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Rolls-Royce standardises on hybrid RB211 after entry success
Rolls-Royce is to discontinue production of older versions of its RB211-524G/H engine after successful service entry of the first of its new hybrid versions, the RB211-524HT, last month. The hybrid engine upon which Rolls-Royce will "standardise" has the same core as the Trent 700, the company's powerplant for the ...
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Siberia Airlines plans revamp
Siberia Airlines is undertaking a comprehensive review of its operations and is studying the eventual addition of new aircraft to replace its ageing Russian fleet. The airline operates seven Ilyushin Il-86 widebodies, along with 16 Tupolev Tu-154 narrowbodies (three of which are leased to Iran). Its nine Antonov turboprops ...
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Crashes lead to new Taiwanese watchdog agency
Taiwan is so worried about its air transport safety image that it has added a new watchdog agency to a lengthening list of political reactions to recent crashes. The Government controlled Central News Agency (CNA), says Taiwan is to have an organisation based on the USA's National Transportation Safety ...
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SIA joins queue for Thai stake
Paul Lewis/SINGAPOR Kevin O'Toole/FRANKFURT Singapore Airlines (SIA) has joined the growing list of international suitors lining up to take a stake in Thai Airways and could be joined in its bid by partner Lufthansa, which says that it is prepared to fend off rival bids if they threaten ...
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Transavia takes A310 to bridge 737 delays
Transavia, the Dutch all-Boeing operator, has been forced to wet-lease an Airbus A310-300 for five months because of continuing delays in the delivery of its new Boeing 737-800s. The airline had been planning to introduce the new 189-seat 737 at the beginning of its 1998 summer season in April, ...
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Rekkof commitment
VLM has placed a letter of intent with Rekkof Restart for up to four Fokker 70s for delivery by 2000. Both Rekkof and VLM are owned by Dutch businessman Jaap Jacobson. A decision by Rekkof to relaunch Fokker production is expected to be taken soon. Source: Flight International
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Volvo sets up leasing venture with Tokyo bank
Aviation Lease Finance (ALF), a major new engine leasing and support business, has been set up by Volvo Aero and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Capital (BTMCC), which are pooling the resources of their respective AGES Group and Engine Lease Finance (ELF)subsidiaries. The deal involves a network of cross-shareholdings essentially ...
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Austrian prepares for stock issue
Austrian Airlines has outlined plans for a series of new stock market share issues in a move which would not only provide fresh cash for the national carrier, but also effectively signal its privatisation. The Austrian Government holds 51.9% of the carrier, but that would progressively reduce to under ...
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Lufthansa fights for Frankfurt
Kevin O'Toole/FRANKFURT Lufthansa chairman Jürgen Weber has threatened to pursue the European Commission through the courts if competition commissioner Karel Van Miert goes ahead with demands for the surrender of slots at Frankfurt as the price for the airline's transatlantic alliance. Weber's warning follows reports coming out of Brussels suggesting ...
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Alaska Paradise
Leasing company Air Alaska is stepping up its expansion in southern Florida with a deal to buy Paradise Island Airlines, which flies charter operations with four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 7s. In January Air Alaska acquired the Pan Am Air Bridge seaplane operation, which will take over services to Paradise ...
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A new conflict
The spat between the USA and South Africa over the former's ambition to bid for the latter's fighter and helicopter requirements, and therefore have hooks in South African military technology and its export, has the veneer of the old East/West conflict. For many, it merely presages the rumblings of conflicts ...
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Boeing cleared for Chinook ICH work
Boeing Helicopters has been cleared by the US Department of Defense to begin engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) work on its Chinook Improved Cargo Helicopter (ICH). The company expects to receive an initial $20 million contract before the end of the month to begin modifying two US Army CH-47Ds ...
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Canada arranges a cheaper EH101 deal
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Canada has negotiated a lower price and better offsets for its purchase of 15 EH Industries AW520 Cormorant search and rescue (SAR) helicopters. The final contract is worth C$579 million ($404.8 million), down by over C$13 million from the maximum value announced when the Cormorant ...
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Northrop Grumman eyes more Hawkeye sales
Northrop Grumman rolled out the first of two E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning (AEW) command and control aircraft - destined for the French navy - on 28 April , with further French purchases expected. The first French E-2C flew in March and the second will be completed in the ...
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JDA may focus on tanker and transport
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Japan Defence Agency (JDA) planners are weighing up options to defer development of a replacement maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) to focus its increasingly tight financial resources on acquiring a combined inflight refuelling tanker and transport jet. Local defence sources in Tokyo say that the JDA is ...
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Sukhoi courts MAPO on export efforts
AVPK Sukhoi of Russia has revealed that it is now considering teaming up with rival combat aircraft manufacturer MAPO to promote common projects abroad. The two companies are already in negotiations about co-ordinating their efforts to develop a fifth generation combat aircraft for the Russian air force. "There ...
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Israel tests radar for Nautilus laser gun
Israel has completed an initial phase of testing on a key part of the Nautilus laser gun system. The weapon is designed to destroy rockets in mid-trajectory. The first tests were with the Elta-built search radar, a derivative of the Green Pine radar being developed by the Israelis as ...
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F-2 contract
Lockheed Martin has won a second contract from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to produce components for the F-16-based F-2 fighter. The award, for eight shipsets, follows an initial production contract which covers components for 11 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Thomson protest holds up Philippine radar plans
The Philippine air force has been forced again to delay issuing a tender for new air defence radars after Thomson-CSF protested about being dropped from the shortlist. The new fighter programme has now taken a step forward with the issue of the long awaited invitation to bid (ITB). Manila ...
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Racal using DC-3 for Searchwater 2000 radar tests
Common processing and system elements of Racal's Searchwater 2000 maritime reconnaissance (MR) and airborne early warning (AEW)radars are undergoing a series of over-sea tests, fitted under the nose of a Douglas DC-3 leased from Air Atlantique of Coventry. The MR variant is for the British Aerospace Nimrod 2000 replacement maritime ...