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UPS tests ADS-B in Los Angeles area
United Parcel Service says it is carrying out ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) operational flight testing in the Los Angeles area using one of its Boeing 727s. The tests are being monitored by specialists from US avionics organisation II Morrow and the FAA Technical Centre. The trials began on 4 ...
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AlliedSignal launches AS900
AlliedSignal has launched the full-scale development of its next generation AS900 turbofan for business aircraft and regional airliners. "We are fully committed to this programme and obviously we would not be going ahead if we did not have good prospects of selling the engine," says AlliedSignal Engines Commercial Propulsion ...
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ASTOR radar contenders increase lobbying efforts
Preserving UK radar capability and guaranteeing export potential are emerging as key factors in the three-way competition to win the UK Ministry of Defence's £750 million Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) programme. All three teams stepped up lobbying efforts at Farnborough, with heavy emphasis on the implications of the competition for ...
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Aer Lingus seeks US suitor to beat off alliance threat
David Learmount/LONDON Aer Lingus is seeking a US airline partner prepared to inject equity into the Irish state-owned carrier. The Government intends to maintain a controlling interest in the airline. A study by the carrier into the strategic alliance plan has been approved by the minister for public ...
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Euroscot discusses franchise and return to jet operations
Euroscot Express is in advanced negotiations to launch franchise operations for a major European carrier next year, which would see the airline re-introduce jet operations from its Bournemouth base. The UK regional began operations a year ago serving Glasgow and Edinburgh with a BAC One-Eleven on wet lease from ...
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Matsushita and Honeywell form alliance
Matsushita Avionics Systems (MASC) is to form a strategic alliance with Honeywell. The tie-up combines the Japanese company's in-flight entertainment (IFE) technology with its US partners strengths in avionics, particularly communications. The link between Matsushita, an IFE market-leader, and Honeywell is in part a response to Rockwell Collins purchase ...
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Marketplace
-Airbus Asset Management is negotiating to lease an ex-Gulf Air A340-300 to Sabena to replace the aircraft damaged in a landing accident at Brussels. The A340 had previously been earmarked for Ethiopian Airlines. -Alitalia has leased one new Boeing 767-300ER and two used examples from International Lease Finance. The aircraft, ...
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UK carries out satellite guided approaches
The UK Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) successfully conducted the first satellite-based augmentation approaches using the Northern European Satellite Test Bed (NESTBed), according to Flight International's sister publication Air Navigation International. NESTBed, which has been developed by NATS to demonstrate the satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) concept, ...
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Doubts raised by Xian plans for ATR production
Xian Aircraft (XAC) plans to licence-produce the ATR 72 turboprop aircraft have been thrown into doubt in the near term by the downturn in the Chinese air transport market raising further questions about the Chinese manufacturers future supply of work in the wake of the recent demise of the Sino-European ...
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WAAS is threatened as sole-means GPS falters
US airlines have tacitly accepted that global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) as a sole-means aid is not going to be approved, according to the US Air Transport Association (ATA). The trade body has appealed to the US Congress not to reduce funding for the global positioning system Wide Area ...
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Avro update
British Aerospace Regional Aircraft (BARA) is in the final stages of formulating its mid-life update programme for the Avro RJ family, with the new re-engined airliner expected to enter service in early 2001. Senior company vice-president Jeff Marsh says board approval is expected by the end of the year. ...
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BAe/Dasa talks rankle France
Merger talks between Europe's leading aerospace and defence companies were thrown off course during the show as France stepped up its protest against a widely expected military merger between British Aerospace and Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa). Foreshadowing a ministerial meeting at the show involving the Airbus partner nations, France, ...
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Agusta and Bell team on new programmes
Agusta and Bell Helicopter Textron are putting together a wide ranging strategic joint venture covering the two companies' involvement in the Bell 609 civil tiltrotor and a new medium twin-turbine transport helicopter called the Agusta 139. The joint venture, which still requires approval by parent companies Textron and Finmeccanica, ...
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Dassault rejects merger until 'conditions are right'
Julian Moxon/PARIS Serge Dassault has rejected any merger of the Dassault group with the new Aerospatiale/ Matra Hautes Technologies company "-until the conditions are right and when it is in our interests to do so". Any merger will only be undertaken on the basis of "clear industrial and commercial ...
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Air India privatisation process starts with equity plan
The Indian Government has started the process of privatising Air India with the announcement of a scheme which could see its holding reduced to around 40% as foreign airlines, institutional investors and staff are offered a share of the ailing national carrier. The government's Disinvestment Commission has recommended a ...
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Lockheed Martin aims for a more civil future with space expansion
Carol Reed/FARNBOROUGH US fighter to missiles and electronics group Lockheed Martin is reinventing itself, in the wake of the failed acquisition of Northrop Grumman, into a fully fledged information technology and commercial space launcher and services business. According to group chairman Vance Coffman, the business mix is set ...
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Matra merger with Aerospatiale spurs European missile plans
France's Aerospatiale and Matra Hautes Technologies are accelerating merger plans and negotiating with other European companies to join the missiles and space groupings resulting from the July agreement between the two companies. Yves Michot, the Aerospatiale president and his Matra counterpart Philippe Camus, have made clear that attracting other ...
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Thai privatisation
The Thai cabinet has approved a wide-ranging master plan identifying 59 key state-owned enterprises for privatisation, including Thai Airways International and the Airport Authority of Thailand. The Government had earlier announced its intention to sell 21% of the flag carrier, reducing its stake to 72%. International carriers have expressed an ...
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Saab winds down turboprop production as talks continue
Max Kingsley-Jones/FARNBOROUGH Saab Aircraft has completed a round of reorganisation as it winds down its turboprop production and expects to decide by the end of the year whether to sell the line to another manufacturer. The Swedish company announced late last year that it was to withdraw from ...
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UK Government boosts space funds
The UK's new space minister, Lord Sainsbury, has announced a $17 million boost for navigation and earth observation programmes, including a 25% UK stake in work towards the development of a proposed European global satellite navigation system. Initial investment amounts to £5 million ($8 million), while a total of ...