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Helikopter sale
Helikopter Service has sold its two Boeing 234LR Chinooks to Columbia Helicopters of the USA following the loss of the Phillips Petroleum North Sea contract earlier this year. Source: Flight International
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French airlines are on target for codeshare deal
FRENCH PRIVATE airlines Air Liberte and Euralair have agreed to code-sharing and interlining deals on the Paris/Orly-Toulouse route. The move is unprecedented in French air-transport history, and is aimed at providing stronger competition on the route to previous monopoly holder Air Inter. It opens the possibility that the ...
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Orlando becomes centre of excellence
LOCKHEED MARTIN has designated its Electronics & Missiles division in Orlando, Florida, as the company's "centre of excellence" for precision-guided munitions. Programmes under way at other Lockheed Martin divisions will be transferred to Orlando. The former Martin Marietta Electronics & Missiles division is already working on the Joint ...
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French industry steels itself for budget cuts
FRENCH AEROSPACE contractors are bracing themselves for major procurement cuts following a defence budget which promises to reduce 1996 spending on weapons by more than Fr8 billion ($1.5 billion). The defence-spending plans were part of a wider state budget unveiled on 21 September by President Jacques Chirac's new ...
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America West prepares for surge
AMERICA WEST Airlines plans substantial growth at its Phoenix and Las Vegas hubs over the next two years. The airline plans to increase capacity by 29% and departures by 17%, and to add at least eight cities to its route network. America West says that it plans to ...
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United kicks off transpacific FANS flights
UNITED AIRLINES has inaugurated transpacific operations using Boeing 747-400s equipped with Honeywell's FANS-1 satellite-based communication/ navigation system. The first FANS-1 flight was made on 2 September, from Chicago to Tokyo, over Russia. United Flight 881 was the first over Siberian airspace to communicate with a new FANS controller-workstation ...
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MD-95 powerplant will be a customer choice
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) says that the final selection of the engine for its MD-95 twinjet will depend on which power plant the launch customer selects. The BMW Rolls-Royce BR715 and the Pratt & Whitney mid-thrust family of engines are offered on the ...
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Opus off key
Sweden's ASL Hagfors Aero, manufacturer of the Opus 280 two-seat trainer/tourer, has gone into voluntary receivership. Liquidators hope to sell the company as a going concern for around SKr17.5 million ($2.39 million). Source: Flight International
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Portugal considers F-16 options
PORTUGAL IS considering procuring an additional 20-40 Lockheed Martin F-16s, along with taking on board the mid-life-upgrade (MLU) put together for other European F-16 operators. A team from the company is due to visit Portugal on 28/29 September, to discuss the upgrade. The aircraft on offer are secondhand ...
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Age-old dilemma
IT APPEARS that the European and US authorities have reached agreement over "grandfather rights" in the certification of derivative airliner types. Now all they have to do, is agree their respective interpretations over what is a grandfather right and what is a derivative, which may be a little more difficult, ...
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Russia buys US satellite equipment
THE FIRST RUSSIAN procurement, of US equipment for a communications satellite, has been completed by Gasprom, Russias' natural gas monopoly company and NPO Energia. Space Systems/Loral will supply the communications payload and associated equipment for two Russian Yamal satellites to be launched in 1997. The 1,300kg ...
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Airbus closes in on ValuJet deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIRBUS IS CLOSE to winning the hard-fought battle to sell ValuJet its first new aircraft. The deal, which is expected to involve around 25 A319s, with an option for a further 25, would be a major coup for Airbus, coming in the face of fierce competition ...
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Gulfstream rolls out GV
GULFSTREAM HAS ROLLED out its GV long-range business jet at the company's Savannah, Georgia-based manufacturing plant, just days before the opening of the US National Business Aircraft Association's annual convention and exhibition in Las Vegas (26-28 September) and only weeks before its first flight, which is expected before the end ...
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Core avionics
The Collins Proline 4 flight tests are in final completion. This system has evolved, too, and is installed in various forms on business jets such as the Beech 400, Learjet 60 and Dassault 2000; it is specified too for the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy. The system is much ...
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CL-604 improvements
ENGINE With a small speed and temperature increase, within the existing certificated limits, the thrust capability of the CF34-3B is up by 7%; this is used in flat rating power to ISA+15¡C. The take-off distance of the CL-604 in standard conditions has been improved, in a ...
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Channel Fokker fleet
Bournemouth, UK-based cargo operator Channel Express (Air Services) has acquired a further two Fokker F27-500s, which brings its freighter fleet to five F27s, five Lockheed Electras and eight Handley Page Heralds. The 6,000kg payload, Stage 3 noise-certificated F27 turboprop will enable the airline to expand its existing charter operations into ...
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Vnukovo replacement
Russia's largest domestic airline, Vnukovo Airlines, is planning to update its medium- and long-range fleet, replacing older Tupolev Tu-154B and Ilyushin Il-86 models. The Moscow-based airline is seeking up to ten more Tupolev Tu-204 twinjets to take the place of the Tu-154s, as well as some larger types for its ...
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Qatar 747 purchase
Qatar Airways has taken delivery of its second ex-All Nippon Boeing 747-100, and plans to buy more before the end of the year. The Doha-based airline, which is competing heavily with Emirates and multi-national carrier Gulf Air on routes from the Gulf area, will introduce a new service from Doha ...
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Frustrations in seeking safety
Sir - All airlines would profess to seek at least the preservation, if not the improvement, of flight safety. There appears to exist, a dalliance however, over the fitting of improved flight-data recorders (FDRs), however - vital data is not being captured. The frustration of the US National ...
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Turbine-engine weight comparisons are needed
Sir - Congratulations on the publication of the Turbine Engine Directory (Flight International, 2-8 August, P27). I was disappointed that no indication of weight was included. The importance of the weight parameter can be seen when various US Department of Defense contracts for improved high-performance turbine-engine ...