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Accelerated launch
The Japanese Government has approved the development of an uprated H2 satellite launcher, 18 months earlier than planned. The new booster, with additional strap-on boosters and uprated engines, will first be flown in 2000, with a capability to place 4,000kg into geostationary orbit. Source: Flight International
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Recon sat
A Titan 4 booster was launched from Vadenberg AFB, California, on 12 May carrying a classified reconnaissance satellite into near-polar orbit. It was the second of three planned Titan 4 launches this year. The first, from Cape Canaveral, and equipped with a Centaur upper stage, was launched on 24 April.Transbrazil ...
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Hughes TOW success
Denmark will receive nearly 600 Hughes Aircraft TOW 2A anti-tank missiles, worth $18 million, while Egypt is to buy 2,372 TOW 2As, worth $59 million. Source: Flight International
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KLM objects
Dutch flag carrier KLM has complained to the European Commission about price dumping by Air France on routes between Hanover-Marseilles, Mulhouse and Stockholm and Marseilles and Stockholm. It says that the French carrier should not be allowed its final, Fr5 billion ($833 million), tranche of state aid as a result. ...
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FLS contract
FLS Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Translift Airways to provide full support for the carrier's second Airbus A300. FLS will carry out the work, which will include routine base maintenance, and A and C checks, at its Manchester maintenance centre in the UK. Source: ...
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Order dropped
GPA has dropped 26 orders from its Boeing backlog. The lessor has cancelled orders for 11 737-300s, seven 757s and eight 767-300ERs. These orders had already been subject to a deferral. Source: Flight International
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Ready to roll
Bombardier is to roll out the first Global Express long-range business jet on 26 August at its de Havilland plant in Toronto, Canada, where the aircraft is now structurally complete. Gulfstream, meanwhile, has flown the third Gulfstream V long-range business jet . Source: Flight International
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ILFC strengthens
International Lease Finance (ILFC), the fast-growing aviation arm of the giant American Insurance Group, reports that revenues leapt by 28%, to $1.4 billion during 1995. The leasing company says that leasing rates continue to improve as the supply of "...good Stage 3 aircraft has substantially diminished". ILFC posted pre-tax profits ...
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Aeroflot bound
Sabena Technics has been awarded a contract to overhaul and upgrade two ex-Delta Air Lines A310-300s, which are to be leased to Aeroflot. The aircraft will be stripped, painted refurbished and C-checked. The contract also calls for the A310s' maximum take-off weight to be increased to 164t, and the addition ...
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Northwest UK
Northwest Airlines and Air UK have announced a significant expansion of code share flights between the USA and UK. From 1 June, the Northwest code will appear on Air UK services between Amsterdam and Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Leeds/ Brad- ford, London/Stansted and Teesside, linking with US ...
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Space twins
US Navy Lts Mark and Scott Kelly have become the first twins to be selected as NASA astronauts. They are among ten pilots, who, with 25 mission-specialist candidates, will undergo a one-year period of evaluation and training before being for a mission. The astronaut candidates are the sixteenth group to ...
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Seat installation
Pilots of aircraft with nine or fewer seats can now remove and re-install seats in cabins, in the absence of a mechanic, under new US rules long sought by the National Air Transportation Association. Source: Flight International
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HUD okay
Flight Visions expects certification of its FV-2000 head-up display in a Canadair Challenger 601-3A in June. FV-2000s have been installed in Cessna Citation IIs, Gulfstream IVs and Learjet 55s, with installation in the Citation III, Dassault Falcon 20, 50 and 900, Gulfstream II and III and Raytheon Hawker 800 under ...
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SAS Recovery
The profits recovery at SAS, continued through the first quarter, largely because of the end of exchange-rate losses which ravaged the 1994 results. Although overall passenger traffic was up by 7%, cost also rose and yields remained flat, with much of the growth coming from the back of the cabin. ...
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Austrian Airlines
The Austrian Airlines group returned to profit in 1995, although losses continued from the core airline operation. The pre-tax profit for the group was ASch65 million ($6 million), turning around a loss of ASch192 million in 1994. The airline made losses of nearly ASch121 million, however, before income from subsidiaries, ...
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Finnair on target
Finnair says that its financial performance, to be released on 14 June, "met expectations", but adds that the improvement is not expected to continue as economic growth slows in Finland and across Europe. The group's sales rose to FIM7 billion ($1.5 billion) in its financial year to March as passenger ...
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UNC
Overhauler and maintainer UNC Airwork, of Millville, New Jersey, has named Benjamin Johnson director of aviation programmes. With the company since 1987, Johnson was formerly director of military and Government programmes and vice-president of customer support. Michael McCauley becomes national sales director for domestic business aviation. He ...
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Australian plea
Sir - The Australian Naval Aviation Museum has commissioned a history of the RAN Fleet Air Arm.We urgently need stories and photographs to ensure a well-balanced account of events from all angles. All material will require a covering letter of approval to print, and full copyright, sent to PO Box ...
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'Supermen' made by the market
Sir - I wonder at the amount of talk of pilots' salaries. We are not "supermen". Pay is dictated by the market. About four years are needed to build up a pilot who meets the minimum professional standards. There is a dropout rate of more than 80% and, ...
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GB Airways
Peter Kenworthy has been appointed commercial director of GB Airways, of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, UK. With GB Airways (a franchise partner with British Airways) since 1993, Kenworthy has held managerial positions with British Airways and Birmingham European Airways. Source: Flight International