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BA counts strike cost
British Airways estimates that the cost of recent strike action could mount to £125 million ($205 million) in lost revenue and contingency measures. The warning came as BA results for its first quarter to June showed a 28%drop in operating profits to £140 million, including an initial £15 million cost ...
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Northrop seals deal
Northrop Grumman has completed its merger with Logicon in a $750 million share-for-share deal. The US manufacturer will operate Logicon as a wholly owned subsidiary. In July, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman agreed to merge by the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Pakistan shelves privatisation of PIA,but fleet renewal nears
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Privatisation plans for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)have been put on hold, says the carrier's new chairman Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, but he confirms that decisions are close on new-aircraft purchases which will mean that the entire fleet will be renewed over the next few years. ...
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Help me, buddy
If anybody had any illusions that the airline industry could relax about its safety record, events of the last few days should have dispelled them. In the space of ten days, at least three large airliners and one small one were destroyed in the course of regular services ...
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Israel opts for PAWS
The Israeli air force will be the launch customer for the Elisra passive airborne-warning system (PAWS). The air force will equip its transport helicopters with the system. According to Elisra, the PAWS will provide the helicopter with a reliable and accurate warning against surface-air and air-air ...
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Dasa advances hypersonic programme
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (Dasa's) hypersonic missile (HFK) research programme is beginning to progress "out of a research background" towards an application in a future short-range air defence (SHORAD) system. According to Peter Gleich, head of aeromechanics at the company's missiles subsidiary LFK, the technology will ...
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US Army picks Northrop minefield detector for Bosnian operation
The Northrop Grumman Airborne Standoff Minefield Detection System (ASTAMIDS) is to be sent to Bosnia for three months, says John Martin, a new-business-development manager for the US firm. The ASTAMIDS, which consists of an infra-red (IR) sensor, processor and display station, is designed to survey minefields accurately from ...
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South Korea sets KTX-II deadline
South Korea has given competing engine manufacturers General Electric and Snecma until 16 August to submit their final proposals for the powerplant of the planned Samsung/Lockheed Martin KTX-II advanced trainer/light combat aircraft. The Government and KTX-II prime contractor Samsung are planning to complete the evaluation and make a ...
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USAF leadership
US President Clinton has nominated Gen Michael Ryan, now commander of US Air Forces in Europe, to replace Gen Ronald Fogleman as the USAF's chief of staff. Fogleman resigned after disagreement with US defence chief William Cohen over the handling of the terrorist bombing at the Khobar Towers apartment block ...
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Philippine air force misses deadlines in fighter search
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The selection of a new multi-role fighter aircraft for the Philippine air force is in danger of slipping by as much as a year, following the failure of its evaluation team to meet successive deadlines in choosing a shortlist. Following the submission of tenders ...
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Taiwan starts to consider fifth-generation fighters
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Taiwan's air force has begun planning the procurement of a fifth-generation fighter as a follow-on to the Dassault Mirage 2000-5s and Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs on order and now entering service. "We're now drafting a plan to study and evaluate the next-generation fighter," ...
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UK MoD will invite tenders for new IFF programme soon
Douglas Barrie/London The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is likely to release an invitation to tender for its £500 million ($800 million)-plus next-generation identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) programme within the next two to three months. The Successor IFF (SIFF) project is intended to provide all three armed services ...
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Clinton faces Latin America discord
A decision by the Clinton Administration to ease a two-decades-old ban on the sale of advanced US weaponry to Latin America has been attacked by opponents within US Congress, who vow to redouble their efforts to stop such sales. The White House announced on 1 August that the ...
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Northrop plans to show missile's flightpath live via video camera all the way to target
NORTHROPGRUMMAN is to demonstrate a bomb-damage-assessment system which consists of a video camera tethered 300m behind the munition to transmit images throughout the weapon's flight to the target. The US Air Force has awarded the company a $480,000 contract to supply its Munition-Deployed Bomb Damage Assessment sensors, integrated ...
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Increased potency
Bell's continued investment in the Cobra and Huey programmes may save money Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC VALUEFORMONEY is an overused phrase, but it is the central tenet of the US Marine Corps' programme to upgrade its Bell AH-1WSuperCobra and UH-1N Huey helicopters for continued service through to 2020. To ...
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Civil and military helicopter directory
Compiled by Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC and John Christovassilis/LONDON Helicopter manufacturers are working, with some success, to stimulate the civil market with the introduction of new designs. Bell Helicopter Textron, the leading civil-helicopter manufacturer with around half the world market, has revamped its commercial product-line, most recently ...
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Express success
Forbes Mutch/BILLUND, DENMARK There is usually only one reason why an airline's management might purchase new aircraft, and that is expansion. It may be expansion of the route network, an increase in service frequency or a rise in the number of passengers. In the case of Sun-Air of ...
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On the defensive
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Gen Huang Hsien-yung, commander-in-chief of the Taiwan air force, has a single, very important task: defend Taiwan from China. "Our strategy is defensive, and the required mission for the air force is to intercept enemy aircraft," says Huang. China considers Taiwan a renegade province, ...
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Tiger begins to roar
Optimism is rising as the Franco-German Tiger is prepared for production Julian Moxon/MUNICH Morale has improved considerably at Eurocopter's Tiger programme office since the signature of the production-investment contract (PIC) at the Paris air show on 20 June. The event laid to rest last-minute doubts about the commitment ...
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Belgian minister bans air shows
Herman De Wulf/BELGIUM The Belgian minister of defence, Jean-Pol Poncelet, has ordered a ban on air shows at Belgian military airfields, pending a forthcoming inquiry into safety precautions and local emergency procedures. The decision, which effectively puts an end to all air shows in Belgium, follows ...