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Hopes of Alitalia profit rise with March figures
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A strong improvement in Alitalia's performance is fuelling optimism that the group could be back in profit this year and that the upturn will ease the way for European Commission (EC) approval for recapitalisation Unofficial figures show that the airline group made a profit ...
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Debonair seeks public listing and own licence
Debonair, one of the new wave of European low-fare carriers, is preparing to raise new capital through an international share sale, and also reveals that it is close to obtaining its own airline operator's licences. The carrier plans to become one of the first UK-based companies to seek ...
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Proposed Lockheed Martin alliance angers IAI workers
Workers at Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)have reacted angrily to Lockheed Martin's discussions over taking a share in the Israeli company, if and when it is privatised. IAI chairman Yanuch Ben-Gal reveals that a high-level meeting between executives from the two companies took place at the start of the ...
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Jospin pledges industry review
Julian Moxon/PARIS French prime minister Lionel Jospin has promised a "profound" review of the aeronautical industry, but in his speech at the close of the Paris Air Show on 22 June, he stopped short of confirming the privatisations of Thomson-CSF and Aerospatiale. "I know what is ...
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Japan plans to cut regional-airport construction budget
Expansion plans for around ten Japanese regional airports could suffer delays following moves within Japan's transport ministry to spin out its spending on airport construction beyond the year 2000. Sources within the ministry say that that the aim is to extend the existing five-year 1996-2000 airport build-up plan ...
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AlliedSignal purchase
AlliedSignal has agreed to buy Grimes Aerospace, a US manufacturer of aircraft lighting, cockpit displays and other equipment, from New York investment firm Forstmann Little, owner of Gulfstream Aerospace, for an undisclosed sum. Grimes has annual sales of around $230 million and employs 1,400 people. Source: Flight International
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Swiss World aims for long-haul start-up in November
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Swiss World Airways, the new carrier being set up in the wake of Swissair's removal of long-haul services at Geneva, has announced plans to start flying to North America by November. The airline aims to begin services from Geneva with two leased Boeing 767s, ...
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Own goal
The most eagerly awaited statement on the future of the aerospace industry is the one which new French prime minister Lionel Jospin did not make at the end of the Paris air show. Jospin, like the US Government will with the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger, is going to have to decide ...
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F-22 757 testbed arrives at Seattle
The Boeing 757 flying testbed for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has been delivered to Seattle, where the aircraft will be based. The Raptor will be fitted with the Northrop Grumman APG-77 phased-array radar later this year. It will also be fitted with a sensor wing on the crown of ...
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SAAF will decide on A-Darter by year 2000
The South African Air Force (SAAF) will decide on whether to proceed with the Kentron Agile-Darter high-agility imaging-infra-red (IIR) guided missile by the end of 1999. Concept development of the A-Darter, unveiled at the Paris air show, began in the mid-1980s, according to Kentron, and testing of the ...
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US lawyers question Army plans
US lawmakers have raised doubts on the future of the US Army's Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). The Army has requested about $100 million to acquire an additional 153 ATACMS missiles in fiscal year 1998, but the House National Security Committee (HNSC) says that the service is to hold ...
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Netherlands picks pods for F-16 mid-life update
GEC-Marconi's Atlantic navigation pod and Lockheed Martin's Sharpshooter targeting pod have been selected by the Royal Netherlands Air Force as part of its Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life upgrade. The Air Force has ordered 60 Atlantic forward-looking infra- red pods and ten Sharpshoooters worth a total of $90 million. Israel's Rafael ...
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Kaman concludes SH-20(A) deal with Australian Navy
The first of 11 Kaman SH-20(A) Super Seasprites for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) will be delivered during the first half of 2001, with all deliveries completed halfway through 2002. Contract negotiations on the purchase were concluded in June. The helicopters will be operated from the RAN's ANZAC ...
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Price delays decision on AWACS upgrade
The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Agency (NAPMA) will give the green light to a mid-term upgrade of NATO's fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft by early July, if a cost discrepancy can be resolved in time. German sources close to the programme say ...
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South Korea buys Lynx, delays C-130J
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE South Korea's ministry of national defence has announced formally its intention to go ahead with a $337 million deal to buy additional Westland Super Lynx naval helicopters and upgrade an earlier batch of machines already in service. The order covers a second batch of ...
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to fly JSF avionics
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH LOCKHEEDMARTIN has added two key company-funded tests to its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator programme. The proposed avionics architecture will be flight-tested in team member Northrop Grumman's BAC One-Eleven, and Lockheed Martin will build a full-scale high-fidelity pole model of its JSF to determine radar ...
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-as Northrop Grumman reveals stealth design
Northrop Grumman is working on uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs), which company officials believe could be deployed within 15 years to handle "dull, dirty and dangerous missions". Acknowledging the UCAV research, the firm's military-aircraft-systems division at El Segundo, California, has revealed the design of a low-cost stealthy, re-usable, ...
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USAF terror concern
A force-protection battle laboratory has been created at Lackland AFB, Texas, to come up with innovative concepts to protect US Air Force personnel and sites against terrorist attack. The impetus was the terrorist truck-bombing at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, a year ago, in which 19 US airmen were killed. The ...
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Talon support
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems has won a $29 million contract to support maintenance of the company's MC-130H Combat Talon II radar system for two years. Contract options could increase the total award to $35 million up to the end of the century. The firm will provide Warner Robins Air Logistics ...
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US Navy faced by JASSM decision
Douglas Barrie/London The US Navy is expected to decide on whether to continue with the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-Off Missile (JASSM) by mid-1998, according to senior programme officials. The JASSM is being pursued as a US Air Force/Navy programme, with Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) developing ...