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European aerospace survey 1996
Research among Europe's aerospace companies reveals a growing pace of change. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SPECULATION HAS BEEN rife over the fate in store for Europe's aerospace industry. Clearly, there is a period of radical change in prospect as the region gears up for some long-awaited restructuring. Yet, ...
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China Eastern to go public
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA EASTERN Airlines has been given the go-ahead to have its shares listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges by the end of the year, says a senior Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official. The Shanghai-based carrier, together with ...
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Orders roll in as Bombardier rolls out its Global Express
Graham Warwick/TORONTO BOMBARDIER CHAIRMAN Laurent Beaudoin is "pleased" with the 52 firm orders which the Canadian company holds for the Global Express ultra-long-range business jet. Gulfstream has announced 63 firm orders for the rival GV, but the Global Express was launched a year later, Beaudoin says. The ...
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Cessna lights up Citation V cabin with fibre-optics
A CESSNA CITATION V has become the first business jet to be fitted with fibre-optic cabin lighting. The aircraft was equipped by lighting-system developer Avtec and cabin light-levels have increased, the Cahokia, Illinois-based company says. Fibre-optic lighting systems are now approved for installation on any aircraft, says Avtec. ...
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Qantas aims to keep on saving
QANTAS CHAIRMAN Gary Pemberton has warned that, despite improved profits, further fleet expansion will have to be backed by renewed cost savings. Qantas ended its latest financial year to the end of June with net profits up by more than one-third at A$247 million ($190 million), comfortably ahead ...
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Gulfstream picks reduced vertical-separation equipment
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has selected Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) to supply systems for retrofit to Gulfstream II business jets, to enable operators to meet reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) regulations. RVSM rules are due to be introduced on North Atlantic routes in March 1997, and are likely to be extended to ...
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USA advances KTX-II MoU
THE US GOVERNMENT is expected shortly to forward a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to South Korea, covering the proposed joint development of the Samsung KTX-II advanced trainer/light-combat aircraft. It is understood that the Pentagon's Defence Security Assistance Agency has finished drafting the MoU. It is planned to present ...
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BWIA confirms cancelled Airbus orders
GILLES FILIATREAULT, incoming chief executive at BWIA International Airways, has confirmed that the Caribbean carrier does not intend to take two Airbus A340-300s it had ordered. Filiatreault says that, when he took over the job in August, he was reassured by BWIA's shareholders that the Airbus orders were effectively cancelled. ...
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Swedes order three Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopters
HELIKOPTER SERVICE has ordered three twin-turbine Sikorsky Aircraft S-76C+ civil helicopters to upgrade services between Copenhagen International and the Swedish cities of Helsingborg and Malmo. The first two upgraded S-76s will be delivered to the Swedish company next March. Deliveries of the uprated Turbomeca Arriel 2S1-powered S-76C+ began ...
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A3XX will 'seat 1,000'
SEATING FOR more than 1,000 passengers will be possible aboard growth versions of the Airbus Industrie A3XX, according to Jurgen Thomas, senior vice-president for the consortium's Large Aircraft division. Thomas says that, when it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the "world's largest airliner, and the ...
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Space Systems Loral plans five H2 launches for Japan
Tim Furniss/LONDON SPACE SYSTEMS/Loral is negotiating a $370 million deal with Japan's Rocket Systems for five flights between 2000 and 2005 on the new, uprated, H2A satellite launcher. The Japanese company already has a $910 million deal under negotiation with Hughes Space and Communications for ten launches, ...
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USAF tests AGM-154B JSOW
THE US AIR FORCE has carried out a guided test launch of the AGM-154B Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) from a Lockheed Martin F-16D. The first guided test, flown from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, was carried out at the end of July. The AGM-154B warhead consists of six BLU-108. ...
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Atlantis is rolled onto Kennedy pad for next Mir mission
THE US SPACE Shuttle Atlantis has been rolled out to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for a second time, equipped with a new set of solid-rocket boosters. The Shuttle is scheduled to fly the delayed STS79 mission on 12 September (Flight International, 24-30 July). The fourth ...
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Hughes will build fifth Mexican satellite for 1998 launch
HUGHES SPACE and Communications continues its role as sole builder of Mexico's communications satellites by winning the contract to build the Morelos 3, which will be launched in 1998. The company built the Morelos 1 and 2, launched in 1995, and two Solidaridad craft placed in orbit in 1993 and ...
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Straight and true, Israel's Arrow struck 'ballistic' target
INITIAL ANALYSIS of the first Israeli-developed Arrow 2 anti-tactical ballistic-missile test indicates that the vehicle hit a target which simulated the behaviour of a ballistic missile. Senior programme sources confirm that all indications are that "-metal hit metal" when the interceptor destroyed the target over the Mediterranean. The homing sensors ...
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FLA critical report looms
Douglas Barrie/TOULOUSE THE FATE OF the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) could be sealed later this month when a French Government committee submits its report on funding its air force's military air- transport requirement. The committee was set up earlier this year in the wake of the French Government's decision ...
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Fokker Elmo starts China venture
Andrew Doyle/LONDON FOKKER ELMO has set up a joint venture with two Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) subsidiaries, with the aim of manufacturing electrical-wire harnesses for AVIC's planned AE-100 regional jets and other new types. Called Lang Fang Fokker, the new company is 60%-owned by Fokker Elmo, part of the ...
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Lufthansa plans to cut fleet as first-half profits fall
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA IS TO STEP up cost-cutting measures and reduce its fleet, in an effort to combat an unforeseen stagnation in traffic growth which has left the German group with a significant drop in profits for the first half of the year. Pre-tax profits amounted to DM119 million ($80 ...
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Premium performance
McDonnell Douglas boss Harry Stonecipher wants to expand the company, but without altering the formula which has made it a profitable defence contractor. Graham Warwick/ST LOUIS THE PRICE is not yet right for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) president Harry Stonecipher. While MDC has yet to participate in the consolidation frenzy which ...
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Manx takes over BA's 'loss-making' Scottish services
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS is to withdraw from its loss-making network of services in the Scottish "Highlands and Islands", and the operations taken over by its franchise affiliate Manx Airlines. The network, which is now served by BA's fleet of British Aerospace ATPs, includes services ...