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World Airways offers stake to workers
AIRLINE EMPLOYEES may be offered a stake in World Airways as the parent WorldCorp group looks for options to sell its stake in the US carrier. WorldCorp is looking, at options for spinning off, at least part of its 59.3% stake in the airline. President Charles Pollard confirms ...
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Wilcox fights back after WAAS criticism
WILCOX ELECTRIC "...remains confident of its ability to deliver a Wide Area Augmentation System [WAAS] that meets all of the US Federal Aviation Administration's requirements", says the US-based Thomson-CSF subsidiary In its first public statement since the FAA sent Wilcox a letter threatening cancellation of the troubled air-navigation ...
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Sultan of Brunei adds to fleet with first A340-8000
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI has ordered the first ultra-long-range Airbus A340-8000 to add to his growing VIP fleet of personal jet-powered airliners. It is understood that the aircraft is scheduled for delivery in 1997 and that it will be the first long-haul -8000 ...
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Continental Express order heralds ATR US fightback
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS has ordered eight Aero International (Regional) ATR 42-500s and taken options on a further 12 aircraft, at an estimated cost of $260 million. The order follows a barren spell for ATR in its most lucrative market since the highly publicised crash of an American Eagle ...
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NASA invests in X-34 rescue programme
NASA WILL INVEST $60 million and solicit new proposals from industry and Government in a restructured X-34 technology-demonstration launcher programme. The agency is aiming for a first test flight in 1998. The move follows the collapse of the original Rockwell-Orbital Sciences design-concept study, because the companies said that ...
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AMX grounding lifted as R-R/Fiat check engines
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Rolls-Royce and Fiat Avio have instituted a Spey engine compressor-blade inspection and replacement programme on the Italian air force's AMX combat aircraft, in the wake of an accident which left the aircraft idle from January until 22 March. The crash was attributed to ...
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India finds additional funding for GSLV
THE INDIAN Government has allocated an extra $12 million to finance the purchase of seven flight and two mock-up cryogenic engines and technical equipment from Russia for the upper stage of the planned Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). Russia demanded the originally agreed $21 million payment in dollars ...
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Ukraine cosmonaut to fly on Space Shuttle
UKRAINIAN cosmonauts Leonid Kadenyuk and Vyacheslav Meytrachan have been selected to train in October 1997 for a US Space Shuttle mission, which will carry several national experiments. One - probably Kadenyuk, a former Russian Buran space shuttle trained mission specialist - will make the 16-day mission. The World ...
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Missile watchdog fears that Apache goes too far for UAE
Douglas Barrie/LONDON A FRENCH PROPOSAL to sell a version of Matra Defense's Apache air-launched stand-off weapon to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could contravene the international Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) agreement, according to sources close to some of the signatory nations. The Apache missile ...
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African Hercules
The South African Air Force is to acquire two Lockheed C-130Bs and three C-130Fs from excess US Air Force and Navy stocks. All five aircraft are in storage at the Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. Source: Flight International
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Europeans are urged to unite against US might
SENIOR GOVERNMENT figures in the UK and Germany have warned that Europe's defence and aerospace industries will have to consolidate to face the challenge posed by restructuring in the USA. UK defence secretary Michael Portillo, speaking to the UK's Parliamentary Aerospace group, warned that industry "...faces a very ...
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Norwegian upgrade
Norway plans a $65 million upgrade of its four maritime-patrol Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions with satellite and secure communications and missile-warning systems. Loral Defense Systems will be prime contractor. Source: Flight International
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USA uses global broadcast model
A PRECURSOR TO THE US Department of Defense's planned global broadcast system (GBS) has been deployed in Europe for the distribution of classified video-imagery collected by General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) operating over Bosnia. Hughes Space & Communications, meanwhile, has received a $150 million contract to ...
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ACTIVE goes active in first F-15 vectored-thrust flight test
THE thrust-vectoring system developed for the Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE) programme was activated on the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15 research aircraft in flight for the first time at NASA's Dryden Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, on 27 March. The Pratt & Whitney pitch-yaw balance-beam nozzle ...
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European business aviation 'in jeopardy'
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS A "SERIOUS DECLINE" in the number of business-aviation aircraft in Europe, and the imminent arrival of tough new regulations, is forcing the European Business Aircraft Association (EBAA) to become more vocal. Increasing difficulty over access to airports, the need to re-equip to meet forthcoming ...
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VTOL contenders line up for TUAV
BELL HELICOPTER Textron has surprised rivals by offering the Eagle Eye tilt-rotor unmanned air vehicle for the US Department of Defense's multi-billion dollar Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) competition (Flight International, 27 March -2 April). The US helicopter maker joins at least six other bidders for a two-year ...
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JAST RFP released as MDC revises design
Guy Norris/ST LOUIS THE REQUEST FOR proposals for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) concept-demonstration phase was released on 22 March, after Lockheed Martin withdrew a protest which threatened to delay the programme (Flight International, 27 March-2 April). The protest was withdrawn after the return ...
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UPS picks Flight Dynamics head-up system
UPS Airlines is to equip its 59-strong Boeing 727 fleet with the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS). The move will allow UPS 727 crews to fly manual Category IIIA approaches in visibility as low as 210m (700ft) and take off in visibility down to 90m. ...
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Supersonic Japanese
Japan's National Aerospace Laboratory plans to fly a remotely piloted supersonic-transport test model by 2002. It will fly at a speed of Mach 2 and be used to test fluid dynamics, structural characteristics and systems integration. The scaled 8-8.5m long vehicle, would be powered by one, or two, 4.45kN (1,000lb)-thrust ...