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Avro tackles RJ100 London City Airport weight limit
AVRO INTERNATIONAL Aerospace is working to boost the RJ100's payload capacity for operations at London City Airport, by introducing a new 33° flap setting for take-off, and reducing airframe weight. The work is being carried out to enable Crossair to operate its recently ordered RJ100s into the airport ...
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Jeppesen launches on-line dispatch aid
JEPPESEN HAS launched a new OnSight integrated operations- management and flight-dispatch system for airline and fleet-operators. The OnSight delivers on-line flight-management and dispatch information in near-real time, via Unix-compatible workstations. The Denver, USA-based international aviation-information services company says that the OnSight is offered as a modular system, including ...
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ARIA starts up at Shannon
AEROFLOT RUSSIA-International Airlines (ARIA) has begun operation of its hub at Shannon, Ireland. Aircraft from Moscow, St Petersburg, Minsk and Minerahne Voda were flown into the Irish airport, to connect with an onward Ilyushin Il-62 service to New York, Chicago and Miami. Services from several other cities and airlines are ...
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Aero Vodochody stays cautiously optimistic
CZECH AIRCRAFT manufacturer Aero Vodochody warns that its finances remain weak after posting further losses for 1994, but believes that recovery is now in prospect. Following the collapse of Communism, Vodochody's aircraft output plummeted from more than 240 units, to a low point of two in 1992. ...
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Russian consortium proposal approved
RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturers and airlines are to go ahead with their plans to form a joint financial and industrial group, following president Boris Yeltsin's approval of their proposals. The group, called the Russian Aviation Consortium, is intended to play a major role in financing the development of the ...
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Eurojet-powered Eurofighter gets airborne
The first Eurofighter 2000 prototype to be fitted with Eurojet EJ200 turbofan engines was flown on 4 June from Eurofighter industrial partner Alenia's Caselle flight-test centre. The flight of the DA 3 lasted for 50min, with the aircraft and engines handling as predicted. The first two prototypes are fitted with ...
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Helikopter Service sales up
ACQUISITIONS HELPED Helikopter Service raise its sales by one-third in 1994, and the company claims that it is on course to emerge as the world's largest commercial-helicopter organisation. The Norwegian operator posts sales of just under NKr1.8 billion ($290 million) for 1994, but expects to reach the NKr2.4 ...
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NKC-135A icing tanker to continue flying for FAA tests
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration will have access to a key US Air Force test aircraft for at least six months, to enable it to complete turboprop-icing tests. The Boeing NKC-135A icing tanker based at Edwards AFB, California, which was used by the FAA in 1994, and again ...
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Fencer follow-on shows at Paris
Sukhoi is showing its Su-34 long-range strike-aircraft derivative of the Su-27 Flanker at the Paris air show for the first time. The Su-34, aircraft number 45, is the third prototype. It is intended to replace the Su-24 in the strike role. Source: Flight International
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KLM profits news marred by strike action
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS REVEALED record profits, although some of the shine was taken off the announcement by pilots staging a second one-day strike. The Dutch carrier reports net profits of DFl470 million ($300 million) for its financial year to the end of March, staying ...
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SITA network boosts Sabre
AMERICAN AIRLINES and global communications network company SITA have agreed, on a $50 million deal linking 6,000 locations worldwide, into the massive Sabre computer reservations system via the SITA network. The system is owned by American's parent AMR. Sabre's data-network services managing director Don Wilkins says: "We selected ...
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Eastern Europe agrees
UKRAINE AND Hungary have signed a new air-services agreement to replace the defunct convention signed with the former Soviet Union. The agreement designates Malev of Hungary and Air Ukraine as the sole carriers on scheduled routes between the two countries. Source: Flight International
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Sextant avionics for Mi-35M
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has joined forces with Russian design bureau Mil and manufacturer Rostvertol to modernise and upgrade the Mi-35M helicopter. The work includes equipping the helicopter with night/adverse weather-combat capability. Sextant, which will lead several Thomson-CSF units involved in the programme, is to develop and integrate a new ...
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World Recovery
The world scheduled-airline industry, continued to recover in 1994, producing operating profits of nearly $240 billion, according to figures from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, representing an operating margin of 3.2%. Source: Flight International
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Snecma reveals turbofan details
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH ENGINE manufacturer Snecma has unveiled the initial configuration of the new 135-220kN (30,000-50,000lb) CFMXX turbofan it wants to develop with CFM International partner General Electric. The engine is unlikely to be launched officially at the show, however, with GE chairman (emeritus) Brian Rowe saying. "We ...
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EC-120 first flight expected
The first flight of the EC-120 light helicopter jointly developed by Eurocopter, Singapore Technologies Aerospace and China's CATIC and HAMC was expected on 10-11 June. The EC-120, seen minus its all-composite main rotor at Eurocopter's Marignanne, France, site shortly before the Paris air show, is due for delivery in late ...
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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No definition
The European Commission (EC) does not want member nations of the European Union (EU) to negotiate bilateral air-transport agreements with foreign countries - especially with the USA. It has long wanted to take on that duty itself, on behalf of the EU as a whole. The trouble is that the ...
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GE90 test delay could hold up 777
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING AND General Electric are believed to be making contingency plans, for a possible delay in the certification and delivery of the first GE90-powered 777 following a fan-balance problem experienced during ground tests. Test flying of the two GE90-powered Boeing 777 test ...
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Pratt & Whitney sets thrust-vectoring-nozzle flight date
PRATT & WHITNEY'S multi-directional thrust-vectoring nozzle is due to be flown on a modified McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15 at Edwards AFB, California, in September. The thrust-vectoring pitch yaw balanced beam nozzle (PYBBN), will be flight tested at NASA Dryden on the modified F100-229-powered F-15 short take-off and landing/manoeuvre ...