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South Korea compiles shortlist for early-warning fleet
SOUTH KOREA is revising long-standing plans to acquire a fleet of airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft, as part of its next five-year mid-term defence plan. Defence observers now expect the South Korean air force to finalise its AEW requirements and issue a request for quotations before the end of ...
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...as GEC test-flies new towed-decoy
GEC-MARCONI HAS TEST-flown a revised design of towed radar decoy (TRD) for the Eurofighter EF2000 from a hack aircraft, with test flights to begin in August on the second Eurofighter prototype, development aircraft (DA) 2. The EF2000 TRD is understood to differ considerably in shape from that deployed ...
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Russia determines priorities
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE RUSSIAN AIR force has hammered out a list of priority programmes, including the Sukhoi Su-27IB fighter-bomber, along with upgrade projects for both the Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear H and Tu-160 Blackjack, to improve conventional strike capabilities. Notably absent from the priority list, thrashed ...
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Lufthansa axes staff as cuts continue
LUFTHANSA HAS SACKED 100 recent employees as its latest cost-cutting plan is put into action. The airline adds that further staff reductions and changes in pay scales are inevitable as it struggles with a weak German economy and the strength of the deutschemark. The jobs are being lost ...
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Virgin expands
Virgin Express is forging ahead with the expansion of its scheduled low-fares services. In September, the airline plans to add Geneva and Copenhagen to the cities being served from its Brussels base. Virgin set up the operation in April after acquiring Euro Belgian Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Emirates stays in the black
EMIRATES AIRLINES reports that it managed to keep profits relatively steady over the last financial year, although the carrier acknowledges that it has faced a "challenge" to stay in the black. The airline ended the 1995/6 financial year to March with a profit of $22 million. That is ...
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Relaunch emphasises Saudi Arabian's new commercialism
Max Kingsley-Jones/JEDDAH IN ITS FIRST major revamp for over two decades, Saudi Arabian Airlines has unveiled a new corporate identity and pledged a new sense of commercialism within the state-owned carrier. The revamp, which includes the dropping of the name Saudia, is described by the ...
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Stork wraps up Fokker Aviation deal
DUTCH ENGINEERING group Stork has sealed its acquisition of the Fokker Aviation business, which groups together the profitable support and components-manufacturing operations which escaped the Fokker bankruptcy in February. The acquisition does not have a direct bearing on the fate of the bankrupt assembly business, but Fokker Aviation ...
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Eurofighter excluded from 1997 German budget plans
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE Eurofighter programme, has been left without funding in current German budget plans, for 1997 confirms the defence ministry. While the Government is contractually obliged to complete development funding for the Eurofighter EF2000, the ministry says that production investment - due to get ...
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US airlines take off for record quarter
THE US AIRLINE industry is on course for a record second quarter performance, with early signs of the upturn already showing in soaring profits at American Airlines and a turnaround at Trans World Airlines (TWA). American's parent group AMR reports that profits leapt to $293 million in the ...
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R-R offers Trent 900 on 747-X
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE has signed an agreement with Boeing which will see it offer the Trent 900 to power the proposed 747-500/600X in direct competition with the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint venture. The planned Trent 900, described as a "low-risk derivative" of the Trent ...
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TWA 747 crash raises spectre of terrorism
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCATING THE cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders was the priority following the 17 July crash of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. All 210 passengers and 18 crew on board TWA Flight 800 were killed ...
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Starsem deal signed
ARIANESPACE and Aerospatiale have finalised an agreement with Russia's Samara to market the Soyuz and Molniya satellite launchers, under a joint venture called Starsem. The Russian boosters will be used to place satellites weighing as much as 5,000kg, into low-Earth orbit and will complement the Ariane 4 and ...
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RAF projects ensnared in UK Treasury battle
Douglas Barrie/LONDON KEY PROCUREMENT programmes for the Royal Air Force have become embroiled in an internal battle within the UK Government, with the Treasury advocating delays or cuts. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) was pushing for decisions on two air-launched missile programmes and a replacement ...
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Deja deja vu
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments are once again going to the edge in the latest round of bilateral-air-service negotiations by threatening each other with sanctions and counter-sanctions. The news has been greeted by industry observers, in Tokyo and Washington, with a collective cry of "here we go again". ...
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Japan blames Airbus and China Airlines for 1994 Nagoya Airport accident
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE and China Airlines (CAL) have both been attributed with blame by a Japanese investigation into the April 1994 crash of an A300-600R at Nagoya. A final report issued by Japan's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC) points to deficiencies in the design of the aircraft's flight-control ...
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Crash spoils TWA safety record
THE TWA 747-100 accident on 17 July marks the first fatal crash for the airline in a decade. The last incident occurred in April 1986, when a terrorist bomb exploded on board a Boeing 727 inbound to Athens, killing four passengers, although the aircraft landed safely. Excluding terrorist ...
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Chinese Boeing deal signals relaxation in Sino-US relations
IN A SIGN OF gradual thawing of relations between Washington and Beijing, Air China has ordered three Boeing 747-400s, while McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has agreed to deliver its first MD-90 TrunkLiner to China Northern. The three new Boeing 747-400s are scheduled for delivery in May and August 1997 ...
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AAR grows inventory
US aviation-services group AAR has acquired more than 22,000 items of excess inventory from Hamilton Standard, worth around $200 million at catalogue prices. The parts will remain at the manufacturer's warehouse, but will be marketed by AAR's growing international spares-network. In its latest financial year to the end of May, ...
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USA and Japan near F-2A accord
US AND JAPANESE Government negotiators are close to reaching a breakthrough, over work-share for the Mitsubishi F-2A/B support fighter, allowing production of the new aircraft to begin. An agreement, was expected to be struck in Washington on 25 July, ending months of arduous negotiations, which had been in ...