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JSTARS aircraft boost Bosnia effort
INTENSE NATO aerial-reconnaissance efforts to support alliance troops in Bosnia have been boosted by the introduction of US Air Force Northrop Grumman E-8A/C Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft from Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. The 400-strong, 4500th Joint Stars Squadron (Provisional) has been in ...
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Israel and Jordan discuss F-16 work
ISRAELI AND JORDANIAN military officials have held discussions over the former providing maintenance for Jordanian air force Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs, 16 of which are to be supplied by the US Government under a recently concluded agreement. The USA will provide Jordan with 12 F-16As and four two-seat F-16Bs ...
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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World Airways seeks share of transatlantic leisure markets
US CARRIER WORLD Airways is bidding to re-enter the transatlantic-passenger charter business. Perceiving a strong demand in the leisure market because of the weak dollar, the airline is planning to introduce routes from Germany, Switzerland and the UK from May. Application has been made for weekly routes from ...
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Firing tests completed on Vulcain for Ariane 5
THE SECOND AND FINAL qualification firing of the Vulcain cryogenic first-stage engine of the Ariane 5 booster was successfully completed at Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 January, clearing the way for the booster's maiden flight on 7 May. The Ariane 5 will have its first commercial flight for Arianespace in ...
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Rocket engines
The first of seven cryogenic rocket engines built by Russia will be shipped to India later this year as part of a deal for the development of the national Geostationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV). The Russians have demanded payment in dollars rather than rupees - as originally agreed. The first GSLV ...
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'Turbocrow' Learjet 35 enters service
US CONTRACTOR Corporate Jets has introduced a modified Learjet 35 to meet its training contract with the US Navy's Sixth Fleet to provide electronic-aggressor training. The electronic-warfare (EW) Learjet 35 is based around the Ericsson-Rodale "Turbo-crow" mission suite. The aircraft has a belly radome housing the antenna for ...
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Varig president leaves within first year
VARIG PRESIDENT Carlos Willy Engels has stepped down after less than a year in charge of the Brazilian flag carrier. Officially, the company cites personal reasons for his departure, although it is believed that results for 1995 were not good enough to satisfy creditors who also sit on the Varig ...
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Dornier and Kulon to develop Open Skies radar for Tu-154M
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace subsidiary Dornier has signed a co-operation agreement with the Moscow-based Kulon Research Institute to develop a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to be integrated into Germany's Tupolev Tu-154M/OS Open Skies aircraft. The 32-month programme is to incorporate the SAR into the aircraft for the second phase of the ...
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BA tries to salvage plan to use USAir 737 pilots
BRITISH AIRWAYS' controversial plan to use 30 USAir Boeing 737 co-pilots at its London Gatwick hub hangs in the balance, after the UK Department for Employment and Education (DfEE) indicated that it is unlikely to grant the pilots work permits. The DfEE told BA on 5 January ...
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Loral pins future on space
IN THE 23 YEARS since Bernard Schwartz acquired control of Loral, he has built the company from sales of only $27 million into a $6.7 billion defence-electronics giant, in one of the most aggressive and sustained acquisition sprees in US aerospace history. The business, which he acquired ...
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IPTN restarts NBell output
INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has restarted licence production of the NBell 412 helicopter, after resolving procedural discrepancies highlighted by a recent regulatory audit. Work on the 412 production line resumed in December 1995 after "a refinement of procedures" by Bell and IPTN at the Indonesian company's Bandung ...
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Hughes battle lab
Hughes Training has won a $17 million US Army contract to develop prototype devices for the Battle Lab Reconfigurable Simulator Initiative. Several categories of reconfigurable simulator will be developed, sharing common core software and hardware modules in an open architecture, which allows for upgrades. The contract is potentially worth $53 ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
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Gallois speeds cost-cutting and aims for fresh capital
Julian Moxon/PARIS AEROSPATIALE IS heading towards break-even, says President Louis Gallois, but he warns that the group plans to step up its cost-cutting efforts to offset the weakness of the US dollar. In his annual roundup of the group's activities, Gallois revealed that the group ...
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Burkhart Grob sacks half of its workforce as funding deadlock threatens Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob has sacked half of its employees because of continuing delays in the release of Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research programme. The whole project now faces cancellation. Grob has made 131 of its staff redundant, shattering ...
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Chinese skies are safer, says CAAC
THE HEAD OF THE Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has declared a marked improvement in the country's air-safety record, after nearly 18 months without a major accident. CAAC minister Chen Guangyi says that the country's airlines flew some 1.2 million hours without incident in the period. ...
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Hushkit sale
Comtran is selling its Boeing 707 "Super Q" hushkit programme to Dublin, Ireland-based Omega Air. Omega will focus on providing product support and spares for the 180 aircraft hushkitted by San Antonio, Texas-based Comtran. Source: Flight International
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Vietnam disappointed
A shortage of available slots has forced Vietnam Airlines to postpone plans to add new routes to London and Frankfurt. The airline will instead concentrate on increasing frequencies to destinations in Asia. The Vietnamese national carrier has announced a 55% increase in total passenger traffic, to over 2.2 million, for ...
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UPS pricing first
UPS, has become the first package-delivery company to implement distance-based pricing for air-express services. Prices for short-distance shipments will drop by up to 40% and long-distance rates will rise by up to 28%. Source: Flight International