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Fokker in capital crisis as losses rise mount
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) and the Dutch Government are in talks over a fresh bail out package for Fokker, which has admitted that it is on course for record losses this year. The Dutch manufacturer warns that losses over the first half of 1995 ...
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Boeing tests 777 fatigue solution
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS FLIGHT-testing a strengthened aerodynamic fairing on the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777 after the discovery of fatigue cracks following its first flight on 26 May. It is also determining whether the problem could affect General Electric and Pratt & Whitney-powered versions. ...
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Ace Satellite Deal
Lockheed Martin has signed a $650 million contract to build a mobile-telephone communications network for the Asia Cellular Satellite System (ACES) to be operated by companies from Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Source: Flight International
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American to replace Omega with FMS/GPS
AMERICAN AIRLINES plans to buy flight-management/global-positioning systems (FMS/GPS) to replace Omega navigation systems in up to 400 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas MD-80s and DC-10s. A selection is planned by September. American is the first major airline to plan a fleet-wide GPS retrofit programme. Rockwell-Collins, which plans to ...
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USN wants jammer in Bosnian F-18s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US NAVY IS seeking approval to install the cancelled ITT/Westinghouse ALQ-165 airborne self-protection jammer (ASPJ) in 12 US Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-18s in operation over Bosnia. The move follows the shooting down on 2 June of a US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 ...
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Rowe Joins BEA
Brian Rowe, chairman emeritus of General Electric Aircraft Engines, has been elected to the board of BE Aerospace, the Florida-based aircraft interior specialist. Rowe is also a board director of UK-based Aerostructures Hamble, Colorado-based cargo airline Atlas Air, the Fifth Third Bank of Ohio and Stewart and Stevenson Services, an ...
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French firms face fight over defence cuts
FRANCE'S DEFENCE aerospace industry is bracing itself for a bruising battle with the new government over what may amount to swingeing cuts in defence expenditure over the next five years. Programmes in the firing line include the multi-national Future Large Aircraft, the NH90 military utility helicopter, the M5 ...
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Trouble in store?
Any organisation, which opposes the introduction of a new safety measure, is storing up potential trouble for itself, especially if its opposition is successful. On those grounds alone, the regional airlines and their supporters, which are opposing the application of large-airliner safety standards, to ten- to 19-seat turboprops are playing ...
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KLM Orders Boeings
KLM is expanding its fleet with two more Boeing 747-400 Combis (total 13) and three 767-300ERs, starting in 1996. These aircraft are additional to those covered by the June 1994 contract signed with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for seven 767-300ERs, the first of which will be delivered during July. All ...
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...
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Taking over
As the US military moves out of the Philippines, so FedEx moves in. Paul Lewis/SUBIC BAY WHEN THE US NAVY pulled out of the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines in November 1992, the local Olongapo City authorities inherited an $8 billion military base ...
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Distribution Alliance
Derco Industries is to stock and distribute AlliedSignal components for the Lockheed Martin C-130, P-3 and F-16, General Dynamics F-111 and Northrop F-5 under an exclusive agreement covering 51 countries, excluding the USA. Derco will make a "multi-million dollar" investment in inventory and will stock and distribute more than 8,000 ...
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Taking over
As the US military moves out of the Philippines, so FedEx moves in. Paul Lewis/SUBIC BAY WHEN THE US NAVY pulled out of the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines in November 1992, the local Olongapo City authorities inherited an $8 billion military base ...
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P&W-led team assesses ADP nacelle)
TESTING OF composite parts of a new-technology engine nacelle for Pratt & Whitney's advanced ducted propulsor (ADP) has begun under the US Advanced Research Project Agency's affordable composites for propulsion (ACP) programme. All the composite sections will be assembled around P&W's ADP core for full engine testing in ...
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Canada to test voice control navigation
CANADA'S NATIONAL Research Council (NRC) plans to begin voice-control flight tests in July, using its Bell 412 Advanced Systems Research Aircraft (ASRA). A Canadian Marconi (CMC) speech-recognition system will be used to control selected communications and navigation functions in the helicopter. The flight trials will be funded by ...
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Aviation Partners pushes for Gulfstream II winglet exports
AVIATION PARTNERS is pursuing overseas sales of its performance-enhancing winglet modification for the Gulfstream II business jet following the aircraft's international debut at the Paris air show in June. Negotiations are under way with several potential offshore modification-centres. Interest in the modification is highest in Saudi Arabia, which ...
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Tri Star to start with BAe 146s
START-UP NEVADA-based carrier Tri Star Airlines will begin services on 17 July, from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon with three British Aerospace 146-200s. The airline ran a series of proving flights for five days from 5 July before beginning three ...
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European directory
The deadline for the receipt of information for the Flight International Directory Mainland Europe 1996-7 has been extended to 1 August. All companies and individuals listed in the current edition of the directory have been circulated for the purposes of updating the information to be contained in the new version. ...
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Lockheed leads in defence research stakes
LOCKHEED HAS AGAIN topped the Pentagon's ranking of its largest research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) contractors in 1994. The corporation pushed up its total of awards to above $2.6 billion, closely followed by merger partner Martin Marietta, in second place, with $1.8 billion. Together, the ...
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Syrianair plans to renew its fleet
Alan George/DAMASCUS SYRIA IS MOVING to improve its air-transport infrastructure as talks with Israel on a peace accord continue to make progress. National carrier Syrianair and the Civil Aviation Directorate are both looking to re-equip their operations. Syrianair is talking to major aircraft manufacturers about ...