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-Olympic has added its second Boeing 737-300, an ex-Western Pacific aircraft on lease from Boullioun Aviation Services. -Northwest Airlines has concluded a deal with Fortis Aviation's Alliance AirInvest to acquire three ex-Thai International McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ERs. The three aircraft have been delivered and will enter service later this year after ...
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Legend starts
US start-up Legend Airlines has unveiled plans to build a six-gate "executive terminal" at Dallas Love Field, Texas. The carrier intends to begin interstate services with 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s later this year. Source: Flight International
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Six new entrants win US airport slots
Six smaller US airlines have been awarded coveted take-off and landing rights at Chicago O'Hare International and New York's La Guardia, as part of efforts by the Department of Transportation (DoT)to open up slot-controlled airports to new competition. America West Airlines, Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), American Eagle's Simmons Airlines ...
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Eurocontrol tests pilot-controller link
A major step was taken towards operational datalinks for air traffic management (ATM) on 14 April when a Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 en route from Frankfurt to Miami accepted clearances from traffic controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The preliminary Eurocontrol test of the PETAL-II air to ground datalink saw Maastricht ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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Routes
-Malaysia Airlines has inaugurated its new thrice weekly service to New York's Newark Airport via Dubai, its third North American destination and its first to the US East coast. -Northwest Airlines is to launch a twice weekly non-stop service between Las Vegas and Tokyo from June, taking further advantage of ...
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Concern grows over Sydney noise regime
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas and Ansett have warned of mounting chaos at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport following an Australian Government directive on overflying the city's suburbs which has effectively halved off-peak capacity at the airport. Controllers have also raised safety concerns. A new long term operating plan (LTOP) had ...
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TWA firms up plans for more MD-83s
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has firmed up its plans for additional Boeing MD-83s with the signing of a $1.1 billion order for 24 aircraft. It emerged earlier this month that the carrier was discussing an order with Boeing for 24 MD-83s, which would see production of the former McDonnell ...
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Britannia ponders Australian venture
Britannia Airways is believed to be eyeing the southern hemisphere for its next off-shore subsidiary, with a new Australian operation under consideration. The UK-based charter carrier has already established a start-up operation in Germany and a Swedish-based carrier, built on the acquisition of existing charter airline Blue Scandinavia. ...
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Reno sheds staff
Reno Air is to shed 330 of its 2,000 staff and slim down its management in an effort to restore profits. Source: Flight International
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GEC targets greater access to USA through Tracor purchase
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC GEC hopes that its $1.4 billion acquisition of Tracor will improve the UK company's access to US Department of Defense (DoD) business. The deal will make GEC-Marconi's North American arm the sixth largest US defence electronics contractor, more than doubling the unit's annual revenues to a ...
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Varig profit adds to Latin American recovery
More good news has emerged from the Latin American airline industry, with Brazilian carrier Varig returning to profit in 1997 after six successive years in the red. Varig's main airline operations ended the year with a net profit of Real27.8 million ($24.2 million), turning around a loss of Real64 ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...
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Dasa continues to test decoy despite ministry doubters
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)expects to complete flight testing of its towed radar decoy this year, in the face of a continued lack of commitment to the project from the German Ministry of Defence. Dasa has been proposing its decoy for German air force Transall C-160 transports, Panavia ...
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First OH-1 scout helicopters poised for series production
Paul Lewis/GIFU, JAPAN Series production of the first batch of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) OH-1 scout helicopters will begin in June, as flight testing of four prototypes by the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) approaches the halfway mark. The JDA has concluded a production contract with KHI, clearing the way ...
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Turkey wants to add Arrow to its quiver
The US Government is considering an Israeli request to allow the sale of a variant of the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile to Turkey. The USA has already given Israel the go-ahead to brief Turkey about the Arrow system, which is being developed by Israel with the help of US ...
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Raduga funds anti-ship missile
Russia's Raduga cruise missile design bureau is to use cash from its sale of the 3M-80 (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic anti-ship missile to China to fund development of a next-generation hypersonic anti-ship weapon. China will receive the rocket/ ramjet-powered 3M-80 as part of its purchase of two Sovremmeny- class destroyers. ...
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RAF will replace Hawk fuselages
Ian Sheppard/LONDON The UK Ministry of Defence has given its approval for the Royal Air Force to replace the centre and rear fuselage sections of 80 British Aerospace Hawks in a major structural upgrade required to keep the advanced jet trainer fleet in service until 2010. British Aerospace is due ...
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Kentron removes wraps from Raptor 1 weapon
South African guided- weapons specialist Kentron this week unveiled its previously classified Raptor 1 stand-off glide bomb at the Aerospace Africa 98 show at Waterkloof AFB, Pretoria. The Raptor 1 is a 1,200kg, 60km (32nm)-plus range weapon, with a television seeker and also fitted with flip-out wings (Flight International, ...
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SAIC's VTOL UAV prototype crashes
SAIC's bid for the US Navy's vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) project has been dealt another blow by the crash of its prototype. The SAIC Vigilante air vehicle crashed on 20 April during a test flight at a small airfield in Virginia. The composite ...