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China considers Rafale/M88
France and China are in discussions over the possibility of the Chinese air force acquiring the Dassault Rafale next-generation fighter aircraft. Chinese officials, including senior procurement officers, initially visited Dassault in 1996, while, more recently, French representatives, including those from Rafale engine manufacturer Snecma, have spent a considerable ...
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SA floats Sun Air with...
South Africa has launched the privatisation of regional carrier Sun Air, giving the opportunity for a foreign airline partner to take a share of up to 49%. Prospective buyers are being asked to register their interest by 10 April, says NatWest Markets, the UK investment bank which is ...
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Pratt &Whitney offers Airbus PW4000 alternative for A3XX
Pratt & Whitney is holding discussions with Airbus Industrie on the development of a PW4000-based derivative engine for the A3XX, as an alternative to the all-new GP7000 turbofan which is being proposed by the General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance. According to Alain Garcia, Airbus Industrie's senior vice-president ...
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MIGMAPO reveals light fighter project
MIG MAPO has begun work on a new fifth-generation fighter design in the wake of the collapse of its 1.42 fighter project for the Russian air force. The project, the Lightweight Multi-function Fighter (LFI), was revealed by MiG MAPO director of strategic planning Alexander Ageyev. He describes it ...
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Racal develops hand-held IFF
With an eye to Europe's developing "open-skies" approach to civil-aircraft routing, Racal Wells has launched a private-venture programme to develop a hand-held identification friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder for use aboard balloons, gliders, para and hang gliders, microlights and light aircraft. Work on the design is based on a study ...
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RVSIice detector takes to the...
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) is to develop an on-aircraft wide-area ice-detection system for flight testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The system will be based on RVSI's hand-held ice detector, now in use with Delta Air Lines' Boston-New York-Washington shuttle service. The hand-held ID-1H is ...
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ICO diputes TRW patent claims
ICO Global Communications is to campaign to invalidate patents granted to TRW, to protect the "exclusivity" of the US company's "invention" of a satellite system operating in medium-Earth orbit (MEO), to provide global communications to hand-held terminals via ground stations. Following the receipt of three US and two ...
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Loral and Lockheed Martin win more satellite contracts
The Intelsat organisation has selected Loral to build two high-powered, high-capacity, satellites for the follow-on series (FOS) 2 programme. The $600 million contract, which includes options for further craft, includes the launch in 2000 of the two satellites into orbital positions over the Indian Ocean. The FOS 2 craft will ...
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H2 boosters
Thiokol will build the Castor 4A-XL solid sub-boosters (SSBs) for Japan's uprated H-2A satellite launcher, replacing Japan's Nissan, which provides the SSBs for the current model. The H2A will be a more powerful version, built at lower cost, and will be launched in 2000. ...
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Rising star
In the byzantine world of the Russian aerospace industry, perhaps nothing should come as a surprise.The emergence, however, of Alexei Fedorov as Sukhoi's general director was an unexpected triumph for the boss of the Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association. Fedorov's ascension has come at the expense of Mikhail Simonov, ...
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Flight Sciences, which specialises in...
Flight Sciences, which specialises in helping airlines reduce their fuel bills by improving efficiency, expects to sign contracts with major carriers later this year, as part of its efforts to expand its client base in Europe and Asia. The US company recently completed a five-month project with Austrian ...
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Sir - The Chinese XXJ...
Sir - The Chinese XXJ (Flight International, 12-18 March, P15) can hardly "-be referred to as the F-12 in China" - that designation having already been applied to the NAMC J-12 (F-12) light short-take- off-and- landing fighter first flown in 1970 and again, in improved form, in 1975. Six prototypes ...
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Training moves
China Northern Airlines has signed an agreement to relocate its pilot training and McDonnell Douglas MD-82 simulator from the USA to FlightSafety's new Kunming Training Centre. The Chinese centre is due for completion later in the year. Source: Flight International
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Special relation
Rolls-Royce executives have often been heard to remark that, when it comes to selling engines in Asia, there is, arguably, no better sales tool than Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways. The unique relationship which the engine manufacturer has with the Swire Group's airline operation is about to be strengthened further ...
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Piper's two tunes
New Piper aircraft has hit its mark, it seems, with its first new model since emerging from bankruptcy nearly three years ago. Its Seneca V is a high-flying, fast, efficient aircraft which delivers equally in both aviation benefits and office ac- coutrements. With its blend of near-turboprop speed, high-altitude cruising ...
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Part one19-25 March...
Part one19-25 March Covering North, Central and South Americaand the Caribbean. Part two26 March-1 April Covering Europe, including the whole of the CIS. Part three2-8 April Covering Africa, Asia, Australasia/South Pacific,the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. Source: Flight International
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Russians win order for 20...
Twenty Volga 2 Ekranoplan wing-in-ground-effect (WIGE) vehicles have been ordered by the Russian city of Syktyvkar, to use as air-taxis on the lakes which surround the city. WIGE development was originally funded by the Soviet navy. The vehicles are being built at the Sokol factory in Nizhne Novgorod, best known ...
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Bombardier adds to Learjet 45...
BOMBARDIER HAS added the fifth,and final, aircraft to Learjet 45 flight-testing. The Canadian company reports a "dramatic improvement" in the performance of the flight-test programme, which has now exceeded the 1,100h mark. Delayed US certification of the AlliedSignal TFE732-20 turbofan powered light business-jet is now scheduled to take ...
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Sogerma renegotiates IAI Galaxy deal
French aircraft-maintenance company Sogerma says that it is close to completing re-negotiation of its contract with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on risk-sharing supply of the fuselage and empennage for the Galaxy business jet. Talks were re-opened following the decision by Sogerma's new president, Henri-Paul Puel, to "-honour, but ...
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UK pilot-training scheme comes under threat
UK flying training schools fear that they are in danger of losing a Government scheme which can give degree status for professional-pilot graduates, along with tax relief which reduces course prices by up to ú20,000, according to a leading flying-training school. Training-industry concern has been growing about the ...