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Extending credit
Western financiers continue to approach business deals in Eastern and Central Europe with caution Paul Duffy/PRAGUE IT IS FIVE years since the economies of Eastern Europe started shifting towards the styles, structures and modus operandi of the West, yet the problems facing Central and Eastern European airlines ...
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Las Vegas lasers shut down
Alan Staats/PHOENIX Hotel and casino operators in Las Vegas have been ordered to suspend their laser displays following an incident involving a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 first officer being temporarily blinded by a burst of laser light. The event occurred even though the hotel involved ...
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Malaysia to use A-4s as tankers
THE MALAYSIAN AIR FORCE is retaining six of its elderly McDonnell Douglas A-4PTM Skyhawks for use as tankers. The Curtiss Wright J-65-V420 powered-aircraft are fitted with an underfuselage-mounted "buddy" hose-reel pod and are used to support Malaysia's probe-equipped BAe Hawk 200s. The A-4s have been replaced in front-line service by ...
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Commander boost
Commander Aircraft's recovering finances have been boosted by an order for 14 aircraft, 12 114AT trainers and two turbo charged 114TCs, from an unspecified flight school which plans to train students exclusively on Commanders. The first four aircraft have been delivered. Source: Flight International
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Late Skyhawks
New production Cessna Aircraft 172 Skyhawks will not be rolled off the company's new $45 million manufacturing plant at the Independence, Kansas, municipal airport until December - about three months later than planned. Poor weather had slowed down progress. Source: Flight International
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Kitplane upgrade
Aero Designs has added hydraulic brakes and a cabin heater as standard to the $19,450 Pulsar XP kitplane, in response to growing customer demand for features available in certificated, factory-produced, aircraft. Aero Designs says that 350 kits are under construction and 100 Pulsars are being flown. ...
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EVA Air
Pictured (left to right), are Eva Air president Richard Huang and chairman Shen Chih-Cheng with Fritz Bisschop, director of the Netherlands' Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on the occasion of Eva's launch of its Netherlands-Taiwan service. Also seen are Adm Tien Hsia, of Taipei's economic and cultural office in the Netherlands, and ...
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Mexican overhaul
Standard Aero, of Winnipeg, Canada, and Mexican overhaul company Servicios Aereos Del Centro, have won a C$1 million ($725,000) renewable yearly contract from the Mexican Government to repair and overhaul Allison 250 and Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines powering the Procuraduria General de la Republica's fleet. Source: ...
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SJ30 tests make progress
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has completed bird-strike testing for the SJ30 light business-jet. Tests were conducted at windshield manufacturer PPG in Huntsville, Alabama, and SSAC says "...the metal cockpit structure required no repairs after the 320kt [590km/h], 4lb [1.8kg] bird strikes." The first US ...
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Austrian orders two A340-300s
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES has placed a Sch3.22 billion ($320 million) order for two high-capacity Airbus A340-300s, for delivery in 1997 and 1999. The new aircraft, to be configured for 297 passengers in a two-class layout, will be used to supplement or replace the existing A340-200s on routes to Johannesburg, ...
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Production MD 600N lifts off
THE FIRST production model of the MD 600N helicopter had its maiden flight at the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) Mesa plant in Arizona on 15 December. MDHS experimental test pilot Chan Morse flew the MD 600N for 30min, reaching a top speed of around 100kt (185km/h) in ...
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Air Atlantique extends engine life
AIR ATLANTIQUE has applied to the UK Civil Aviation Authority for an almost 60% extension of the time between overhauls (TBO) on the Teledyne Continental GTSIO-520 piston engines powering its Cessna 404 Titans. The first of four tear down inspections required by the CAA, has revealed no problems ...
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Kaman prepares Japan's first K-MAX
KAMAN AEROSPACE plans to ship the first K-MAX external-lift helicopter for Japan by the end of this month. The aircraft has been sold by Japanese K-MAX distributor KBK to Japan Royal Helicopters and is expected to enter service on power-line projects following Japanese certification. Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Kaman, meanwhile, ...
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X-33 partner to be selected in July
NASA WILL SELECT its industry partner for the X-33 single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO), technology-demonstrator in July, and plans to begin initial flight tests in early 1999. The vehicle could lead to the development of a replacement for the Space Shuttle. A draft co-operative agreement notice for the design, fabrication and ...
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Hughes signs for ten Zenit sea launches
Tim Furniss/LONDON HUGHES SPACE and Communications (HSCI) has signed for at least ten launches on the new Sea Launch commercial-satellite delivery system being developed and marketed by an international consortium led by Boeing. The Sea Launch will use the Ukraine's Zenit 2 booster, upgraded with a Russian ...
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SAA and Lufthansa to co-operate
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA AND South African Airlines (SAA) have put signatures to a co-operation agreement, now scheduled to come in to force from 1 April. The agreement, signed by Lufthansa's chairman Jurgen Weber and his SAA counterpart Mike Myburgh on 15 December, follows a memorandum of ...
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Hubble finds new black hole
ASTRONOMERS USING the Hubble Space Telescope have detected a black hole sucking material from a 200 light-year-wide spiral-shaped disc of dust close to a host galaxy, NGC 4261, 45 million light years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. "These new Hubble observations have moved us beyond ...
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MMS wins WorldStar work
MATRA MARCONI Space (MMS) is to build three Eurostar-model spacecraft for Alcatel Espace, the prime contractor for the WorldStar multi-media satellite system. Alcatel will build the communications payloads for the satellites (the AfriStar 1, AsiaStar 1 and CaribStar 1). Alcatel will also build the communications payload and the telemetry, tracking ...
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Apache funding secured
The US Army has awarded a $279.6 million contract to McDonnell Douglas (MDC) covering the remanufacture of the first 18 AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters. The contract paves the way for first deliveries to begin in March 1997, and marks the start of negotiations with the US Army for a ...