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Globalstar constellation grows
Four more Globalstar worldwide mobile communications satellites are in orbit following their launch aboard the second Starsem Soyuz-Ikar booster from Baikonur on 15 March. Starsem is a consortium involving Samara of Russia, Arianespace and Aerospatiale of France. The flight followed the first Starsem Soyuz launch on 9 February ...
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Air Anatolia aims to phase out A300s to reduce costs
Air Anatolia plans to phase out its fleet of Airbus A300s by next year and replace them with a mix of smaller types to reduce operating costs. The Turkish charter airline's deputy chief executive, Ahmet Karaman, says it wants to phase out its four 19- to 22-year-old A300B2/ B4s ...
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Airports
An Ogden-led consortium has been awarded a 20-year privatisation licence covering the international airports serving Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, Samana and Barahona in the Dominican Republic. The consortium, which includes Vancouver Airport Services of Canada and Italian construction company Impregilo, says it will spend $400 million on improving the airports. ...
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Boeing's Renton production rate goes up to 32 a month
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing's production recovery plan appears to be on track following the roll-out at Renton on 9 March of the first two Next Generation 737s, built at the record production rate of 24 a month. Added to the company's five-a-month rate for the 757 and the dwindling ...
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Bombardier aims for mid-2000 launch of BRJ-X regional jet
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Bombardier Aerospace expects to make a management decision to continue with the BRJ-X regional jet project on schedule at the end of 1999, but has slipped the full launch decision to the second quarter of 2000. The company had planned on a launch verdict around October ...
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GE starts flight tests of CF34-8C1 turbofan
The first flight tests of General Electric's CF34-8C1 turbofan for Bombardier's CRJ-700 regional jet began on 10 March, when the engine flew beneath the wing of the company's Boeing 747 flying testbed. The 90min flight from Mojave, California, evaluated baseline engine performance and marked the start of a 129h, ...
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Tour operator mergers spark charter consolidation
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The European Commission's decision to approve the tour operator merger of Thomas Cook and the Carlson Leisure Group is likely to result in further consolidation of the UK charter market in the next 18 months. Another major charter airline link-up could follow the merger of Air 2000's ...
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Deutsche BA ready to decide on changeover to Airbus fleet
Andrew Doyle/BERLINDeutsche BA will decide on its long-term fleet strategy by mid-year, possibly replacing its 18 Boeing 737-300s (above) with Airbus narrowbodies that are held on option by 100% owner British Airways. The German carrier is preparing to relaunch international flights, having built a 40% market share on seven domestic ...
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Loran-C reprieved as USA sets timetable for move to sole GPS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC It will take at least 10 years for the USA to complete its transition from ground-based navigation aids to the satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) for "sole means" navigation, according to US aviation officials. Meanwhile, Loran-C, which is operated by the US Coast Guard for en ...
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ICAO figures show improvements in safety
There were 22 accidents involving passenger fatalities on scheduled airlines in 1998 according to figures released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). This compares with 27 fatal accidents in the same category during 1997. Passenger fatalities last year were 909, against 930 in 1997, but ICAO points out ...
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Northrop offers partnership in pitch for Wedgetail
Northrop Grumman plans to create an Australian subsidiary, which will be known as Hawkeye Mission Systems Australia. The new company would form part of its joint bid with Lockheed Martin for the Royal Australian Air Force's Project Wedgetail airborne early warning and control requirement. The new subsidiary would ...
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Elegant stretch
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This month, Condor took delivery of the first 757-300, the longest single-aisle aircraft ever built by Boeing in Renton It has been a long time coming, but the stretched 757 is here. An astonishing gap of 18 years separated the launch of the baseline aircraft and that ...
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Aeroflot and BA sign co-operation deal
Aeroflot and British Airways have signed an outline agreement to co-operate. Aeroflot confirms the agreement, but has not released any further details. It is believed to outline terms of co-operation for the London-Moscow route, on which Aeroflot is facing growing competition from Transaero. A second UK carrier, British Midland, is ...
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Bombardier adds more names to Continental as launch nears
Bombardier has named further risk-sharing partners for its Continental business jet programme. Launch of the "super mid-size" Continental is expected by the time of the Paris air show. France's Intertechnique will provide the fuel system, and ECE - a Group Intertechnique company - will supply the electrical system. AlliedSignal ...
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Survey goes for Gold
Gold Air International has secured a contract from Ordnance Survey to undertake aerial photography missions across the UK. The air charter operator will use Piper Chieftains (above) and Aztecs based at Blackpool to undertake around 700h of air survey data work annually over four years.Source: Flight International
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Eaglet approval set back to later this year
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON EURO-ENAER has pushed back certification of its two-seat single-engined Eaglet trainer to the second half of the year. The manufacturer blames delays in the flight testing programme caused by "poor weather" and teething problems with European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 23 certification procedures. "We were planning to certificate ...
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Ab initio pilots just the job for Horizon
Seattle, USA-based regional carrier Horizon Air has arranged a supply of ab initio trained pilots, flying in the face of the US tradition of paying more heed to the number of log-book hours than to the type of training. Horizon has developed a "direct relationship" with the University of ...
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Inmarsat brings down satcom costs
Inmarsat has approved the launch of the Mini-M Aero satellite communication (satcom) service for corporate aircraft. Mini-M Aero, an adaptation of Inmarsat's Mini-M service for land mobile and maritime users, will provide satcom services for business aircraft users. The services will be less expensive than those available with Inmarsat's ...
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Mooney study resurrects plan to build pressurised piston single
Mooney Aircraft is considering adding a pressurised piston single to its line-up - 30 years after its last attempt to market a similar type, the Mustang. The Kerrville, Texas-based company has commissioned a feasibility study of the cost of development, which should be completed in the third quarter. ...
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Netjets prepares to add Hawker 800XPs to Europe fleet
Netjets Europe will take delivery of the first customer-owned Raytheon Hawker 800XP by the end of the month. The first core fleet aircraft was delivered at the end of February. "We hope to add four [of the 24 Hawker 800XPs] to the European fleet this year. The next will ...