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Slow Dash
Pelangi Air has put on indefinite hold the delivery of three completed Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300s until operational and shareholding issues are resolved. The 50-seat turboprops, ordered in 1995, had been due for delivery in June and July, but have been delayed by Malaysia Airline moves to acquire a ...
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E&S backs Atlas
STN Atlas Electronik is to base its DISI-6 visual system on Evans & Sutherland's Harmony image generator. Source: Flight International
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Malaysia reconsiders Rooivalk as Singapore seeks Apaches
Malaysia is indicating that it might revise an earlier decision to postpone ordering the Denel CSH-2 Rooivalk, as neighbouring Singapore moves towards finalising its own attack-helicopter selection by mid-1998. According to senior defence sources in Malaysia, the Government is once again showing interest in the South African helicopter after ...
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Currency crisis delays Saeaga's launch plans and A320 purchase
Malaysia's Saeaga Airlines is postponing plans to order new Airbus Industrie A320s, and the launch of its first scheduled international services, in the face of the recent Asian currency crisis and economic downturn. "We're looking to buy five A320s, but this has now been deferred," says Ting Pek Khiing, ...
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Singapore seeks fighter trainers
Singapore has requested proposals for a fighter-training system which will include simulators for the Lockheed Martin F-16, McDonnell Douglas A-4S and Northrop F-5E. Bids are due in by mid-December. Bidders could include CAE Electronics, Hughes Training, and Lockheed Martin with Thomson Training &Simulation. The Integrated Fighter Training (IFT) contract ...
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Mars Express plan gathers support
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee has endorsed the preliminary stage in the development of the Mars Express mission. The craft will enter orbit around the Red Planet and deposit up to four landers on the surface after launch on a Russian Soyuz U booster scheduled for 2003 ...
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UK confirms funding for Metop project
UK confirms funding for Metop project The UK IS to invest $45 million in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Metop meteorological polar-orbiting-satellite programme. The proposed $2.5 billion Metop system, to be operated from 2003 by Eumetsat, the European meteorological-satellite organisation, has been stalled by political and budgetary difficulties. ...
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India buys Arabsat
India, which lost its Insat 2D satellite in orbit in July, has purchased the Arabsat 1C satellite in orbit for $40 million from the Arab consortium which had operated the craft since 1992. The Arabsat 1C will be moved into the assigned Insat 2D position in geostationary orbit. Source: ...
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Arianespace confirms Ariane 4 order
More Ariane 4s are now available Arianespace, the European commercial-launcher organisation, has ordered a further 20 Ariane 4 boosters from Aerospatiale (Flight International, 22-28 October), bringing to 43 the number of Ariane 4s available to customers for launches to about 2003. The new order will enable Arianespace to meet increasing ...
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ASTOR BAFO
The UK Ministry of Defence released its request for best and final offers (BAFO) for the Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) project at the end of November. Invitations were issued to the two project-definition teams, led by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. As a third, and contentious, option the MoD is also ...
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P&W A330-200 flies
Airbus Industrie flew a Pratt &Whitney-powered A330-200 for the first time on 4 December from Toulouse. The aircraft is fitted with the PW4168, one of three engine types to be offered on the A330-200. A General Electric CF-6-80E1-powered aircraft has been flown, while a Rolls-Royce Trent-powered version will be ...
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South Korean CN-235S
South Korea has ordered eight IPTN CN-235-220 military-transport aircraft for the South Korean air force. The contract is worth $143 million. Source: Flight International
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Bell assembly
The Philippines has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bell Helicopter Textron to assemble the twin-engined 412 and smaller 206 at a planned new site in Alaminos. Bell is stressing that the deal depends on the two types being ordered in sufficient numbers. Source: Flight International
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Malaysia leaseback
Malaysia Airlines has concluded a sale and leaseback agreement with General Electric Capital for six of its Boeing 737-500s. The airline has also signed an agreement to purchase a Boeing Business Jet, making it the first Asian customer for the corporate version of the 737. Source: Flight International
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First class goes
Sabena will drop its first-class service from 25 February, 1998, having discovered that most passengers travelling in the section were either upgraded from business class or were travelling free because of other privileges. The airline operates with first-class cabins to Johannesburg, Kinshasa, New York and Tokyo. Source: Flight ...
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Outrider autopilot
The Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle recently completed its first autopilot flight, a critical landmark in turning around the trouble-plagued drone project. In the flight test at Hondo, Texas, the autopilot was engaged after take-off, demonstrating "-excellent navigation accuracy as it flew to four pre-programmed waypoints", says the ...
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Lucas for JSF
Rolls-Royce-owned Allison Engine has selected Lucas Aerospace to supply the lift- fan drive shaft for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept development aircraft. Allison is supplying the lift fan for the aircraft. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. Lucas Aerospace is also supplying the lift-fan clutch-control ...
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USAF receives E-8
The US Air Force will achieve the initial operational capability for the Northrop Grumman Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) this month. The initial fielding landmark was made possible after the US aerospace firm delivered the third production JSTARS aircraft to the USAF in November. Although not yet "operational", ...
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Taiwan Turbo Tracker
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $24 million foreign-military-sales contract from the US Navy to repair and refurbish a TW-3 aircraft operated by the Taiwanese air force. The TW-3 is Taiwan's designation for the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early-warning aircraft. The country purchased four E-2Cs in 1994 to provide ...
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Teledyne selects
Teledyne Continental Motors has selected Perkins Technology as design consultant on development of its new two-stroke, compression ignition light-aircraft engine. The powerplant is being developed under NASA's three-year general-aviation propulsion programme, the objectives of which are to reduce the acquisition and maintenance costs of a new engine, improve reliability and ...