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Air India makes loss and expects worse to come
AIR INDIA SWUNG firmly back into the red in the first half of its financial year, and losses could rise higher depending on the outcome of wage negotiations with pilots and ground engineers. First-half losses of $23 million are expected to double when the airline reports for its ...
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F-18 costs delay Finnish support requirements
Andrzej Jeziorski/TAMPERE FINLAND'S FM 13.92 billion ($3.6 billion) procurement of McDonnell Douglas F-18C/D Hornets has forced the air force to put its reconnaissance and helicopter requirements on hold until the next century. The seven two-seat F-18Ds and 57 single-seat F-18Cs are replacing the Finnish air ...
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Poland joins Partnership for Peace exercise
Polish air force units operating Mikoyan Mig-23 Floggers have taken part for the first time in a NATO Partnership for Peace exercise alongside US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15Es, Royal Air Force Panavia Tornados, German air force MiG-29 Fulcrums, and Danish Lockheed Martin F-16 units. Exercise Co-operative Jaguar was held ...
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New ARIA general director plans major management shake-out
Yevgeniy Shaposhnikov, the new general director of Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) is planning to prune the airline's management structure, by reducing the present ten deputies to just two. One will be responsible for engineering and technical matters, and the other for commercial and financial aspects. Samat Jaboyev, a ...
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C-17 battle moves to political theatre
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE McDONNELL Douglas C-17 (MDC) military-transport aircraft finally won the endorsement of the US Department of Defense on 3 November, but the fate of the multi-billion dollar programme is far from assured, with political hurdles yet to be negotiated. Congressional backers of ...
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Canada approves SAR purchase
The Canadian Government has approved a C$600 million ($446 million) programme to acquire or lease 15 new search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters to replace its fleet of 13 CH-113 Labrador Helicopters. Defence minister David Collenette says that a separate decision on the purchase of up to 32 naval helicopters is ...
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ITT wins IDECM contract
ITT DEFENSE & Electronics, with partner Sanders, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, has been selected to provide the US Navy and US Air Force with the Integrated Defensive Electronic-Countermeasures (IDECM) system. The team has received an initial $27 million contract from the USN to begin development of the IDECM's ...
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First GE90-powered 777 is ready for BA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE FIRST GENERAL Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777, is finally ready for its long awaited delivery to British Airways, after clearing certification on both sides of the Atlantic The first BA aircraft was due to touch down at London Heathrow on 12 November, as the ...
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Airbus prepares for shortened A330 launch launch imminent
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS preparing to launch the shortened version of the A330 long-range wide body twinjet "before the end of the year", for service entry in 1998. The manufacturer has been pushing to launch the 250-seat A330-M10 as soon as the market showed sufficient ...
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Positive action
THE FRENCH AEROSPACE industry may see little cause to thank defence minister Charles Millon for proposals to make swingeing cuts in the country's military spending. Yet if the budget cuts at last succeed in provoking the industry into a long-overdue bout of restructuring, then Millon will have ...
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NASA makes Shuttle decision
NASA HAS DROPPED the competition to privatise the Space Shuttle programme, saying that it will negotiate solely with a joint venture of Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin called United Space Alliance. The space agency hopes to complete contract talks by September 1996 to transfer the running of the ...
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Schrempp calls Fokker's future into question
DAIMLER-BENZ, THE parent company of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), has called into question the future of its troubled Dutch subsidiary, Fokker. According to Daimler-Benz president and former DASA chief Jurgen Schrempp, Fokker's future depends on whether the Dutch Government agrees to pay its share of a rescue package for ...
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Budget cuts strike at French defence industry
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE FRENCH Government has admitted that the country's defence industry is facing a "critical situation" because of unavoidable budget cuts needed to reduce the national deficit. Defence minister Charles Millon revealed during a debate on the defence budget on 8 November that he ...
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Ansett sale
Air New Zealand's (ANZ) plan, to take TNT's stake in Ausrtralian airline Ansett is close to being finalised, according to local press reports. The agreement is likely to be based on an initial ANZ shareholding of 25% at a cost of up to A$200 million ($151 million). Source: ...
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Virgin draws up regional shortlist
VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways has stepped up its plans to launch a European regional airline based in Brussels, Belgium, by selecting a shortlist of possible aircraft suppliers. The move follows presentations in October by Boeing, British Aerospace Asset Management Organisation (the jet-leasing arm of BAe), Fokker, Avro Aerospace and ...
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Chinese F-10 details revealed
THE FIRST description of the Chinese F-10 fighter being developed in a collaborative programme with Israel, have been made available from line drawings prepared by the US Central Intelligence Agency. The drawings were derived from satellite pictures. NBC News reported on 9 November that the $5 billion programme ...
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Agent of change
DANIEL GOLDIN became the ninth NASA Administrator in April 1992 and quickly earned a reputation as an agent of much-needed change in the space agency. His first initiative was budgetary reform in which long-term programmes, such as the Space Station, received long-term commitment, while at the same time he reduced ...
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USAF re-affirms its F-5 support commitment
THE US AIR Force is re-assuring Northrop F-5 operators that it will continue supporting them, despite the planned closure of the dedicated F-5/T-38 San Antonio Air Logistics Center (ALC) at Kelly AFB, Texas. Three new homes are being considered for the SA-ALC, which manages the USAF T-37/T-38 fleets, ...
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Sri Lankan MPA
The Sri Lankan air force is understood, to want to purchase four small maritime-patrol aircraft, equipped with a search radar, a forward-looking infra-red sensor and under-wing hard points. Interest centres on the Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender and the Cessna U-27A. The requirement is in response to a series of Tamil separatist ...
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Kitted out
Carolle Doyle/KIRKBYMOORSIDE THE UK'S EUROPA AVIATION has begun a series of tests of the first customer-built Europa kitplane at its headquarters in Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire. The company intends to carry out similar tests on the first ten kits made by customers. The Europa was launched by Europa ...