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Potential buyers gather for Dornier
ELEVEN POTENTIAL buyers, including Fairchild Aircraft and three other unidentified regional-aircraft majors, are talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) about taking a majority stake in Dornier Luftfahrt. According to Gunter Pfeiffer, deputy head of the works council at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen site, negotiations could lead to an 80% take-over ...
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Quite Improper
DUSSELDORF AIRPORT'S attempt to ban all flights by turboprop airliners is embodiment of the worst fears of the world's regional airlines. The airlines immediately affected by the ban will, rightly, do everything to have it overturned. They should be, supported by all their regional allies around the world, but they ...
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Investigators probe DarkStar accident
THE LOCKHEED Martin/Boeing team is hurriedly revising plans for its second DarkStar unpiloted surveillance aircraft, following the destruction of the first aircraft in a crash at Edwards AFB, California, on 22 April. The accident compounds already-serious delays to the Tier III Minus DarkStar programme, which is being developed ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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British Midland parent acquires Business Air
BUSINESS AIR, THE UK regional carrier, which ended an equity link with Lufthansa and Crossair this year, has been acquired by British Midland parent the Airlines of Britain Group (ABH). Business Air will retain its identity and most of its services, and will start to provide extra wet-lease flights for ...
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A340-600 could still use Rolls-Royce or P&W engines
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE SAYS that it could still adopt either a Rolls-Royce or Pratt & Whitney engine to power the proposed stretched A340-600, if an agreement cannot be reached with General Electric in the next six months. An Airbus exclusivity agreement, signed recently with GE to study jointly the ...
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Eurocopter is sued over Oryx commission claims
Alan George/LONDON LAWYERS FOR Eurocopter are seeking a new date for a court hearing, originally scheduled for 2 May, in which the company is being sued by a Portuguese agent over non-payment of commission on alleged defence deals with the apartheid regime in South Africa. ...
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Yak-130 Flies
Yakovlev flew its Yak-130 advanced jet trainer for the first time on 25 April from the Zhukovsky flight-test research centre, near Moscow. The aircraft is in competition with the MAPO-MiG MiG-AT, which has already been flown, for the Russian air force trainer requirement. The flight lasted for 32min. ...
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RMPA contenders step up campaign
LOCKHEED MARTIN is to formally guarantee the UK Ministry of Defence that choosing the Orion 2000 to meet its £2 billion ($3 million) British Aerospace Nimrod MR2 replacement will result in a minimum UK industrial participation of 20% in any exports. With high-level UK equipment-approval committees due to ...
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Leisure puts its A320-200s to work
LEISURE INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, the renamed Air UK Leisure, will have its three newly acquired Airbus A320-200s in service from the first week in May. The A320s replace the Boeing 737-400s, the last of which will have its final flight on 19 May. The first revenue service with the new aircraft ...
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Revamped Beechjet 400A delivery imminent
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT WILL deliver this month the first Beechjet 400As with a redesigned interior providing increased passenger and crew comfort, reduced noise and vibration and improved systems accessibility to minimise downtime during inspections. The cabin has centre club seating with reclining and swiveling chairs. Crew seating is also improved. ...
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Trent engine reaches ETOPS milestone
ROLLS-ROYCE HAS completed the 3,000-cycle test of its Trent 800 engine, a key milestone to winning early extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) clearance on the Boeing 777. The simulated flights represent almost four years of equivalent airline service and will complement a further series of ETOPS flights being amassed by a ...
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MDC plans SLAM-ER test on F-18
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to flight-test a dummy Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) on the F-18 by the middle of the month. The loads flight-test is intended to demonstrate that the SLAM ER does not affect the F-18's weapons-carriage envelope. The test will involve an aerodynamic test-vehicle, ...
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Debonair receives first 146-200
DEBONAIR TOOK DELIVERY OF ITS FIRST refurbished British Aerospace 146-200 from Marshall Aerospace on 24 April. The aircraft was accepted by Stuart Grieve (left), Debonair's director of airline operations, from USAir's technical representative for the UK, Richard Thomasson. The UK start-up carrier plans to serve European destinations from London Luton ...
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Meshing about
Kaman's servo-flap intermeshing rotor system is unique. Flying it is also a unique, but rewarding, task. Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD, CONNECTICUT A HELICOPTER TAIL ROTOR requires power to drive it, sometimes as much as 30% of that available from the engine(s). The greater the angle of pitch on ...
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Long Ranger sale
Malaysian timber and construction company Ekran, is finalising an order for six new Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger helicopters, for delivery later this year. The machines will be used to support the company's operations in East Malaysia. Source: Flight International
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GROB first
Grob has delivered the first 115C1 Acro aerobatic light aircraft to North American lead customers AG Aviation of Palo Alto, California, Canada's Ottawa Aviation Services and Ronson Aviation of Trenton, New Jersey. Source: Flight International
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Aerotiga delay
Tallahassee, Florida-based SME Aero says that North American sales of the Malaysian-produced AeroTiga light aircraft have been hit by production start-up delays. Source: Flight International