Mir mission scheduled
NASA PLANS TO LAUNCH THE Space Shuttle Atlantis/STS74 on 1 November for the second Shuttle-Mir Mission (SMM). The six-day mission to dock with the Russian Mir 1 space station, seen here from the Atlantis during the SMM 1 mission on 29 June, will include the debut of a docking module ...
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Inspection spacecraft under development
US COMPANY SPACE Industries is developing a free-flying, briefcase-sized, 6.8kg satellite, called the Nanosat, capable of carrying out exterior inspections of space stations with video cameras. The craft is powered by lithium- polymer batteries, has nitrogen-gas thrusters and miniature gyroscopes for attitude control, and will have an endurance ...
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Farewell pioneer
The US Pioneer 11 spacecraft has left the solar system, heading towards the star Lambda Aquila, which it will reach in four million years time. The spacecraft was used in the exploration of the planets Jupiter and Saturn in 1974 and 1979 respectively. Source: Flight International