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Gulf Air considers share sale as part of shake-up
Gulf Air is considering a major revamp which could involve the Abu Dhabi Government acquiring a majority stake in the company, says a report in the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED). The airline's board met late in November to discuss the carrier's future. Chief executive Majed Bin Saud ...
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Israel/Germany discuss Aramis
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Douglas Barrie/LONDON Israel is emerging as a potential industrial partner for Germany on the latter's proposed Aramis ramjet-rocket anti-radiation missile now in development. German-programme lead company Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik (BGT), has been forced to look for other collaborative partners, in the wake of the ...
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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IAI meets MAPO to discuss MiG upgrade teaming
Senior management from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Russia's MAPO are discussing a teaming agreement to address potential upgrades of Mikoyan combat aircraft. IAI president Moshe Keret recently met senior MAPO officials to discuss the possibility of co-operating in bidding for upgrade programmes on the the MiG-21 Fishbed, ...
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Details of JSF initial production are revealed
First details of the proposed initial production run of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) show that a sharp build-up is being planned, with more than 240 aircraft either due to be built, or to be under assembly, within six years of the first flight of development test aircraft. ...
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Kamov reveals Ka-52 MMW radar
Kamov has shown its Ka-52 two-seat derivative of the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter fitted with a mast-mounted "rotodome" intended to house a millimetre/centimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Although the development of the radar has previously been associated with St Petersburg-based Leninetz, Kamov says that the company responsible for the installation is Phazotron. ...
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Slovakian hokum
Slovakia is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Russian state arms agency Rosvoorouzhenie, to purchase six Kamov Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopters. Some aircraft remain at the Progress production plant in Arseneyev. These were originally intended for the Russian armed forces, but have not been completed because of ...
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South Korean missiles
South Korea has not decided, as has been suggested, to purchase both the Rockwell AGM-130 and Lockheed Martin/Rafael AGM-142 stand-off missiles for its McDonnell Douglas F-4s. A decision is due in 1997. Source: Flight International
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India to receive Krypton for its Sukhoi Su-30MKIs
The Indian air force will receive the Zvezda Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons package for its 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft now on order. A model of the Indian air force aircraft displayed at the Aero India '96 show in Bangalore earlier this month showed ...
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Germany defers Helios II entry
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany has pushed back its entry into the joint Helios II/Horus reconnaissance-satellite programme with France by at least a year, but has committed to production of the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 military helicopters. The decisions were announced at the meeting of the ...
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Bell Boeing considers civil tilt-rotor as V-22 trainer
BELL BOEING PLANS to offer its Model 609 civil tilt-rotor to the US military as a trainer for crews destined to fly the V-22 tilt-rotor transport. Development of the nine-passenger 609 was launched in November, with a first flight planned for mid-1999 (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, ...
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High resolution
Space Imaging plans to launch its first high-resolution satellite. Tim Furniss/LONDON The race to market high-resolution satellite imagary is on, and the Lockheed Martin-led Space Imaging company, of Thornton, Colorado, aims to win it. With partners Raytheon E-Systems, Mitsubishi and Eastman Kodak, Lockheed Martin is ...
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Flying a legend
Despite being more than six decades old, the Junkers Ju-52 is still going strong. Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS How long do aircraft last? The legendary Junkers Ju-52/3m tri-motor transport is 60 years old and still extremely popular - especially for pleasure-trips. One airworthy example is operated in Lufthansa ...
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Blindness in its sights
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 has been made into a well-equipped eye hospital. Eryl Crump/MANCHESTER THE FATE OF AN AGEING airliner is usually either to decline towards the scrap yard via a series of increasingly lower level airlines, or to be turned into a freighter. For one McDonnell ...
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Supersonic resurrection
It seemed as if the Tupolev Tu-144was bound for the scrapheap, but things have now changed. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW When Marshal Boris Bugaev, the Soviet minister of civil aviation, ordered the termination of Aeroflot's Moscow-to-Alma Ata supersonic service in May 1978, it looked like the end of the line ...
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History
The Tu-144 programme was started only in 1963, when the Soviet Government had told Tupolev that, although the equivalent Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde programme had started earlier, the Soviet aircraft should be the first to be flown - and it was. To speed things up, the design team ...
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Learjet offers 31A-for-60 option
IN AN EFFORT to stimulate sales of its Learjet 31A light business jet, Bombardier is offering purchasers access to the larger Learjet 60 when they have the occasional need for a longer-range aircraft. The programme, called LearjetOptions, is available to North American customers who purchase aircraft before 15 January, 1997. ...
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Lufthansa/Bombardier prepare business-jet charter venture
Lufthansa's supervisory board has approved a new business-jet charter company, to be formed as a joint venture between Lufthansa City Line and Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier. The board gave its go-ahead to the plan at a meeting in early December, after the signing of a joint-venture agreement ...
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Visionaire may take Vantage assembly to Israel
Visionaire is evaluating the possibility of establishing an assembly line in Israel for its Vantage executive jet. A delegation from the US manufacturer arrived in Israel on 9 December to discuss the scheme with the Government. The plan is to build an assembly line in Arad, in southern ...
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Airbus achieves two firsts with delivery of A319 to Air Canada
Kevin O'Toole/Toulouse Airbus INDUSTRIE handed over the first A319 to Air Canada on 12 December, the first of the type to go into operation in North America and also the first Airbus aircraft to be delivered on a nine-month production lead time. Airbus and Boeing have ...