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Ryanair plans to raise Prestwick profile with Stansted schedule
IRISH LOW-COST operator Ryanair is linking its successful Dublin-Glasgow Prestwick flights into a new schedule from Prestwick to London Stansted, to be flown four times daily from 26 October. The move brings to three the number of scheduled destinations served from Prestwick - in its heyday Scotland's premier ...
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India and Russia haggle over Su-30MK cash
INDIA IS NEGOTIATING to licence-manufacture the Sukhoi Su-30MK at the Nasik plant of Hindustan Aeronautics, which already produces Mikoyan MiG-29 Floggers. Indian officials have visited the Irkutsk Su-30MK production plant in Russia recently. The Indian air force is satisfied with the aircraft from a technical viewpoint, although negotiations ...
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Concorde faces up to old age
David Learmount/LONDON UK AND FRENCH authorities will decide in 1996 on the modifications required to keep the Concorde flying beyond 2000. The UK Civil Aviation Authority, has been conducting research in association with its French counterpart, the DGAC, the manufacturers and British Airways on the ...
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Big three airframe builders demand IFE standard
THE WORLD'S three largest airframe builders have joined together to warn the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry that it has to standardise hardware or face serious consequences. Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) executives shared a stage at the recent World Airline Entertainment Association conference in Amsterdam to give ...
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Air France recovery derailed by problems
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS A NEW SERIES OF strikes, trouble with Algeria, and a 1.5% drop in traffic during the first five months of its current financial year to 31 March, 1966, are combing to derail Air France's three-year recovery plan. The twin aims of chairman Christian Blanc -to raise ...
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IAI stars in Galaxy production reshuffle
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI), is to build four prototype Astra Galaxy's in Israel, in a bid to maintain the momentum of the business jet project. The programme is around nine months behind schedule, with the first flight of the Galaxy now planned for the fourth quarter of ...
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PC-12 part-shares available
A US COMPANY has launched a fractional-ownership programme offering part shares in the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-12. Massachusetts-based Alpha Flying has ordered five PC-12s for delivery by the end of 1996, and the fractional-ownership company has received its first aircraft, which is being used by Pilatus as a demonstrator. ...
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Soloy delays Dual Pac gearbox certification
CERTIFICATION OF Soloy's Dual Pac combining gearbox, which drives a single propeller, though two Pratt & Whitney PT6D-114D engines, has been delayed to May 1996, while the Washington based company improves the durability of the unit. The Dual Pac was due to be certificated in June 1995, but ...
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Birdstrike is suspected in AWACS crash
A US AIR FORCE BOARD of inquiry is trying to determine why a Boeing-built E-3B Advanced Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance aircraft crashed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, on 22 September. The militarised four-engine Boeing 707 was attempting to take off for a training mission. All 24 aboard, ...
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F-14 Lantirn buy
The US Navy has purchased 75 Lockheed Martin Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) systems for installation on Northrop Grumman F-14 tactical aircraft. The device gives the F-14 a ground attack capability. Including options, the contract is worth as much as $270 million. The initial installment totaled ...
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JAST contract awards
McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin have been awarded US Air Force contracts, worth $65 million and $48 million, respectively, for research leading to integration of advanced power-generation, distribution and utilisation hardware for an integrated ground- and flight-test programme supporting the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) project. Separately, the US Navy ...
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USAir for Madrid
USAir is seeking US Department of Transportation permission to provide non-stop links to Madrid from Philadelphia and Boston. Source: Flight International
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S Korea to field spy aircraft by 2000
AN INTERNATIONAL multi-million dollar competition is under way to supply South Korea with an indigenous airborne intelligence-gathering capability, beginning in three years. The classified project, known in US military circles as Peace Pioneer, will reach a climax this month when South Korea is due to pick the ...
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NTSB starts work on Boeing 737 wake-vortex testing
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is conducting wake-vortex flight-tests as part of its continuing probe of the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 on 8 September 1994, outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The USAir aircraft had passed through an area where a wake vortex created by a Boeing ...
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Malaysians to upgrade C-130Hs
THE MALAYSIAN air force is planning to upgrade its fleet of Lockheed C-130H Hercules transport aircraft with new cockpit avionics and an integrated self-defence countermeasures system. Rockwell-Collins, is understood to have been selected to equip the aircraft, with its flat-panel EFIS-90 electronic flight-instrumentation system, a new digital tactical ...
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Two new orders for Fokker 70
A new customer and an existing operator have placed orders for four Fokker 70 regional jets. Vietnam Airlines has confirmed a previously unannounced order for two aircraft as a first step in replacing its 12 Tupolev Tu-134s. Based at Hanoi, the Fokker 70s will be operated in a 79-seat single-class ...
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Independents jockey for position in India
THE LOW PRICE OF FIVE 20-year old Boeing 737-200s being offered for sale by Government-owned Indian Airlines has elicited bids from two independent rivals - NEPC Airlines and Sahara India Airlines. The five aircraft are expected to fetch up to $40 million. NEPC and Sahara have ambitions to ...
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'Big three' plan for FANS as cost benefits emerge
THE BIG THREE aircraft manufacturers estimate that up to 2,500 of today's jet-powered airliners could potentially be equipped with Future Air Navigation System (FANS) datalinks, although they warn that the speed of implementation will hinge on proof of clear cost gains for airline customers. Boeing has led ...
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French slash military spending
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DELIVERIES OF Dassault Aviation's Rafale combat aircraft, the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter and the NH90 troop transport and anti-submarine-warfare helicopter are to be delayed as part of cuts in French military spending over the next five years. On 21 September, the Government unveiled ...
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Czechs freeze MiG-21 modifications
THE CZECH DEFENCE ministry has frozen the upgrading of three Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed prototypes, and has established a joint team with US Government specialists to study the acquisition of Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs. The decision was announced, at the end of September by Czech Defence Minister Vilem Holan, following ...