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Aer Lingus evaluates 180-seaters
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AER LINGUS IS evaluating the various 180-seat (two-class seating) aircraft types, with a view to introducing a new aircraft in 1997, but more likely in 1998. The airline says that it is in "-the early days of looking at the options available". The ...
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Rolls-Royce may polish Gem for UK Lynx engine upgrade
Douglas Barrie/MIDDLE WALLOP ROLLS-ROYCE is studying development of a further variant of its Gem turbo-shaft engine, the Gem 62, as a candidate for a British Army Air Corps Westland Lynx upgrade programme. Although the Lynx is to be replaced in the anti-armour role with the ...
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China to resume satellite launches
CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) is to resume satellite launches with Asia Pacific Satellite's Hughes-built ApStar 1A aboard a Long March 3 (LM3) booster from Xichang, in July. This follows a hiatus in launches, after the loss of the first Long March 3B booster on 15 February, along with its ...
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SES selects Proton
Soci,t, Europ,enne des Satellite (SES) of Luxembourg has selected a Russian Proton booster to launch its Hughes-built Astra 1G communications satellite in 1997. It will be the second launch of an Astra by the booster, which is marketed by ILS International Launch Services. The Hughes HS-601 Astra 1F was lofted ...
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TRW completes dual-mode rocket-engine testing
TRW HAS completed 90,000s qualification testing of the first dual-mode rocket engine developed for spacecraft. The Secondary Combuster Augmented Thruster (SCAT), which has a thrust range of 2.2kg (5lb) to 6.8kg, can be operated in either hydrazine-monopropellant or hydrazine/nitrogen-tetroxide-bipropellant mode, performing limited station-keeping and attitude control, or orbit insertion and ...
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Lufthansa struggles with weak first half
CONCERNS ARE growing among analysts that Lufthansa may be left showing a loss for the first half of the year after a poor set of traffic performances over the first five months of the year. "The traffic figures are not very promising at all. The year has ...
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Lockheed completes F-22 mid-fuselage
LOCKHEED MARTIN TACTICAL Aircraft Systems has mated the three modules which form the mid-fuselage section of the first Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 engineering/manufacturing-development (EMD) aircraft, due to fly in mid-1997. The fuselage is being fitted with electrical, hydraulic and environmental-control systems, and the auxiliary power unit. It is due to go ...
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Manx will make decision on new 50-seater shortly
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON MANX AIRLINES is about to finalise its decision for a fleet of 50-seat regional aircraft, with the Embraer EMB-145 the leading contender for the order. It is understood that the airline could acquire up to eight aircraft, with deliveries starting in time for the 1997 ...
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IAI finds new investor for Galaxy programme
Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) is set to conclude a deal with the US family, which owns the Hyatt hotel chain, to become partners in the Galaxy business-jet programme. In return, a new company is being set up to replace IAI's North American marketing arm, ...
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Hong Kong wins more Chinese rights
IN A MAJOR SIGN of improved relations between the UK and Chinese Governments, Hong Kong carriers Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair have been granted additional rights to fly across and into China. Under the deal, Beijing has opened up new routes through Chinese airspace to Europe, North ...
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Saab prepares delivery of upgraded SK60W
SAAB MILITARY Aircraft is to deliver to the Swedish air force by the end of September the first nine upgraded Saab 105 trainers fitted with the Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44 engine. The upgraded aircraft are to have the military designation SK60W, and Saab says that they will remain in ...
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Unions agree to Alitalia facelift
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ALITALIA'S UNIONS have given a tentative go-ahead to the airline's increasingly urgent restructuring plans, agreeing to accept cost-cutting in exchange for three places on the board and an eventual 20% stake in the group. The deal was finally thrashed out on ...
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USA and Japan struggle on F-2 stalemate on F-2
US AND JAPANESE Government negotiators, have failed to reach agreement during meetings in Tokyo to clear the jam, which is holding up a critical industry-workshare agreement on the Mitsubishi F-2A/B fighter programme. The delay is threatening the project schedule. The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) and US Defence ...
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Ericsson looks for next-generation radar
Andrzej Jeziorski/STOCKHOLM ERICSSON MICROWAVE Systems is seeking partners to develop a next-generation combat-aircraft radar. It has held talks with the GEC/Thomson/DASA Airborne Radar (GTDAR) consortium and US companies about a potential partnership. The Swedish company is now studying an active electronically scanned-array radar (AESA), at the ...
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Boeing offers B-52 re-engineing
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US AIR FORCE'S remaining fleet of Boeing B-52H bombers will be re-engined with Rolls-Royce RB.211 turbofan engines, if the Pentagon accepts an unsolicited offer from Boeing. The bid made to the USAF's Air Logistics Center involves upgrading 94 of the eight-engined ...
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Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas pick up JASSM winners
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEED MARTIN and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have been selected by the US Air Force to develop contenders for the $3 billion Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) programme. Proposals submitted by Hughes, Texas Instruments and a Raytheon-Northrop Grumman team were rejected. The winning ...
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Boeing reveals massive 737 production boost
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS TO boost production of its 737 to 17a month by January 1998, and is studying more increases that could see production exceeding the record-breaking rates of the early 1990s, when 21 aircraft a month were being built at Renton in Washington. ...
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Raytheon wraps up Chrysler deal
RAYTHEON HAS CLOSED its $475 million deal to buy Chrysler's defence and aerospace business, which will be merged with Raytheon's E-Systems subsidiary acquired for $2.3 billion in 1995. The acquisition was finalised a day after the group settled Federal Trade Commission concerns about the transaction. Raytheon agreed to ...
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Heathrow slots are price for BA/American go-ahead
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is demanding that additional slots be freed up at London Heathrow as the price for granting anti-trust immunity to the proposed alliance between BA and American Airlines. Senior DoT policy official Patrick Murphy says that new US carriers would have to be ...
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UK study shows advantage of combined GPS/Glonass
COMBINED GLOBAL-positioning-system (GPS)/Russian Glonass receivers can significantly boost the integrity of real-time satellite-based differential-navigation systems in aircraft, says a UK team which recently completed what are believed to be the world's first flight trials of such a system. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's Institute of Satellite Navigation (ISN), ...