All news – Page 7244
-
News
What about Russian military aircraft?
Sir - I agree with the conclusions drawn in the article "Is the worst over?" (Flight International, 6-12 August, P30) relating to consolidation and collaboration in Russian aviation. These actions are in line with Western practice and are essential for commercial success. The point not made, ...
-
News
Ratioflug moves into widebody market
Ratioflug has introduced its first widebodied aircraft, an ex-Air France Airbus A300B2. The Frankfurt, Germany-based private charter company is using the A300 in a 323-seat layout on holiday charter flights to Mediterranean resorts from Düsseldorf. The airline, which also operates Fokker F27s and Learjets, says that it plans to add ...
-
News
Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of speciÌcation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will be required to enable ...
-
News
GATX Airlog close to returning reworked cargo 747s to use
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Two airlines have started work to return to service two Boeing 747 freighters grounded in mid-1996, when the US Federal Aviation Administration imposed load restrictions on the GATX Airlog cargo conversion. Airlog says that work to recertificate the conversion is "about 80% complete" ...
-
News
Tests complete on first 'Block 4' GE90
Boeing has completed flight and performance tests of the first 777-200IGW (increased gross weight) powered by the "Block 4" variant of the General Electric GE90-90B turbofan. The aircraft is being refurbished at the company's Everett site in Washington before delivery to Lauda Air in late September. ...
-
News
Guam probe reveals US MSAW problems
Software errors have been found and corrected on the minimum-safe-altitude warning (MSAW) systems at three US airports, the US Federal Aviation Administration has revealed. The MSAW alerts air-traffic controllers when an aircraft equipped with a Mode C transponder descends below minimum safe altitude during a landing approach. The ...
-
News
Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
-
News
Mesa Air regional-jet operation experiences a sluggish start
Mesa Air Group says that its Texas-based regional-jet operation, started in May with two Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), is growing more slowly than anticipated. Marketing of the initial Fort Worth-Houston service is being intensified, and Fort Worth-San Antonio flights will be added in September, with a San Antonio-Colorado Springs ...
-
News
NavCanada softens user-fee proposal
Canada's privatised air-traffic-services provider NavCanada has modified and deferred planned user fees after consultation with aircraft operators. The changes will delay the transition from an air-transportation tax to full cost-recovery by user fees to 1 November, 1998. NavCanada says that the revised proposal will give airlines more time ...
-
News
Japanese consortium prepares plans to launch regional airline
An Okinawa-based Japanese business consortium is drawing up plans to launch an airline within three years, to operate domestic routes and, possibly, international services in the longer term. A group of 32 island investors led by Okinawa Electric Power has established a new company called Southern Cross to ...
-
News
Canada's Royal takes over CanAir cargo
Montreal-based Royal Aviation has acquired the assets of CanAir Cargo, and added the Ontario-based overnight-freight carrier's six leased Boeing 737-200 freighters to its fleet. Royal plans to maintain CanAir's coast-to-coast cargo network, which produced revenues of C$49 million in 1996, and will convert at least three additional 737s ...
-
News
Pan Am progress
Pan Am, which expects to close its acquisition of Carnival Air Lines in September, has posted a a net loss of $17 million during the second quarter of 1997, blaming unexpectedly weak traffic. In the deal announced in March, Pan Am will acquire Carnival's underutilised fleet of 21 aircraft, including ...
-
News
Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
-
News
B-2 stealth bomber suffers housing problems
The Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber has been declared fit to fight, but forward deployments are not possible because of problems in maintaining the stealth aircraft. The US Air Force announced in April that the B-2 had achieved its initial operational capability with delivery of the thirteenth aircraft to ...
-
News
Arrow failure
The fifth test of the Israel Aircraft Industries Arrow 2 anti-tactical ballistic missile failed on August 20. The missile was launched from the test site at Palmachim, Israel, 3min after the target, a surrogate ballistic missile, was launched from a ship anchored offshore. The Arrow 2 went out of control ...
-
News
Outrider UAV resumes flight test
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS has resumed flight testing of the Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) after a two-week hiatus while improvements were incorporated on the prototypes. It completed the seventh Outrider test flight on 9 August - the third successive flight longer than 20min. During the evaluation at the ...
-
News
Dassault keeps low-key profile on Taiwan sales
Dassault has adopted a wait-and-see approach to the politically sensitive issue of possible further fighter sales to Taiwan, in spite of French Government assurances to China that no more arms will be sold to the island. "We've developed a relationship with Taiwan and we think we have a ...
-
News
Antonov ascending
The An-38 marks the comeback of one of the oldest aircraft manufacturers in the CIS. Will it survive in the modern world? Paul Duffy/Novosibirsk As one of the major Soviet aviation design bureaux, and the only one based outside Russia, Antonov has developed two specialities in ...
-
News
Central Asia's rising star
Ian Sheppard/TASHKENT The Republic of Uzbekistan, a land-locked country lying at the centre of the historic "Silk Road" between Europe and China, gained independence on 1 September, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The aviation industry it inherited was in two state-owned blocks - The Uzbek ...
-
News
Jet charter sold
GAMA Aviation has acquired fellow UK-based air-ambulance and ad hoc charter operator Heathrow Jet Charter (HJC) for an undisclosed sum. GAMA, which is based at Fairoaks Airport, in Surrey, will add HJC's two Learjet 35As to its fleet of one 35A, two Cessna Citations and two Raytheon Beech King Air ...