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UK set to re-examine foreign pilot-training policy
UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority chief Sir Christopher Chataway has told the UK General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA) that he will "look again" at the policy of allowing CAA-approved foreign flying-training schools to issue UK commercial pilot licences. GAMTA chief executive Graham Forbes says that UK flying-training-school ...
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Costly corporate updates on the way
THE COST OF additional or replacement equipment for business aircraft to meet impending regulations could cost almost $1 million for older aeroplanes, warns fixed-base operator Magec Aviation of Luton, UK. Some equipment has yet to be specified and its' cost to be defined. Magec flight-operations director ...
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BA puts commercial case for Terminal 5
BRITISH AIRWAYS HAS painted a bleak picture for its' own and the UK's future if London Heathrow's fifth terminal is not built. In its closing submission to the first phase of a public inquiry on the subject, BA estimates that up to 26 million passengers could be lost to London's ...
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Korean Air wins from won's appreciation
KOREAN AIR (KAL) came close to tripling its profits in 1995, although much of the improvement came as a windfall from the appreciation of the South Korean won against the US dollar, in which the airline holds most of its debt. KAL's net profit soared over the year, ...
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Cathay profits leap
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways beat market expectations with a 25% leap in profits for 1995, boosted by higher revenue and improved cost efficiency, but also helped by an accounting change. The Hong Kong carrier turned in a net profit of just under HK$3 billion ...
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FAA forecasts more turbine-engine growth
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is forecasting that the turbine-engined segment of the general-aviation (GA) fleet will continue to make gains at the expense of piston-engined aircraft - at least in the short term. There were about 8,280 turbine-powered aircraft in the USA in 1995, according to ...
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Singapore studies tanker options
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE IS considering an offer from the US Air Force to sell it up to four surplus Boeing KC-135s, as a more cost-effective solution to its requirement for a boom-equipped aerial-refueling tanker. A Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) team is understood recently ...
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MEA makes progress - at last
Gunter Endres/LONDON MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES' (MEA) increasingly desperate quest, for a large capital injection to fund a fleet update, appears to be nearing an end, after an extraordinary shareholders meeting approved the move. The recommendation is expected to be ratified, at a General Assembly, called for 17 April. ...
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NASA-sponsored experimental Tu-144 in Moscow roll-out
A MODIFIED TUPOLEV Tu-144 supersonic transport which will serve as the platform for a six-month, high-speed experimental research programme was expected to be rolled-out at Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow, Russia, on 17 March, signaling the start of a co-operative US-Russian flight-test programme. The aircraft, Tu-144LL, will carry NASA-sponsored ...
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Bell to lead AH-1W and UH-1 upgrades
Graham Warwick/Atlanta THE US MARINE CORPS is to award Bell Helicopter Textron a single prime contract to upgrade its AH-1W SuperCobra and UH-1N Huey dynamic systems and AH-1W cockpit in November 1997. Bell will then conduct a competition on behalf of the USMC to select equipment for ...
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Rolls-Royce joins GE-Allison JAST team
Guy Norris/Los Angeles ROLLS-ROYCE HAS formally signed an agreement giving it full participation in the joint General Electric/Allison development of a cruise engine and lift engine for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) aircraft programme. GE says, that the long expected agreement with R-R, makes ...
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USA and Italy hold talks on stealthy stand-off missile
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA THE USA AND ITALY are discussing development of a stealthy next-generation standoff missile, dubbed the Ulisee, drawing on technology from the Italian navy's Teseo 3 anti-ship-missile project. A decision on the venture is expected by the third quarter of this year. US and ...
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State-owned Bosnian carrier plans April start
AIR BOSNIA, THE STATE-owned Bosnian start-up carrier which plans to begin operations in April, is seeking an airline partner to help it lease in a small fleet of passenger and cargo aircraft. The airline, set up in 1994 but still awaiting the re-opening of Sarajevo's airport, says that it is ...
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Ansett prepares for ANZ with executive shake-up
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT HAS CLEARED the decks for the imminent Air New Zealand (ANZ) buy-in, with managing director Graeme McMahon and two of his senior managers departing in favour of a new ten-member executive structure at the Australian airline. News Limited chief and executive chairman of Ansett Holdings, Ken Cowley, ...
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LOT on fast track
LOT POLISH AIRLINES, virtually trebled profits in 1995, helped by soaring traffic figures - especially on its fast-growing domestic network. The Polish carrier ended the year with net profits of Pzl6 million ($2 million), as passenger numbers rose by 16%, to 1.8 million. Flights to Central ...
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Saab scoops large Mesaba order
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS beaten Daimler-Benz Aerospace to a major order from US regional Mesaba Airlines. The Northwest Airlink carrier is acquiring up to 72 34-seat Saab 340s, in preference to the Dornier 328, to replace its existing fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100s. ...
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Raytheon clinches US missile-seeker deal...
THE US ARMY HAS awarded Raytheon a $9.4 million contract to initiate development for the Patriot air-defence missile of a seeker, which is capable of countering cruise missiles. The Pentagon has earmarked $35 million in research-and-development (R&D) funding for the project in fiscal year 1996 as the first ...
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USMC told to scrap its AV-8B upgrade plans
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US MARINE CORPS should scrap its $2.2 billion programme to remanufacture 73 day-attack McDonnell Douglas (MDC) AV-8B Harrier II very-short-take-off-and-landing aircraft to the night-attack radar-equipped version, and instead buy new AV-8Bs, says the US General Accounting Office (GAO). The investigative arm ...
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Pena delivers warning to the UK
LONDON HEATHROW Airport could lose its status as the premier gateway to Europe, if the UK Government continues to prevent open-skies bilateral-air-services talks with the USA, US transport secretary Federico Pena has warned. Pena says that success in negotiating liberal bilaterals with European nations, including Germany, allows passengers ...
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MDC outlines five-year plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGFELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS is studying the launch of three new products over the next 18 months, including a stretched MD-95 and two re-winged variants of the MD-11. Douglas Aircraft vice-president and general manager John Feren says that future milestones already include delivery of ...