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Japan sets budget for aerospace projects
JAPAN'S MINISTRY OF International Trade and Industry (MITI) will allocate '11,161 million ($106 million) in fiscal year 1996, to support indigenous and international collaborative aerospace programmes. The budget includes '5,328 million for continued studies into development of the next-generation supersonic transport, and basic research of a super/hypersonic propulsion ...
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Boeing sued over Dash 8 sale
BOEING IS embroiled in a legal action which alleges that it used bribes to secure the sale of five de Havilland Dash 8s to BahamasAir in 1989. The allegations are understood to be contained in documents filed in a Miami, Florida, court by Canadian entrepreneur Craig Dobbin. He claims that ...
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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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China and S Korea wrangle over AE-100 assembly
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA AND SOUTH Korea, have again pushed back their selection of a Western partner, to develop the AE-100 passenger aircraft, until the two countries agree on the location of a final assembly line. Nearly 15 months after the Chinese and South Korean Governments agreed ...
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Shuttle launch
The first of eight planned Space Shuttle missions in 1996, the STS72/Endeavour was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 11 January on a planned nine-day flight. A six man crew, including, the first Japanese NASA mission specialist Kiochi Wakata, were scheduled to deploy a Spartan research satellite and ...
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Sabena restores union agreements
SABENA HAS reinstated labour agreements cancelled in November 1995 when unions refused to discuss a new business plan with airline president Pierre Godfroid. The plan includes a three-year wage freeze and 5% increase in working hours. The move comes after the Belgian Government stepped in to appoint a ...
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Loral deal creates $30 billion Lockheed Martin
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN has again raised the stakes in the US defence business with its agreement to buy the bulk of Loral for $9.1 billion. The latest deal, which comes less than a year after Lockheed's merger with Martin Marietta, will create a group with sales ...
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GTE cleans up with Finnish deliveries
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE FINNISH air force and flag carrier Finnair have each taken delivery of engine-compressor-wash systems from Sweden's Gas Turbine Efficiency, after carrying out a 12-month evaluation of the product. The air force will use the GTE Cleaning System for all of its aircraft, ...
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AlliedSignal cleared
The US Appeals Court has upheld a lower-court ruling that AlliedSignal did not infringe BFGoodrich patents in its Boeing 777 brake design. BFGoodrich had claimed $350 million in damages in a lawsuit alleging that AlliedSignal had infringed two design patents. Source: Flight International
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VISTA/F-16 to test F-22 flight control
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA HANDLING QUALITIES of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 are to be evaluated in flight tests of the US Air Force's variable-stability in-flight simulator aircraft (VISTA), a modified Lockheed Martin F-16. The Calspan-operated VISTA/F-16 will be programmed with the F-22's flight- control laws for a series of 30 ...
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Lockheed Martin tests pre-production APALS
Graham Warwick/ALBUQUERQUE LOCKHEED MARTIN has begun flight demonstrations with a pre-production version of its autonomous precision-approach and landing-system (APALS). Airline demonstrations are scheduled for early February at Richmond, Virginia, following a series of approaches conducted at Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an APALS-equipped Gulfstream II. The ...
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Malibu heads Piper's 1996 plans
NEW PIPER AIRCRAFT plans to build 186 aircraft in 1996, compared with 177 in 1995 and 134 in 1994. The modest increase planned disguises a dramatic rise in production of the Malibu Mirage six-seat, high-performance, piston single, to 56 aircraft from 40 in 1995. Piper cites increased demand ...
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Spain takes DASA guidance systems
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has delivered the first of three flight-guidance systems ordered for the Spanish Sistema Integrado de Vigilancia Aerea observation-drone project. The contract was awarded by the Madrid-based National Aerospace Technology Institute, which is leading the programme. The guidance system - which includes an on-board ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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Building the F-22
The first Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter is finally taking shape. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A CORNER OF THE massive assembly building at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, Georgia, plant has been resurfaced, repainted and surrounded by a high white fence. Behind this fence, preparations are well under way for final assembly of ...
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AASI denies Taiwan pull-out
ADVANCED Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) has denied local reports that the Taiwanese Government has abandoned plans to fund a venture to produce the US company's Jetcruzer single-turboprop business aircraft in Taiwan (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995). Reports suggest that the plans have been dropped after the Government ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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Trislander production line restarts
ANGLO NORMANDY Aero-engineering has put the Britten Norman Trislander back into limited production, 14 years after the last airframe was built by the UK aviation company. The Guernsey, Channel Islands-based Anglo Normandy received two Trislander kits late in 1995 from the USA where they have been kept in ...
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Russia plans Mir 1 missions to 2001
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE RUSSIAN SPACE Agency (RSA) says that it plans to continue to operate the Mir 1 space station for at least five years, while still participating in the US NASA-led international Alpha Space Station, assembly of which begins in November 1997 (Flight International, 13-19 December, 1995). ...
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Brunei concludes Black Hawk deal with Sikorsky
BRUNEI IS UNDERSTOOD to have concluded a deal with Sikorsky to purchase initially four UH-60L Black Hawk utility helicopters for military use. The UH-60L was selected after a prolonged evaluation of rival helicopters Eurocopter AS.532 Cougar and Indonesian Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) licence-built NAS.332 Super Puma. ...