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Airlines are 'confused' over European free-flight issues
Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM A MAJOR INITIATIVE to prove the cost benefits of flying in a "free-flight" air-traffic-management (ATM) environment must be mounted if the system is ever to become reality, say leading industry officials speaking at the Flight International Airline Navigation '96 conference in Amsterdam on 9 -11 October. ...
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Spain freezes defence expenditure
THE SPANISH Government has frozen the defence ministry's budget for 1997 at this year's Ptas870 billion ($7 billion) level, effectively cutting spending in real terms by 2.6%. State-owned aircraft manufacturer CASA, however, has secured Ptas22 billion for the final development phase of the Eurofighter EF2000, in addition to ...
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IPTN plans N270 talks in December
SENIOR OFFICIALS from Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and its US subsidiary, American Regional Aircraft Industry (AMRAI), plan to meet in mid-December to re-evaluate development of the proposed stretched N270 turboprop. The Indonesian meeting is expected to conduct a complete review of the yet-to-be launched, programme in ...
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MAS sale
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is understood to be looking to sell its two GE CF6-powered Boeing 747-400 Combis and its single Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered 747-300 Combi. The airline wants to rationalise its mix of airframes and engines and to implement an all-passenger and all-freighter fleet. The airline's two Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered ...
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Continental order provides further fillip to new 737s
THE RECORD-BREAKING sales pace of Boeing's next-generation 737 continues to accelerate, with an order for 30 -600s from Continental Airlines, taking total firm orders of the new family to 423. The Continental order also includes 30 current-generation 737-500s and takes total -300/ 400/500 series sales to around 1,916, ...
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Fan-blade snag delays 737 engine approval
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CERTIFICATION of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7B2 for Boeing's next-generation 737 family is expected to be delayed by almost two months, to give the engine maker more time to validate modifications to the troublesome fan-blade retention system. CFMI says that the delay "-will ...
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Wilcox protest
The US Federal Aviation Administration has turned down Wilcox Electric's protest over its award of the $475 million wide-area augmentation-system (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft. The FAA's action was based on a recommendation of a judge with the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals. Wilcox Electric was fired as ...
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Merpati concludes BAe 146 lease agreement with NJS
NATIONAL JET Systems (NJS), of Australia, has signed an agreement to sublease up to ten BAe 146s to Merpati Nusantara Airlines. The aircraft will partially replace the Indonesian domestic carrier's ageing Fokker fleet of 15 F27s and 25 F28s on regional routes, beginning in November. Adelaide-based NJS, which ...
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Samsung presents Dutch with Fokker business plan
Julian Moxon/PARIS Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SOUTH KOREA'S Samsung Aerospace has finally presented to the Dutch Government its business plan for the acquisition of Fokker Aircraft. A response from the Hague is due by 18 October and, if the plan is accepted, will lead to the launch of ...
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Deutsche BA will sell turboprops to French carrier
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DEUTSCHE BA IS TO sell its loss-making turboprop activities to French carrier Regional Airlines, leaving the German British Airways daughter to focus on its jet-airliner operations. The sale comes just a month after BA announced that it was to restructure its European operation as part of ...
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Suitors consider Air Liberte bids as deadline approaches
BIDS FOR STRUGGLING French independent airline Air Liberté, were due to be deposited with legal administrators at a Paris court on 14 October. British Airways, Virgin Express and Corsair owner Nouvelle Frontiéres were all considering whether to make offers. Foreign airline interest centres mainly on the valuable slots ...
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Saab completes restructuring with turboprop division
THE FINAL PART of a major restructuring of Saab's aircraft units is in place, with the announcement that turboprop manufacturer Saab Aircraft is to be divided in two. Saab Aircraft will remain as an independent subsidiary of Saab, but will focus only on sales, marketing and product support. ...
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No-gain pain
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS ARE effective, if often tragic, teachers, and the aviation community always learns greatly from them. Incidents - the accidents which didn't quite happen -- can be just as effective teachers, but the aviation community learns far less from them. The reason is fear of disclosure- a fear which ...
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German budget-juggling delays Tiger production
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Rühe has delayed by 12 months production of the Eurocopter Tiger helicopter. The move is an attempt to ease pressure on an overloaded and heavily cut German defence budget. Tough negotiations with industry over funding for production of the Eurofighter ...
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At cross purposes
Sir - In the article "Highly rated" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P46) the acronym CCQ is written as cross-crew qualification. I have heard, however, the term crew cross-qualification. I believe that the latter is correct, since it depicts what it is, the cross qualification of crews between two or more ...
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Brunei finalises MPA configuration
The Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) has finalised its choice of avionic sensors for a planned fleet of Indonesian-built Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235MPA maritime patrol aircraft. Its long-awaited selection of a search radar, forward-looking infra-red imager (FLIR), electronic support measures (ESM) and identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) interrogator, ...
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Paveway III cleared for carriage on F-16
THE TEXAS Instruments Paveway III (GBU-22) laser-guided bomb has been cleared for carriage on the Lockheed Martin F-16. The company-funded trials programme was carried out by the US Air Force at Eglin AFB, Florida. Source: Flight International
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Into the space corridor
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT VALERI KORZUN is pictured inside the node connecting the modules of the Mir 1 space station during the recent STS79 Shuttle Mir Mission 4. The node, attached to the Mir core module, which was launched in 1986, now provides access to the Kvant 2, Kristall, Priroda and Spektr ...
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Stretching forward
Guy Norris was among delegates to the 40th symposium of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, in Beverly Hills on 2-3 October, to hear progress reports on several new aircraft.Source: Flight International
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Using the open market for finance
Sir - In "Centralised ATM is on the cards for UK" (Flight International, 2 - 8 October, P11) you quote the UK Department of Transport as saying that borrowing on the open market is disallowed. It is surely time that this restrictive application of Treasury rules was challenged. ...