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Brazilian Bilateral
Malaysia has signed a bilateral air-services agreement with Brazil, clearing the way for direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Rio de Janeiro by national carriers Malaysia Airlines and Varig. Malaysian Helicopter Services Aviation, in the meantime, has agreed to lease three helicopters to Brazil's AR Air Taxi Aero, as part ...
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USA wants Ecuadorean Kfir deliveries delayed
ISRAEL MAY RECONSIDER plans to sell eight Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Kfir fighters to Ecuador following intervention by the US Government. Washington has acted after a request from Peru, which believes that the deal could damage peace talks with Ecuador. The $40 million deal, was concluded in late ...
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GAMCO deal
Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO) has signed a deal with American Trans Air to undertake a D-check, aging-aircraft modifications and various other tasks on one of the US airline's 15 Lockheed L-1011 airliners. The 28-day maintenance work will start at GAMCO's Abu Dhabi International Airport hangar on 3 February. ...
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French army air corps orders Dassault RWR
The French army air corps has ordered an undisclosed number of Dassault Electronique EWR-99 radar-warning receivers (RWRs) for use on its fleet of Eurocopter Puma and Aerospatiale Gazelle helicopters. It is believed that the order covers a limited number of aircraft designated for contingency deployments by the French ...
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French air force phases out its Mirage IVP nuclear bombers
THE FRENCH AIR FORCE is withdrawing its Dassault Mirage IV nuclear-bomber fleet from service in July - 32 years after the aircraft entered service. The air force will use Dassault Mirage 2000s in the nuclear role and, later, Dassault Rafales. Altogether, 62 Mirage IV bombers have been in ...
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India is close to ordering Israeli radar jammers
INDIA IS CLOSE TO placing a $100 million order with Israeli contractor Elta Electronics for as many as 90 radar-jamming pods, for use on Indian air force Mikoyan MiG-21s and Sepecat Jaguars, and Indian navy British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.51s. The system involved is likely to be either ...
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Beech reaches golden Bonanza
BEECH AIRCRAFT'S most successful light utility and training aircraft, the four- to six-seat Bonanza, has now been in service for 50 years. Since its first flight on 22 December, 1945, a total of more than 17,000 Bonanzas has been built, and the type is still in production, with about 100 ...
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Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards
The judges of the 1996 Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards have announced the shortlists from which winners will be revealed at the Awards Gala Dinner in Singapore on 8 February. They are: MILITARY McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Transport Aircraft: for the successful introduction into service of the C-17 ...
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Indian helicopter operator plans for expansion
PAWAN HANS is planning to acquire ten additional helicopters this year as part of a plan to start operations in the remote north east of India and to extend commercial services in support of tourism. The Indian state-owned helicopter operator has set aside a $31 million investment to ...
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Airports Council condemns ICAO environmental rules deferral
THE RECENT DECISION taken by the International Civil Aviation Organisation's Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) to postpone the implementation of stricter environmental standards (Flight International, 3-9 January) has been condemned by the Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), which is one of the Committee members. Avi Gil, ACI's ...
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Molniya used to lift Indian satellite
A RUSSIAN MOLNIYA booster was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazhakstan on 28 December 1995, carrying India's remote-sensing satellite, the IRS-1C, into Sun-synchronous orbit. The 1,250kg, Indian-built satellite will provide images directly to US company Eosat as part of a data-distribution contract. The IRS-1C's panchromatic camera will ...
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X-Ray Explorer is launched
NASA's X-RAY TIMING Explorer satellite (XTE) was launched into low-Earth orbit by a Delta 2/7920 booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 30 December, 1995, after a series of technical faults had delayed the mission by four months. The 3,040kg XTE will be used for a two-year, in-depth, timing ...
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Date set for Endeavour
THE SPACE SHUTTLE Endeavour/STS72 is poised for an early-morning launch on 11 January in the first of a planned eight Shuttle missions in 1996. The six-man crew, including the first Japanese NASA mission specialist, Kiochi Wakata, will deploy a Spartan-class research satellite. This will be retrieved later, along ...
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May launch
The European Space Agency (ESA) says that the target date for the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 is 7 May, following the success of the first qualification test of the Vulcain cryogenic first stage at Kourou, French Guiana, on 15 December, 1995. A second test is scheduled for later ...
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France opens up internal routes
Julian Moxon and Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRANCE OFFICIALLY opened its internal air routes to competition from national airlines on 1 January, marking the final phase of the country's transformation to the fully liberalised European internal air-transport market on 1 April, 1997. All French airlines are now ...
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UK Honours
Among aerospace personalities honoured in the UK New Year honours list are: Roger Hurn, chairman and chief executive of Smiths Industries, who receives a knighthood for services to the engineering industry; Bill Gunston, a former technical editor of Flight International, who receives the OBE for services to aviation journalism; Alan ...
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...
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Iran poised to finalise two Russian deals
IRAN IS REPORTEDLY negotiating to buy 12 Tupolev Tu-154 airliners, and is also planning to establish a production line for Ilyushin Il-114 turboprops. A contract signature is "imminent" says a report in the journal, Iran News, in which the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Medhi Safari, confirms the deal. ...
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Sogerma-Socea will lead Turkish F-5 avionics and structural upgrade work
Andrew Doyle/LONDON SOGERMA-SOCEA OF France is to act as prime contractor in the long-awaited avionics and structural-upgrade programme for the Turkish air force's fleet of 70 Northrop Grumman F-5A/B fighter aircraft. The French company, part of Aerospatiale, will perform the structural modifications and act as systems ...
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KLM aims suit at Northwest
KLM HAS FILED a lawsuit against Northwest and its directors over the US carrier's move to introduce a "poison pill" preventing a single investor from gaining a controlling stake in Northwest (Flight International, 22-29 November, 1995). The Dutch carrier alleges that Northwest's action was designed to keep KLM ...