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E-2C gets upgrade
Northrop Grumman has flight-tested a new mission computer on the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye airborne-early-warning aircraft. The aircraft has been delivered to the USN for extensive flight-testing. The firm has based the computer upgrade on the Raytheon Model 940, a modification of the Digital Equipment 2100 Model A500MP system. ...
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GAO knocks ASPJ
Procurement of the ALQ-165 Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ) is no more justified today than in 1992 when the US Department of Defense elected to cancel the production programme, says the US General Accounting Office (GAO). The device, made by a joint venture of ITT Avionics and Northrop Grumman, was designed ...
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Peru picks Radar
Peru has awarded Northrop Grumman a $12 million contract to begin work on the country's air-traffic-control modernisation effort. The US firm will install an ASR-12 primary surveillance radar at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa numbers up
Lufthansa has reported a 1.7% increase in group-wide passenger traffic in the past year, despite a 0.6% dip in the number of passengers carried by parent airline Lufthansa. Charter subsidiary Condor carried 6.6 million passengers, up by 7.3%, while regional subsidiary Lufthansa CityLine's passenger total rose by 17.4%, to 3.1 ...
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ValuJet expands
ValuJet Airlines is continuing to rebuild its route structure with plans to serve Akron/ Canton, Ohio, from Atlanta, Georgia, beginning on 6 March. ValuJet has also announced that it intends to re-enter the Atlanta-Boston and the Washington-Boston markets. Source: Flight International
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TAP signs ILFC leases
TAP Air Portugal has arranged to lease three CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A319-100s from International Lease Finance (ILFC)for delivery in January and March 1998, and March 1999. The airline is also to lease one A320 from the same source from April 1999. All the aircraft are on seven-year leases. ...
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DAT disposal
Sabena will sell its fleet of nine Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias operated by its Delta Air Transport subsidiary, following KLM's decision to terminate DAT's contract to operate the four-times daily feeder route between Antwerp and Amsterdam Schiphol from 1 April. KLM City Hopper will serve the route with Saab 340 turboprops. ...
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French airport traffic
French airport-traffic figures for 1996 show that the passenger numbers at the two main Paris airports, Charles de Gaulle and Orly, grew by 7.4%, to 59.1 million, although aircraft movements grew by a faster 8.6%. The busiest provincial airport remained Nice, which handled 6.6 million passengers, up by 7.5%. It ...
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Camp systems
Aviation-management software-systems developer Camp Systems, of Ronkonkoma, New York, has appointed Wayne Hoppner president, replacing Daniel Ryan, who becomes chairman of the board. Hoppner was most recently executive vice-president and chief operating officer. Source: Flight International
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Air London
Simon Moore and Barbara Wood have joined Crawley, Sussex-based aircraft charterer Air London's Commercial Aircraft division as senior analysts. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier
Michael Graff, president of Bombardier Business Aircraft division, is to take responsibility for the sales and marketing of all Learjet products, following the resignation of sales and marketing vice-president Roger Sperry. Source: Flight International
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Optimising UK MoD assets
Sir - I have read of the UK Ministry of Defence's desire for more use to be made by business aviation of west London's Northolt Airport. Recently arriving in London after an overnight flight from Cape Town, South Africa, Luton and Stansted, in the UK, were below limits ...