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Fokker hopes focus on Malaysian rescue
Fokker's assembly lines face final closure in May, unless administrators running the bankrupt Dutch manufacturer succeed in pulling off a last-ditch rescue plan. Hopes of saving the company centre on talks with a coalition of Malaysian and Dutch investment groups. The latest report from the Fokker administrators says ...
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Rooivalk roll-out
Denel rolled out its first pre-production Rooivalk attack helicopter on 17 February. The aircraft marks the start of production for the South African Air Force. It will be used for evaluation and the development of an operational doctrine. Source: Flight International
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Advanced Flanker future hinges on export
The future of the Sukhoi Su-27M (Su-35) advanced variant of the Su-27 Flanker has become dependent on the design bureau securing an export order for the aircraft following the effective collapse of Russian air force funding for the project. According to Moscow sources, state finance for the development ...
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Loral books Delta 3 launches
Space Systems/Loral has booked five launches of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Delta 3 booster from 1999 to 2001, to ensure that it can meet the demands of its communications-satellite customers. Loral has also reserved 16 launches on Arianespace, US/Russian ILS International Launch Services Proton and Japanese H2A boosters in addition ...
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NASA pays Russia $20 million
Amid concerns about Russian delays in the production of hardware for the International Space Station (ISS), NASA has paid Moscow an additional $20 million to support further joint missions aboard the Mir 1 space station in 1998. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin has called the funding "seed money" to ...
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Seven up
Seven communications satellites were launched from Plesetsk, Russia, and Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 14 and 16 February, respectively. A Tsyklon 3 booster carried the Gonets D1-4-6 civilian digital-communications spacecraft and three similar Cosmos military craft into low-Earth orbit. In Florida, an ILS International Launch Services Atlas 2AS lofted the Hughes ...
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Embraer focuses on Asian market for Brasilia business
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer is exploring risk-sharing and licence-production deals with companies in several Asian countries as part of a push to improve sales in the region of the 30-seat EMB-120 Brasilia regional turboprop aircraft. Ex-Fokker salesman Peter Obeysekere, Embraer's new vice-president for Asia, the Far East and South ...
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GV improvements increase efficiency
Engine and airframe aerodynamic improvements are allowing Gulfstream to claim significant efficiency gains for its GV ultra-long-range business jet. Chief customer engineer Ed Flinn says that the improvements (including a specific-fuel-consumption reduction of "one and a half percentage points") are compensating for the excess weight from which the aircraft still ...
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IPTN looks at options for RAAF
IPTN is in advanced negotiations with Pratt & Whitney Canada to offer a variant of the PW119 engine as an alternative powerplant on the IPTN CN.235-330 which it is to propose to meet the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Air 5190 Light Tactical Airlift Capability (LTAC) requirement. ...
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RAAF seeks initial funding for 707 tanker upgrade
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is hoping to secure initial funding in financial year 1998/9 to replace or upgrade its fleet of Boeing 707-300 tankers. According to local defence sources, Australia wants to advance its tanker replacement into the next five-year procurement cycle, because of rising concern ...
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Greenwich absorbs UNC to create overhaul giant
Greenwich Air Services is poised to make its biggest acquisition to date with agreement to take over UNC. The combined group will become the world's largest independent engine-services operation, with annual sales of around $1.8 billion and more than 10,000 employees. Greenwich chairman Eugene Conese says that the ...
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EVA profits again
EVA Air reports a second consecutive year of profits, after being launched six years ago by the Evergreen shipping group as Taiwan's second international carrier. After posting its first $7.2 million in profits ahead of plan in 1995, EVA has followed with a $17 million return in 1996. Sales continued ...
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Saab Aircraft counters 'merger' speculation
Saab Group president Bengt Halse has moved to quash speculation that the Swedish group may dispose of its civil-aircraft business, although it has taken a heavy charge to pay for market "repositioning" of the Saab 2000. Presenting Saab Aircraft's financial results, Halse said that the turboprop business is ...
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Mergers mould shape of US industry
The frenetic pace of merger and acquisition activity has again reshaped the league of US manufacturers for 1996 and more is expected this year, as the spate of big deals causes reverberations among the second tier of aerospace and defence companies. As expected, Lockheed Martin emerges as the ...
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BAe buys balance of USA's Reflectone
BRITISH AEROSPACE IS to acquire the balance of US simulator manufacturer Reflectone. The UK firm already owns 48% of the Tampa, Florida-based company, and has agreed to pay roughly $86 million for the outstanding stock. Reflectone president Richard Snyder says that the company's management is "strongly in favour" ...
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Longbow
Richard Russell has been named president of the Longbow Limited Liability Company, the Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman joint venture developing and manufacturing the Longbow weapon system. He will also head Longbow International, a joint venture set up for international sales. He was formerly director of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin's Electronics ...
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Sony trans
Irvine, California-based airline-entertainment- and cabin-information-systems provider Sony Trans Com has appointed Fran Waddle director of entertainment and information services. She was formerly managing director for inflight products at American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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GB Airways
Stephen Sturton-Davies has been appointed to the new position of general manager for the Western Mediterranean at UK scheduled carrier GB Airways, of Gatwick Airport. He will be based at the British Airways office in Madrid, Spain. Source: Flight International
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Rolls-Royce aims to clinch RAAF Hawk deal with Adour power
Rolls-Royce is offering Australia a full-authority digital electronic-control (FADEC) version of the Adour Mk871, in a last-ditch effort to swing a deal to power the air force's recently selected British Aerospace Hawk 100 lead-in fighter trainer. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is to make a decision shortly ...
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New Zealand offered temporary Wasp replacements
GKN Westland and Kaman are both offering to supply the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) with interim replacements for its Westland Wasps, until new-build or reconditioned naval helicopters can be delivered. The RNZN had hoped to introduce a replacement for its fleet of elderly Wasps by the middle ...