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USAF to outline upgrade plans
INDUSTRY IS TO be briefed this month on US Air Force proposals to upgrade its Fairchild A-10s, Lockheed Martin F-16s and F-117s and McDonnell Douglas F-15s, under its fighter-configuration plan (FICOP). The FICOP has been revised for 1996. An earlier plan was deemed to be unaffordable within the ...
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Israelis list Dornier 28 replacements
THE ISRAELI air force has short-listed the contenders to replace its Dornier 28 liaison and reconnaissance aircraft. The final contenders include the Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender, Raytheon Beech King Air C90B and the Cessna 208 Caravan. The C90B is on the shortlist, despite the fact that the air force ...
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Sell-off costs push Aviall into losses
Graham Warwick/DALLAS AVIALL HAS reported a loss of $241 million for 1995, mainly because of a $212 million fourth-quarter charge to cover disposal of its airline engine-overhaul business. The Dallas, Texas-based company has agreed to sell the business to Miami-based Greenwich Air Services for $260-280 million (Flight International, ...
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Surplus European F-16s may go to eastern Europe
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOCKHEED MARTIN is examining the use of surplus F-16A/Bs drawn from stocks in Belgium and the Netherlands to offer in fighter competitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Belgium has around 32 early-model F-16s, and the Netherlands up to ...
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German missile deal draws close
GERMAN MISSILE manufacturer Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik (BGT) expects to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) covering the definition phase of the IRIS-T air-to-air missile programme with international partners in April. The infra-red-guided IRIS-T is intended to fulfil Germany's requirement for a new short-range missile to arm its Eurofighter EF2000s ...
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'Bitter' union conflicts force Sabena chairman to resign
SABENA CHAIRMAN and chief executive, Pierre Godfroid has resigned, to be replaced by Swissair executive Paul Reutlinger. Godfroid ran into a bitter dogfight between the management and the airline unions over a controversial restructuring plan involving a pay freeze and longer working hours. Two other senior Sabena managers have been ...
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Thai Airways plans fleet shake-up over five years
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THAI AIRWAYS International is to purchase 21 new jet-powered airliners and dispose of 31 older aircraft, under a five-year fleet-rationalisation plan approved by its directors. The carrier's 1996-2000 long-term plan calls for a reduction from 14 to six baseline aircraft types and a ...
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BAe calls for Airbus restructuring
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE must start to rework its consortium structure and finances, before going ahead with the launch of a new A3XX large-aircraft project, says British Aerospace chief executive Dick Evans. There is little prospect of BAe approving a new Airbus programme "...unless there ...
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PS-90A certificated - and criticised
SERIES PRODUCTION, of the Aviadvigatel PS-90A turbofan at Perm Motors, has been approved, by the CIS Aviation Register. The certificate has only been issued for two years, during which time engine-reliability problems will have to be ironed out, says the aviation authority. The engine has come in for ...
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Research pinpoints non-precision risks
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM AIRLINES CARRYING out non-precision approach and landing procedures face a five-fold increase in the risk of a controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accident compared with precision approaches, according to research by the Netherlands' National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR). The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), as part of its International ...
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Second Trent 777 returns to Seattle after testing
THE SECOND Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 was expected to return to Seattle on 1 March after undergoing 91 route sectors with Cathay Pacific Airways. Boeing is striving to achieve early extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) clearance for the aircraft. By the end of February, the Trent 777 had undergone ...
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Recorder reveals clue to 757 crash
A FAULTY AIR-SPEED indicator has emerged as a possible factor in the 6 February crash of a Boeing 757-200 in the Caribbean, which claimed 189 lives. Dominican Republic accident investigators, aided by the US National Transportation Safety Board, say that data from the recently retrieved cockpit-voice recorder ...
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Airbus military set-up hit by French decision
Douglas Barrie/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has shelved plans to unveil the Airbus Military Company (AMC) in the wake of the French Government's decision not to fund development of the collaborative European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) project. Airbus had been intending to formally set up its military-aircraft ...
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MDC/NASA to show X-36 fighter testbed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and NASA are to unveil a newly de-classified future fighter research aircraft at the company's St Louis, Missouri headquarters on 19 March. The exact configuration of the X-36, as the sub-scale vehicle is called, is being kept secret until ...
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Desert Dash 8s
Saudi Aramco has ordered three Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s, to support oil exploration and production operations in Saudi Arabia. Deliveries will begin in July, and the aircraft will be convertible to medical-evacuation, cargo, cargo/passenger or passenger configuration. The aircraft will be operated in temperatures of more than 50¡C, and ...
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Lufthansa and United apply for anti-trust immunity in USA
LUFTHANSA AND United Airlines have applied for US anti-trust immunity to expand their strategic alliance. The move came just hours, after a new open-skies bilateral air accord was initialed, by US and German transport officials. Final signature on the bilateral is expected by the third quarter. German transport ...
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BAe may offer CF34 as alternative to BR710
BRITISH AEROSPACE is considering an alternative power plant to the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 on its bid for the Royal Air Force's replacement maritime-patrol aircraft four months before a final decision is due to be made by the UK Ministry of Defence. The company may offer the General Electric ...
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How open skies?
GERMANY HAS become the latest and largest catch in the US drive to sign up Europe to open skies. With this new bilateral safely initialed, the USA has now signed up 11 European nations to open skies, representing 40% of the region's air market. The deal marks ...
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Russia cuts funding for An-70 series production work
RUSSIAN COMMITMENT to the Antonov An-70 military transport is collapsing, with work being abandoned on setting up the series production line at Aviacor in Samara. Lev Khasis, Aviacor president, says that the company has stopped preparing for production because the Russian Government has withdrawn financial support. ...
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French revolution
Julian Moxon/PARIS SEVEN YEARS AFTER the fall of the Berlin Wall, France has carried out its most far-reaching defence review since the end of the Second World War. The Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter, the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter and NH Industries NH 90 medium-lift helicopter have ...