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India's Taneja rolls out first locally produced P.68
India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) rolled out the first indigenously produced Partenavia P.68 on 20 January and hopes to receive Indian civil-aviation authority certification by the end of the month. The light twin's roll-out, which took place at TAAL's plant in Hosur, near Bangalore, had originally been planned ...
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Carriers attack EC competition policy
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Europe's major carriers have led an attack on the airline-competition policy coming from the European Commission (EC) - which is studying a series of global alliances - with claims that new entrants are being unfairly promoted at their expense. The attack came during a meeting on ...
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AI(R) partnership teeters as ATR looks to break with BAe
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ATR is on the verge of extracting its sales and marketing from Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and may move to abandon its two-year-old venture with British Aerospace. The partners are to hold an initial meeting by 30 January to review the future of AI(R) following the ...
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Asian crisis sees Asiana drop A330
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is scrapping its plans to purchase Airbus A330s and is cutting back drastically on an Airbus A321 order. Overall, the number of cancelled aircraft orders and deferred deliveries in Asia continues to grow, with Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) rescheduling Boeing 777-200 deliveries and Thai Airways ...
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USAF investigates interoperable C-130 upgrade
An Upgrade of the US Air Force's newer Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transports to a common configuration, tentatively dubbed the C-130X, is now being studied in an bid to improve interoperability. The USAF operates different standards of C-130E and H, and wants to rationalise its fleet around two variants: ...
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Romania offers to revive Dracula
The Romanian defence ministry has invited tenders from partners willing to finance the stalled IAR Brasov AH-1RO Dracula helicopter programme. IAR president Neculai Banea says that 11 international banks and financial institutions are expected to offer loans of up to $1.5 billion to fund the attack helicopter. The ...
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Eurocopter predicts that Asian crisis will bring order cancellations
Eurocopter president Jean-Francois Bigay is forecasting cancellations and order delays as a result of the continuing economic crisis in Asia. Orders for 15 civil helicopters from South Korea and Thailand have already been put on ice. The warning came as the Franco-German company announced that, in 1997, it achieved ...
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Rekkof seeks way back for Fokker production
Efforts are under way to restart production of the Fokker 70 and 100 airliners. The initiative is being led by Jaap Rozen Jacobson, chairman of Belgian airline VLM. A new Dutch company, Rekkof (Fokker spelled backwards) Restart, is seeking funds and negotiating with potential suppliers. In a bid to ...
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United's Airbus boost
United Airlines is expected to finalise an order soon for 50 more Airbus A320-family aircraft, to boost its orders for the single-aisle models to 131. The airline now operates four A319s and 41 A320s, powered by International Aero Engines V2500s. Source: Flight International
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Airbus line-up
Lagardère president Nöel Forgeard will succeed Jean Pierson on 1 April as managing director of Airbus. Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) chairman Manfred Bischoff will replace Edzard Reuter as chairman of the supervisory board and Dasa's Dietrich Russell will replace Volker von Tein as chief operating officer. Meanwhile, Denis Ranque is to ...
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Endeavour takes off for Mir station
The penultimate Shuttle Mir Mission got under way from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on 23 January when the STS89/Endeavour was launched on the first of six planned Shuttle flight this year. The Endeavour, will deliver US astronaut Andrew Thomas to the Russian Mir space station and return David Wolf. ...
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Turbulence surfaces in crash probe
Turbulent weather has emerged as a possible factor in the SilkAir Boeing 737-300 accident, about which there has been, so far, no statement by the Indonesian investigating authorities. The aircraft disappeared from cruising flight near Palembang, Sumatra, on 19 December on a scheduled flight from Djakarta, Indonesia, to Singapore. ...
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ADAM studies supersonic seat
The US Air Force has launched a fully instrumented Advanced Dynamic Anthropomorphic Manikin (ADAM) from a multi-axis seat-ejection sled travelling at Mach 1.05 in the New Mexico desert. The objective was to test propulsion systems and stabilisation, and to determine how high-speed ejection affects aircrew, as part of the ...
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GE Xiamen could involve HAECO
General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Xiamen Aviation Industries of China to set up an on-wing engine-support centre at Xiamen's Gaoqi International Airport, in the southern coastal province of Fujian, in a move which could bring it closer to nearby Taikoo Aircraft Engineering (TAECO). GE confirms ...
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USMC tests multiple cargo hook
A cargo-hook concept which allows multiple drops from heavy-lift helicopters is being evaluated by the US Marine Corps at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland. Developed by Utah-based SkyHook Technologies, the new system uses a tetrahedral frame attached to the usual single-hook pendant. Each of the ...
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Software developed to simulate ice accretion
Software code developed in the UK to model ice accretion at the design stage of new aircraft is being evaluated by the project's industrial partners, who hope that it will ease the certification of new products. Ice Accretion Modelling ("Icecremo") is a UK Department of Trade and Industry-funded programme ...
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Microvision provides RAH-66 display
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Microvision has won a US Army contract to provide a prototype helmet-mounted display incorporating its virtual retinal-display (VRD) technology for the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66. The contract, potentially worth over $4 million, was awarded by the Army's Aircrew Integrated Systems (ACIS) programme office under the Comanche-Compatible ...
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FSI builds initial 717 simulator
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTONDC FlightSafety International (FSI) has been selected by Boeing to supply the first flight-simulator for the 717-200 airliner, formerly the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. The simulator will be installed initially at the Flight-Safety Boeing Training International centre adjacent to Boeing's Douglas Products division plant at Long Beach, California, where ...
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Western Michigan University trains Europeans
Student pilots from Irish carrier Aer Lingus have begun ab initio training at Western Michigan University's (WMU) School of Aviation Sciences at Battle Creek. British Airways students will begin training at WMU in March. The University is negotiating an ab initio contract with a third airline, which would take ...
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Training begins on first Next Generation 737 simulator
FlightSafety Boeing Training International has begun training on the first flight simulator for the Next Generation 737. Pilots from Netherlands carrier Transavia Airlines were the first to receive training on the CAE-built device at FlightSafety Boeing's Renton, Washington, training centre. The joint venture plans to add three more Next ...