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Norway asks to join JSF
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NORWAY IS SEEKING to join the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme.The Scandinavian country regards the JSF as a possible replacement for its Lockheed F-16 MLUs (mid-life updates), which will be retired by about 2012. The Norwegian air force says that it wants ...
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Vancouver expands
Vancouver International Airport's C$260 million ($190 million) International Terminal was opened on 1 June, aimed at boosting the airport's bid to become a major gateway between North America and the Asia Pacific region. The terminal provides capacity for an additional 6 million passengers annually, increasing the airports total capacity to ...
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Former SNPE chief Bechat returns to Snecma to take over from Dufour
JEAN-PAUL BECHAT has become Snecma's new chairman and chief executive, replacing Bernard Dufour, who leaves after only two years, mainly because of deteriorating relations between the French aero-engine builder and General Electric, its 50-50 partner in CFM International. Bechat left Snecma two years ago, to become chairman and chief executive ...
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Sagem of France sells 40 upgraded Mirages to Pakistan
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS SAGEM OF FRANCE has signed a Fr500 million ($97 million) contract with Pakistan for the sale of up to 40 upgraded secondhand Dassault Mirage III fighter aircraft. The upgrade of the aircraft includes avionics, navigation systems and day/night attack capability. The aircraft have been ...
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Deutsche BA grows
Deutsche BA claims to have captured just over one-third of the German domestic air-transport market, carrying 2.2 million passengers in the financial year to March 1996. Sales were up 11% at DM492 million ($320 million) and the company expects to reach DM550 million this year. Source: Flight International
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Myanmar FANS decision 'unwise'
MYANMAR has been told that it risks future international air traffic bypassing Yangon's flight-information region, following its decision to purchase conventional radar equipment. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) had been pressing Myanmar to order future-air-navigation-system (FANS)-compatible equipment. This would have allowed a planned new FANS route across ...
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North Korea's IATA overtures on the brink of fulfilment
NORTH KOREA WILL sign a series of agreements shortly with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is expected to lead to opening up of Pyongyang's airspace to international traffic. Discussions between IATA and North Korea on future co-operation are at an "advanced" stage, according to IATA regional ...
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Denel chases Australian gunship/transport order
DENEL HAS confirmed the company is planning to enter the contest to supply the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) new reconnaissance and troop-lift helicopters, with the Rooivalk and the Oryx aircraft, respectively. While the ADF was widely known to be looking for a replacement for its existing Bell Kiowa ...
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GE and Rybinsk tie joint-venture knot
GENERAL ELECTRIC and Russia's Rybinsk Motors are setting up a joint venture, Rybinsk GE Aviation Motors, to manufacture and support in Russia the US company's CT7 turboprop and turboshaft engines. GE Aircraft Engines vice-president Tracey Homburg says that some $600 million is being made available in launch capital, ...
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Lyulka Saturn's nozzles vector thrust on Su-27
RUSSIAN ENGINE manufacturer Lyulka Saturn has unveiled a heavily modified variant of its AL-31F powerplant, which has been fitted with pitch-only thrust vectoring nozzles, and redesignated the AL-37FU. The new engine is being test-flown on a Sukoi Su-27M (Su-35), with around a dozen test flights having been carried ...
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France and Germany rethink joint defence programmes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE AND GERMANY have agreed to review all co-operative defence programmes shared by the two countries, to reduce costs and solve major budget difficulties faced by both. The decision followed a meeting held on 5 June at Dijon, in France, between France's President, Jacques ...
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Fulcrum M falls to thrust-vector design
Douglas Barrie/MOSCOW V PK-MAPO IS SET TO drop its development of the MiG-29M Fulcrum in favour of a more ambitious upgrade programme, including fitting the aircraft, which is dubbed the MiG-35, with three-dimensional thrust-vector control (TVC). Development of a 10t TVC derivative of the Klimov RD-33 ...
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Schonefeld is Germany's choice for Berlin Airport
Andrej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Federal Government and the Berlin and Brandenburg local governments have opted to develop Schonefeld Airport as the site of the proposed new Berlin hub. The DM10 billion ($6.8 billion) expansion plan was favoured, on cost grounds, over a proposal to build a ...
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ARINC launches its 'FANS for classics'
Kieran Daly/SINGAPORE A MAJOR US operator is the launch customer for an ambitious programme designed by US avionics and communications specialist ARINC to make "classic" long-haul aircraft compatible with the air-traffic system of the future. ARINC is offering to develop solutions for any classics which operators ...
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JAT wants to buy more aircraft
YUGOSLAV flag carrier JAT wants to acquire new aircraft as it tries to modernise its war-battered operations. It is reported in Belgrade newspapers that JAT plans to invest around $1 billion by 2000, to rejuvenate part of its fleet. JAT resumed international operations in 1994, with the lifting ...
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Axe hangs over new engines for Il-86
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) and Snecma are trying to patch together a $750 million financial package in a final attempt to rescue the proposed plan to re-engine Ilyushin Il-86 widebodies with a variant of the CFM56. The project has been under discussion since the early 1990s, but financing has ...
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PZL-Swidnik picks PT6 for new Sokol
PZL-Swidnik has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-65 turboshaft to power a new model of the multi-purpose, twin-engined, W-3 Sokol helicopter. The PT6C-65 is a new turboshaft series derived from the PT6 turboprop family and will be available in thrust ratings from 895-1,490kW (1,200-2,000shp). The Sokol programme ...
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French holding company idea gains favour
A REPORT FROM France's parliamentary finance committee has added weight to the concept of using a holding company to bring together Dassault Aviation and Aerospatiale. The report suggests that the two companies could be controlled jointly by an umbrella state-holding company, but stop short of a full merger. ...
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Antonov prepares to flight-test second An-70 prototype
ANTONOV IS PLANNING to fly the second prototype of the An-70 transport aircraft in November, according to engine manufacturer ZMKB Progress. The first aircraft crashed in 1995. Two of the four D-27 propfans for the aircraft have been delivered. The third engine will be delivered at the end ...
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Airbus revises A340 development
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Andrew Doyle/VANCOUVER AIRLINES ARE PUSHING Airbus to study a 15,700km (8,500nm)-range derivative of the A340, combining the fuselage of the -300 with the wing and engines of the -600 "Super Stretch", as an alternative to the smaller, 14,800km- range, A340-8000. At a recent meeting ...