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British Airways/United to launch AlliedSignal EGPWS flight tests
Allan Winn/SINGAPORE Kieran Daly/LONDON TWO MAJOR AIRLINES are about to begin trials of AlliedSignal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). By the end of February, the system will be flying on a British Airways Boeing 747-400 and, in May, United Airlines is to begin a three-month revenue-service trial ...
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KC aviation
Overhauler KC Aviation, of Dallas, Texas, has appointed James Holcombe vice-president of marketing and sales. Holcombe, a former US Marine Corps pilot and active in the US Naval Reserve, was most recently president of JLH Associates, a marketing consultancy. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell
John Fowler has been appointed director of business development at Honeywell Military Avionics of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He will report to Jeff Bakken, vice-president of marketing. Eric Doremus becomes vice-president of customer and product support. He was formerly project leader for Defense Avionics Systems new-business-operating system introduction. Source: Flight ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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GE plans for turboprop power growth
GENERAL ELECTRIC is developing two new versions of its CT7 turboprop family, a CT7-9+, which will be certificated later this year, and a more ambitious CT7-11 variant which has been timed for 1999. GE says that the growth programmes will meet the requirements of current CT7-powered, aircraft ...
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FAA and JAA agree to harmonise on common standards
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) have agreed common standards for certification of new general-aviation aircraft built in the USA and Europe under FAR/JAR 23 rules. The standards, which become effective on 1 March, cover powerplant, airframe and aircraft performance requirements for ...
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BWIA recovery stumbles
BWIA INTERNATIONAL Airlines says a poor fourth quarter has "temporarily derailed" the Caribbean carrier's financial recovery following privatisation in February 1995. Despite this, the airline has posted a reduced operating loss for 1995 of $3.6 million, down from $9.4 million in 1994. President Edward Wegel blamed BWIA's poor ...
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SAS concentrates on fleet requirement beyond 2000
Gunter Endres/LONDON SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES System (SAS) is to study a plan to purchase between ten and 20 long- and medium-range aircraft to add to its fleet starting by the year 2000. The study will examine the case for retaining the Boeing 767 in the SAS fleet ...
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German air force updates VIP transport capabilities
Andrzej Jeziorski/BONN THE GERMAN AIR FORCE is buying four more Airbus A310s to replace its ageing Boeing 707-320s in the transport/cargo role. The air force is also pushing to acquire Canadair Challenger 601s and Eurocopter AS.332 Super Pumas in the VIP role. The air force ...
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PZL-Okecie to replace crashed prototype
POLISH AIRCRAFT manufacturer PZL-Okecie says that it wants to build another PZL-130T Turbo Orlik to replace the prototype lost in a fatal crash on 25 January. Contrary to earlier reports that the accident involved the Pratt & Whitney-powered PZL-130TC (Flight International, 7-13 February), marketing and sales director Maciej ...
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Russians delay final Mir module launch
THE NEXT LONG-duration flight by a US astronaut aboard the Russian Mir 1 space station will be marred by a delay in the launch of a new Russian module in which US experiments will be conducted. The much-delayed launch of the Priroda module - the last to be ...
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Loral joins Russians for satellite venture
LORAL AND THREE Russian companies (RJSC Gasprom, RSC Energia and JSC Gascom) have established a company to manufacture, launch and operate geostationary- and elliptical-orbit communications satellites and to explore other joint ventures. The spacecraft will be based on Energia's Yamal satellite bus and Loral Space's communications payloads. Gascom ...
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Another HS-601 success for Hughes
JAPAN SATELLITE Systems has ordered a fourth JCSAT from Hughes. The contract brings to 58 the number of HS-601s ordered. The JCSATs 1 and 2 were HS-393 models. The launch of the JCSAT 4 will take place in 1997. Indonesia's PT Telkom will order Palapa B5 and B6 ...
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Arianespace boost
Arianespace has been awarded the contract to launch India's Insat 2E in 1997, bringing to 39 the number of outstanding satellites in its orderbook. The Intelsat 707 is to be launched on Ariane V84 on 1 March. Source: Flight International
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Israel and Morocco hold F-5 upgrade discussions
MOROCCO AND ISRAEL are in secret negotiations over the latter country providing an upgrade of Moroccan air force Northrop F-5. The negotiations are believed to cover the upgrade of around 20 F-5s, which the air force uses in the fighter/ground-attack role. If successfully concluded, the deal would ...
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Air Baltic receives first RJ70
LATVIAN FLAG CARRIER AIR BALTIC has taken delivery of the first of three ex-Business Express Avro RJ70s, leased from Avro International Aerospace. Two further aircraft will join the fleet in March and April. The RJs will replace two Boeing 727-100s on routes from Riga to Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London Gatwick ...
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GEC ditches Microturbo engine
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC-MARCONI HAS abandoned plans to offer a French Micro-turbo engine as part of its Pegasus stand-off missile bid for a £1 billion Royal Air Force procurement, amid concerns over the availability of the power plant. The company has dropped the French engine in ...
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Light and easy
The new Bell 407 proves to be more than just an upgraded 206. Peter Gray/SINGAPORE Photography by Mark Wagner BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON introduced two new helicopters at Asian Aerospace '96 at Singapore - the intermediate-sized, twin-engined 430, with its advanced four-blade main rotor, and the manufacturer's ...
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USA/Israel set date for laser prototypes
THE USA AND ISRAEL aim to field two prototypes of the tactical high-energy laser (THEL) air-defence system by 1999. Two successful tests of the Nautilus laser-gun technology demonstrator were carried out on 6 and 8 February at the White Sands range in New Mexico. The programme is being ...
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New conflict looms at Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FAILURE TO AGREE on a new contract for pilots at Air Inter Europe is pulling the financially struggling domestic and regional wing of the Air France Group towards a new crisis. Passenger traffic fell by 7% in 1995, to 15.7 million, largely because ...