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IAI closes on partners for FedEx Airtruck project
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is in talks with potential partners in Europe and Asia over its Airtruck project for a small turboprop cargo aircraft, and is expected to decide within the next few weeks whether it is able to present formal proposals to customer FedEx. FedEx has a requirement ...
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Thai/Garuda firm up fleet plans as Qantas eyes up Asian 747s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Paul Phelan/CAIRNSThai Airways International has been given approval to take delivery of 17 new aircraft over the next three years, despite Thailand's economic difficulties. Financial problems elsewhere are forcing Garuda Indonesia to seek an early return of six leased Boeing MD-11s, while Qantas is seeking to acquire surplus ...
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Carriers form a queue to take advantage of North Korea FIR
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Eight Asian, North US and Russian airlines have signalled their intent to launch up to 16 flights a day through North Korea's Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR), once it opens to international traffic on 23 April. Following the successful conclusion of week long flight trials in ...
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TWA offers stay of execution for MD-80 production line
Trans World Airlines is negotiating with Boeing for up to 24 new MD-83s, which could keep the endangered Long Beach production line open until 2000. The line was scheduled to shut down in mid-1999 with the delivery of the last MD-83 to TWA. All eight of the current backlog ...
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Sabbath flights issue is high on El Al privatisation agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV As the Israeli Government attempts again to thrash out agreement on privatising national carrier El Al, the thorny political issue of whether to end its costly ban on Sabbath flights remains high on the agenda. A decision on the long delayed privatisation was due to take ...
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AlliedSignal EGPWS
AlliedSignal estimates that the potential world market for its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) is worth some $1 billion, covering 40,000 civil and military aircraft. AlliedSignal, which holds the only US Federal Aviation Administration licence for the EGPWS, got a boost late last year when the US airline industry ...
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European mergers take shape
Julian Moxon/PARIS Battle lines are hardening between the groups competing for the lead in Europe's defence electronics and space restructuring, with a new ownership structure laid down for the French grouping being built around Thomson-CSF, and confirmation from Italy's Alenia that it is close to choosing a space partner. ...
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Drawing a line
In the next few days, a US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delegation will walk into an ICAO conference chamber and prepare to put their arguments over a key element of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS). The case that they plan to make may look like genuine concern with smooth ...
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Romania gets Shadow 600
AAI has delivered six Shadow 600 unmanned air vehicles and their associated ground control station to Romania. The $20 million contract was the first to be financed by the US Government's new Defence Export Loan Guarantee programme. AAI has sold Shadow 600 systems to another, undisclosed, country, believed to ...
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German MoD pushes ambitious helicopter and missile wish list
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German defence ministry has prepared a lengthy procurement wish-list for the 1999 budget, including key helicopter and missile programmes, but it threatens to overload the parliamentary defence committee's ability to pass all the items this session. According to sources in Bonn, it seems likely that ...
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Three way battle gets under way for Ethiopian Fishbed upgrade
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) , Elbit and MAPO MIG are involved in a three way battle for a $100 million contract to upgrade Ethiopia's Mikoyan MiG-21Bis Fishbed fighter aircraft. The two Israeli companies are offering upgrades based mostly on Israeli developed avionics.The Lahav division of IAI has recently completed ...
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Fortis pushes Il-76 to air force customers
UK aircraft broker Fortis Aviation has signed a broad agreement with the Tashkent Aircraft Production Factory (TAPO) to market the Ilyushin Il-76 to air force customers worldwide. Jack Cunningham, managing director of the Stansted, UK-based company, says that the "-relationship is with the factory", not the Ilyushin design bureau. ...
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Sogerma breakthrough
French maintenance company Sogerma has signed a contract with the Colombian air force for major checks on a pair of Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transports. The work will be carried out at Sogerma's Bordeaux factory. Source: Flight International
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Testing delay forces Pentagon to reshuffle F-22 procurement
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has forced the US Air Force to rejig the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter programme in an attempt to accommodate flight test delays. Flight testing scheduled originally to begin in May 1997 was delayed until six months September. The DoD is now ...
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T-38 upgrade is on the way for July first flight
Guy Norris/WILLIAMS GATEWAY The first complete suite of advanced displays and systems for the US Air Force Northrop T-38C avionics upgrade programme (AUP) will be installed in the first of two test aircraft in May, with the maiden flight still firmly on schedule for July, says Boeing. The ...
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Hornets nest
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK New jobs inevitably entail fresh challenges and the position of commander in chief of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) is certainly no exception. Air Chief Marshal Tananit Niamtan reached the pinnacle of his 27 year air force career in October 1997, just as Thailand's economy was diving ...
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High fidelity pays off
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Simulator manufacturers have started 1998 as they ended 1997 - busy. As expected, orders for commercial flight simulators are tracking closely the recent surge in airliner sales. At least 45 full flight simulators were sold last year, short of the last peak of 55 in 1989, but ...
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Agricultural sprayers are lined up for stripped down, ex-surplus, rebuilt JetRanger variant
Florida-based Load Ranger plans to develop a stripped-down derivative of the Bell 206 JetRanger, aimed at the agricultural spraying market, but key aspects of the programme remain undefined. A prototype of the Load Ranger 2000 was displayed at the Helicopter Association International show in February, to gauge interest. "I ...
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Half-price fuel offer
Raytheon Aircraft Services is offering fuel discounts to operators bringing their aircraft to one of its 14 US service centres for maintenance. Discounts of up to 55¢ per US gallon are available. Source: Flight International
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Europe and USA on course to clash over FANS datalink
Kieran Daly/LONDON Europe and the USA are once again set for a clash of wills over a key component of the technology to be used in the satellite based Future Air Navigation System (FANS). At an International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO) panel meeting starting this week, European interests ...