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Venezuelan FBO
Texaco International Aviation and fixed-base operator (FBO) Atlantic Aviation have opened the first general-aviation fuelling unit at Arturo Michelena Airport in Carabobo, Venzuela. The partnership will initially provide fuel and general ground support for corporate and commercial aircraft, with other FBO services expected to be offered by the end of ...
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Bombardier complains
Bombardier is pressing the Canadian Government to file a formal complaint with the World Trade Organisation, alleging that the Brazilian Government is subsidising sales of the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. Source: Flight International
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Alenia/GEC-Marconi merger nears
Julian Moxon/Paris Italy's Alenia Difensa and the UK's GEC-Marconi are preparing to present details of a joint merger study to their respective Governments. A decision on whether to approve the deal is expected from London and Rome by the end of the month. Prospects for a ...
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European academics warn over dangers in Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger
A group of UK and German aerospace academics have written to the European Commission (EC)with a stark warning over the dangers of the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC)merger, a decision on which is now due by the end July. The open letter is written by Professor Philip Lawrence, director of ...
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Sweden plans series of Gripen upgrades
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The Swedish defence ministry is planning upgrade programmes for the Saab JAS39 Gripen, which go beyond the third batch of aircraft ordered recently. The country's Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) formally placed the order on 26 June, which include improvements to the third batch and ...
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Mitsubishi receives certification for Japan's first indigenous helicopter
Andrew Mollett/TOKYO Mitsubushi Heavy Industries (MHI) MH2000 twin-engine medium utility helicopter, Japan's first indigenously developed helicopter, has received type certification from the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau. The certification covers the standard ten-seater version of the aircraft. MHI says that it intends to get type certification for ...
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Progress will go to aid Mir crew
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Progress M35 unmanned cargo craft is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan around 10 July in the first phase of an operation to restore conditions to near-normal aboard the Russian Mir space station. The launch follows the collision on 25 June ...
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JAA/China harmony
Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and China's civil-aviation authority have signed a memorandum of understanding pledging gradual harmonisation of airworthiness standards. The JAA says that the first area to be covered will be "-regulations and procedures covered in Joint Aviation Requirement No 21, on the certification of aircraft and related ...
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737-800 is favourite in new THY short-haul competition
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Boeing is expected to emerge as the victor in the campaign to supply THY Turkish Airlines with a new fleet of short-haul aircraft, while the decision on medium-capacity aircraft has not been revealed. THY is believed to have selected the next-generation 737-800 over the ...
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Tupolev signs agreement to merge with Aviastar and Aviacro production plants
Alexander Velovich/Moscow Russia's Tupolev design bureau has signed an agreement to merge with its main production plants to create a third large integrated aerospace concern in the country. The agreement is to bring Tupolev together with the Aviastar operation which manufactures the Tu-204 and Antonov An-124 ...
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ANZ, Ansett and SIA create a new force in Asia-Pacific
Air New Zealand (ANZ), Ansett and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have agreed to form what could be the largest international airline alliance in the Asia-PaciÌc region. The move comes as ANZmoves closer to the Lufthansa/ United Airlines-led Star alliance, raising prospects of links to a wider global partnership. Unveiling the agreement ...
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Cannon expands on superalloys
CANNON-MUSKEGON is investing almost $5 million to expand its capability to develop and produce superalloys. Its CMSX single-crystal alloys are used in Allison and Rolls-Royce aero-engines. The Muskegon, Michigan-based company says that a new vacuum induction furnace will increase vacuum-melt capabilities, while a new $1.5 million finishing line ...
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Lucas flexible for S-92
Lucas Aerospace is to supply all of the flexible drive-couplings for Sikorsky's S-92 Helibus 19-seat helicopter. A shipset includes two high-speed input-drive couplings, five tail-rotor-drive couplings and one flexible tail-rotor driveshaft. Source: Flight International
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First 737-800s are near to completion
The first three Boeing 737-800s are approaching completion at Renton, Washington. The first example (nearest) is due to join four -700s already in the flight-test programme in July before eventually being delivered to type launch customer Hapag-Lloyd of Germany. A further three -600s will join the programme, beginning early in ...
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Stripper bares metal
McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) has secured its first commercial customer for its Flashjet paint-removal system. Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has purchased a mobile Flashjet for use in stripping Lockheed Martin C-130s and other aircraft. The system uses pulses of high-energy light from a xenon flashlamp to ablate ...
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Denmark develops touchscreen technique
A fully reconfigurable part-task trainer is being developed by Denmark's Riso National Laboratory and Danish company Avitraco. The multi-aircraft training environment (MATE) looks like an ordinary simulator, but the aircraft instruments and controls are all reproduced on flat "virtual-panel" touch-screen displays, giving a representative environment. The innovation, which ...
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Why should Eurotunnel be given financial assistance?
Sir - The recent announcement by Eurotunnel that it is seeking to renegotiate its enormous debt, and that its French shareholders may be disinclined to agree to the banks taking a larger share in return for their co-operation, prompts me to question whether these continuing financial arrangements breach European Union ...
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Boeing/MDC: monopoly game?...
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) serves only the narrow, although legitimate, commercial interests of Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC). For that reason, your position is inappropriate to the extreme and reflects a severe lack of strategic foresight by the author. The commercial-aircraft manufacturing business, unlike ...
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Starring role
Ansett is being propelled on to the international stage, with its strategic partnership with ANZ and SIA Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE When Rod Eddington was approached to head Ansett, the former Cathay Pacific Airways managing director made a tie-up with Air New Zealand (ANZ) a prerequisite condition. After just ...
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The Taiwan connection
Since 1990, Aero Vodochody has been focusing its civil-aviation efforts on trying to push ahead with a single-turboprop utility-transport project known as the Aero Ae 270, now given the name Ibis. The programme has been through various revisions, and a full-size fuselage mock-up has often been seen at ...