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Allison goes hunting
Hunting Airmotive of the UK has beaten international competition to extend for a further five years its UK Ministry of Defence contract under which it maintains the Allison T56 engines, which power the RAF's Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport fleet. Source: Flight International
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easyJet's complaint
The European Commission has opened an enquiry into allegations by UK low-cost airline easyJet of anti-competitive practices by KLM. The action follows a complaint made by easyJet in October 1996 that KLM was lowering its fares artificially on the Amsterdam-London route in order to compete with easyJet's tariffs. ...
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Airborne's GPS
Airborne Express has selected IIMorrow's Apollo 2101 global-positioning-system (GPS) navigation management system to replace Omega/VLF systems installed on its McDonnell Douglas DC-8s. The value of the contract is not disclosed. Initial installations are under way. Source: Flight International
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MAS/GE engine deal
Malaysia Airlines (MAS)and General Electric have finalised an agreement to form the joint venture, Aircraft Engine Repair & Overhaul (1997) (AERO '97). The new company, which is 70% owned by GE and 30% by MAS, will focus on developing the airline's existing CFM56 and Pratt & Whitney PW4000 capabilities. Similar ...
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Load shift?
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on a possible rearward load-shift of untethered cargo as a cause of the 7 August accident to a Fine Air McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F at Miami, Florida. Controllers reported that the aircraft pitched up to an angle of some 60¼ almost immediately after ...
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Angola accident
A 31-year-old Angolan Air Charter Boeing 727-100F (D2-TJC) crash-landed at Lukapa, Angola inbound from the country's capital, Luanda, on 15 August. There are no confirmed reports about the circumstances, but no-one on board the cargo flight is believed to have been seriously injured. Source: Flight International
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NEPC guilty
The Indian Supreme Court has reportedly ruled that Skyline NEPC owes some $2 million worth of lease rentals, and has ordered that the airline return two Boeing 737-200s to the US leasing company, US-based PLM Transport. Source: Flight International
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Longer legged Kedge
Vympel is offering an extended-range variant of its Kh-29 (AS-14 Kedge) television-guided air-to-surface missile. Vympel claims the Kh-29TE has a range three times that of the Kh-29T, although, at 700kg, it is only 20kg heavier. The design bureau says that the Kh-29TE has a range of up to 30km (16nm). ...
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Thomson/Fakel tie-up
France's Thomson-CSF Airsys and Russian air-defence missile specialist Fakel are collaborating in adapting Fakel's cold-gas ejection system for the former's VL-VT1 naval short-range anti-air missile system. The cold-gas ejection system is used in various Russian navy and army surface-to-air missile systems. Source: Flight International
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Trimming the fat
BMW Rolls-Royce is embarking on a weight-reduction programme for its BR715 engine, which is 45kg overweight. The company says that it will transfer the results of a similar programme for the smaller BR710, which trimmed off 35kg, to the new powerplant, and consultations are being held with suppliers to examine ...
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New Saudi airline
Private investors in Saudi Arabia have approached Saudi Arabian Airlines with a proposal to set up a new domestic airline using aircraft being phased out by the national flag carrier as new aircraft are introduced. The two sides are undertaking a feasibility study into what may become a joint-venture operation. ...
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BA engineeering revamp
British Airways is re-aligning its engineering division, with a downscaling of its work for third-party customers. The company says that this is a streamlining policy and that it will result in the loss of 450 of the present 9,300 engineering jobs. Source: Flight International
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Vympel reveals previously classified air-to-air missiles
Russian missile design house Vympel unveiled two previously classified air-to-air missiles (AAMs) at the show, the K-37 long-range active-radar-guided AAM and the K-74 infra-red-guided short-range missile. The K-74 is a development of Vympel's R-73 (AA-11 Archer), with the main difference being an improved infra-red (IR)-seeker. Both have the ...
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Grandair's seizure
GrandAir of the Philippines, which recently acquired two more Boeing 737-200s on lease, is still awaiting the release of two of its three leased Airbus Industrie A300B4s. The aircraft were recently seized by Dutch owner ING. GrandAir, in the meantime, says that it is working with 737 lessor Askar and ...
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Cathay will re-engine entire 747-400 fleet
Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) will ship Cathay Pacific Airway's first hybrid Rolls-Royce RB211-524G/H-T engine to Boeing in early September for flight certification, following agreement to modify the airline's entire fleet of 21 747-400s. HAESL is now modifying the first -524G and plans to run the engine ...
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Dash 8-400 favourite at SAS
Kevin O'Toole/Stockholm An official announcement on the selection of a new 70-seat turboprop for the SAS Commuter fleet is imminent, says the Scandinavian airline, with an order expected for as many as 20 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400s, to be used alongside the existing Saab 2000 50-seaters. ...
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ValuJet crash blamed on total US safety-oversight failure
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The cause of the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 crash on 11 May, 1996, was failure by the US aviation-safety system to keep hazardous material off a commercial transport aircraft, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official accident report. ValuJet, the Federal ...
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Singapore Technologies builds on 1996 recovery
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) turned in a solid performance for the first half of 1997, boosted in part by a return to profitability of its Commercial Business Group (CBG) on the back of firmer civil-aircraft maintenance markets. STAe showed a net profit of S$28 million ($19 million ) ...
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Rushing Russia
In May this year, Russia's deputy economics minister Andrew Svinarenko told the Aviaexport/Flight International conference in Moscow that the industry must change, and that the Government cannot and will not continue to support the present mix of over-diversification and over-capacity. That is a fine sentiment, but one of little substance ...
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Three bid for Australia's Wedgetail
Three consortia, led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems, are expecting Initial Design Activity (IDA) contracts for Project Wedgetail, Australia's competition for an airborne early-warning and control aircraft, before the end of this year. The Royal Australian Air Force is expected to pick the Project Wedgetail winner ...