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AlliedSignal studies ESAS stepping stone
Guy Norris/WICHITA ALLIEDSIGNAL IS studying an integrated safety system for airliners which would combine into a single unit individually packaged systems such as the ground-proximity warning system (GPWS), Mode S transponder, weather radar and the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). The safety-system concept, although "still in the very earliest stages", ...
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Elbit poised to provide Huzar avionics
ISRAELI AVIONICS specialist Elbit is negotiating with Polish helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik to provide avionics for the W-3W Huzar combat-support helicopter. The Huzar is viewed as the favourite to meet a yet-to-be-released Polish army tender for a light-transport/combat-support helicopter. No contract has been signed between Elbit ...
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Chirac lobbies for Eurocopter in Spain
FRENCH PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac has intervened in the competition between Eurocopter and Sikorsky to meet a Spanish army transport-helicopter requirement by writing to his Spanish counterpart, prime minister Felipe Gonzalez, urging him to opt for the Eurocopter AS.532 UL Cougar, rather than the rival Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. ...
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Swissair sacrifices jobs in bid for profit
SWISSAIR IS TO shed 1,600 jobs over the next 18 months in an effort to pull its flight operations back into profit. The Swiss carrier says it also plans to renegotiate pilot contracts. The airline hopes that the majority of the job losses, which represent around 10% ...
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Italy studies STOVL carrier for navy
THE ITALIAN NAVY has funded a study into the design of a 22,000t-class aircraft carrier capable of carrying an air wing of 20 short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The carrier would be intended to "replace" the Vittorio Venetto cruiser, which entered service in 1969, and also provides ...
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RTAF favours F-18 for fighter need
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK THE McDONNELL Douglas F-18 Hornet is emerging as the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) favourite to meet its next fighter-aircraft requirement, in preference to the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Thailand is considering purchasing an initial, eight fighters for delivery by early 1999. A follow-on ...
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Gulf investors study Sudan start-up
GULF INVESTORS ARE planning a joint venture with Sudan Airways to operate from Khartoum to London, Kuwait and Dubai.The airline hopes to start flying by the end of the year, possibly using an aircraft acquired from Yememia. Early this month, Ethiopia banned flights to and from Sudan by ...
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FAA sets up safety- monitor database
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is planning to have a database for monitoring the air-transport industry's "safety health" operational by February 1996. The new Safety Performance Analysis System (SPAS) will have data entered by FAA field inspectors as they carry out periodic checks of airlines and installations. SPAS ...
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BFGoodrich/Snecma to merge brakes
SNECMA IS IN advanced talks with BFGoodrich about a merger for its Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes business. Although no details of the proposed deal have been released, it is expected to follow the blueprint laid down by the 50:50 Messier-Dowty landing-gear joint venture completed in 1994. A ...
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USAfrica fights for frequencies
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAFRICA AIRWAYS IS challenging a US Department of Transportation (DoT) decision to reallocate the carrier's seven frequencies in the US-South Africa market to World Airways and Southern Air Transport. USAfrica, which shut down operations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, ...
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South Korea to buy spy aircraft
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense has revealed a move by South Korea to acquire tactical reconnaissance aircraft. Disclosure of the nation's classified military programme was made in a standard congressional notification. Unless blocked by the US Congress, South Korea would acquire the aircraft under US foreign-military-sales transactions. ...
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Five C-130Hs bound for Malaysia
THE MALAYSIAN air force has purchased five of Lockheed Martin's nine remaining unsold C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, say local sources. Lockheed Martin reveals that it has only four military transports, together with two civil L-100s, left to place, after recently selling five stretched C-130-30Hs. The aircraft are the ...
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Quality business puts Avro on track for profit
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that its regional-jet operation, which brought the company close to collapse two years ago, will be back in profit by 1997. BAe had already promised that the Avro regional-jet business would approach break-even by 1997 following its dramatic slimming down, ...
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Trent 777 testing resumes after vibration is remedied
CERTIFICATION FLIGHT-testing of the Rolls Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 has resumed after engineers tackled a rear-bearing vibration problem caused by "distress of the aft-strut fairing and primary nozzle". The test programme has been held up for "about a week", says Boeing, which grounded the aircraft in the first ...
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MDC releases Delta 2 findings
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) says that explosive separation lines on one of the nine solid-rocket boosters, which failed to separate on the Delta 2 launch on 5 August had been exposed to "excessive temperatures". The failure stranded the Koreasat 1 satellite in a lower orbit than planned. The Koreasat ...
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Learjet 45 roll-out heralds renaissance
Guy Norris/WICHITA ANNUAL PRODUCTION of Learjet business-jet models could reach 100 by 1999 as the company plans an all-out attempt to regain its market-leadership position from Cessna. Speaking at the rollout ceremony, of the Model 45 light business jet on 14 September, Learjet president Brian ...
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Weak dollar ravages DASA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) racked up massive losses in the first half of the year as the weakness of the US dollar against the deutsche mark ravaged its civil-aircraft sales. The German group posted a loss of DM1.6 billion ($1 billion) for the period, ...
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France loans Snecma funds for CFMXXX turbofan work
FRENCH ENGINE manufacturer Snecma is to receive a Fr2 billion ($396 million) reimbursable loan from the French Government to help develop the 135-220kN (30,000-50,000lb)-thrust CFMXX turbofan. The agreement effectively launches the engine, which is needed by Airbus Industrie for growth versions of the A340 and, possibly, the A321. ...
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MAS crash
A Malaysian Airline System (MAS) Fokker 50 overshot the runway while making an emergency landing on 15 September at Tawau Airport in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah, crashing into a row of houses. There were survivors among the 50 passengers and an unknown number of fatalities on the ground. ...
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Associate membership
THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) is having trouble managing its relations with neighbors near and far. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of air services. Partly, this is because the European Commission (EC) does not have the authority to control member states' air-services agreements. Partly, also, the EU ...