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Business Express will return RJ70s
Andrew Doyle/LONDON US REGIONAL OPERATOR Business Express is to hand back all three of its Avro International Aerospace RJ70s to the leasing company, casting doubts over the future of its remaining nine firm orders and eight options for the type. The first of the three ...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing
Sir - In reply to Mark Aroney's letter (Flight International, 13-19 December, 1995, P43), I am an aviation professional holding flight-crew and engineering licences granted from the different countries in which I have worked. For safety reasons, there is only one common language of communication in aviation, and ...
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Northrop Grumman wins the battle to buy Westinghouse Defense Electronics
Northrop Grumman is to acquire the defence-electronics and air-traffic-control (ATC) equipment businesses of Westinghouse for $3 billion. The aerospace and defence concern won a bidding war against a list of rivals which reportedly also included Hughes Aircraft, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Loral. Northrop Grumman says that it expects ...
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Filling the gap
THE 1995 BUSINESS FIGURES for the airliner manufacturers tell many stories. Boeing regained market leadership with an outstanding year, selling 346 aircraft worth some $31.2 billion. Airbus Industrie, which outsold Boeing in 1994, dropped back into second place in 1995, but delivered more aircraft than ever, giving it record revenues. ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Demand triggers Arianespace order for Ariane 5 launchers launchersy
ARIANESPACE has announced plans to order 50 Ariane 5 new-generation satellite launchers, to meet an expected 30% increase in demand for telecommunications satellite launches by the year 2000. Arianespace chairman and chief executive Charles Bigot says that the European consortium is determined to preserve its market share in ...
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Malev receives Fokker 70s
MALEV HUNGARIAN Airlines has taken delivery of the first of four Fokker 70s which it plans to put into operation in the first half of this year. Three of the aircraft are on lease from International Lease Finance and the fourth is being purchased directly from Fokker. Malev expects to ...
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Chip off the new block
NASA's New Millennium programme will create new technologies for future missions. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC NASA SAYS THAT ITS NEW WAY of doing things is "smaller, faster, better, cheaper". The US space agency's $100 million-a-year "New Millenium" programme is directed especially at achieving the "smaller and ...
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Eastern trade route
Asian Aerospace is becoming the most increasingly important showcase for companies pitching for trade in the Far East. Kate Sarsfield/LONDON ACCORDING TO ITS organiser, Reed Exhibitions, the biennial Asian Aerospace air show is rapidly becoming one of the most popular events on the aerospace calendar. The 1996 ...
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Ultra picks up orders for HiPPAG 320
ULTRA ELECTRONICS is to supply HiPPAG 320 cooling systems for Eurofighter EF2000s and Italian navy McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harriers. The system is an electronically controlled air compressor and purification unit which supplies high-pressure gas to cool the infra red seeker of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The $3 million ...
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RN chooses the JTIDS for Sea Harrier fleet
THE ROYAL NAVY HAS selected Rockwell's Collins Avionics & Communications division to supply joint tactical-information distribution system (JTIDS) terminals for installation on its British Aerospace Sea Harriers and Westland Sea King helicopters. The contract covers an initial, 65 terminals with 30 options. Derived from Rockwell's IDS-2000 information distribution ...
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Eurocopter France rewarded for design
The French civil-aviation authority's Aeronautical Training and Technical Control department has awarded its design-approval certificate to Eurocopter France. The certificate is in recognition of the fact that the company's organisation and design standards meet the technical requirements of the European Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) JAR 21 standard, and ...
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Nordam expands into Asia-Pacific
NORDAM HAS opened a thrust-reverser repair centre in Singapore in a move to provide airlines in the Asia-Pacific region with reduced turnaround times. The centre, near Singapore's Changi International Airport, is equipped to repair reversers on the CFM International CFM56-3, General Electric CF6-50 and -80 and Pratt & Whitney PW4000 ...
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Power surge
Arms race or just re-equipment - either way, Southeast Asian nations are on a buying spree Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DEFENCE EXPENDITURE in Southeast Asia is at an all-time high and is continuing to grow, prompting many ob-servers to suggest that the region is in the throes ...
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Thomson-CSF is poised to take Elettronica stake
THOMSON-CSF HAS agreed "in principle" to buy an initial 25% stake in Italian defence-electronics company Elettronica. A final agreement is due in the next few weeks. The French company says that the investment will take the form of a capital increase in Elettronica, which, under the agreement, would ...
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Sea change
Japan may be about to wave goodbye to convention as it tackles the problem of airport congestion. Michael Fitzpatrick/TOKYO USER-FRIENDLY is not a term you could use to describe New Tokyo International Airport at Narita. It is a Y21,650 ($210) taxi ride away from Tokyo, ...
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The New Millennium man
DANIEL GOLDIN, NASA administrator, initiated the New Millenium programme. "It started in 1994 when I went out to California and had dinner with Ed Stone, the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Wes Huntress, NASA's head of science. I said we needed an order-of-magnitude improvement by the next decade. ...
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Screen test
The more sophisticated the technological base of a country, the more vulnerable it is to information warfare. Mike Roberts/LONDON WHEN HISTORIANS look back and consider the most important weapons system developed during 1995, the chances are that it will not be a missile, bomb or ...
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Stormy passages
For a nation dependent on air transport, Papua New Guinea has many problems to overcome. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS MIDWAY THROUGH LAST December, Papua New Guinea's (PNG) entire air-traffic-services system and, consequently, all air-carrier flying had to be shut down for 5h. This was not because of industrial action, ...
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Rolls Royce
John Rose is to become chief executive of the UK's Rolls Royce, to take effect on the retirement of Sir Terence Harrison on 30 April. Rose, managing director of the R-R Aerospace Group will be succeeded in that position by Colin Green, vice-president of business operations, at Allison Engine. ...