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Workshop
++ AMR Eagle's Regional Aircraft Maintenance Center, located at the former K I Sawyer AFB, Michigan, will perform C checks on 12 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s turboprops operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The work began in early December 1997, and each aircraft visit will last for between five ...
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Air France profits roll but alliances come under EC scrutiny
Air France's transatlantic alliances have become the latest to come under scrutiny by the European Commission (EC), although the French flag carrier is pressing ahead with its expansion, buoyed by its recent financial turnaround and the prospect of a private cash injection. Regardless of the EC inquiry, Air France ...
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Finmeccanica cash plan wins backing
Finmeccanica has won backing for its recapitalisation plan following the year-end meeting with its majority owner, Italy's giant state-holding company IRI. The defence/aerospace group has been angling for "up to" L2,000 billion ($1.2 billion) to shore up its ailing finances. The move was finally approved in December by IRI, ...
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Servair reduction
Air France Group indicates that it would be willing to cut its 75.2% holding in the Servair in-flight catering business, which is angling to increase its market presence through deals with other aviation companies. Source: Flight International
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Olympic tackles management problems
Julian Moxon/Paris Olympic Airways is stepping up efforts to resolve its latest management problems in an attempt to unblock its final tranche of state aid and to prepare the airline for the pending liberalisation of the domestic Greek air market. The state-owned carrier lost another president in late December and ...
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Swissair 'back in profit' in 1997
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The SAir Group says that its core Swissair airline operations are due to show a profit for the first time in eight years when the 1997 results are revealed. The airline points to soaring load factors, which have climbed to 70% from just above 60%, as ...
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Battle stations
Boeing's decision to continue the development of the former McDonnell Douglas MD-95, in the new guise of the 717, has effectively redrawn the battle lines in its war with Airbus Industrie. This takes the civil-aviation giants to a new battleground where their tussle for market supremacy can be continued. ...
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US Army has to slow mine detector work
A substantial budget cut, along with poor test results, has forced the US Army to slow development of the Airborne Stand-off Mine Detection System (ASTAMIDS). The US Army had planned to pick one of four contenders in January to begin 33 months of ASTAMIDS engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). ...
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Cormorant flies ahead in Canada
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Douglas Barrie/LONDON Canada is expected to issue a statement of requirement for its shipborne helicopter during 1998, after its decision to procure the EH Industries EH101 Cormorant for its 15-aircraft search-and-rescue (SAR) requirement. The AW520 commercial version of the EH101 was chosen over Boeing's CH-47 Chinook, Eurocopter's ...
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Slump jeopardises proposed Indonesian deal with Russia
Paul Lewis/Singapore Indonesian contractual negotiations with Russia to purchase 12 Sukhoi Su-30MK fighters have run into difficulty because of the country's rapidly deteriorating economic situation. Russian efforts to seal a deal to sell $500 million-worth of fighters and helicopters to the Indonesian military are being undermined by the ...
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IAI and Kamov join for Turkish order
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Russian helicopter manufacturer Kamov are teaming to offer an upgraded Ka-50/52 Hokum helicopter to the Turkish air force to meet its attack-helicopter requirement. The upgrade may include the Rafael NT-D anti-tank missile as an alternative to the Russian KBP 9M120 Vikhr family of anti-tank ...
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ARL RC-7B award
The Airborne Systems Integration unit of California Microwave has won a $10 million contract to install Airborne Mission Equipment subsystems (AMES) on two US Army RC-7B Airborne Reconnaissance Low Multifunction aircraft. The modified de Havilland DHC-7 turboprops are being used to patrol the Korean demilitarised zone. Source: Flight International
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Topol M in service
Russia has declared operational the first two of a planned 270 Topol M, RS-12M Variant 2 (SS-27), intercontinental ballistic missiles with the Strategic Missile Forces Tamanskaya unit, at Tatishchevo. Source: Flight International
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More popeyes
The US Department of Defense has notified the US Congress that it intends to sell Israel 45 improved AGM-142D stand-off missiles worth $41 million. The foreign-military-sales transaction would include production-start-up support for PGSUS, the joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Israel's Rafael, for AGM-142 production in the USA. The AGM-142D ...
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Moscow offers Poland Su-39 licence production
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Talks are under way between Russia and Poland on possible licensed production of the Sukhoi Su-39 strike aircraft by Polish manufacturer PZL-Mielec. Moscow is pushing the project as a means of settling its state debt to Poland, according to Russian media reports. Meetings have been held with defence ...
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USAF lists ten changes required for grounded Firefly T-3 trainers
The US Air Force believes that ten modifications, costing an estimated $6.2 million, will be required before its 110 Slingsby T-3A Firefly flight-screener aircraft can be returned to flight status by the the middle of 1998. The single-engined, two-seat light aircraft made by the UK's Slingsby Aviation, which replaced ...
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USN picks UAVs for VTOL demonstration
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Navy will test three entirely different unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) designs in its forthcoming vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) demonstration, which the contractors hope will lead to the deployment of an operational system. In late 1997, the UAV Joint Project Office chose Bell Helicopter, Bombardier and Science ...
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Muscling to the market lead
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC AAR has just announced its third acquisition in less than nine months, a convincing illustration of what vision and financial muscle can achieve in the fragmented business of airline aftermarket support. In December, the company reported a 33% increase in second-quarter sales, after a jump of 26% ...
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Going private
Tim Furniss/LONDON Thirty-seven years ago, a US Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down for flying over the former Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where the Space Age began with the launch of the Sputnik 1 on 4 October, 1957. Now the Cosmodrome is going private and very public. ...
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Canada approves Hawker 800XP
Raytheon's Hawker 800XP business jet has been certificated in Canada and the first Canadian-registered aircraft has entered service with IPL Energy of Calgary, Alberta. Source: Flight International