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FLS cutback
FLS Aerospace is shedding up to 320 of its 670-strong maintenance workforce at Stansted Airport in the UK, with the exact number of redundancies to be announced by 20 March. Source: Flight International
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Litening strikes Tornado deal
THE GERMAN AIR force is to incorporate software for the Israeli Rafael Litening laser designator pod into its Tornado computer-upgrade programme. The long-awaited move is a cautious decision in favour of the Litening pod for Germany's Tornado fleet, beating GEC-Marconi Defence Systems, with its thermal-imaging and laser-designation pod, ...
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GE improves GE90 oil consumption
GENERAL ELECTRIC IS replacing the GE90 engines on the first Boeing 777 delivered to British Airways to improve the oil-consumption performance. The first engine change was performed at London Heathrow on 7 January, on one of the three 777s delivered to the airline to date, and is expected ...
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Strength and weakness
INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED operating standards have long been among the greatest strengths of the airline community, but they are now posing one of its greatest challenges - through the failure of national regulators to keep pace with the increasing complexity of the globalising industry they seek to control. Nowhere can this ...
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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...
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German acceptance
Germany's civil-aviation authority has accepted display software for the Karlsruhe Upper Area Control Centre, which is due to become fully operational in March. The Karlsruhe advanced display system, has been developed by Siemens. Source: Flight International
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Syria and Egypt look to India for MiG-21 spare parts
SYRIA AND EGYPT are turning to India in an attempt to overcome logistics problems in supporting their aging Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighter aircraft. Both countries have purchased spares from Hindustan Aeronautics for their MiG-21s, after experiencing difficulties in obtaining equipment from Russia. Middle Eastern military sources ...
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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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The right product for the market
Sir - I refer to the article "Competition rules" (Flight International, 29 November-5 December 1995, PP28-29). I find it strange that the SBAC Strategy Initiative series of Competitive Challenge, while including skills, finance, marketing, collaboration, etc among the subjects for discussion, does not includes products or production definition. ...
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Electronic Eyes
The US Navy casts its Shadow over Bosnia. Tim Ripley/USSAMERICA, ADRIATIC FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS, US aircraft carriers have benefited from the unique services of the US Navy's 16 Lockheed Martin ES-3A Shadows to monitor hostile radar emissions and other electronic threats. The pressure of ...
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UK may delay Swanwick ATC opening
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority is expected to decide by the end of January whether to delay the planned opening date of its £350 million ($535 million) Swanwick air-traffic-control (ATC) centre which is being built near Southampton by US company Loral. Major software ...
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Running Wild
NASA has now selected the fourth mission in its new Discovery interplanetary space programme. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC IN JANUARY 2006, A SMALL Discovery series spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth after a journey across interplanetary space. The craft will contain a precious cargo of ...
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DASA steps up work on Seamos demonstrator
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is pushing ahead with development of its unmanned Seamos sea-reconnaissance and location-system technology demonstrator, following a contract from the German Office of Defence Technology and Procurement. Dornier, part of DASA, built the demonstrator to prove the concept of automatic takeoffs and landings from seaborne platforms, ...
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Cessna
Gary Hay is named vice-chairman at light-aircraft manufacturer Cessna Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas. David Assard has become president and chief operating officer and Charles Johnson is promoted to executive vice-president for operations. Hay with Cessna for 29 years, and Assard, the former president of Textron Lycoming's turbine-engine operations, became executive ...
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FAA changes its mind on 747 conversions
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration admits that it has made a mistake in approving modifications by GATX Airlog, which turned ten Boeing 747 passenger aircraft into freighters, and it has proposed an airworthiness directive (AD) severely restricting cargo weights. The FAA is ...
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Delta warns on CRS charges
DELTA AIRLINES has warned computer-reservation-system (CRS) operators to cut CRS distribution charges to air carriers or face losing the business to emerging alternative electronic and ticketing systems. "Continued rate increases will only encourage Delta and other carriers to implement practices designed to minimise or eliminate the distribution of ...
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Software landed
Messier-Dowty has ordered a 20-station manufacturing documentation system, which uses Cimlinc's Linkage software and HMS-CAPP, a Linkage-based application developed by HMS Software. The system will be installed at Messier-Dowty's Gloucester, UK, manufacturing site. Source: Flight International
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India turns down three domestic carriers' plans for expansion
THE INDIAN Government has rejected the expansion plans of domestic carriers Jet Airways, Skyline NEPC and Sahara Indian Airlines. It is believed that the rejection was on the grounds that the airlines had failed to utilise earlier approvals to import aircraft. In the meantime, another Indian domestic carrier, ...
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Israel thinks about Tomahawk purchase
THE ISRAELI DEFENCE forces are considering a purchase of the Hughes Tomahawk BGM-109 cruise missile. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is expected to discuss the issue when he meets US defence secretary William Perry in Israel on 8 January. The proposal is part of negotiations between Israel and ...
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First two Netherlands Chinooks are delivered to Soesterberg
THE ROYAL Netherlands Air Force has taken delivery of the first two of 13 Boeing CH-47D Chinooks destined for use by 298 Sqn at the Soesterberg air base. The first seven helicopters are former Canadian air force CH-47Cs updated to the "D" standard. The Netherlands version is to ...