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UK's Birmingham Airport makes Irish connection
AER RIANTA, the Irish Airports company, has beaten National Express and Airport Group International to the chance of taking a substantial share in Birmingham International Airport. The leaders of the seven West Midland District Council shareholders of the airport, have agreed to begin detailed negotiations with Aer Rianta, which are ...
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Pentagon plans to test variant of Russia's AS-17 Krypton
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Aerospace (MDA) officials and their Russian counterparts hope that the Pentagon-funded evaluation of a variant of Russia's Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) rocket-/ramjet-powered anti-ship missile will lead to multi-year procurement of MA-31 aerial targets for test and evaluation and training by the US ...
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Greek air-traffic control causes serious pilot-concern
Julian Moxon/Paris EUROPEAN PILOTS' associations have raised major concerns over continuing "very serious" air-traffic-control (ATC) problems in Greece. The German and Scandinavian Airline Pilots Associations have called the situation "disastrous", citing a survey of pilots which found that they were frequently unable to understand the instructions ...
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Pilots unhappy with Iberia
PILOTS OF SPANISH flag carrier Iberia are protesting that the restructuring plan agreed with the airline in 1994 is not being carried out, and are refusing to go along with further measures to cut costs. The pressure comes as the European Commission (EC) is due to decide before ...
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Team Tackles ERGM
Alliant Techsystems has teamed up with McDonnell Douglas to bid for a US Navy contract to develop the Extended Range Guided Munition (ERGM), or Hammer projectile, for the Naval Surface Fire Support programme. The ERGM is a 5in rocket-assisted ship-to-shore projectile, to be fired from a Mk45 gun, using global-positioning/inertial-navigation ...
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United 777s: heavy but happy
Guy Norris/Los Angeles UNITED AIRLINES admits that its first Boeing 777s is overweight, but is still satisfied with the aircraft's performance. New 16G crash-worthy seating is the largest single contributor to the higher-than-expected operating empty weight (OEW) of the initial aircraft, says the carrier. In United's ...
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Cathay moves its simulators Australia
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways is to relocate most of its flight- simulator capability from Hong Kong to an Australian site yet to be decided. The move follows an A$15 million ($11.2 million) concession from the Australian Government against tax which would have been due on the company's five simulators. The first ...
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FedEx may buy United DC-10s
FEDEX, THE US-based overnight-cargo specialist, is believed to be negotiating the purchase of United Airlines' (UAL) fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. FedEx already operates 35 DC-10s (22 -30s and 13 -10s), and in addition plans to run a fleet of 34 MD-11s by the end of 1998. ...
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Fokker submits its bail-out plan to Dutch Government
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FOKKER HAS delivered a stark warning to the Dutch Government that the company will be left facing a crisis unless the state shareholder approves a major injection of cash. The warning came as Fokker handed over a new business plan to Dutch economics minister ...
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TWA to drop regional
TRANS WORLD Airlines (TWA) regional subsidiary Trans World Express (TWE) is to cease operations on 6 November. Its services will be taken over by independent carrier Trans States Airlines. TWE employees will be laid off and its fleet of 11 leased ATR 42s disposed of, along with the airline's maintenance ...
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Valujet denies firm MD-95 commitment
VALUJET AIRLINES describes as "extremely premature" reports that it is planning to buy 50 MD-95s if McDonnell Douglas (MDC) launches the 100-seat airliner. The Atlanta, Georgia-based low-cost carrier, two years old in October, says that it is talking to several manufacturers, but that "absolutely no decision" has been taken on ...
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Flight Directory: Europe
The final closing date for the 1996/7 Flight International Directory Mainland Europe has been confirmed as Friday 29 September 1995. Entry is free. If you were in the 1994/95 directory and have not received an entry form, or you believe you should be in the book and need paperwork, contact ...
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Sea Launch project gains a boost
THE INTERNATIONAL Sea Launch project for commercial geostationary-orbiting satellite-launcher services from an equatorial mobile offshore platform has moved on with the award of $171 million contracts to two Norwegian firms. Sea Launch, a partnership between Boeing (USA); NPO Energia (Russia); NPO Yuzhnoye (Ukraine); and Kvaerner (Norway); has given ...
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Swissair in preliminary negotiations on Austrian stake
SWISSAIR PRESIDENT Otto Loepfe says that preliminary talks have taken place over taking an increased stake in Austrian Airlines. Loepfe says that he has already held discussions with Austria's new finance minister, Andreas Staribacher, but that he is still waiting for "a concrete reaction" from the Austrian Government, ...
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Technology-transfer key to regional-jet deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA'S AND South Korea's selection, of a Western partner to help develop a new 100-seat regional jet, will be determined by the level of foreign technology transfer. According to South Korean aerospace sources, local industry access to new technology will be the key ...
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Luftwaffe enters Bosnia zone missions in 50 years
Andrea Spinelli/PIACENZA IN ITS FIRST operational deployment since the Second World War, the German air force is flying reconnaissance and electronic-combat and reconnaissance (ECR) Tornado over Bosnia as part of the NATO air campaign against Bosnian Serbs . Composite Wing 1, based at the Italian San ...
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Oriental headache
Western manufacturers seem to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sign collaborative agreements with Asian partners as a low-cost route to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners seem to be tripping over themselves to sign such agreements, as a low-cost route to acquiring new airliner technology. If ...
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Innovative fuel research
The US Air Force has awarded Innovative Scientific Solutions an additional $10.6 million to develop thermally stable fuels and high-performance, low-emissions combustors for future USAF aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Aeromexico profit
Aeromexico has reported net profits of $98 million for the second quarter of 1995, turning around a loss of $33 million. The carrier says that the improvement came because it held down costs, increased sales and benefited from the stronger Mexican peso. Aeromexico has cut its fleet by seven aircraft ...