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Howell first
Colgate-Palmolive has placed the first order for Howell Instruments' turbine-outlet temperature gauges and cycle-monitoring system. The instrumentation will be fitted to AlliedSignal LTS-101s powering its Eurocopter BK117 B2 helicopter. Source: Flight International
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NASA record
NASA and AeroVironment, makers of the solar-powered Pathfinder remotely controlled aircraft, have won one of NASA's own "ten most memorable record flights of 1995" awards for reaching the record-breaking height of 50,567ft (15,420m) during a 12h flight on 11 September 1995. The flying wing is being used to develop technologies, ...
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Siberian welcome
A Raytheon Hawker 700 business jet has entered service in Siberia, operated by Sib Avia Trans on behalf of the owner, a mining company, on regular flights from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow. The aircraft is the fourteenth Hawker sold in the CIS, says Raytheon. Source: Flight International
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Surplus 747s
Singapore Airlines' (SIA) sale of eight surplus Boeing 747-300s to Pakistan International Airlines has collapsed because of their price. On-off negotiations, have been under way since late 1995, but the carriers failed to agree on SIA's reported $500 million asking price. Source: Flight International
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Thai clear out
Thai Airways International is to sell eight aircraft for $140 million. Two Boeing 737-200s will go to Pakistan's Shaheen Air International for $17 million, with delivery in March. Six Boeing 747-200s will be sold to Langdon Asset Management for $123 million, with delivery by April 1997. ...
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Cathay expands fleet
US cargo carrier Atlas Airways is to lease five Boeing 747-200 freighters from FedEx until 1998. The aircraft are the last of 22 747s acquired when FedEx bought Flying Tigers in 1989. The deal, will take Colorado-based Atlas 747 freighter fleet, to 24 by the end of 1997. ...
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Cathay ETOPS okay
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department has given Cathay Pacific Airways approval to operate 120min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) with its Airbus Industrie A330-300s. The 120min rating is Cathay's first, and involved 7,000 simulated ETOPS hours. It will enable the aircraft, to be operated to Perth, Brisbane, Cairns in Australia and ...
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CITIC officials resign from Cathay board
TWO KEY CITIC Pacific officials have resigned from the Cathay Pacific board, in a move designed to distance the Chinese firm and its interest in Dragonair from UK-controlled Swire. Citic chairman Larry Yung Chi-kin and managing director Henry Fan Hung-ling quit on 11 March. Citic's 10% interest in ...
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Russia refuses to back down on 757
RUSSIA HAS REFUSED to back down on its claim for $25 million in excise duty, which, it says, is owed on a Baikalavia-operated Boeing 757, despite intense pressure from the US Government to remove the levy. The 757-200, leased from International Lease Finance, has been impounded by police, ...
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Teledyne telelink
Washington-based Teledyne Controls has unveiled a digital datalink for business and commuter aircraft. The bi-directional Telelink will connect with ground networks via VHF ACARS, satellite, Mode S and telephone. It will be integrated with flight-management systems and provide digital communication with air-traffic control, flight planning, weather services and global-positioning-system-based reporting. ...
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Benchmark America
THE ISSUE OF UK PILOT training to approved UK commercial-pilots-licence standard abroad arises, because flying training overseas, particularly in the USA, is less expensive than in the UK. Direct costs, can be about half of those in the UK, but the licence gained is a full UK one. ...
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Cessna 172
Cessna will roll out the first pilot-production Model 172 piston-single on 2 April and display the aircraft at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Oshkosh show in late July. The company says that it will use Oshkosh to reveal prices for new-production 172s, 182s and 206s, which will be ready for delivery ...
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Second runway
Hong Kong's Airport Authority is seeking additional funds to begin construction of a second runway for the territory's new airport at Chek Lap Kok (CLK). It reportedly now wants to begin work on the three-year project before the airport opens in April 1998, rather than after, as was originally planned. ...
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ARIA adds A310s
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) is to lease an additional four Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Airbus A310-300s for use on routes to Asia-Pacific and the Middle East (Flight International, 22-28 November 1995). The Russian carrier, which already operates six of the twinjets, will also take delivery of an A310 simulator. ...
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Germany proposes air-safety 'blacklist'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN TRANSPORT minister Matthias Wissman is pushing for the introduction of a European "black list" of airlines which have questionable safety standards. Airlines on the list would be banned from operating in the European market. If the proposal does not get backing from other ...
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Strategic planning
A STRATEGIC PLAN, SETTING out the future role of GAMTA as opposed to a "firefighting" approach to problem solving, is being called for by chief executive Graham Forbes. "Although we must continue to firefight all the problems as they arise, the change to a more global economy and ...
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PENTA ups demand
Brazilian regional airline Pena Transportes Aereos (PENTA) has ordered two Embraer EMB-120s, for delivery in May and October, and two EMB-145 regional jets, for delivery in November 1997 and November 1998. Santarem-based air-taxi operator PENTA began airline service in the Amazon region in January. Embraer now has firm orders for ...
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First Global Express nears completion
CANADAIR IS CLOSE TO completing the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet following delivery of the horizontal stabiliser - the last major structural subassembly yet to be joined to the aircraft. The all-composite stabiliser is supplied by Bombardier's Shorts subsidiary in Northern Ireland. in late February aboard ...
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Bell Helicopter cracks Latin America market with 407
Bell Helicopter Textron has sold some 50 Model 407 light single-turbine helicopters in Latin America. Of more than 160 firm orders received for the new aircraft, 40 are from customers in Brazil, the company says - with at least ten of those coming from first-time customers. The US ...
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Russian missile tests
Russia has carried out a series of test launches of the latest in its family of OTR short- to medium-range ballistic missiles. Test firings were carried out in late 1995 and early 1996. The tactical solid-fuel missile has a 400km (215nm) range and its operational version will be mounted on ...