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Jordanian raises new capital to fund fleet
Royal Jordanian has completed an important refinancing package of its Airbus A310 leases which will provide capital to fund the acquisition of new long-range twinjets in 1998. The airline, which says that it has a desperate need to update its long-range fleet of five 220-seat Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ...
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Saab shapes up for the future
Saab Aircraft hopes to complete a study by the end of the year aimed at mapping out its future strategy. Gert Schyborger, who took over the reins as president at the Swedish civil-aircraft manufacturer earlier this year, says that until the study is complete he will not be ...
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Transatlantic shorts
Hughes (UK) has signed an agreement with Shorts Missile Systems for the Northern Ireland company to participate in future beyond visual-range air-to-air missile programmes in international markets. Shorts is co-operating in the Hughes-led Future Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (FMRAAM) bid for the Royal Air Force. Diehl of Germany has also ...
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Snecma holds Trent 500 workshare talks
Snecma is in talks with Rolls-Royce on taking up to a 10% workshare stake in the latter's new Trent 500. The engine has been selected for the Airbus Industrie A340-500 and -600. R-R chief executive John Rose confirms that negotiations began at the show following the formal announcement ...
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IAR presents SOCAT Puma upgrade
Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR Brasov has presented the first prototype Anti-Tank Optronic Search and Combat System (SOCAT) combat upgrade for the IAR-330 Puma at this year's Paris air show. According to Carciga Dragos, SOCAT programme manager in the procurement department of the Romanian defence ministry, the helicopter was ...
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ESA's orbiter prepared to put lander on comet
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is expected to enter orbit round the comet Wirtanen at a distance of as little as 1km during a mission in 2012 which is designed to deploy a small lander on the comet. It is hoped that samples of the Wirtanen can be taken ...
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China launches GEO weather satellite
China has successfully launched its first geostationary-orbiting (GEO) meteorological satellite. Called the Feng Yun 2, the satellite was launched atop a Long March (LM) 3 booster from Xichang on 10 June. The launch, which followed two consecutive successful launches, of an LM2D in October 1996 and ...
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Ariane 5 on tight schedule after engine-change delay
Tim Furniss/PARIS The critical demonstration flight of the Ariane 502 launch vehicle has been delayed to 30 September, or later, by the need to change its Vulcain first-stage engine. The launch schedule is now "very tight", says the European Space Agency (ESA), and further delays are possible. ...
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Spaceport Florida
The Spaceport Florida Authority has been issued a licence by the US Office of Commercial Space Transportation to operate a second launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The organisation, a state agency created to boost commercial space enterprises, will charge $300,000 a launch to use the new pad or the recently ...
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Thiokol to power Spain's Capricornio
US solid-rocket manufacturer Thiokol of Ogden, Utah, has been chosen to supply the Castor 4B motor for the first stage of Spain's first satellite launcher, the Capricornio. The company will supply Spain's Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) with motors for the first two launches of the booster, ...
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Lockheed Martin finalises $1 billion rocket-engine deal
Lockheed Martin has agreed an exclusive contract to buy 101 Russian RD-108 rocket engines worth $1 billion from RD AMROSS, the joint venture of Russia's NPO Energomash and Pratt & Whitney. The engines will be used on the Atlas 2AR satellite launcher to be operated by ILS International ...
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Boeing to bid for Pentagon GBS satellite project
BOEING DEFENSE & Space is bidding to supply the US Department of Defense with a Global Broadcast Service (GBS) designed to move large blocks of data such as intelligence maps, video imagery, data files and technical manuals to troops in the field in real time via satellite, using low-cost receiver ...
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South Korea to buy Stingers
THE PENTAGON intends to sell South Korea 1,065 Stinger shoulder-launched air-defence missiles and 213 launchers, plus other related equipment, in a deal estimated at $307 million. The weapons sale, which is expected to be completed without objection from the US Congress, will be the first Stinger transfer to ...
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Boeing to receive Northrop nacelles
NORTHROP Grumman's Midgeville, Georgia, composite-production plant is to begin providing nacelle components to Boeing's Wichita division for the Boeing 747/757/767/777 commercial aircraft. The new work, which includes fan-cowl assemblies, thrust reversers and inlet panels, extends into the next century and could be worth more than $200 million. ...
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Zenair moves into Czech joint venture
Canadian light-aircraft manufacturer Zenair has set up a joint venture with Czech Aircraft Works to manufacture its STOL CH701 and Zodiac CH601 aircraft in the Czech Republic. The aircraft are to be offered in a choice of three stages of completion: a "fast-build" kit form; as a factory-assembled ...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127 powers Ilyushin Il-114
The Ilyushin design bureau and Pratt & Whitney Canada finalised negotiations for a PW127F-powered version of the Il-114 turboprop on the opening day of the show. The Western-engined version, which is intended to be offered alongside the Klimov TV7-117-powered model, will have its maiden flight in 1998. Passenger and freighter ...
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Explorer finds trio of new buyers
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems has reported brisk business, with a trio of orders worth around $20 million for the MD Explorer. Communications manager Kenneth Jensen delivered news of orders for two aircraft to Tomen Corporation in Japan and one to Heli-Fly for delivery to Luxembourg Air Rescue. While ...
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Son of Hermes
Europe's love affair with the Hermes spaceplane is not over. Years after the first Hermes was cancelled, the European Space Agency and Aerospatiale have come up with the Son of Hermes. It's not quite the old spaceplane, but it'll do. ESA is working on two manned projects which will ...
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Premier air show lives up to its reputation
Paris has maintained its reputation as the pick of the air show bunch in the opinion of a cross-section of companies manning stands in the various halls. Peter O'Dea from French company Amp, a leading producer of electrical and electronic interconnection systems, says: "This is without doubt the best ...
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Airbus holds a high ground in week of sales activity
Business has been extremely active in the commercial market, dominated by Boeing and Airbus, this week at Le Bourget. News from McDonnell Douglas, however, was conspicuously absent this year. Boeing started the week in the limelight over its discussions about the proposed merger with McDonnell Douglas. Boeing ...