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Oman Jaguar package
The Omani air force is discussing a possible upgrade package for its fleet of 18 Sepecat Jaguar aircraft, including procuring a laser-designator capability for the aircraft. The air force is understood to be considering the purchase of around six laser-designator pods for its Jaguars. The GEC Marconi Thermal Imaging Airborne ...
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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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Westland VIP EH101 to tempt Saudi forces
WESTLAND Helicopters is looking to use a VIP variant of the Westland/Agusta EH101 medium-utility transport as a "door opener" for sales of military-utility and anti-submarine-warfare (ASW) variants of the helicopter in the Gulf region. The company is offering VIP variants to meet a Saudi Arabian requirement for transporting ...
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Bombardier offers a hybrid version of CL-415 to Lebanon
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE is offering to Lebanon a hybrid version of the Canadair CL-415 amphibian, to meet its requirements for forest fire-fighting, search and rescue and surveillance. The aircraft would combine the fire-fighting capabilities of the existing CL-415 turboprop with the basic configuration of the proposed CL-415M maritime-patrol variant, ...
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Snecma/S Korea discuss M88 for KTX-II
SNECMA IS PUSHING a derivative of its M88 engine as the power plant for installation in South Korea's KTX-II advanced jet trainer/light-fighter project, as well as pursuing an increased power variant for a re-engine version of the French Dassault Mirage 2000. The M88 is a 50kN dry-80kN with ...
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Russians pursue engine and radar on Chinese F-10 fighter
CHINA'S CHENGDU F-10 fighter aircraft, being developed jointly with Israel, may be fitted with a Russian air-intercept radar and power plant. Russian radar-design house Phazotron is proposing an advanced variant of its Zhuk (Beetle) multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar for the fighter, as the Israelis try to convince the Chinese ...
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Lufthansa Technik chief angry
THE CHAIRMAN AND chief executive of German maintenance company Lufthansa Technik, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, says that he may complain to the European Commission about the low prices which some loss-making, government-subsidised, European airlines and maintenance companies are charging. Mayrhuber says that he does not mind if a government helps ...
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Canadair delivers Special Edition
BOMBARDIER HAS formally unveiled its Canadair Special Edition (SE) corporate jet - an adaptation of its CRJ regional airliner - and delivered the first example to Middle-East distributor TAG Aeronautics. The SE - first disclosed at September's National Business Aircraft Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada - will ...
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SAS will hushkit DC-9s despite 737-600 order
Andrew Doyle/LONDON SAS IS TO HUSHKIT ALL of its remaining McDonnell Douglas DC-9s by January 1997, despite having placed an order for up to 76 Boeing 737-600s earlier this year (Flight International, 22-28 March). The carrier has been forced to take action as Scandinavian airports ...
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American Airlines MD-83 crashed on approach
An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 from Chicago hit trees and force-landed, in heavy rain and darkness, just short of the runway at Bradley International Airport, USA on 12 November. None of the five crew or 72 passengers was injured. Bradley's tower had been damaged in the storm, ...
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Hawkeye leads surveillance interest among Gulf States
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is proposing that the Gulf Collaboration Council (GCC) states collectively purchase and operate a combined standing force of its E-2C Hawkeye airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft, to provide additional AEW support in the region. GCC states, which include the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain, all have draft ...
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Oryx and Rooivalk on show
SOUTH AFRICA'S ATLAS AVIATION brought its indigenous upgrade of the Aerospatiale Puma military transport, the Oryx, to Dubai with the aim of interesting some of the region's Puma operators in the Oryx upgrade package. The Oryx is powered by the South African Topaz, rather than the French Turbomeca Makila, and ...
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A330 sales hiatus filled
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS broken a three-year A330 sales drought, with Gulf Air's order for six Rolls-Royce Trent 772-powered aircraft. The six A330s are scheduled for delivery to the Bahrain-based carrier from 1998 onwards. The aircraft will configure to seat 267 passengers in a three-class layout, and they will ...
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Saudia focuses on regional selection
Saudi Arabian Airlines is focusing attention on the long-awaited selection of a new 50- to 70-seat regional aircraft, following the finalisation of its $6 billion purchase of larger-capacity US-built jet airliners. The national carrier has a total requirement for up to 30 aircraft, but is expected initially to ...
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Saudi air force is in the market for refuelling tankers
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) is considering a range of new-build aircraft and second hand conversions to meet its outstanding requirement for up to ten additional air-to-air refueling tankers. The aircraft are needed to support the RSAF's growing fleet of McDonnell Douglas F-15 and Panavia Tornado fighters ...
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BWIA International goes for Airbus mix
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BWI International Airlines (BWIA) has settled on a mix of Airbus aircraft including three A340s for its fleet replacement, overturning an earlier announcement that it had selected Boeing types. President Ed Wegel says that the first two A340s will arrive in a year's ...