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Ruhe scrapes the barrel for Eurofighter funding sources
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Ruhe is hoping to find alternative ways to fund the Eurofighter EF2000 programme during 1997, to avoid further delays after Germany's latest defence cuts. Project sources say that the EF2000 is included in budget planning for 1997, although no ...
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Costly contests
THE UK'S RECENT AWARD of a clutch of key defence contracts has raised many questions. Not least of those is whether the present system of competitive tendering has had its day. The political realities and mounting development costs in today's defence market suggests that it has. Competitive tedering may have ...
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GATX investment partnership orders 737s and 757s
AN INVESTMENT partnership formed by GATX Capital has placed $1.2 billion-worth of orders and options for up to 23 Boeing 737-800s and 757-200s. GATX Capital's Air Group will manage the partnership, which includes Heller Financial and Kanematsu. Additional partners will be named at a later date, says ...
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-and expands with Rockwell
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING IS TO ACQUIRE Rockwell International's aerospace and defence businesses in a deal valued at $3.2 billion. The acquisition will boost the size of Boeing's defence and space business by more than one-third, taking annual sales to around $9 billion. Overall, the acquisition will ...
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Westpac order
Western Pacific Airlines (WestPAC) has ordered 12 Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops, with options for 12 more, for its new commuter unit, Mountain Air Express. Source: Flight International
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Clipper flight ends in disaster
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE FUTURE OF THE NASA/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) experimental vertical-take-off-and-landing rocket programme is in doubt after the crash-landing of the Clipper Graham vehicle at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 31 July. The investigation will focus on the actuation system for the ...
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Helicopter delay
New Zealand is postponing announcement of a contractor to supply six naval helicopters until Australia has completed its own evaluation of the rival Kaman SH-2G Super SeaSprite and LHTEC CTS800-powered Westland Super Lynx later in the year. The Royal Australian Navy has a similar requirement for a shipboard helicopter, but ...
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PanAm merger off
Recently revived Pan Am and Carnival Airlines of the USA have called off merger talks after their failure to agree terms for the proposed deal. Source: Flight International
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USAir goes to court to break up BA plans
USAir goes to court to break up BA plans Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAIR HAS finally declared its position on the pending alliance between British Airways and American Airlines in dramatic fashion, by filing a lawsuit against its UK partner for breach of contract. ...
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ValuJet puts fleet on sale
VALUJET AIRLINES is trying to sell or lease the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and MD-80s. The low-cost carrier was operating 51 aircraft when it was grounded on 17 June, but plans to resume service by mid-August with a maximum of 15 DC-9-32s. The airline plans ...
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Military helicopters
PROSPECTS for civil sales are improving, but the military-helicopter market remains oversubscribed. India's Hindustan Aeronautics, with its Advanced Light Helicopter, and Kawasaki, with its OH-X armed scout now in development, are two of the more recent entrants. Kawasaki is also considering offering the OH-X to meet the Japan Air Self-Defence ...
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Thai massage
Thai Airways International is taking steps to smooth its wrinkled image. Paul Lewis/BANGKOK AFTER 36 YEARS of operation, Thai Airways International is facing a massive mid-life shake-up in a bid to rejuvenate an operation which has been showing its age. For many years, Thai was ...
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Saudi Arabians to buy SAR
THE ROYAL SAUDI Arabian Air Force (RSAF) is to purchase 12 Eurocopter Cougar MkII helicopters configured for combat search and rescue (SAR) in a deal worth Fr3 billion ($600 million). It is the first time that France has sold military equipment to the RSAF, and the first export ...
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Macau has recorded 400,000
Sir - I refer to the article about Macau International Airport, "Slow start" (Flight International, 5-11 June, P26). Macau InternationalAirport was officially opened on 8 December, 1995, and one could not expect to see a lot of aircraft on the runway - especially when a ceremony for about ...
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Seeking Titan's secrets
The Huygens probe to Saturn's moon, Titan, could reveal evidence of how terrestrial life began. Julian Moxon/PARIS FIVE MONTHS AFTER the Cassini orbiter arrives at Saturn after a seven-year, 1.5 billion kilometre journey, a small, cone-shaped craft will be despatched to that planet's largest moon, Titan, on ...
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Malaysia seeks EGPWS change
Brent Hannon/HONG KONG MALAYSIA AIRLINES is seeking to be launch customer for AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) on the Boeing 777. There may not be time, however, to incorporate the system into aircraft in production. Malaysia has requested a change to its 777 ...
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Grimbergen airfield will be re-opened
BELGIUM'S MAJOR general-aviation airfield at Grimbergen, near Brussels, is to be re-opened after a defeat of the environmental movement which succeeded in having the field closed in 1992 by its then-owner, Belgium's Flemish regional government. A local referendum found that the majority of the Grimbergen population wanted the ...
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Turnaround in Mexico
Mexicana is 75 years old this year Geoffrey Jones/MEXICO CITY MEXICANA, THE OLDEST airline in North America, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Under the new leadership of chief executive Fernando Flores, Mexicana has an optimistic vision for the future as it consolidates its market strengths, both ...
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Precision to supply Cessna with electrical control for singles
PRECISION AIRMOTIVE is to supply Cessna with a new type of electrical control for its general-aviation aircraft following its acquisition of PFT. Cessna has selected PFT's master control unit (MCU) for its Model 172, 192 and 206 piston-singles, now re-entering production. PFT manufactures electrical components, including generator control-units for turbine-powered ...