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China turns down Dragonair stake to go it alone
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) has rejected Swire Pacific's offer of a 6% share in Dragonair, and will instead press on with plans to launch its own Hong Kong-based carrier. Beijing-controlled CNAC is reported to have already leased a Boeing 737 from the USA for delivery in March. The ...
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'Financial irregularities' found at Transwede
SWEDISH STATE prosecutor Berndt Berger has found "gross irregularities" in the finances of Sweden's Transwede Airways. Investigations into the airline were started after the present owners raised the alarm over the whereabouts of nearly krona 180 million ($26 million). Two former presidents, Lars-Olof Svenheim and Thomas Johansson, have ...
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US DoD on brink of killing Hunter
US DEPARTMENT of Defense acquisition chief Paul Kaminski is on the brink of signing an acquisition decision memorandum halting production of the TRW/Israel Aircraft Industries Hunter short-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Only seven systems are in service. TRW/IAI was originally awarded a $169 million low-rate initial production contract ...
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Computers aid GV wing design
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving, and the GV's outward similarity to the GIV belies the changes wrought to achieve an almost-60% increase in range. The wing is all-new, sized to house the fuel required for a 12,000km (6,500nm) range, but shaped by the desire to maintain the GIV's ...
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Sonaca faces bankruptcy
BELGIAN aero-structures company Sonaca, has warned its state owners that it faces bankruptcy, without a major rescue plan, including fresh capital and a halving of the work force. The company has drawn up a rescue plan that calls for up to BFr1 billion ($33 million) in new funds ...
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Australian firefighters want to test-fly Canadair CL-415s
SOME OF Australia's major fire fighting authorities are to recommend that their state governments approve and fund a three-month operational evaluation of Canadair's CL-415 fire bomber during the country's next fire season, which usually starts in December and extends to March. The decision follows a series of ...
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Through the looking glass
The Honeywell/ GEC-Marconi new-generation head-up display is about to enter flight-testing. Guy Norris/PHOENIX HONEYWELL AND GEC-Marconi Avionics' two-year old teaming arrangement to develop new-generation head-up-displays (HUDs) for business and regional aircraft is about to bear fruit, in the shape of the HUD-2020 destined for the Gulfstream ...
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Boon to aerospace
A background in shipbuilding has helped the head of Singapore Technologies Aerospace keep the company afloat. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOON SWAN FOO'S first year at the helm of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has proved to be tough. The former Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering president has had to contend ...
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Coating resurrects worn engine components
WORN ENGINE sub-assemblies and components which previously had to be scrapped can now be recovered using a coating called TC-4, according to its developer, Turbine Controls. The coating is designed to protect components from the effects of corrosion, and can also be used to restore heavily worn surfaces. ...
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High and dry
The German Government's unexpected withdrawal of funding could kill a unique high-altitude research aircraft. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS are just one, probably a relatively minor, contributor to anthropogenic environmental change. Yet, combined with all the other natural and man-made contributors, the prognosis for climatic change over the ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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Asian activity
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE 1996 AEROSPACE calendar is replete with Asian-based trade shows and exhibitions. Aerospace China, Aero India and Malaysia's Airportex '96 are but a few. It is proof, if proof were needed, that this geographical region is steadily becoming the most important commercial-aviation ...
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Airtran picks hushkit
Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets. The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft. "They ...
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...while Continental and United forge ahead with record results
FURTHER GOOD news from the US airline industry included record profits at Continental Airlines and progress from United Airlines as it ends its first full year under employee ownership. "This was a whopper year for us no matter how you measure it...we're back on the map and ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Flight fatigue
Sir - Considering crew fatigue, I have two questions about issues I have not seen addressed. Some pilots, and many more back-end crew, moonlight. If fatigue is such a factor, why are crews allowed to work at other jobs during their so-called rest time? Furthermore, should not more ...
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Dishing it out
Scientific Atlanta has received $40 million worth of contracts from NASA and Motorola to supply communications terminals. The company is to build a fourth, $23 million ground station for NASA to track, receive and transmit high-speed data transmissions from Earth Observing System spacecraft and the Space Shuttle. The Motorola contract, ...
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Learjet chief quits
LEARJET president Brian Barents has resigned unexpectedly. He has been replaced by Jim Robinson, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who joined Learjet in 1995 as executive vice-president, overseeing the business-jet makers operations. Barents had been with Learjet since 1988, when the company was owned by Integrated Resources, ...
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Safety Contract
China Airlines (CAL) has contracted Lufthansa Technik to help the accident-prone Taiwanese national carrier improve its safety record. Lufthansa Technik will advise CAL on drawing up new operational and maintenance management procedures over the next two to three years. The airline has suffered from a spate of fatal and non-fatal ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...