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Thailand approves second flag carrier
THAILAND'S CIVIL Aviation Committee has approved the setting up of a second national carrier, as part of a plan to liberalise the country's air-transport industry. The proposal, which still needs to be endorsed by the cabinet, requires the new airline to have a registered capital of 2.5 billion ...
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Political row grows over Tata-SIA joint venture
The Indian Parliamentary committee on civil aviation has come out strongly against the entry of foreign airlines into the domestic sector. The committee is headed by Pramod Mahajan, the general secretary of India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata. It fears that Indian Airlines, the state-owned domestic carrier, ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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DASA ready to join GTAR radar partners
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is in the final stages of negotiation to join GEC-Marconi and Thomson-CSF in a next-generation combat-aircraft radar programme. Go-ahead for the deal could come as early as June. The agreement will clear the way for the present GEC-Thomson Radar (GTAR) company becoming GEC-Thomson Daimler-Benz Radar, ...
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Tu-334 June Debut
Tupolev is now aiming to fly its Tu-334 regional jet by June. The programme has been hampered by a lack of funding. The intention is to have the aircraft approved, to Russian certification standards by 1997. The Tu-334 will be produced in both Taganrog, and Kiev in the Ukraine. ...
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Troubled Antonov seeks links with CIS states
Ukrainian design bureau Antonov is pushing for re-the establishment of aerospace industrial ties between states of the former Soviet Union, primarily between the Ukraine and Russia, in an attempt to ensure its survival. Antonov is developing the An-70 four-engine prop-fan-powered military transport (the prototype of which crashed ...
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Beriev secures Be-200 orders
BERIEV SAYS THAt it has secured what amounts to launch orders for its Be-200 amphibian from Russia's Federal Forestry Service and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The Federal Forestry Service claims that it will need 50-60 fire fighting aircraft between 1996 and 2005. Its requirements, was spelt ...
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CIS engine head defends PS-90A
THE HEAD OF THE CIS aero-engine manufacturers' association (ASSAD) has hit out at Western and Russian firms which, he claims, are plotting against the Aviadvigatel/Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan. Victor Chuiko, president of ASSAD, failed to show up at the conference for unspecified reasons, but his presentation was included ...
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New fish-eye lens
Belgian large screen display product manufacturer Barco has developed a fish-eye lens capable of projecting undistorted images over the entire inner surface of hemispherical domes. The lens was demonstrated at ITEC, fitted to a BarcoData 8100 LCD projector. Source: Flight International
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FDRs ruling unites carriers/airframers
OPPOSITION IS growing to the US proposal to force the retrofitting enhanced flight-data recorders (FDRs) to early-model Boeing 737s and other aircraft. Airlines and manufacturers insist that the proposed installation deadlines are unrealistic and that, in any case, the move is not economically justifiable. The ...
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Lockheed Martin in US Starstreak deal with Shorts
UK MISSILE manufacturer Shorts is about to sign an agreement with Lockheed Martin under which the US manufacturer will promote Shorts' Starstreak air-to-air missile for the US Army's McDonnell Douglas Helicopter (MDH) AH-64 Apache fleet. Shorts is already representing Lockheed Martin in the UK in the latter's attempt ...
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Alitalia selects Fokker 70
ALITALIA HAS selected the Fokker 70 to boost its presence on regional and feeder routes. The Italian carrier has agreed to lease 15 of the aircraft from the Dutch manufacturer. The aircraft will be operated by Avianova, a Rome based regional carrier in which, Alitalia has a ...
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Lockheed Martin displays 3D graphics engine
Lockheed Martin has announced a new low cost, open architecture, real time three-dimensional graphics engine, for use in simulators. The R3D/PRO-1000 is a stand-alone system offering 750,000 textured, shaded, anti-aliased polygons per second, pixel write rates of up to 200 million pixels per second, 60Hz update rates and ...
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Hughes set for last-minute F-16 simulator bid
The link division of Hughes Training is to stage a last-ditch attempt to win Lockheed's F-16A/B mid-life update simulator contract, despite the informal selection of Thomson Training & Simulation for the work. While Thomson declines, to confirm that it has won, saying that the deal - for the ...
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Canadian opens Russian route
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has become the first carrier to use a newly agreed cross over point between Russian and Chinese airspace, which will cut 2-3h off the flight-time between Vancouver and Beijing. Designated ARGUK, the crossing, lies between Khabarovsk in Russia and Haiqing in China. Previously, flights had ...
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Bombardier set to launch jet-share network with AMR
Bombardier and US fixed-base operator (FBO) AMR Combs are planning a business-jet fractional-ownership programme. The scheme will involve Bombardier Learjet 31A, Learjet 60 and Canadair Challenger aircraft, covering the light, medium and large business-jet markets. The venture is likely to be modeled on Executive Jet Aviation's (EJA) ...
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FLS sets up office in Texas
FLS AEROSPACE HAs taken the first step towards possible acquisition of a US maintenance operation, with the setting up of an office in Fort Worth,Texas. Chairman Steffen Harpoth says that one of the objectives of the new office is to "...see if we can establish the foundation ...
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Harsh reality
The civil-aviation industries of Russia and the CIS complain that a lack of state funding, and difficulties in certificating their products in the West, lie at the root of their massive problems. They are wrong, in that those difficulties are only the symptoms of a far worse malaise. The harsh ...
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EU proposes trans-Atlantic bilateral treaty counter-attack
EUROPEAN Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, has warned that, unless the EC is given a mandate to centrally negotiate future aviation agreements with the USA, "we will witness implementation of a policy that is not just America first, but America first, last, both ways across the Atlantic and within ...
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Revamped deal saves Loral ATC
LORAL IS TO BE allowed to continue with major elements of the US air-traffic-control (ATC) modernisation programme, which it inherited from IBM. The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded it a $898 million fixed-price incentive contract to build more than 3,000 display system replacement (DSR) units - automated ...