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Rush of orders forces Airbus to raise production record
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS TO raise production rates to record levels in 1997 to keep pace with a rapidly expanding firm order book. The revised production schedule calls for 185 aircraft to be built in 1997, compared with 135 deliveries scheduled for this year. The consortium's busiest year to date was ...
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Flying Colours launched with Boeing order
FLYING COLOURS Leisure Group has placed a $200 million order for four new Boeing 757-200ERs for its new in-house carrier, Flying Colours Airlines. The four 757s, three leased from International Lease Finance and one from GATX, will be powered by Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4s. Three aircraft will be based at ...
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Polish air force revives troubled Iryda
The grounded PZL-Mielec Iryda programme has been given a new, two-year lease of life with a fresh Polish air force order, and an upgrade programme for aircraft already delivered. As part of the programme, PZL-Mielec is to sign a contract with Sextant Avionique of France, to provide ...
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IATA chief proposes culture/ safety relationship study
David Learmount/LONDON THE EFFECT OF culture on airline safety should be studied, to determine whether it has any significance, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) director-general Pierre Jeanniot. He says that improved incident-data collection and sharing by airlines is essential if aircraft hull-loss accident rates are to ...
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AI(R) woos China with regional-jet proposal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIR INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) is proposing the development of a family of regional jets ranging from 95 to 140 seats as part of its bid to join China's Air Express AE-100 programme. The European consortium is now moving into detailed negotiations with Aviation ...
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Refuelling error
The front-cover picture of the MAPO MiG-29E refuelling and a similar picture used in an accompanying defence feature (Flight International, 10-16 April) were incorrectly attributed. Both pictures were taken, by MAPO MiG photographer Artur Sarkisyan. Source: Flight International
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Forbidden Factor
THE INTERNATIONAL AIR Transport Association's Pierre Jeanniot has dared to link, in public, the two subjects of safety and culture. The inference is that, beyond straight human error as a factor in some accidents, there may be culturally induced human error. He is right to raise the question, because the ...
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Swissair shows renewed grit over cost-cutting
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA SWISSAIR PRESIDENT-elect Phillippe Bruggisser has put some steel behind a new campaign to drive down costs at the airline group, including plans to shed at least another 1,600 jobs. He also expresses determination, echoed throughout the management team, to press ahead with the ...
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JPATS win helps build optimism at Smiths
JPATS wins helps build optimism at Smiths SMITHS INDUSTRIES, revealing another set of healthy half-year results, underlined its growing confidence in the gathering pace of recovery in its aerospace business with the announcement of an avionics order potentially worth $100 million for the US Army and Navy ...
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LLNL performs scramjet tests
A MINIATURE supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine was fired at Mach 8 from a 120m (400ft)-long gas gun on 18 April, as part of a US Air Force hypersonic-research programme. The hydrocarbon engine, was fired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) gas gun and flew for less than ...
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Swidnik signs helicopter-partnership deals
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SOUTH KOREA'S DAEWOO is to buy 35 Polish PZL-Swidnik W-3 Sokol helicopters, and to co-operate with Swidnik in production and marketing of the type. Swidnik is also co-operating with Italy's Agusta on production of the A109 helicopter. A memorandum of understanding was signed ...
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Popeye down under
Australia has selected the Rafael Popeye missile as its air-to-surface stand off weapon. The Israeli-built Popeye - which was also recently selected by Turkey - beat the Rockwell AGM-130 to a deal to fit the weapon to Royal Australian Air Force General Dynamic F-111s. Rafael and the Australian Ministry of ...
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New joint Czech-Polish commission will study modernisation
THE CZECH REPUBLIC and Poland have established a joint commission to study the modernisation of their air forces. A joint purchase of new fighter aircraft is one option under consideration. The countries' ministers of defence and foreign affairs signed an agreement on 13 April, allowing closer co-operation between ...
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BAe completes AWADI acquisition ready to build in Asia
BRITISH AEROSPACE has completed the acquisition of Australian defence contractor AWADI for A$50 million ($38 million) (Flight International, 17-23 April). The acquisition more than doubles the size of BAe's Australian subsidiary and aims to increase the group's export opportunities in South-East Asia, says BAe chief executive Dick Evans. ...
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US DoD clears weapon-sales bottleneck
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) has cleared a logjam of nearly $2 billion in proposed weapons sales to allies, including four Boeing KC-135 refuelling tankers for Singapore and 21 extra Lockheed Martin F-16Cs for Egypt. The USA will also lease 30 Northrop T-38 Talon trainers to South ...
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Aermacchi rolls out all-digital MB339
Julian Moxon/VARESE ITALIAN JET-TRAINER manufacturer Aermacchi has rolled out the first all-digital version of its MB339 from its Varese factory, near Milan. A maiden flight is planned for later this month and delivery of the first two of a planned 15 aircraft for the Italian air force ...
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Airport gateway
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRPORT operator the Airports Company says that the country's premier gateway, Johannesburg International, is managing to cope with increased demand, despite its previous owner leaving it with the legacy of a master plan which lacked any supporting data and no coherent development policy. Since the ...
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SIA to take delivery of first A340-300E
SINGAPORE AIRLINES IS SCHEDULED TO RECEIVE on 25 April the first two of 17 high-gross-weight Airbus A340-300Es it has on order. The Asian carrier has a further 20 options on the aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Extra 200 wins first orders
EXTRA FLUGZEUGBAU'S NEW SPORTS AIRCRAFT, the Extra 200, has won seven orders within two weeks of its maiden flight (Flight International, 10-16 April). The first prototype aircraft was shipped to the USA on an experimental-aircraft certificate within days of becoming airborne. Extra says that two US orders were received before ...
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Ethiopian birthday
This month Ethiopian Airlines celebrates half a century in the business - and it has turned in net profits during each of the last 14 years. Alfred Price/LONDON FOR MANY WESTERNERS, the word Ethiopia conjures up haunting images of starving men, women and children. That famine ended ...