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AlliedSignal expands EGPWS applications
AlliedSignal Aerospace is developing a version of its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) to fit corporate aircraft. It is responding to proposed US Federal Aviation Administration regulations requiring installation of terrain avoidance and warning systems in all aircraft with six or more seats . The two air transport ...
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El Al seeks European co-operation for hub
El Al is trying to reach codeshare agreements with Lufthansa and Air France to enable it to set up a hub in Europe. The Israeli national airline wants to sign codeshare agreements with the two European airlines and to co-ordinate timetables so that its passengers will be able to ...
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US plan to 'sabotage' European ADS-B fails
An alleged US attempt to sabotage a European-backed technology for the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) has collapsed in the face of international opposition. Delegates to an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) panel considering the matter voted to stick with their original plan for the development of a Swedish-developed ...
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Brazil fare fight hots up with new cuts
A Brazilian fare war has intensified, with Varig and TAM announcing new price cuts. Both airlines have introduced discounts on regular flights of up to 60% as the affects of the recent market liberalisation raise questions over some rival services. Air fares have tumbled since the end of last ...
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Greenlandair expands into jets with 757 purchase
Greenlandair has taken delivery of a Boeing 757, its first jet airliner, which was scheduled to begin operations in competition with SAS on scheduled services between Greenland and Copenhagen from 12 May. The Nuuk-based airline already operates only two de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters and four Bombardier de ...
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Marketplace
-World Airways has signed a three-year wet-lease agreement with Buenos Aires, Argentina-based STAF Airlines to operate a Boeing MD-11 convertible freighter on cargo services between the USA and South America, with an option for a second aircraft. -Canada 3000 has become the first operator to take delivery of the ...
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Pacific nations call for reforms
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The aviation ministers of 14 Pacific nations are calling for a region-wide air traffic management (ATM) plan, a single aviation market, and the harmon- isation and updating of civil aviation regulation and security following a South Pacific Forum meeting in Suva, Fiji on 4 May. The ...
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Air force 737 crashes on approach in Peru
A Peruvian air force Boeing 737-200Adv operating a civil charter flight for Occidental Peruana has crashed while making a bad weather night approach to Andoas, a small town on the Peru/Ecuador border. There were 79 passengers and eight crew on board the flight on 5 May from Iquitos, and ...
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RBA chooses V2500 for A319s
Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) has selected the International Aero Engines V2500 turbofan to power its planned new fleet of Airbus A319s, an initial order for which is due to be finalised shortly. The carrier is understood to have opted for the 105kN (23,500lb) thrust V2524-A5 engine over the competing ...
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Routes
-Alaska Airlines is to offer a twice-weekly roundtrip service from Los Angeles to La Paz in Mexico from 25 October, using a Boeing MD-80 originating in Seattle. -Aero Lloyd will operate a weekly service from Alicante, Spain to Linz, Austria, from June. -Braathens has started a three times daily service ...
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Tristar support
Lockheed Martin Aircraft & Logistics Centers and AAR Airframe &Accessories Group have formed an alliance to provide fleet support for the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The two companies plan to expand the programme to cover other airframes. Source: Flight International
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Thiokol changes its name and looks to grow
Cordant Technologies, the renamed Thiokol, is looking for acquisitions to build up, and expand beyond, its three core businesses. The company, which owns fastener manufacturer Huck and acquired a controlling interest in casting specialist Howmet last year, has changed its name in a bid to create a "global brand", ...
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Normalair-Garrett moves to AlliedSignal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON Control of Normalair-Garrett (NGL) in the UK has switched from GKN to AlliedSignal in a move which sees the US company acquire an additional 4% share in their joint venture operation. AlliedSignal has also purchased New York-based Hermetic Aircraft from GKN. The £12 million ($20 million) ...
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Fool's gold ?
Is it right to assume, in the wake of Continental Express' order for 37-seat Embraer RJ-135s to operate alongside its 50-seat ERJ-145s, that the regional turboprop is dead and that, to survive, particularly in North America, all regional airlines must move to jet-power even for their smallest needs? Or ...
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RTM322-powered Apache gets set for June flight
First Flight of the Rolls-Royce Turboméca RTM322-powered Boeing AH-64 Apache is set for 1 June, say programme officials, who are now 50% through initial ground tests with the Anglo-French engine. The powerplant was selected over the incumbent General Electric T700-701C after a competitive evaluation by the UK Ministry of Defence ...
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C-130J deliveries to RAF await ice test results
Lockheed Martin is hoping finally to complete type certification and begin deliveries of the first C-130J Hercules transport once it has completed critical ice shape testing on the aircraft. Certification will end the technical problems which have delayed deliveries to customers by nearly two years. The US manufacturer claims ...
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Airbus fights FLA delays
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Airbus Military Company (AMC) is attempting to pull forward a German-led study on the Antonov An-70's ability to meet European tactical military transport requirements. This is in an effort to avoid further delays to the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) programme. The German study timescale conflicts with AMC's ...
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USAF starts B-1B JDAM update
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Modification of US Air Force Rockwell B-1B bombers to carry the Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) has begun at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. The first two upgrade kits have been delivered to the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, and the initial block of seven B-1s is ...
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European MPA
Alenia and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a "competitive solution" for mission equipment package components for the German/Italian Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) that will replace the Breguet Atlantique 1150. Alenia's avionic systems and equipment division and Dasa's defence and civil systems unit plan to ...
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RAM acquires surface ability
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany's RAM-System is developing a surface-to-surface mode for its Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM), designed for close-in air defence of ships, which will allow attacks to be made on small surface vessels. According to prime contractor RAM-System - a joint venture between Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik (BGT), its parent ...