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Russian support
The Russian Government, recently issued a special order promising state support for home-grown civil-aircraft programmes. This will include Government guarantees, beginning from 1997, for domestic and foreign investors providing finances for Tupolev Tu-204, Tu-214 and Tu-330 development and series production. The finance ministry has been ordered to provide investment loans ...
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Airbuses can now predict windshear
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE claims that it is the first manufacturer to deliver aircraft direct from the production line equipped with predictive windshear warning systems. Two A340s recently delivered to Spanish flag carrier Iberia are fitted with AlliedSignal's forward-looking windshear-detection system. A rival system is offered by Rockwell's Collins Air ...
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ValuJet remains in profit despite FAA's grounding
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONRamon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC VALUJET HAS ended the first half-year in good financial shape, despite its grounding, and appears confident of resuming operations on 23 August. Although the airline was grounded by the US Federal Aviation Administration shortly after the Florida crash on 11 May, ...
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Air South shakes up management
AIR SOUTH has received a much-needed cash infusion from investment banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, in exchange for new management and a one-third reduction in flights. The amount of additional capital which the struggling low-fare Columbia, South Carolina-based carrier received is not disclosed, but the investor has acquired ...
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Canada 3000 looks at long-haul types
CANADA 3000 IS IN the middle of an evaluation process for its future fleet needs, which could see it conclude acquisition agreements for new long-haul aircraft before the end of the year. The Toronto, Canada-based charter carrier operates a fleet of leased Airbus A320s and Boeing 757s on ...
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RAAF prepares AEW shortlist
AUSTRALIA PLANS to release a shortlist of contenders for its airborne early-warning-and-control (AEW&C) re- quirement by the middle of September. Subject to Government approval, a request for tenders is expected to be issued at the same time, with the winner to be announced in late 1997. The Royal ...
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Messier-Dowty wins Goshawk landing-gear deal
MESSIER-DOWTY has been selected to supply the main landing gear for the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) T-45 Goshawk trainer, replacing AP Pecision Hydraulics of the UK. MDC says that it selected the Anglo-French company on the basis of cost, after putting the landing-gear contract out to competition as part ...
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GAO advocates delaying THAAD missile
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Defense seek Congressional approval to delay initial procurement of the Lockheed Martin Theater High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system until it is proven effective. Without the Congressional action, initial THAAD prototypes must be acquired by fiscal ...
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World departs from schedule to focus on core businesses
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WORLD AIRWAYS is departing entirely from scheduled-airline operations, having already decided to phase out unprofitable scheduled charter flights to Europe. The US carrier now says that it is terminating scheduled flights from New York to Tel Aviv and Johannesburg. World Airways will operate ...
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Europe shows FAA advanced ATC
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is evaluating Eurocontrol's advanced air-traffic-control (ATC) technology to help it decide on investment in automated ATC systems. Eurocontrol is mounting a real-time simulation of its operational-display and input-development (ODID) system at its Bretigny-sur-Orge experimental centre, near Paris, to ...
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Philippines budget reduction curtails air force ambitions
Paul Lewis/MANILA THE PHILIPPINE Government has halved its projected 15-year defence-modernisation budget, to 170 billion pesos ($6.48 billion), throwing into doubt many of the air force's long-term procurement plans. President Fidel Ramos, under pressure from the Philippine Senate's finance committee, has cut by 50% the ...
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Cargo Beech
Raytheon Aircraft Services has received supplemental type certification for a Beech 1900C cargo conversion. The modification takes three weeks and enables the aircraft to carry 3,000kg of cargo. Source: Flight International
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Taiwanese lessor revealed as MD-90 customer
HWA-HSIA LEASING, a Taiwan-based leasing company, has been named as the previously unidentified buyer of MD-90s revealed in July by McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The first three MD-90s on firm order will be delivered in August, September and October of 1998. Follow-on orders, "contingent on final agreements and approvals ...
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Air charter swaps
Air France subsidiary Air Charter is to take over the Spanish routes formerly operated by Air Inter (now Air France Europe) later this year, flying daily scheduled services from Paris to Malaga, Palma and Seville. Air France Europe abandoned the routes this year to save money. Source: Flight ...
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NASA and USAF develop 'intelligence' for waverider
NASA AND THE US Air Force have unveiled an aircraft equipped with a computerised flight-control system designed to "learn as it flies", which could eventually be used to control ultra-high-speed aircraft. The 2.54m-long aircraft, called the Low-Observable Flight Test Experiment (LoFLYTE), has been developed by Accurate Automation of ...
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C-17 handover
The third of four refurbished McDonnell DouglasC-17 flight-test aircraft has been handed over to the US Air Force at Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Source: Flight International
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Tracking down spare parts
Airline outsourcing is hardly front-page news, but most spares-suppliers welcome the attention. Some spare-parts companies are enjoying growth Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE AIRCRAFT spare-parts industry is unsure of itself. At the same time as some companies are enjoying growth, others face uncertain futures. New regulations around ...
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United to dedicate fleet to shuttle division
SHUTTLE BY UNITED, THE US airline's low-cost division set up in October 1994, will operate a dedicated fleet of 45 Boeing 737s from next March. The division's 23 134-seat 737-300s and 22 116-seat 737-500s will have new interior layouts, with galleys replaced by eight economy seats and new galley equipment. ...
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Cessna targets Germany with CitationJet
CESSNA AIRCRAFT HAS APPOINTED Bremen-based dealer Atlas Air Service to increase sales of the CitationJet entry-level business jet in Germany. The US manufacturer says that Germany "-is the largest business-aircraft market in Europe" and "-has a disproportionately high ratio of turboprops to jets". '' Source: Flight International
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US Customs opens Canadian GATE to GA
US AND CANADIAN general-aviation pilots flying into the USA from Canada, will be able to circumvent US Customs procedures, by making telephone reports of their entries under a new scheme, unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft Association convention at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The General Aviation Telephonic Entry (GATE) programme is ...