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PIA 747 talks
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is reported to be negotiating to purchase six used Boeing 747-300s from Singapore Airlines, to replace six elderly 747-200s. Source: Flight International
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DASA turns down Eurofighter offer
Douglas Barrie/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has rebuffed an UK Government-brokered compromise solution to the highly charged problem of work-share on the four-nation Eurofighter combat-aircraft programme. The UK proposal offered a trade-off on management restructuring in exchange for allowing DASA to maintain a higher level of ...
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Russia tests new cruise missile
RUSSIA IS TESTING a next-generation air-launched long-range cruise missile at the air force's Ahktubinsk air-weapons evaluation centre. The development, thought to have been initiated in the late 1980s, is probably the recently, reported Raduga Kh-101 subsonic-cruise-missile programme. The missile is being tested from a modified ...
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FANS doubters 'risk being left behind'
AIRLINES WHICH DO not subscribe to the future air-navigation system (FANS) risk being left behind as others reap the financial benefits resulting from the more efficient route structure and reduced delays the system will make possible. The warning came as the industry met for the Flight International ...
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Eastern expansion
Vietnam is on the brink of major air-transport growth. Paul Lewis/HANOI THE INDOCHINA region of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) is emerging from more than four decades of conflict and economic isolation and today represents the last real undeveloped air-transport market in the area. ...
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Malaysia Airlines wants more widebodies to meet growth
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) plans to order 25 new wide body aircraft for delivery between 1998 and the year 2000, including an undisclosed number of additional Boeing 747-400s, says company chairman Tajudin Ramli. The aircraft are needed to meet growth in air traffic beyond ...
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UAE rejects F-16U proposal
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S plans to produce advanced derivatives of the F-16 combat aircraft have been dealt a blow with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deciding to drop the F-16U from its strike-fighter competition. The UAE's decision to reject the Lockheed Martin offer was because of the associated $2-3 ...
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Global Express is taking shape
MAJOR SECTIONS of the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet will begin arriving at de Havilland in Toronto, Canada, in December. Final assembly will begin in March 1996 and the programme is on schedule for a first flight in September 1996, the Canadian company says. "The Global ...
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SSAC launches new SJ30
SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has repositioned the SJ30 light business-jet to avoid competing head-on with Raytheon Aircraft's new Premier I. The Taiwanese-backed company now plans to develop an increased-performance SJ30-2 concurrently with the original aircraft, now designated the SJ30-1. The SJ30-2 will be powered by two uprated, 10kN ...
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Dassault demonstrates Falcon 900EX design range
DASSAULT AVIATION flew its first Falcon 900EX long-range business jet non-stop from Luton,UK, to Las Vegas, Nevada, for its NBAA debut. The flight demonstrated the aircraft's 8,320km (4,500nm) design range, the manufacturer says, covering an air distance of 8,700km with a payload equivalent to more than eight passengers and three ...
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Challenger certificated
Bombardier's 7,500km (4,060nm)-range Canadair Challenger 604 received Canadian certification on 20 September. Factory deliveries begin this month and US certification is scheduled for late October. Source: Flight International
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EJA expands NetJets with European move
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) has launched the long-awaited expansion of its NetJets business-aircraft fractional-ownership programme into Europe. EJA will base four company-owned Cessna Citation S/IIs in Europe, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1995 and will begin selling aircraft shares, in the first quarter of 1996 says, ...
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Rutan builds single-jet Vantage
BURT RUTAN'S Scaled Composites (SCI) will fly a prototype of VisionAire's Vantage single-turbofan business jet in April 1996. SCI has a contract to build the prototype and complete the first 40 flights of the six-place, all-composite, aircraft. VisionAire, based in St Louis, Missouri, unveiled a full-scale cabin mock-up ...
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Gulfstream 'close to break-even' with GV orderbook
GULFSTREAM chairman Ted Forstmann says that orders for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet "...will reach break-even by the end of the year". Gulfstream's break-even point is believed to be around 60 aircraft, although the company will admit only to having a GV order backlog "in excess of $2 billion". ...
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Premier I leads planned Raytheon light-jet family
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S Premier I, launched at the NBAA, is the first in a family of light business-jets. Company president Roy Norris says that a Premier II "...is already on the drawing board" and will be followed by a Premier III. The $3.9 million, six-passenger, Premier I is ...
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AlliedSignal predicts business-jet market boom predicted
AROUND 3,500 NEW business jets worth $42 billion will be sold between 1995 and 2005, according to AlliedSignal's annual executive-aircraft outlook, which notes that 25 new or derivative business jets are in development. Between 1,300 and 1,600 new turbofan-powered business aircraft are forecast to be delivered over ...
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Variable nozzle tests planned for PW306
CALCOR AERO Systems, the developer of novel variable-exhaust-nozzle (VEN) and thrust-reverser (TR) designs, has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to demonstrate a combined TR/VEN on the PW306 which will power the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy. The California-based company claims that the combination TR/VEN is ...
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Star Kraft prepares team for launch
STAR KRAFT IS confident of launching full-development of its eight-seat twin-engine aircraft with a team of investors and aerospace companies which is now being formed. Company president Roger Kraft says: "We will know within 90 days whether we will have that team pulled together." The involvement of ...
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Cessna upgrade produces Magnum Edition
CESSNA HAS unveiled a package of avionics, systems and amenities for the basic Citation VII. The upgraded version will be called the Magnum Edition. The concept follows the successful launch of the similar Citation Bravo and Citation Ultra aircraft, and is designed to help stimulate sales of the ...
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Cessna aims Citation X at Hawker 800 market
CESSNA HAS SET ITS Citation X sales sights firmly on the Raytheon Hawker 800 and other similar types in the mid-sized business-jet-replacement market. Cessna says that the larger aircraft's direct operating costs per kilometre are "...guaranteed not to exceed those of the much smaller Raytheon Hawker 800". Cessna ...