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Loral submarine deal
Loral has received a $60 million contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to outfit Trafalgar- and Swiftsure-class submarines with long-range cruise-missile capabilities. The US firm says that the Royal Navy Tomahawk full-development and production contract puts Loral in position for future combat-systems integration work on Trafalgar-class submarines and for ...
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KLM triumphs in competition for stake in Kenya Airways
KLM HAS EMERGED as the winner of a three-cornered competition to take a stake in Kenya Airways. The Kenyan Government still has to rubber-stamp the deal - a move, which is expected before the end of the year. Under the deal, KLM would take a 26% holding in ...
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IPTN/Ericsson look at CN-235 variant
INDUSTRI Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and Ericsson are studying development of a maritime-surveillance version of the CN-235 turboprop for the Indonesian air force. Ericsson has proposed fitting the Indonesian-built version of the CN-235 with a dorsal-mounted Erieye electronically scanned phased-array radar. The aircraft would be able to accommodate ...
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Competition for 100-seat regional-jet slot increases
Paul Lewis/LANGKAWI COMPETITION TO join with China and South Korea to design and produce a new 100-seat regional jet is intensifying, with rival European and US manufacturers now submitting their best and final offers. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and the Korean Commercial-aircraft Development Consortium (KCDC) ...
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Bombardier follows Dash success with Pelangi sales
DOMESTIC MALAYSIAN carrier Pelangi Air has ordered four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200Qs and two larger -300s for delivery from April 1996. A further two Dash-8-300s are on option. The aircraft will replace Pelangi's three remaining Dornier 228s and two Fokker 50s, the disposal of which will be accomplished with ...
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KAL service
Korean Air (KAL) has launched a weekly service from Seoul to Tel Aviv in Israel, using a Boeing 747SP. KAL already operates services to Jeddah and Bahrain and, by flying to Tel Aviv, hopes to open up Jerusalem to Far East pilgrim flights. Source: Flight International
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Collins wins USAF C/KC-135 upgrade deal
ROCKWELL'S COLLINS Avionics & Communications division has won prime contractorship for the $35 million initial phase of the US Air Force's compass, radar and global-positioning-system (CRAG) upgrade programme for Boeing C/KC-135s. Rockwell claims that the work could eventually be worth up to $250 million and include more than 600 aircraft. ...
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CIS operators hit by series of crashes
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW David Learmount/LONDON THREE SEPARATE crashes have left more than 150 people killed and at least 38 seriously injured in the CIS. An Azerbaijan Airways (AZAL) Tupolev Tu-134, a Baku Air Boeing 707 operated by AZAL, and an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) Tu-154M all ...
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Malaysia keeps eye on Anzac before choosing helicopter
MALAYSIA IS following closely Australian and New Zealand evaluations of competing shipboard naval helicopters before making its own selection. The Royal Malaysian Navy has an initial requirement for six helicopters to equip two new frigates being built in the UK. In the longer term, there is an additional ...
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US treaty nears conclusion
MALAYSIA HOPES to conclude a bilateral airworthiness and safety treaty with the USA in 1996, using the locally produced SME Aviation MD3-160 Aero Tiga trainer as a validation vehicle. The aircraft, once known as the Datwyler MD3-160 Swiss Trainer, was type-certificated by Switzerland's Federal Office for Civil Aviation ...
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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 ...