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Tension rises over Eurofighter
German defence minister Volker Rühe has admitted that Bonn could pull out of the Eurofighter programme, raising tensions among the European partners to their highest level since the German-led funding fiasco of 1992 which led to lengthy programme delays. In an interview with the German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine ...
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ICAO pushes for new enforcement powers
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to push for powers to enforce safety and security standards for its 185 member states. President Assad Kotaite will ask the ICAO Council in June for powers to conduct compulsory safety and security audits and enforce implementation of standards. The ICAO ...
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UK industry makes funds appeal to new Labour Government
UK INDUSTRY representatives have made a fresh appeal to the UK Government for direct aerospace-research funding, following the Labour Party's general election victory on 1 May. Similar approaches to the previous Conservative Administration had been repeatedly rejected. Mike Turner, president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), ...
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Shuttle heads home after Mir crew swap
The Space Shuttle STS 84/Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir 1 space station on 21 May, ending the sixth joint flight in the successful Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM) programme. The Atlantis, which was used to deliver a new oxygen generator and repair gear to the Mir among 1,800kg of equipment, ...
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Apollo sale
United Airlines, US Airways and Air Canada are to sell Apollo Travel Services (ATS) to Galileo International for $700 million. ATS already markets Galileo's Apollo computer-reservation system in North America. Galileo will also buy Galileo Nederland from KLM and Traviswiss from Swissair. Source: Flight International
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Delta opts for fire-protection
Delta Air Lines has decided to fit its entire narrowbody fleet with cargo-bay fire-protection systems well ahead of an expected US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive. Walter Kidde Aerospace, a division of Kidde Technologies, is Delta's chosen supplier of cargo-hold smoke-detectors which, together with Kidde's central cargo electronic-monitoring unit and ...
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Danish planning
Danish flight-planning software manufacturer Air Support has linked with Deutsche Flug Sicherung (DFS), the operations division of the German civil-aviation authority, to provide on-demand flight plans to operators which need to make changes to routes at short notice. Air Support's Pre-flight Planning System software, which is designed to be able ...
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'Multi mirrors' make an appearance
Finavicomp has delivered the first X-Ray Multi-Mirror satellite telescope tube to Dornier Satellite Systeme. The Finnish firm - the manufacturing arm of Finavitec - is building two tubes. The first is to be used for test purposes and as a spare, while the second will be used for the actual ...
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BFGoodrich plans to expand Skywatch
BFGOODRICH PLANS to begin shipping its Skywatch traffic-advisory system in June, following USFederal Aviation Administration approval of the system. The company says that it has taken 65 orders since launching the Skywatch, which is aimed at the general-aviation market, at the beginning of April. Flight International was given ...
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Basic decisions
ALL THREE US tactical-aircraft programmes survived the Quadrenniel Defense Review (QDR) - but Congress will have to accept more base closures or one of the fighters may yet have to be cancelled. US Defense Secretary William Cohen has given lawmakers a stark choice: preserve the status quo and compromise combat ...
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Notes on tables
This Flight International Third-Party Airliner Maintenance Directory Part 2 covers Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Rim. It is an update of the information published in the issue of 6-12 November, 1996. Part III, covering companies in Europe and the CIS is to be published in our 22-28 ...
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The aircraft after the explosions
Container No 1 is the US Federal Aviation Administration-manufactured "hardened" container, which was placed close to the cargo-hold wall where the fuselage is externally marked with the black grid lines. In each container, a "bomb" was placed against an outboard-facing wall to test for "worst-case" results. Immediate external visual inspection ...
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Minister warns industry on need to restructure
Russia's aerospace industry must regroup around as few as two Western-style integrated companies which will have to survive without state support, warns Andrew Svinarenko, the country's first deputy minister of economics, who has now taken over responsibility for restructuring the country's aviation sector. "We need to have integrated ...
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ARIA claims selecting Western aircraft was 'mistake'
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) made a "mistake" in attempting to base its fleet around Western-built aircraft, says Valery Okulov, the airline's general director. "In the past, we thought we could work on the basis of Western aircraft, but we now know that was a mistake. We cannot base ...
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Air Ukraine closes on Western fleet
Air Ukraine expects to introduce the first of at least five Western-built airliners later this year as it seeks to replace its fleet of ageing Soviet-built aircraft. According to Sergey Goncharenko, corporate secretary of the Kiev-based airline, contracts are expected to be concluded soon with Airbus Industrie and ...
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FAA warns on joint Russian certification
The US Federal Aviation Administration has warned that progress towards a US-Russian bilateral on aircraft certification has been halted by confusion over which bodies will be responsible for airworthiness under the new Russian Air Code, and continuing problems with quality control at production plants. "The FAA has been ...
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Aviaross Il-96
Russian domestic cargo charter airline Aviaross is planning to acquire three Ilyushin Il-96-300s using loan guarantees promised by the Russian Government. The Moscow-based airline operates two Antonov An-32s. The guarantees for roubles 4 trillion ($695 million), which are due to be approved in mid-July, are intended to back the acquisition ...
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Ilyushin Il-96T flies for first time
The Ilyushin Il-96T freighter had its maiden flight on 16 May at the VASO Voronezh production plant. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW2337 engines and equipped with Rockwell-Collins avionics, was flown for 21min. It has now been ferried to the Zhukovsky flight-test centre where it will be flight-tested ...
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Partnerships struck between Russia's aerospace...
Partnerships struck between Russia's aerospace industry and Western manufacturers are nearing fruition. Nearly 250 delegates from around the world discussed progress at the Russian Aerospace 97 conference hosted by Flight International and Aviaexport in Moscow on 20-22 May. Max Kingsley-Jones and Kevin O'Toole reportSource: Flight International
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Station to be manned in early 1999
NASA has released a new 45-flight assembly schedule for the International Space Station (ISS) under which permanent manned operations of the station are due to start in January 1999 and reach completion in 2003 - nine years later than planned when the programme was inaugurated by US President Ronald Reagan ...