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International rival planned for MAS
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE PLANS TO launch a second Malaysian international carrier are being revived, 15 months after flag carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS) blocked the start of AirAsia. Heavy Industries of Malaysia (HICOM) and 15% joint-venture partner Mofaz Air are understood to be drawing up new plans ...
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Thomson-CSF desires French air force reconnaissance deal
THOMSON-CSF is hoping to clinch contracts, from the French air force and export customers, for its medium-range electro-optical reconnaissance imagery system, following the successful completion of flight-testing. The imaging pod, developed under the DESIRE programme, is initially designed for the Dassault Mirage 2000, Rafale and Lockheed Martin F-16. ...
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Raytheon expands with Chrysler unit purchases
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA RAYTHEON HAS AGREED to buy Chrysler's defence and aerospace businesses for $475 million. Aircraft-modification specialist Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems (CTAS) and defence-electronics company Electrospace Systems (ESI) will become part of E-Systems, acquired by Raytheon for $2.3 billion in May 1995. Raytheon says that ...
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Extra flies EA 400 tourer
GERMAN manufacturer, Extra Flugzeugbau has flown its all-composite, EA 400 tourer for the first time. The first flight took place on 4 April at Extra's Dinslaken base, with company managing director Walter Extra at the controls. The company says that the first impressions of the aircraft's handling were ...
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JAA set to overturn night-time single-engine aircraft ban
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has "tentatively agreed" to overturn its previous position of banning the operation of single-engined turbine-powered aircraft commercially in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night. Pilatus Aircraft and Aerospatiale's Socata subsidiary, respectively manufacturers of the PC-12 and ...
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Taiwan turns down Dornier 328 for Matsu landings
DAIMLER-BENZ has again been forced to delay delivery of the improved-performance Dornier 328-110 to Formosa Airlines, after Taiwan's civil aeronautics administration (CAA) refused to certify the turboprop for landing at the offshore island of Matsu. A revised delivery schedule had called for the first aircraft to go ...
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Canada seals ATC privatisation agreement
CANADA'S Government has signed the agreement to transfer the country's air-navigation system to a new corporation, Nav Canada, for a purchase price of C$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion). Transfer of all air-traffic-control (ATC) assets is scheduled for 1 July, subject to the passage of enabling legislation by the Canadian parliament. ...
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FANS will ease Calcutta chaos
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS DRAMATIC TRAFFIC flow improvements, for aircraft over-flying the Calcutta area of India, are expected by September of this year. A new future air navigation systems (FANS) route for Boeing 747-400s across the country and the Bay of Bengal will ease chronic peak-hour congestion. ...
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Lockheed Martin makes delayed C-130J first flight
LOCKHEED MARTIN flew the C-130J Hercules 2 for the first time on 5 April. This follows delays, which have pushed back certification of the transport from December to April-May 1997. The company is negotiating revised delivery schedules with its initial customers, the Royal Air Force, US Air ...
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GE improves CF34 bid for Nimrod 2000
GENERAL ELECTRIC has submitted revised formal proposals to British Aerospace to power its Nimrod 2000 contender for the Royal Air Force replacement maritime-patrol aircraft requirement. GE is offering the CF34-8N, a version of the 58kN (13,000lb)-thrust CF34-8C turbofan under development for the Bombardier Canadair CRJ-X stretched Regional ...
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Rockwell pushes to open up Huzar helicopter competition
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW ROCKWELL IS proposing an integrated weapons and avionics package for the Polish PZL-Swidnik W-3W Huzar military helicopter, including the Hellfire 2 anti-tank missile. The missile was released, to Poland by the US Government in December, 1995. The US company is fronting an international ...
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Further Chinook upgrade envisioned
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US Army hopes to refurbish at least 300 ageing Boeing Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to an improved-cargo- helicopter (ICH) configuration, but the $3.3 billion rotorcraft modernisation effort is competing for limited funding against other weapons programmes. The critical Operational Requirements Document (ORD) ...
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USN eyes common support aircraft to replace S-3/E-2
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US Navy will determine over the next two years whether a new Common Support Aircraft (CSA) should be developed to replace about 260 aging in-service aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin S-3B Viking and ES-3A Shadow, and the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye and ...
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Airbus A319 certificated by JAA
Airbus Industrie has achieved Joint Aviation Authorities certification for the smallest member of its family, the 124-seat A319, powered by the 105kN (23,500lb)-thrust version of the CFM International CFM56-5B engine. Certification of versions powered by the 98kN CFM56-5A and 98-105kN IAE V2500-A5 is set for the fourth quarter of 1996. ...
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Raytheon slims services arm
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT Services is to sell six of its 18 US fixed-base operations (FBOs) to Mercury Air Group, a national provider of aircraft-fuelling and ground-handling services. The sale of the FBOs includes real-estate assets, plus aircraft-fuelling and line-service operations at Atlanta's Hartsfield and Peachtree airports; Ontario, California; Bedford, ...
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Finnair to acquire its first Boeings
Julian Moxon/Paris FINNAIR IS to buy or lease four Boeing 757s for its charter operations, marking the first acquisition of Boeings in the airline's history. The carrier says the aircraft is "exactly the right size" for its leisure flight programme, although it looked at rival ...
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Lockheed Martin confirms follow-on transport plan
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is looking for partners to develop a multi-purpose large aircraft to replace Boeing KC-135 tankers, Lockheed C-141 transports and tanker/transports such as the Lockheed TriStar and McDonnell Douglas KC-10. The aircraft, dubbed the "World Airlifter", would also be offered as a ...
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Swissair expands as Crossair gets route boost
Gunter Endres/BASLE SWISSAIR IS expanding its fleet with orders for five Airbus narrow-bodies and two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The order comes as Crossair, the Swiss carrier's regional subsidiary, revealed a boost from taking over a part of its parent company's European and charter business. Swissair is ...
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Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy as Airworld hires Canadians for A320s
UK RULES for granting work permits to non-European Economic Area pilots have been thrown into confusion by a Government decision to approve an application by UK charter airline Airworld to hire Canadian Airbus A320 pilots. The approval comes only weeks after the Government rejected a similar controversial request ...
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Apache AH-64D cleared for sales to SE Asia
THE US Government, as anticipated, has finally cleared the improved McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Apache helicopter for sale to countries in South-East Asia. The move clears the way for the AH-64D to be offered to the Royal Malaysian Air force (RMAF), to meet its pending requirement for an attack ...