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New identity for Skyways
A NEW CORPORATE identity has been adopted by Swedish airline Skyways. Based at Linkoping, the airline has grown in the past two years to become the country's third-biggest airline, expecting to carry 420,000 passengers in 1995, giving it a 9% share of a still-declining domestic market. Its expansion ...
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Arinc/China in datalink deal
ARINC HAS SIGNED a multi-year contract with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to implement air-to-ground digital datalink systems in the country. The CAAC development, consistent with International Civil Aviation Organisation-approved communications, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic-management system, will enable datalink-equipped aircraft to transmit and receive air-traffic-control and ...
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Tyrolean Airways takes on four Canadair Regional Jets
EXPANDING Innsbruck-based Tyrolean Airways has placed an order for four Canadair Regional Jets, in a contract valued at $80 million. Options have also been secured on a further four aircraft. The first RJ is due for delivery in December. The Regional Jets will complement the recently acquired Fokker ...
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DASA finalises Italian partnership talks
Julian Moxon/PARIS Andrea Spinelli/MILAN Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and Finmeccanica/Alenia have finally sealed their long-standing talks over a greater German-Italian aerospace partnership, by agreeing to study co-operation across "all fields of civil and military interest". The move comes as DASA, which posted a loss of ...
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Lufthansa spends $1 billion
LUFTHANSA HAS authorised the acquisition of 18 aircraft at a total cost of DM1.7 billion ($1.14 billion). The purchase will be financed from its own resources. Four additional Boeing 747-400s and one Airbus A340 will be bought to strengthen the long-haul fleet in 1997. One of the 747-400s ...
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Teams gear up for T-38 upgrade
NINE COMPANIES have expressed interest in bidding for the US Air Force's Northrop T-38 Talon avionics upgrade. A final request for proposals is expected on 13 October, leading to the March 1996 award of an engineering and manufacturing development contract to modify two aircraft and produce two aircrew training-devices. ...
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USAF and USN plan to solicit bids for JASSM in January
THE COMPETITION to supply a replacement for the cancelled Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) is expected to begin in January 1996, with the release of a request for proposals for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM). Development of the Northrop Grumman AGM-137 TSSAM stealthy ...
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JAST engine contest ordered
GENERAL ELECTRIC is to be given the opportunity to compete with Pratt & Whitney, on the power plant for conventional variants of the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme, because of a US Congressional edict directing the US Department of Defense's programme office, to conduct a competition to power conventional ...
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GE prepares for growth -90 runs
GENERAL ELECTRIC plans to make the first test run of its growth GE90, the 410kN (92,000lb)-thrust -92B, on 11 October at its Peebles site in Ohio. The US company hopes to start flight tests, in August 1996. The higher-thrust version will power higher-gross-weight, longer-range 777-200s, the first of ...
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GPS munitions reach milestones
SELECTION OF a single contractor, to develop the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), is scheduled for 11 October. Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are competing for the contract to produce global-positioning/inertial-navigation (GPS/INS) guidance kits for 74,000 US Air Force bombs. The JDAM guidance kit will be ...
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Loral offers heavy-lift UAV platform
LORAL HAS briefed the US Air Force, Army and Navy on its proposal for a heavy-lift, high-altitude, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to be used as a sensor and weapons platform for cruise- and ballistic-missile defence. The UAV, with a flyaway price of about $5 million, could be fielded ...
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Pension beckons for grandfather rights
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES David Learmount/LONDON EXISTING RULES governing the certification of derivative aircraft are to be scrapped if the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) approve new proposals presented by an international task force of manufacturers and aviation authorities. The ...
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NASA prepares to make major supersonic-systems choices
NASA AND ITS US industry team members are preparing to make major airframe and propulsion-system selections in December as the High Speed Research (HSR) programme moves into Phase II. The HSR project is designed to provide a technology base by 2001, which will support a US industry ...
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JetStream purchase
Seoul Air International is negotiating to purchase two more JetStream ATP turboprops for use in Vietnam and two improved JetStream 61s for new domestic routes in South Korea. The company already operates two leased ATPs on charter to Region Air between Singapore and southern Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. ...
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Vietnam poised to wrap up A320 deal
Paul Lewis/HANOI VIETNAM AIRLINES IS finalising an agreement with Region Air of Singapore to lease ten new-build Airbus Industrie A320s as replacements for existing wet-leased aircraft. The agreement, expected to be signed as Flight International went to press, calls for the delivery of eight aircraft ...
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Turks set sights on Popeye
THE TURKISH air force may equip its upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4s with the Israeli-made Popeye television-guided air-to-ground missile. The missile has already been demonstrated to the Turkish air force. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has recently won a $600 million contract to upgrade 54 F-4s of the Turkish air ...
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Deregulation fails to dent European duopolies
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON MORE THAN TWO years after Europe signed up for liberalisation, the majority of the region's air routes remain dominated by traditional flag-carrier duopolies, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's latest progress report on the European single air market. By the end of ...
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N Sea surveillance boost
Sophisticated new surveillance displays are have just gone into operation at the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) offshore helicopter-operations control centre at Aberdeen Airport, Scotland - the busiest centre of its kind in the world. Usable in natural daylight (rather than a dimmed control room), the full-colour ...
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US Army to choose C-XX by year end
THE US ARMY IS to award a contract for 35 off-the-shelf, medium-range business aircraft by the end of this year. The $175 million purchase is part of a plan to slash the number of aircraft types operated by US Army active and reserve aviation units, from 21 to ...
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Aerospatiale takes gloomy view of 1995 prospects
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DESPITE TRIMMING its losses over the first half of the year, French manufacturer Aerospatiale warns of less encouraging signs for the rest of the year as the group struggles with a weak US dollar and lower sales volume. Aerospatiale managed to cut group ...