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Edelweiss to replace MD-80s with A320s
Swiss charter operator Edelweiss Air has ordered three new Airbus A320s to replace its Boeing MD-80 fleet. The Zurich-based carrier, which operates three 162-seat MD-83s, two on operating lease from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and the third on financial lease from Credit Agricole, will take delivery of the ...
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Air Lanka orders A330-200s following Emirates stake
Air Lanka has placed orders for six Airbus A330-200s, after Emirates Airlines agreed to take a 40% stake in the Sri Lankan flag carrier. The Dubai based airline will manage Air Lanka for 10 years, says the Sri Lankan Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC). Emirates has also agreed to ...
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Let wins L- 420 certification
Let Kunovice has received type certification for its 19-seat L-420 from both the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Czech Civil Aviation Authority. Czech manufacturer Let claims that the certification will open doors to markets previously inaccessible to the company. The L-420, a derivative of the L-410 turboprop, features more ...
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Harbin agrees North American Y-12 sales deal
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing (HAMC) of China has concluded a joint venture agreement to supply Y-12(IV) turboprop airframes to the Canadian Aerospace Group for modification, final completion, certification and sale to the North American market. The deal concluded in Beijing covers the supply of to 50 Y-12s over the next ...
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KLM flies first 747F with stretched deck
The first Boeing 747 freighter equipped with a stretched upper deck (SUD) has been put into service by KLM Cargo, between Amsterdam and Chicago. The 747-200 SUD is one of two combis being converted to full freight configuration for KLM. The second is due for completion in July.Source: Flight International
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Cebu restart
Cebu Pacific Air of the Philippines has been given permission to resume limited operations after being grounded for almost two months in the wake of the 2 February crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which killed 104 people. A preliminary report into the accident has pointed to pilot error. The ...
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Alenia Spazio weighs up rival bidders
Alenia Spazio is considering rivals bids from Matra Marconi Space and the new French grouping of Alcatel/Aerospatiale and Thomson to form an alliance. The Italian space company is expected to decide and complete the deal by the end of the year. With the French grouping in place and Matra-Marconi ...
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NASA gives go ahead for new telescope
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has authorised the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which is to be launched aboard a Delta II booster in December 2001 as the fourth in a series of Great Observatories. SIRTF will follow the Hubble Space Telescope (1990), the Compton ...
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Cassini heads for Venus fly-by
NASA's Cassini Saturn Orbiter and its European Space Agency Huygens Titan lander, launched on a Titan 4 Centaur in November 1997, will pass to within 300km of the planet Venus on 26 April on its flightpath towards the ringed planet which it will reach in July 2004. The Huygens probe ...
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Hughes wins contract to build first Canadian Anik F satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes Space and Communications has received a contract to build the first Anik F series communications satellite for Telesat Canada. The contract brings to 38 the number of geostationary orbit (GEO) communications spacecraft on Hughes' orderbook, with a further two craft on order for meteorological applications. ...
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STS90 Neurolab mission remains on schedule
NASA has confirmed that the next Space Shuttle mission will be launched on 16 April. The date had been threatened by fears that problems, mainly concerning a possible rescheduling of International Space Station (ISS)-related missions, could delay the launch to 28 April. The Neurolab - the final planned flight ...
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Iridium on target
Motorola is on target to declare its 66-spacecraft Iridium worldwide mobile telephone communications satellite system operational in September, following the launch of seven Lockheed Martin satellites aboard Long March 2C/SD and Delta II boosters on 26 and 30 March, respectively. Seven more satellites were scheduled for launch on a Russian ...
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Israeli First
A space first for Israel occurred on 25 March when the national satellite Ofeq 3, launched in 1995, was manoeuvred into a higher orbit, reports the Molniya Space Consultancy, London. The spacecraft's 354-519km orbit was raised to 496-518km by two burns of the Ofeq's propulsion system. Source: Flight International
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Going Private
Inmarsat, the international mobile satellite communications organisation, will become a private commercial company in January 1999 to enable it to "continue to be a leading player in the global communications industry". Intelsat, the international communications satellite organisation, is to create a separate, spin-off commercial company, INC. Source: Flight International
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Space Group
The European Space Agency (ESA) will establish a single European astronaut corps to prepare for the International Space Station programme by combining a cadre of ESA astronauts with those in programmes now operated by France, Germany and Italy. Source: Flight International
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ISS centre truss tested
Boeing has completed a test article of the 13m-long centre truss segment which is destined to become the backbone of the International Space Station (ISS). Assembly is now proceeding on the first production segment due to be attached in orbit to the crew laboratory module in early 2000. The centre ...
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GOA confirms record
A US General Accounting Office (GAO) report confirms that the US military completed one of its safest flying years during fiscal year 1997 despite a rash of accidents last September. The mishap rate was 1.5 accidents per 100,000 flying hours, which is unchanged from the previous two years. There were ...
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Standard test
The US Navy has conducted a second demonstration flight of the Land Attack Standard Missile (LASM), which is expected to be its near term choice as a ship-launched fire support weapon. The LASM proposal involves converting surplus Standard anti-aircraft missiles into surface to surface weapons by adding global positioning system ...
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Participants push for PAAMS project production progress
Douglas Barrie/London THE French, Italian, UK defence ministries and industry involved in the naval Principal Anti-Air Missile System (PAAMS) programme are in intensive negotiations to resolve baseline requirements in time for a production contract signature in the third quarter of this year. Sources close to the programme say that much ...