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Jayhawk gets GPS
Raytheon Aircraft is to retrofit US Air Force T-1A Jayhawk tanker/transport trainers with global-positioning systems (GPS) in a deal potentially worth $25 million if all 180 aircraft are upgraded. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal sets regional target for RE220 APU-
The AlliedSignal-led team which is developing the RE220 auxiliary power unit (APU) is refocusing its efforts on the regional-aircraft market, following the virtual completion of the Gulfstream V flight-test programme, followed by the beginning of the Bombardier Global Express test effort. The APU produces up to 280kW (375hp) ...
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C-17 is capable of all envisaged roles
Sir - We agree with Comment "Strategic retreat" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P3), which says that the US armed forces must replace the Lockheed C-141 in the early 2000s. That replacement, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III, already exists. We recently delivered aircraft No 30 to the Air ...
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Teledesic approval
The US Federal Communications Commission has approved the deployment of 840 small communications-satellites in low-Earth orbit, starting in 2002, to provide the proposed $9 billion Teledesic multi-media service. The UK's University of Kent's space-debris research department says that the satellites could double the debris collision rate in orbit. ...
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Lockheed Martin wins Indonesian Palapa race
Lockheed Martin has beaten Hughes, Aerospatiale and Matra Marconi Space (MMS) to win a $140 million deal to build a replacement for the Palapa B2R communications satellite operated by Indonesia's PT Telkom. The 36-transponder spacecraft, to be called the Telkom 1, is likely to be launched by Arianespace ...
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BMed
Geoff Crawford BMED Capt Geoff Crawford has been appointed director of flight operations at British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) of London, UK. Crawford, who joined British Airways as a pilot in 1968, has more recently been senior strategy manager for the BA corporate-strategy department and business manager for customer-service development. Charles ...
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Emirates' pilot
There is an infectious buzz about Dubai. The country is awash with new construction on a grand scale. Among other things, the tiny Gulf state will soon have the world's tallest and most exotic hotel to add to its tally of international golf courses, race tracks and shopping malls. It ...
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UAE springs EF2000 surprise
The United Arab Emirates has formally reintroduced the Eurofighter EF2000 into its multi-role/strike aircraft competition, catching the previously two short-listed competitors, Lockheed Martin and Dassault, off guard. The move comes after months of behind-the-scenes political activity and several visits by senior UAE defence officials to British Aerospace's Warton ...
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A fine balance
IT IS A BELIEF UNIVERSALLY held among airline managers that, in an upturn, their own particular airline will perform better than its competitors, and that in a downturn it will suffer less. In general, this is bunkum, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is on the basis of ...
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European services
Bombardier Business Aircraft president Michael Graff says that response to the European Business Jet Services joint venture with Lufthansa City Line has been so good that "-we expect to be able to offer it throughout Europe" by the time it is launched this year. "We will use customer aircraft not ...
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Malaysian delivery
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has taken delivery of its first four McDonnell Douglas F-18D fighters. The remaining four two-seater aircraft will be handed over by June. The eight F-18s will be operated by the RMAF's No 18 Sqn and are to be initially based at Butterworth AB, in ...
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Europe & the CIS
Compiled by John Christovassilis, Neil Remmer,Andrew Griffin and Gabrielle Villano The 1997 Flight International World Airline Directory lists airlines involved in scheduled services or those which offer significant charter services. Our selection criterion has been to list operators with one or more aircraft with more than 19 seats. Where justified ...
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Yemen share sale
Yemen Airways (Yemania) is considering conducting a private share placement to help finance the acquisition of two Airbus A310-300s, the company's chairman Abdo Sohbi has told local newspapers. The Yemeni flag carrier has already paid a $24 million advance on the aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Breakthrough nears on burn-through
Airline passengers will soon have dramatically improved post-accident fire-protection if an Airbus Industrie-led group of European companies can win a European Commission (EC) research grant. Research has already established that the use of different cabin-insulation materials at manufacture could increase tenfold the time it takes for external fire to burn ...
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Chinese close in on Boeing 777 contract
There are growing indications that China might finally sign a $1 billion deal with Boeing for ten 777-200/300s during US Vice-President Al Gore's trip to the country in the last week of March. Airbus Industrie is also pushing to conclude a deal for up to 75 A320 family aircraft during ...
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KBM offers major upgrade to Strela SAM
Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) specialist KBM Engineering Bureau is offering an upgrade which is intended to extend radically the life of its best-selling Strela-2M(SA-7 Grail) man-portable SAM. KBM, in collaboration with Russian infra-red-seeker design house LOMO, is offering to retrofit customers' existing Strelas with the considerably more capable ...
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Russian Raduga offers Sunburn retrofit deal
Russian missile-design house Raduga is offering Middle Eastern states a retrofit deal covering the fitting to large patrol vessels and frigates of its ramjet-powered 3M-80E (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic anti-ship missile. The design bureau considers that Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among the potential customers. As well as offering ...
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ESA swaps Space Station nodes for free launch
The European Space Agency (ESA) will provide Nodes 2 and 3 for the International Space Station, along with advanced-technology laboratory equipment, to NASA in exchange for a free launch of its Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) aboard the Space Shuttle. The COF is due to be joined to the ...
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GAMA censures FAA's 'burdensome'tax plans
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration may impose new fees on general-aviation aircraft, to recover part of air-traffic-control-system costs. The proposal has immediately drawn fire from aviation groups, including the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), which dubbs the proposed fee "...an entirely new tax." "If it becomes ...
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Troubled Piaggio reduces price of its Avanti
Piaggio of Italy is mounting a last-ditch attempt to revive its fortunes by cutting the price of its P180 Avanti. At the same time, the troubled company is undertaking a significant upgrade of the 30 or so P166s owned by Italian Government agencies. The price cut (from $5 ...