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Schweizer confirms bidding for Boeing civil helicopters
Schweizer Aircraft has confirmed its interest in Boeing's MD500 and MD600 helicopter lines and says it has submitted an offer. The Elmira, New York-based manufacturer is competing with at least two other companies, including rivals Enstrom, and Belgian Boeing helicopter distributor Heli Fly, which has bid for the entire ...
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Alitalia and KLM sign unity
Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM KLM and Alitalia signed a far reaching "master cooperation agreement" on 27 November, which, although it stops short of equity exchange, commits the two airlines to "uniting as deeply as possible". Alitalia managing director Domenico Cempella warns, however, that the airline, which is still majority government-owned ...
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Pilatus Aircraft seeks new owner in restructure move
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Switzerland's Pilatus Aircraft is being sold by parent company Oerlikon-Burhle Holding as part of the company's wider restructuring plans. "We would like to concentrate on our core high technology business and our intention is to separate Pilatus [and its luxury goods and real estate businesses] from ...
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French rethink could ease BAe/Dasa merger
Julian Moxon/PARIS France appears to be softening its position against a merger between British Aerospace and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) ahead of a three-way alliance which includes the Aerospatiale/Matra/Dassault group. Finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn has admitted to a parliamentary committee that an early BAe/Dasa merger, followed by inclusion of ...
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Lockheed Martin team agrees on JSF work
Carol Reed/FORT WORTH The Lockheed Martin-led Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team has reached initial agreement with its partners over workshare should its design be selected as the baseline for the next generation of aircraft for the US Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and potential international partners. Frank Cappuccio, ...
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Agusta takes Dutch NH90 assembly share
Agusta is to produce all 20 naval NH Industries NH90 helicopters for the Netherlands, following a Dutch decision not to proceed with local production. The deal is part of larger success for the Italian company, which now shares 32% of the production for the utility helicopter. The NH90 will ...
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PAL/Northwest talks cast doubt on Cathay bail-out
Andrzej Jeziorski/MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) has thrown into question Cathay Pacific's attempts to acquire a controlling stake in the debt-ridden carrier, by restarting talks with Northwest Airlines. Northwest has previously shown interest in PAL, as has Singapore Airlines, but talks with all other interested parties had been suspended ...
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Seven sign up as Awards sponsors
Seven of the world's leading aerospace companies have now signed up as sponsors for The 1999 Aerospace Industry Awards, organised by Flight International. Bombardier, CFM International, Lockheed Martin, Lucas Aerospace, Rockwell Collins, Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries have committed to supporting the event, scheduled to culminate in a gala dinner ...
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NASA slows down high-speed project
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NASA's planned development date for a High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) has slipped by as much as 10 years, to 2020, following an admission from the agency's High Speed Research (HSR) programme team members that the noise target is unreachable with current technology. "Noise is ...
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Canada aims to create more European aerospace partnerships
Canadian aerospace companies are seeking partnerships with Europe, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises, "-to smooth out our dependence on the USA", according to Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC) president Peter Smith. He believes that Canada's exchange rate, work skills and lower production costs offer good prospects for ...
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Airbus software
Northwest Airlines has agreed a deal to fit its fleet of 385 aircraft and 50 new Airbus A319s with AlliedSignal's new enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Deliveries start this month and are to be completed by the end of 2000. The company has also delivered its first multimode receiver ...
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Arianespace wins Japanese launch contract
Arianespace, the European commercial launcher organisation, has won a contract to launch the Lockheed Martin-built N-SAT 110 communications spacecraft, owned by Japan's Space Communications (SCC). The order brings to 38 the number of satellites on the Arianespace manifest and it is the ninth in 1998. The latest satellite and ...
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Mobile service for Eutelsat
Eutelsat has finalised a deal with Italy's Telespazio for control and commercialisation of the European Mobile Satellite (EMS) payload, developed by the European Space Agency and carried on the Italsat F2 satellite, pictured on a Spelda dual-satellite container before its 1996 Ariane launch. The voice, fax, data, messaging and positioning ...
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Boeing succeeds with fourth Delta
It was fourth time lucky for Boeing's Delta II on 22 November when the booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying Russia's Hughes-built Bonum 1 communications satellite. The launch had been ditched three times on successive days, starting on 19 November, by an engine gimballing problem, a communications glitch and ...
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Dispenser delivery
Aerospatiale has delivered to Starsem the first of six payload dispensers, each to carry four Globalstar satellites on launches of Soyuz boosters from Baikonur. The first flight is being planned for later this month. Three additional Soyuz flights were booked by Globalstar after the Zenit failure in September. Source: ...
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Zarya enters final orbit and waits for next components
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian International Space Station (ISS) control module Zarya completed its fifth and final planned orbital correction burn on 23 November, placing it in a 396 x 85km, 51°-inclination orbit. The module was launched successfully aboard a Proton booster from Baikonur on 20 November. The NASA ...
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Denel to expand helicopter activities in Agusta deal
Denel Aviation is to move deeper into helicopter assembly following its deal with Agusta to purchase up to 40 A109 twin turbine rotorcraft for light utility duties with the South African Air Force (SAAF). Although the deal, including the offset package, will not be signed until next year, the two ...
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Alliance fights for single engine change
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The international single-engined aircraft community has formed an alliance to fight for a change of rules in Europe on the prohibition of single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial aircraft. The European Joint Aviation Authorities is now reviewing whether to alter its longstanding opposition to single-engined IFR ...
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Nordam reveals 'single pivot' reverser design
An advanced "single pivot" thrust reverser design for corporate and regional aircraft has been unveiled by Oklahoma-based nacelle and reverser specialist Nordam. The Advanced Single Pivot (ASP) design is aimed at engines in the 2,000-10,000lb (9-45kN ) thrust range and, in some configurations, can be used to shape the exhaust ...
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A300B2/B4 retrofit provides global positioning capability
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON An electronic retrofit developed by Airbus Industrie for the A300B2/B4 twinjet, which provides increased efficiency and meets new navigation requirements, has been certificated. The B2/B4 variants - the first examples of the A300 to be produced - are equipped with analogue, electromechanical-instrument cockpits and, with a few ...