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Germany presses for joint European missile approach
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE GERMAN Government is trying to use German and UK requirements for a future beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (AAM) as leverage in consolidating European missile- manufacturing capacity. German political and industrial sources say that the Government is now encouraging Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) to widen ...
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USA told: 'offer more' to beat bilateral block
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LACK OF LEVERAGE ON the part of US negotiators has led to the current impasse in bilateral aviation talks with the UK, according to the US General Accounting Office (GAO). As the GAO issued its report, British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall, visiting Washington, was ...
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CVR data indicate chaos in 757 crash
David Learmount/LONDON THE COCKPIT-VOICE recorder (CVR) of the Birgenair Boeing 757-200 which crashed in February reveals a picture of pilots who, faced with minor problems, became confused and lost control of a flyable aircraft, according to an interim report by the Dominican Republic's accident-investigation commission. ...
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Elta wins Indian air force EW deal
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) subsidiary Elta is to supply electronic-warfare (EW) systems to the Indian air force for the Mikoyan MiG-21 upgrade being undertaken by the Russian and Indian aerospace industries. The $80 million IAI contract was signed as part of a wider agreement, finally sealed earlier ...
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Fallout from Fokker
What does Fokker's bankruptcy hold in its wake for regional-aircraft markets and airlines? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT BE the first aircraft manufacturer forced to quit the market, but it is hard to recall a more abrupt and final exit. It has left airlines and ...
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India set to buy up to 200 ALHs
THE INDIAN Government is expected to place an order for around 200 Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) Advanced Light Helicopters (ALHs), following a successful flight-test programme, which is to be completed shortly. The forthcoming ALH order, for which HAL is still seeking a Western production partner, has focused attention on ...
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Air France Europe fights to regain business
FRENCH DOMESTIC and regional carrier Air France Europe (incorporating the former Air Inter) is fighting to regain traffic, which it has lost since French air services were opened to competition from domestic rivals. In what he says will be an "aggressive" campaign to prepare the airline for total ...
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A340 'super-stretch' to take-on 777-300
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Andrew Doyle/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS working on a radical "super-stretch" version of the A340, which could include fore-planes and be powered by Pratt & Whitney advanced ducted propulsors (ADPs). Designated the A340-600, the aircraft is intended as head-on competition for the Boeing 777-300, ...
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DoD JAST mistake triggers Lockheed Martin protest
LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS protested to the US Department of Defense (DoD) after cost data provided to the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme office were inadvertently sent to rivals Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The protest has delayed release of the request for proposals (RFP) for the JAST concept-demonstrator phase, ...
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Vietnam to receive delayed A320s
VIETNAM AIRLINES WILL now take delivery of its first new Airbus A320 in early July, after finally reaching agreement with Region Air and leasing underwriters to register the aircraft locally. Region Air of Singapore and Airbus, have been waiting to close the deal, to lease ten A320s since ...
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FAA warns Wilcox on WAAS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WILCOX ELECTRIC IS in danger of losing its $475 million contract to develop and produce the global-positioning-system (GPS) wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) for the US Federal Aviation Administration. On 18 March, the aviation agency advised the US-based subsidiary of Thomson-CSF that the WAAS ...
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Rockwell may sell out of aerospace and defence
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES REPORTS THAT Rockwell International is, actively seeking a buyer, for its aerospace and defence businesses have been greeted with silence, from the US corporation. Although the bulk of the aerospace business is understood to be for sale, the group's Collins Commercial Avionics ...
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Eritrea orders six MB-339 trainers
ERITREA HAS ordered six Aermacchi MB-339C advanced fighter lead-in trainer/light attack aircraft. Deliveries start late this year and continue through 1997. The Eritrean air force already has eight Valmet Redigo turboprop trainers and, following Aermacchi's purchase of that programme (Flight International, 7-13 February), the Italian manufacturer will be ...
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USAfrica comeback turned down by DoT
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) has rejected the bid by USAfrica Airways' to regain route authority to South Africa. The DoT decision to re-allocate seven weekly frequencies to World Airways and Southern Air Transport dooms USAfrica's attempt to resume operations. Service in the market, begun ...
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Mitsubishi seeks CRJ-X share
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MITSUBISHI HEAVY Industries (MHI) is discussing taking a significant risk-sharing stake in the development of Bombardier's proposed Canadair CRJ-X stretch Regional Jet. Japanese sources say that MHI is being "strongly encouraged" to join the programme by an offer of funding from Japan's Ministry ...
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Biting into false alarms
Despite modern diagnostics, "no fault found" is frequently the mechanics' verdict after avionics fault alerts. Terence Hardeman/SINGAPORE FAULT INDICATIONS on avionics line-replaceable units (LRUs) are costing airlines millions of dollars, and engineering executives around the world have called for action by component manufacturers to combat ...
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Breaking in
Western manufacturers are not yet able to cash in on the huge potential of the Russian airliner market. Paul Duffy/Moscow THE RUSSIAN DEPARTMENT of Air Transport (DAT) is confident that, despite the recent relaxation of regulations governing their importation, Western airliners will not take a major share ...
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Longer life
Seven more Space Shuttle missions are scheduled to dock with the Russian Mir 1 space station. Tim Furniss/LONDON THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF the ten-year-old Russian Mir 1 space station is to be extended to 2000, with the help of two more Shuttle Mir Missions (SMMs) ...
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Telemetry system boosts TACAWS
A TELEMETRY SYSTEM which merges video signals from a missile's infra-red seeker with data on flight parameters such as altitude, airspeed, velocity and heading has been selected by the US Army for use in the development of The Army Combined Arms Weapon System (TACAWS) missile. Loral Test & ...
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S-TEC launches helicopter autopilot
US GENERAL-AVIATION autopilot specialist S-TEC, has introduced its first helicopter stability- and control-augmentation system (SCAS). The system will become available for the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger in the third quarter of 1996 and approval for other airframes will follow, the Mineral Wells, Texas-based company says. S-TEC says that the ...