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* From 31March, KLM uk will withdraw all operations from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, including services to Southampton, London Stansted and Amsterdam. * British Airways' low-cost division Go is to expanding its services to south-west Europe, with new services from London Stansted to Faro and Malaga from the ...
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SPW14 team ups thrust rating
Paul Lewis/Washington DC Pratt & Whitney Canada and joint venture partner Snecma are to increase the thrust rating of the proposed SPW14 turbofan to compete for larger new regional aircraft, including the recently unveiled Embraer ERJ-170 and -190 developments. "We started at 12,000-16,000lb-thrust, but, as time has gone ...
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UPS goes with Pratt & Whitney PW4000
United Parcel Service (UPS) has choses Pratt & Whitney's PW4158 turbofan for its planned fleet of 75 new Airbus A300-600 freighters. It is the engine's first freighter application. The deal, worth up to $3 billion, is P&W's largest single sale of the 2.39m (94in) fan-diameter PW4000 engine series in ...
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America West pulls put of UAL talks
America West has pulled out of talks with potential buyers, including United Airlines (UAL), complaining that the "expressions of interest" received were "highly conditional". Chairman Bill Franke says America West will continue to go it alone as the USA's ninth largest airline, adding that he is confident that the ...
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Electro-magnetic launcher sought for carrier
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Navy (USN) intends to award competing contracts for development of an electro-magnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) for the planned CVX next-generation aircraft carrier. The first CVX, which would be capable of conventional take-off-and-landing (CTOL) operations, would be bought in the fiscal year 2006. ...
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Italy to buy more helicopters, fighters, for two-carrier force
Andrea Nativi/GENOA The Italian navy is to significantly increase its capacity to project air power in the next decade, with plans to acquire additional fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and new platforms for operating them from. It currently operates 16 McDonnell Douglas Harrier II Plus fighter bombers and two TAV-8B ...
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UK plans marriage for services' Joint Force 2000 Harriers
Howard Gethin/LONDON UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Harrier squadrons are to be reorganised into new combined strike wings for the services' new carrierborne Joint Force 2000 (JF-2000), in a move that represents the closest co-operation between the two services in decades. The merger of the Harrier ...
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X-32 meets JSF compliance target
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Boeing claims to have kept its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme on budget by balancing the cost of a revised preferred weapons system concept (PWSC) with savings achieved in the construction of two X-32A/B demonstrator aircraft. "We've had a management plan in place that has been ...
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Tomahawk Text
The US Navy successfully conducted a Tomahawk cruise missile land attack flight test on 22 February. Launched from a cruiser, the missile flew to a test range at China Lake, California, where it was recovered for future use. The USN is working on an upgraded weapon dubbed Tactical Tomahawk. ...
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Russia tests Triumph long-range SAM system
Russia is carrying out initial manufacturer's tests of the prototype S-400 Triumph air defence missile system at the Kapustin Yar missile range in Astrakhan. It will introduce the system into service later this year. Triumph, designed by the Almaz Central Design Bureau, will be offered for export as well ...
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Sikorsky considers heavier Super Hawk
Sikorsky is studying a stretched, higher weight UH-60X version of the S-70A Black Hawk to meet a US Army requirement to carry heavier loads. The stretched helicopter would have the same gearbox and rotor system as the Sikorsky S-92 Helibus, the first prototype of which is now undergoing flight testing. ...
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Tactical control tested with Outrider
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The Tactical Control System (TCS) being developed to operate the US Department of Defense's family of tactical unmanned air vehicles (TUAV) was successfully tested recently with the Alliant Techsystems Outrider. Two separate Outrider flights were conducted in early February at the company's flight operations centre ...
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TTTE Closes
The Trinational Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore is to close after 20 years of training pilots for the German, Italian and UK air forces. Over 3,500 Tornado pilots have completed the 13 week training course. RAF Cottesmore will become the home base for two squadrons of BAe Harriers due ...
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Heavyweights to contend supply contract
The US Navy will shortly issue fresh request for proposals (RfP) to helicopter manufacturers and operators for a three year vertical replenishment (vertrep) service to support the fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf. This latest vertrep contract, extendible for up to five years, follows a series of ...
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The cost war
Tim Furniss/LONDON European commercial space launcher group Arianespace is facing increasing challenges to its market dominance as the USA prepares to launch its new fleet of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs). The first flights of the versatile Boeing Delta IV and Lockheed Martin Atlas V-based EELVs are two ...
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International plans for Israir
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Domestic Israeli airline hopes to break into the charter business with a "flexible approach" to luring customers Israir, a small Israeli domestic airline, is preparing to go international. After years of operating domestic flights, mainly on the Tel-Aviv-Eilat holiday route, Israir is bracing for its ...
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Maintaining training
Andrew Doyle/FRANKFURT The introduction of new European regulations and the growing power of simulation technology were the hot topics at the Flight International-sponsored Aviation Maintenance Training Conference held on 15-16 February As pressure increases on aircraft maintenance firms to step up the quality of their work at less ...
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Power to the people
Guy Norris/PHOENIX AlliedSignal's RE220 auxiliary power unit is setting new standards in corporate aviation and is poised for big business in the regional jet market In a little over two months, the RE220 auxiliary power unit (APU) will make its first flight on Bombardier's Canadair CRJ-700 regional jet. ...
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AASI is on the brink of Jetcruzer certification
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) hopes to clinch US type certification for its Jetcruzer 500 low-cost corporate turboprop by mid-1999, with first deliveries beginning by year-end. The manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California, was originally due to begin deliveries by the end of 1998, but has suffered substantial delays ...
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Aeroflot Plus takes delivery of refurbished Tupolev Tu-134
Russian business aircraft charter operator Aeroflot Plus has taken delivery of a refurbished Tupolev Tu-134 airliner in corporate configuration. Sheremetyevo, Moscow-based Aeroflot Plus, a subsidiary of Aeroflot Russian International Airlines, operates domestic and international charter services for VIP and corporate clients. To date, the company has operated leased ...