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Avro deal threatened by Saudi dissidents
POLITICAL FRICTION between the UK and Saudi Arabia over the continued presence of Saudi dissidents in London is jeopardising an estimated $250 million bid by British Aerospace subsidiary Avro Aerospace International to supply flag carrier Saudia with 12 Avro RJ70/85 regional passenger jets. The contract has been under ...
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MDC details test plans for F-18E/F
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) expects to fly the second F-18E Super Hornet by 16 December. Flight testing of the first F-18E is expected to resume shortly after repair of an environmental-control-system bleed door, failure of which caused the 29 November first flight to be cut short. ...
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RMAF suffers Hawk headaches
THE HEAD OF the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has admitted that new British Aerospace Hawk 100 and 200s have been suffering serious serviceability problems (Flight International, 29 November-5 December). "We did not realise the magnitude of the problem," says Lt Gen Dato' Seri Abdul Ghani, chief of ...
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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...
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Third-life test starts for C-17
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has started testing the durability of the C-17 transport to cover a third equivalent lifetime, or up to 90,000 representative flight hours. The work is part of a $15.7 million contract from the US Air Force. The additional tests will be conducted on the original ...
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Delta/Lockheed team on L-1011
DELTA AIRLINES AND Lockheed Martin have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic alliance to offer Lockheed L-1011 maintenance and technical support. Delta will continue to perform its own maintenance, while investigating the possibility of providing similar services to other L-1011 operators at its Atlanta, Georgia, ...
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BAe bids to build advanced Hawker 1000
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BRITISH AEROSPACE is one of several companies bidding to produce the wing and fuselage of Raytheon's improved Hawker 1000 business jet. BAe's Airbus division builds airframes for the present Hawker 1000 and is negotiating a long-term contract to continue producing Hawker 800 wings and fuselages for ...
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Gulfstream power
UK aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has received a contract worth more than $250 million to supply Tay 611 turbofans to power the Gulfstream IV-SP, to be produced into the next century. Gulfstream has built 280 Tay-powered GIVs to date. Source: Flight International
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Denel/Airod link up to push Rooivalk in Asia
DENEL OF SOUTH Africa has signed a provisional teaming agreement with Airod to market, manufacture and support the Atlas Aviation CSH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopter in Malaysia. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) calls for the establishment of an in-country manufacturing capability, in the event that the helicopter is ...
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Textron revamps Bell/Cessna structure
TEXTRON HAS announced management changes at its Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft units. David Assard has been promoted to the newly created post of president at Cessna, reporting to chairman and chief executive Russ Meyer. Other changes at Cessna include the promotion of executive vice-president Gary Hay to ...
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Poland puts brakes on Alpha Jet deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH Government has halted a defence ministry plan to buy second-hand Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets instead of ordering more Polish-built PZL-Mielec Iryda jet trainers. Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy has announced that the plan has been "suspended" in the interest of Mielec, but says ...
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ALPA dismissed
US regional Atlantic Southeast Airlines began jet-airliner services on 1 December, after an Atlanta, Georgia, court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) which would have prohibited the Delta Connection carrier from operating leased British Aerospace 146s. Source: Flight International
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Iranian cruise
China is providing Iran with technical assistance in developing a cruise-missile capability, say Middle Eastern sources. They claim that China has transferred to Iran missile navigation components, including global-positioning-system technology, propulsion know-how and production tools. Source: Flight International
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UK pressed to rethink defence procurement
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE UK Government is coming under renewed pressure to produce a coherent defence-procurement strategy which puts greater weight on the future health of the country's industrial base rather than focusing on "narrow" issues of value-for-money. The pressure comes in a cross-party Parliamentary report ...
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Gripen deployed in Hungary
THE SWEDISH AIR FORCE has completed the deployment of a Saab JAS39 to Hungary in support of the company's efforts to sell the aircraft to the Hungarian air force. The aircraft was deployed in November to Kecskemet air force base, with a Lockheed C-130 Hercules being used for backup. Hungary ...
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Airbus offers composites work to boost MAS bid
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has offered to transfer, production of composite airframe components to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Engineering, in a last-ditch effort to secure a deal with the national carrier for up to ten A340s. The offer, made by Airbus president Jean Pierson, centres on the production of composite cargo-compartment ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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Air Liberte takes over Euralair routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has made the first move towards consolidating France's privately owned airlines with an agreement to take over the scheduled routes of Euralair. Euralair president Alexander Couvelaire calls the deal with Air Liberte "the opening shot in the regrouping of private-airline forces in ...
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UK questions RAF CASOM contenders on potential commonality advantages
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) has asked all seven contenders for the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) requirement what advantages would accrue from commonality if a second nation procured a similar system. A letter to all bidders for Staff Requirement ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...