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Solitair rescue plan hits new snags
EFFORTS TO BAIL OUT Solitair, the Swedish aircraft lessor, have run into further setbacks, with its planned rescuer, Vestar Capital, pulling out from underwriting the troubled company's share issue. Vestar had agreed to buy a 25% share of Solitair from GPA and to underwrite the company's rights issue. ...
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Cleaning up
The international civil-aviation community is bracing itself for the next imposition of environmental standards for aircraft. These new standards should lead to a significant reduction in the impact of airliners on the environment, which can only be welcomed. Unfortunately, there is a danger that individual pressure groups pandering to local ...
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Raytheon light jet will have composite fuselage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new light business-jet, internally designated the PD 374, will have an all-composite fuselage and be powered by uprated Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44 turbofans. Rockwell-Collins will supply the integrated avionics, including flat-panel displays. The PD 374 is intended as a direct competitor to ...
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Space sector absorbs most of Lockheed Martin cost cutting
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S space sector will bear the brunt of a consolidation plan intended to save $1.8 billion a year through the elimination of 12,000 jobs and the closure of 12 plants and laboratories over the next five years. The plan will cost $1.7 billion, the company ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Shuttle docks with the Mir
MARKING THE FORMAL end of the space race, a record ten people were orbiting the Earth aboard a single spacecraft as the US Space Shuttle Atlantis/STS 71 docked to the Russian Mir 1 space station on 29 June. The assembly of a 223t spacecraft in orbit was the ...
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Military aircraft bosses ousted at Daimler-Benz
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THREE SENIOR executives have left Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA's) military-aircraft division following board dissatisfaction with the operation's performance. Division president Klaus-Jurgen Wolfert is to go, along with head of development Wolfgang Kuny and finance and contracts chief Reinhold Faltlhauser. The three are expected to leave ...
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Air France gives Europe to Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER, traditionally France's domestic trunk airline, is to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation, if plans unveiled by the Group's chief executive, Christian Blanc, go ahead. Blanc says that the operation would be running by 1997, when the intra-European-Union "open-skies" policy ...
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German budget committee clears Eurofighter financing at last
THE GERMAN parliamentary budget committee has finally cleared Government funds to cover the costs of the 1992 reorientation of the Eurofighter programme. The committee has twice rejected the proposal to pay DM375 million ($270 million) - a sum agreed after months of wrangling between the defence ministry and ...
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United
Judy Bishop has been named vice-president for North America sales at United Airlines, of Chicago, Illinois. She was formerly regional manager for passenger sales. Dan Walsh becomes vice-president for the North America East Region. Walsh, who will be based in New York, was previously Los Angeles, California, regional manager for ...
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STAR-1 weapon tested on F-16
TAAS, FORMERLY ISRAEL MILITARY Industries, has test flown the STAR-1 anti-radiation weapon on a Lockheed Martin F-16. The carriage trials are part of a plan to develop the weapon, a variant of the company's Delilah decoy, for customers requiring a stand-off capability for air-defence suppression missions. The system will be ...
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Vnukovo forms link with ARIA
MOSCOW-BASED Vnukovo Airlines has announced a deal with Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) to co-operate on Russian domestic, intra-CIS routes, and some international services. The international destinations are those in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Co-operative arrangements are intended to improve passenger services, enable sales-office sharing, ...
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Airbus tests ATC datalink
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE, in association with Aerospatiale and the Eurocontrol air-traffic-control (ATC) centre at Maastricht, the Netherlands, has begun in-flight trials of equipment enabling ATC by datalink. The aircraft being used in the tests are green A320s being ferried from Airbus' Toulouse, France, assembly plant to Hamburg, Germany, for ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Canada offers to host NATO training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CANADA HAS submitted a "power-by-the-hour" proposal to host advanced flying-training for European NATO nations. The NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) proposal is backed by an industry team, led by Bombardier and including British Aerospace and CAE, which would own and operate the aircraft and simulators ...
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DASA Inspector takes shape
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace's (DASA) Space Infrastructure division in Bremen is constructing a 70kg prototype free-flying servicing spacecraft, dubbed the Inspector. The commercial feasibility of the vehicle, which will be used to inspect and repair spacecraft, will be studied jointly by DASA, RSC Energia of Russia and Rockwell Aerospace under ...
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Radar first
Westinghouse has received a $3 million contract to retrofit Portuguese air force Lockheed C-130Hs with its APN-241 predictive-windshear radar. Deliveries begin in November. The contract marks the first international, and first retrofit,sale of the radar, which is in production for new US Air Force C-130Hs and the C-130Js now under ...
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Detection success
Westinghouse's AAR-54(V) passive missile-warning system detected and classified all 14 missiles fired during US Navy live-fire demonstrations. The ultraviolet-based system was mounted on a QF-4 drone and used to cue an ALE-47 flare dispenser. Source: Flight International
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Arrius FADEC
Chandler Evans is to supply a version of its generic full-authority digital engine-control (FADEC) for Turbom‚ca Arrius 2B engines fitted to the Eurocopter EC135 helicopter. The order is a breakthrough for the US company, as previous Arrius FADECs have been made by Sextant. Source: Flight International
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Boeing flies 767 freighter
THE BOEING 767-300F freighter made its first flight from Everett to Boeing Field in late June. Boeing says that the 2h 29min "flawless" flight begins a relatively short test effort which is expected to include 60 flight hours and 300 ground-test hours. Three aircraft will be involved in ...