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TsIAM calls for more MiG-AT power
Alexander Velovich and Andrzej Jeziorski/MOSCOW THE INFLUENTIAL Russian Central Institute of Aviation Motors (TsIAM) is pushing for a higher-thrust version of the Snecma/Turbom,ca Larzac 04- R20 engine to be fitted to the new MAPO MiG-AT advanced trainer. "The aircraft is underpowered and needs another 200kg [1.9kN ...
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MAS prepared to meet competition from local rivals
Paul Lewis/KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) is now prepared to face local competition after nearly two years of company restructuring, according to chairman and major shareholder Tajudin Ramli. His comments came in response to indications that Heavy Industries of Malaysia (HICOM) is reviving plans to ...
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Kiwi polishes up its fleet and routes
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines, is to expand its fleet, to enable further additions to its local New Zealand and Trans-Tasman services to Australia. After the return of its leased Boeing 757-200 to Air 2000 in early May, Kiwi will operate the Air Nauru 737-400 four days a week on ...
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Sun 'N Fun
Five deaths in three crashes at the 14-20 March Sun 'n Fun fly-in - after just four fatal accidents in the previous 21 events - marred a show which otherwise indicated that the small-aircraft market is maturing, with a resurgence in production aircraft and an expansion of kit-built designs into ...
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GE/Airbus sign for A340-600
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC and Airbus Industrie have signed an exclusive agreement on power for the stretched A340-600, due to enter service early next century. The deal foresees the development of a new or derived 226kN (51,000lb)-thrust engine for the 375-passenger, 13,000km (7,000nm)-range aircraft. GE ...
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US carriers hit by pilot shortages
SOME US AIRLINES, ARE experiencing pilot shortages as they attempt to add services, to meet traffic demand. Northwest Airlines says that it will reduce its monthly schedule by 150-200 flights for the rest of this year to cope with the shortage. Northwest operates about 45,000 flights a ...
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Delta power
Delta Air Lines has selected Pratt & Whitney PW4060 engines to power 12 Boeing 767-300ERs on order to replace Lockheed L-1011s on international services. The order is worth $170 million. Source: Flight International
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Snecma powers up with links to GE90/P&WC
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS SNECMA HAS REPAIRED its ailing relationship with GE Aircraft Engines on the GE90 by agreeing to maintain a 25% stake in the development of a 445kN (100,000lb)-thrust variant of the engine. At the same time, the French engine builder has moved into ...
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American proposes short-haul Fokker 100 operation
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AMERICAN AIRLINES wants to establish a low-cost short-haul operation within the carrier, using its Fokker 100s. The proposal to the carrier's pilots' union is designed to compete with the low-cost operations already started by United and planned by Delta. Under the ...
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Polar launches European cargo service
POLAR AIR CARGO is to begin scheduled Boeing 747 all-cargo services between the USA and Europe on 27 April. Two weekly flights will be operated from Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy to London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol. Polar plans to extend the service to the Middle East ...
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Ball wins Boeing camera deal for 777-300 stretch
BALL AEROSPACE and Technologies has won a ten-year contract with Boeing to supply the 777-300 stretch with a ground-manoeuvring camera system. The 74m-long 777-300 will be the longest commercial airliner to date, with a turning radius greater than that of the 747, which is 3m shorter. ...
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France drops out of MEADS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTAGilbert Sedbon/PARIS GERMANY, ITALY AND the USA are expected to proceed with the Medium Extended Air-Defence-System (MEADS) programme without France, which is provisionally suspending participation in the project. The three countries are expected to sign an statement of intent (SoI) to develop the MEADS, ...
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USA extends ban on airline gambling
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...
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Thomson hands back its Credit Lyonnais stake to Government
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH ELECTRONICS giant Thomson SA is selling back to the Government its stake in loss-making state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais, as a first step towards privatisation. The sale will be completed no later than 20 December, or earlier if the privatisation is pushed through this ...
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Assembly begins of Huygens probe
ASSEMBLY OF THE Huygens interplanetary probe has begun at the Aerospatiale plant in Cannes, in southern France, following a critical design review by the European Space Agency and NASA. The probe will study Titan, the largest of Saturn's satellites. The Huygens probe represents the first time that Europe ...
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Pentagon orders VIP aircraft update
US DEFENCE SECRETARY William Perry, has ordered that all US military transports dedicated to passenger flights, be equipped with cockpit-voice recorders (CVRs), flight data recorders (FDRs) and global-positioning-system (GPS) hardware. In a letter to armed forces chiefs, Perry says: "Military flight crews must have the most capable and ...
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AMR may spin-off Sabre
AMERICAN AIRLINES parent AMR is considering a spin-off of its highly profitable Sabre computer reservation system (CRS), raising speculation that cash from any deal could put the carrier back on the acquisition trail in the US airline market. AMR chairman Robert Crandall, who once joked that the ...
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Indonesia acts to solve Garuda cash problems
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government has announced a major corporate and financial shake-up of Garuda Indonesia, in an effort to turn around the financially struggling national carrier in readiness for privatisation later in the year. As part of the airline's restructuring, three senior executives have ...
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France and Israel win contracts to update Indian MiG-21s
FRENCH AND ISRAELI companies have revealed contracts to supply equipment for the MAPO-MiG upgrade of Indian air force MiG-21s. Sextant Avionique has secured a deal to supply its Totem inertial-navigation system (INS), to equip five prototypes and a further 125 Mig-21s. The French avionics supplier is also to ...
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US Navy starts search for P-3 Orion replacement
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN IS hoping that a US Navy large land-based aircraft (LLBA) study, due to begin in late 1997, will lead to an order for its upgraded P-3 Orion 2000, with deliveries starting in 2002-3. The study will re-examine plans to extend the service life ...