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Emirates signs for up to 12 A340-500s
Paul Lewis/DUBAI Emirates Airlines has signed a letter of intent (LoI) for 12 Airbus A340-500s, increasing the consortium's commitments for the -500 and -600 derivatives to 78 from seven international carriers. The United Arab Emirates carrier joined a growing list of launch customers, after inking an LoI to ...
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American plans to choose HUD soon
American Airlines expects an "imminent" response to its request for proposals (RFP) from head-up-display (HUD) system manufacturers. The move follows the Delta Air Lines selection of a Flight Dynamics head-up-guidance system (HGS) for its Boeing Next Generation 737 fleet. The RFP covers HUD installations for 75 Next Generation 737s ...
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BAe enters talks with Alenia on defence
British Aerospace is understood to have held preliminary talks with Italy's Alenia Aerospazio over a possible merger of defence activities. BAe confirms that John Weston, managing director of BAe Defence, visited Italy early in November but is playing down its significance. The visit has sparked off a raft of ...
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BA clouds skies for UK low-fare airlines
British Airways' confirmation that it will launch its own low-cost airline next year at London Stansted airport has provoked immediate protests from the UK's existing "no-frills" carriers easyJet, Ryanair and Debonair. The new airline, which is yet to be named but is being referred to internally as "Operation Blue ...
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Italian air force will order A319CJ to replace its DC-9s
The Italian air force is to buy two Airbus A319 Corporate Jets (CJs) to replace its two McDonnell Douglas DC-9 VIP transports. The service, which has been operating the two DC-9-32s since 1974, is understood to have signed a letter of intent to purchase the two A319CJs, worth some ...
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Sabena switches from Boeing to Airbus for short-haul fleet
Herman de Wulf/Brussels Sabena has selected the A320 family over the Boeing Next Generation 737 to replace its entire 737 fleet, and will sign a contract for up to 39 aircraft for delivery from January 1999. The airline's selection of the Airbus single-aisle aircraft is part of a ...
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FBI passes TWA crash investigation to NTSB
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has closed its 16-month criminal probe into the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, saying that it revealed no evidence of a criminal act. As a result, the investigation of the loss of the TWA Boeing 747-100 ...
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Russia's Zvesda Strela stretches the range of its Kayak anti-ship missile
Douglas Barrie/London Russian tactical missile house Zvezda Strela is developing an extended-range variant of its 3M-24 anti-ship missile (SS-N-25/AS-20 Kayak) with twice the engagement range of the original. The improved variant also uses satellite-based course-correction and has a coastal attack capability. The 3M-24 can be ship-, fixed, or ...
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Columbia on a roll
The Columbia/STS87 completed the first reverse heads-up roll manoeuvre after launch from Kennedy Space Center on 19 November. Six minutes after launch at an altitude of 115km, the Columbia carried out a 20s, 180í reverse roll to a heads-up position. The manoeuvre will be required on all low-inclination launches to ...
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New alloy used in Comanche casting
Starmet Aerocast has produced castings for the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter using its new Beralcast beryllium-aluminium alloy. The complex investment castings will be used in the Comanche's Lockheed Martin electro-optical sensor system (EOSS). Massachusetts-based Starmet, which is under contract to produce three ship-sets of 58 Beralcast parts for ...
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Inmarsat approval
Canadian Marconi has received Inmarsat approval for its CMA-2200 top-mounted Aero-I satellite-communications antenna, and installations are under way on Boeing 737-800s. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon trims its missile expenses
Raytheon's recently acquired Texas Instruments (TI) defence division is to join forces with the group's existing Electronic Systems unit to work on the latest phase of a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to cut the cost of producing missiles. TI and Raytheon had completed the earlier ...
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Honeywell is close to gaining DGPS system certification
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Honeywell has carried out a flight inspection of its SLS-2000 satellite landing system (SLS) and expects to gain approval for initial Special Category I (SCAT I) operations by January 1998. Flight inspection will take place at Newark, using a Honeywell-owned Cessna Citation V business jet. The ...
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Dasa wins satellite contract
Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (Dasa) Dornier division in Munich has won an $18 million contract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build two Dasa Flexbus spacecraft platforms for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission. The 380kg satellites will be launched aboard a Russian Cosmos booster from Plesetsk in 2001 and placed ...
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ISS completion may slip back
Tim Furniss/LONDON Completion of the International Space Station (ISS) is likely to be delayed until 2004 - ten years later than planned when the project was first announced in 1984 and about one year later than the date announced by NASA in 1996. Earlier this month, NASA and ...
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Toshiba Investment
Japan's Toshiba, which will supply the solar panels for the Space Systems-Loral-built CD Radio digital audio broadcasting satellites to be launched in 1999 under a ´2 billion ($16 million) contract, is to invest over ´1 billion by 2000 in a new solar-array manufacturing plant in Kawasaki. The company has supplied ...
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JV venture will market SS-18 satellite launchers
Kosmotras, a joint venture between ten Ukrainian and Russian companies, has been set up to market the former Dnepr SS-18 ballistic missile for commercial launches into low Earth orbit. The firms, led by the Russian and Ukrainian space agencies, plan to convert 150 SS-18s into the Dnepr booster and ...
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Rohr joins 7Q7
Rohr, the San Diego-based engine-nacelle specialist, has formally joined the Omega-led "Seven Q Seven" programme which is being established to re-engine Boeing 707s with Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217 turbofans. Delivery of flight-test hardware will begin in August 1998. Source: Flight International
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Spares for Seoul
The Pentagon plans to provide South Korea with $160 million-worth of spare parts for military aircraft and tactical missiles provided in the past by the Seoul Government. The aircraft include the McDonnell Douglas F-4 and Northrop F-5. The deal also includes AIM-7 and AIM-9 air-to-air missile components. Source: ...
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Howmet Shares sale
The Carlyle Group plans to offer 15% of its holding in US engine-castings giant Howmet for sale to the public. Carlyle, an aerospace/defence-acquisition company, took 51% of Howmet two years ago in a joint buy-out with Thiokol, which holds 49%. A further 13% of Carlyle's stock will be sold to ...