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Room for expansion at Air Seychelles
AIR SEYCHELLES has unveiled plans for new routes and aircraft, to enable the airline to grow with the development of tourist traffic - which has the scope to double to at least around 250,000 people a year. Executive chairman Freddie Karkaria says that he is considering opportunities to ...
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Turkish order maintains Douglas recovery
Turkish charter operator Onur Air has ordered five McDonnell Douglas MD-88s and taken options on five more, continuing the fourth quarter turn-around in the fortunes of Douglas Aircraft. Up to the end of September, Douglas had taken orders for just 11 twinjets during the whole of 1995. The ...
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Valujet will open up more hubs
VALUJET, THE low-fare US airline entrant which is competing head-to-head with USAir in the eastern USA, is creating additional hub operations at Boston, Massachusetts, and Orlando, Florida. The profitable low-cost operator, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, successfully expanded its operations in 1994 at Washington's Dulles International. The Boston build-up ...
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Zeppelin prototype enters final assembly
Zeppelin Luftschiff-technik has begun final assembly of its New Technology (NT) airship prototype - the first rigid airship the company has produced since the Second World War. The 68m-long prototype, LZ N07, is scheduled for completion in July 1996, in time for an "official" first flight in early ...
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Competitors wait for Pentagon move on tactical air vehicle
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC THE FATE OF the US Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) programme is to be decided on 22 November by Paul Kaminiski, the US Department of Defense's acquisition chief. If he approves a formal request for proposals for an advanced- concept technology-demonstration project, ...
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Lower minima and TCAS for HGS-fitted 737s
BOEING 737-300s FITTED with Flight Dynamics head-up guidance systems (HGS) have been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration for take-off operations in visibility conditions as low as 90m (300ft) runway visual range (RVR). Operators of HGS-equipped 737-300s were cleared to perform landing operations with RVRs of 210m ...
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UAE missile decision hinges on UK choice
THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE), is unlikely to decide on a long-range stand off weapon, until the outcome of a similar UK procurement programme for a conventional stand off missile. The UAE had been expected to fund development of a long-range derivative of the GEC Marconi family of ...
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India looks abroad for AEW
THE FUTURE OF INDIA'S long-running airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft programme has been thrown into doubt, with the defence ministry looking at off-the-shelf alternatives. India has test flown an aerodynamic AEW test-bed, mounting a German-produced rotodome shell on a Hawker Siddeley HS.748, but the successful development and integration of ...
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Jordan/Israel services launch planned in 1996
ROYAL JORDANIAN Airline subsidiary Royal Wings plans to launch a direct air service between Amman, Jordan, and the Israeli City of Tel Aviv starting in early 1996. The start-up carrier has signed a lease agreement with Bombardier de Havilland for a single Dash 8-300 turboprop to operate on ...
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Australian drone deadline nears
TENDERS MADE FOR Australia's target-drone requirement will close in January 1996, with at least six companies expected to have submitted bids by then. The Australian defence department is looking for an initial purchase of 20 drones. The defence ministry will also decide on an additional purchase to cover ...
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Bidders jostle for Saudi fighter requirement
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has submitted a bid to Saudi Arabia for proposed upgrade packages to the country's fleet of Northrop F-5s, while Lockheed Martin is pursuing selling the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) up to 100 F-16C/Ds as a replacement aircraft. Originally, the RSAF was looking to replace its ...
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Discount fuel
Raytheon Aircraft Services has introduced a fuel-incentive programme at its network of 18 US fixed-base operations. The MaxPower scheme provides discounts, which increase with the number of litres purchased at each refueling and with the amount of avgas or jet fuel bought annually. General-aviation aircraft based at Raytheon sites are ...
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Certification delay
Bell Helicopter Textron says that certification of the Model 430 intermediate twin-turbine helicopter has been pushed back by a month, to mid-January, to allow on-schedule certification of the light single-turbine Model 407 in mid-December. Both aircraft will have their public debuts at the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore on 6-11 ...
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Navigation panel
Garmin International has introduced new panel-mounted navigation/communication systems, which combine a global-positioning-system receiver with a 760-channel VHF transceiver - the visual-flight-rules GNC 250 and the instrument-flight-rules GNC 350. Source: Flight International
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Eva to Central America
Taiwanese carrier Eva Air will launch a new route on 13 December, linking Taipei with Los Angeles and Panama City. The Los Angeles-Panama City connection will be the only non-stop service between the two cities and the first direct flights between Asia and Latin America by a Taiwanese airline. The ...
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Guernsey jet upgrade
Jersey European Airways is upgrading its four daily turboprop services between Guernsey and London Gatwick. The airline intends to put one of its two newly leased 99-seat BAe 146-200s on the route in March, replacing the 52-seat Fokker F27-500 and virtually doubling capacity. The second aircraft has been put on ...
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Hughes
Robin Beard has been appointed chairman of Hughes International's European arm, Hughes Europe, based at Brussels, Belgium. Beard, who has also been appointed a vice-president of Hughes Electronics, recently completed a second term as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Support, the most senior US civilian post. ...