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US and Australia change single-turbine rules
Australia and the USA are set to amend rules to allow the carriage of revenue passengers in single-engine turbine-powered aircraft under instrument flight rules and at night. The concession is certain to boost sales of single-turbine types and is particularly important to Cessna with its Caravan and ...
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American Airlines
American Airlines will repair America West Rolls Royce RB211-535E4 turbofan engines for the next five years at its Alliance maintenance base near Fort Worth, Texas. The contract will run alongside a similar America West arrangement with Rolls Royce Canada. Source: Flight International
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Vectoring in vogue
Thrust vectoring technology, is close to becoming a deployable reality. Russia's Sukhoi design bureau is working on a pre-production model of its Su-35 derivative of the Su-27 Flanker, equipped with two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles, while in the USA several programmes are under way. Exactly how capable the Su-35 ...
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SR20 builds up hours
Cirrus Design has put more than 50h on its prototype SR20 following its 31 March first flight. Construction of a second aircraft is already underway as the Duluth, Minnesota based company moves towards certification of the type in 1996 and deliveries at the end of the same year. ...
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JAST Contracts
Hughes Aircraft has received three Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) research and development contracts. The three contracts are valued at $9.4 million. The awards include a $3 million contract to develop and demonstrate a very high-resolution radar to detect, identify, designate and track surface targets. Source: Flight International
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Scramble to keep Ramjet alive
At the more arcane end of military-power plant research, ramjet propulsion remains under active consideration, although deployment time-scales remain considerable. In Russia two long-term Mikoyan research programmes into high mach-number combat aircraft have been cancelled. In the US programmes are continuing, albeit with funding on a tight rein. ...
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Florida Authority
The US Air Force has awarded a $2.74 million payment to Spaceport Florida Authority (SFA), formally handing over the Air Force launch pad 46 at Cape Canaveral to SFA for use by commercial launcher companies. SFA has funding from the space industry and the state of Florida (Flight International, 11-17 ...
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Balloons deflated
The balloon, so to speak, has gone down. The RAF's Balloon Operations Squadron has been disbanded. No more will Clarence E Whiteknuckle III, heading for yet another failure of his GFT, have to thread his way past a barrage of Kite Mk IIDs in rural Oxfordshire. Nor, any more, will ...
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Rockwell
Increased commercial-avionics business helped boost Rockwell International's second-quarter earnings (to 31 March) by 26%, to $191 million on sales of $3.4 billion, up by 21% over the 1994 second quarter. Both defence-electronics and aerospace earnings were down compared with a year ago, because of lower sales. ...
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Tu-204 Changes Its Spots
Tupolev is re-christening its Tu-204-300 twin-jet, the Tu-234, to reflect the considerable changes being implemented from the basic aircraft. The aircraft will have a shortened fuselage with a range of around 8,000km. Source: Flight International
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Il-96T Deliveries
Ilyushin will start deliveries to Aeroflot of the cargo variant of its Il-96, the Il-96T, re-engine with Pratt & Whitney PW2337 turbofans, in the second half of 1996. The first five re-engine Il-96s will be the cargo variant, with the first production-standard passenger variant, the Il-96M, to be completed by ...
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Aviall
Prestwick, Scotland-based Aviall Caledonian Engine Services has signed long-term engine-service contracts with Air Maritius, Cyprus Airways, FedEx, Icelandair and Monarch Airlines, worth more than $30 million a year. The contracts cover General Electric CF6s and GE/Snecma CFM56s. Source: Flight International
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Clementine Found
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organisation's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)-built spacecraft, the Clementine, which was swung into deep space after a final lunar-fly by in July 1994, has been re-contacted after ten months' silence. Source: Flight International
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Financial results
Alitalia improved its operating result and cut its loss, but net debt rose 50% to $1.9b as net assets fell to $280m. Staff cuts cost $77.5m. Cathay's net profit rose 4.1% yet turnover grew 13.4%. Gross yield fell 4.3% and available tonne km per employee rose 7.5% to 573,700. ...
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Appointments
Organisational restructuring at United has seen president John Edwardson assume the role of chief operating officer. David Coltman, formerly vice president Atlantic division, becomes SVP marketing. James E Goodwin has become SVP North America and is replaced by Christopher Bowers as SVP international. Andrew P Studdert joins as ...
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Governments
The Turkish government has sold off state-owned airport handling company, Havas, to a local businessman for a reported $36 million. Transport Canada has granted type approval for the de Havilland Dash 8-200. Source: Airline Business
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Orders
Germania Fluggesellschaft has ordered 12 Boeing 737-700s with deliveries starting at the end of 1997 through to mid-1998, while Bavaria Fluggesellschaft has ordered two Boeing 737-700s. Crossair has ordered 12 Avro RJ100s for delivery starting in September. Brazilian domestics Rio-Sul and Nordeste have ordered one and ...