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Continental
Continental Airlines has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by travel agents, which accused the nation's major air carriers of conspiring to place a cap on the commissions paid on ticket sales. Source: Flight International
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Tracor
US defence contractor Tracor has agreed to pay up to $80 million for Cordant, a privately owned provider of computer services to the US Government. The deal still has to receive Government and shareholder approval. Cordant, which has 300 employees and $150 million in sales, will become Tracor Information Systems. ...
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Wavionix
Michael Cunnington has been appointed international sales director, at UK company, Wavionix Software. Formerly managing director of telecommunications company PVT, Cunnington will also join the Wavionix board and will be based at the company's Spanish office. Source: Flight International
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Northwest
Laurence Grimard has been named vice-president for aircraft-maintenance operations at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minnesota. He was most recently vice-president for operations at engine-test-equipment supplier Aero Systems Engineering, also of St Paul. Source: Flight International
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Learjet
Rolland (Rollie) Vincent has been appointed director of public relations and strategic planning at Bombardier subsidiary Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. He was formerly director of international marketing, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, for Bombardier Regional Aircraft, based in Toronto, Canada. Nita Scrivner has been named director of ...
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Helicopter success
McDonnell Douglas has sold its first MD600N to a customer in France. The helicopter was purchased by supermarket chain Presta Services. The helicopter company has also sold a MD Explorer, a MD600N and a MD500 to UND Aerospace. The aviation education and training arm of the University of Dakota has ...
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Pakistan radar test
Pakistan has commenced flight trials of the Italian Grifo-7 radar on board the Shenyang F-7 fighter. The pulse-Doppler multi-mode radar fit is part of a wider upgrade of the aircraft Source: Flight International
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Guidance for Falcon
The European Joint Airworthiness Authorities has certificated the Flight Dynamics HGS-2850 head-up guidance system for the Dassault 2000 business jet. Dassault is to offer a similar system for the recently certificated Falcon 900EX tri-jet. Source: Flight International
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U-2 production may be restarted
LOCKHEED MARTIN is looking to re-open its U-2 reconnaissance-aircraft production line on the back of potential orders for the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The company submitted a "data package" on the U-2 at the request of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) in May. ...
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Lockheed Martin may build F-16 in Brazil
LOCKHEED MARTIN is examining the possibility of licensing F-16 production to Brazil, with Embraer forming the core of an assembly programme for several South American countries. Senior Lockheed Martin sources confirm that licence production is one of several options being considered to secure the South American market. ...
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Hurel-Dubois presents new thrust-reverser concept
FRENCH aerostructures company Hurel-Dubois is developing a new thrust-reverser concept which it claims will be cheaper, lighter and more reliable than existing systems. The system, called the Papillion, incorporates technology used in the company's earlier pivoting-door thrust-reverser designs in a blueprint requiring fewer components. The design is aimed at underwing-mounted ...
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Asiana wants additional power for 777-300 fleet
GENERAL ELECTRIC and Rolls-Royce are being pressed by Asiana Airlines to commit to development of higher-thrust engines to power Boeing 777-300s. The South Korean carrier has specified that it wants a 430kN (98,000lb)-thrust engine to power its planned fleet of aircraft. The yet-to-be-selected engine is needed by early ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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Raytheon unveils radical bid for Sidewinder replacement
RAYTHEON HAS revealed a radical missile design offered to meet the Pentagon's AIM-9X Sidewinder-replacement requirement, while admitting that it is also working on larger-diameter versions of its missile. Raytheon has married its rotate-to-view (RTV) imaging infra-red seeker to the Box Office airframe. The seeker is a radical departure ...