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737 Directive
The US Federal Aviation Administration has given affected airlines 60 days to inspect boost pump wiring on Boeing 737s which have logged 20,000-30,000 flight hours. It also ordered installation of an extra layer of Teflon sleeving to protect the fuel pump wires. The order affects 737-100-500 series. The FAA estimates ...
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FAA appointment
The US Federal Aviation Administration's Thomas McSweeny has been given the job of associate administrator for regulation and certification. He replaces Guy Gardner, the former astronaut, who quit the US aviation agency to pursue a career as a motivational speaker. Since 1993, McSweeny served as director of the FAA's Aircraft ...
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Routes
-Korean Air and Air France have signed a codeshare deal on flights between Paris and Seoul. The two carriers now operate six weekly flights, of which five will be codeshare services. -All Nippon Airways is seeking permission to open a new non-stop daily service from Tokyo to San Francisco, using ...
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SAS thinks over airliner options
Julian Moxon/PARIS SAS says it could decide "by the end of the year" on its next airliner purchases, following the September delivery of its first Next Generation Boeing 737. The Scandinavian airline is looking at replacing its 14 200-seat Boeing 767-300ERs with the Boeing 777 or a mix ...
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Southern Air ceases operations
Financially troubled US cargo carrier Southern Air Transport (SAT), which has been up for sale for some time, ceased operations on 25 September. The airline plans to liquidate assets as it contemplates filing for bankruptcy protection from creditors. The end came after first Fine Air Services, and then Kitty ...
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MD-11 wreckage yields clues but not answers
David Learmount/LONDON Any remaining doubt about whether the crew of the stricken Swissair Boeing MD-11 was attempting a ditching has now been eliminated by examination of wreckage on the seabed. Investigators have found that the aircraft, when it hit the water at night off Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2 ...
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European powerhouse
Carol Reed/LONDON While chief aerospace and defence players wrestle with complex super-mergers, second tier aerospace supplier, Anglo-French group Avicore, is planning its own expansion and has a European powerhouse for tactical reconnaissance, airborne data acquisition and recording systems and countermeasures in mind. After acquiring UK-based specialist tactical reconnaissance and ...
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AMR searches for a buyer for its fixed-base operations chain
American Airlines' parent company AMR has put its AMR Combs fixed-base operation (FBO) network up for sale along with its AMR Services and TeleService Resources units. The company says it wants to focus on its core airline and Sabre computer reservations businesses. AMR acquired the Combs Gates network of ...
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Falling shares delay privatisation plans
The turmoil in the world's stock markets is finally starting to catch up with the airline industry. Tumbling share prices have forced the Austrian Government to delay plans to reduce its holdings in Austrian Airlines (AUA) with a Sch800 million ($68 million) capital increase. The decision places a question ...
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Bear markets
With the bears now firmly in control of every stock market in the world, any sane government thinking of selling off its state-owned airline should be reaching for the telephone to inform its financial advisors to put away the sale prospectus until the bulls are back in control of share ...
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Bidders cry foul on UK tender
Howard Gethin/LONDON BIDDERS for the Royal Air Forces' Short Term Strategic Airlifter Requirement are considering whether it is worth responding to a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) invitation to tender, believing the requirement can only be met by one contender, the Boeing C-17. "We are examining the wording ...
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Boeing wins C-130 support contract
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Boeing a $1.2 billion, 10-year contract to support variants of the Lockheed Martin C-130 operated by US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). The Integrated Weapon System Support Programme (IWSSP) covers repair, maintenance, modification and upgrade of ...
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First WAH-64 flies
The first production WAH-64 Apache attack helicopter for the British Army made its maiden flight on 25 September and was handed over to UK prime contractor GKN Westland three days later at Boeing's Mesa, Arizona, plant. The 30min flight, which included hover tests and rearward and forward flight, was ...
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Russia exports air launched Moskit
The Russian Government has given export clearance for a new air-launched variant of the Raduga/Progress 3M80E supersonic anti-ship missile, a weapon that has not yet entered service with the Russian forces. China will be the first export customer for the missile, which is likely to be deployed on Sukhoi ...
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Cyprus opts for Russia's Tor as standby to Italy's Aspide missile
Cyprus will buy the Russian Tor (SA-15) surface to air missile system if Italy continues to hesitate in selling the Alenia Aspide 330 system, according to Cypriot media sources. The Cypriot defence minister, Yiannakis Omirou, is understood to have told a closed session of the parliamentary defence committee that ...
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Final Tornado
The final new-build Panavia Tornado has left the BAe Warton production line for delivery to the Royal Saudi Air Force, concluding the aircraft delivery portion of the Al Yamamah contract signed in 1993. Development work continues on upgrading UK Tornado GR1s to GR4 standard, which will be completed by 2003, ...
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Fuji lifts off with unmanned helicopter for Japan
Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) is to begin production of the Forward Flying Observation System (FFOS) unmanned helicopter in 1999 for the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF), following the completion last year of Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) trials on a prototype. The company says it expects to get ...
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Australia debates taking Land Attack Harpoon development role
The Australian Department of Defence is considering possible involvement in the development of the Boeing Harpoon Block II land attack missile, with a view to deploying the weapon aboard its Collins-class submarines and surface vessels. The Department has long discussed deploying an ocean launched land strike capability, with a debate ...
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Japan ready to flight test attack helicopter
The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is expected to begin flight evaluations in early 1999 of competing European and US attack helicopters, as it once again faces conflicting pressure to purchase either a foreign design or support the indigenous development of an enhanced version of the Kawasaki Heavy Industry (KHI) OH-1 ...
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Boeing chooses JSF manufacturing team
Boeing has picked its core team of suppliers for its bid to win the Joint Strike Fighter programme competition. The suppliers are UK-based Flight Refuelling, for the fuel system, Marconi Electronic Systems for cockpit displays, Messier Dowty for the main and nose landing gear and Rolls-Royce for the vertical ...