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KLM to boost airline holdings other carriers
DUTCH FLAG CARRIER KLM is to increase its holdings in Martinair Holland and Air UK. KLM will take its holding in Martinair from 33.82% to 50% at the same time as the other major shareholder, Nedlloyd, increases its stake from 49.19% to a full 50%. The ...
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Firefly sees light of day
DAIMLER-BENZ AEROSPACE (DASA) HAS released the first photographs of what is believed to be the 16m (50ft)-long full-size-scale airframe which MBB constructed for a top-secret stealth-research programme during the mid-1980s (Flight International, 8-14 March). The purpose of the project, known as the Lampyridae (Firefly) or the Medium-Range-Missile Fighter, was to ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Back To Beijing
Qantas Airways was due to resume flying to Beijing on 28 March, after an absence of eight years. The resumption of services to the Chinese capital ends a long-running battle over rights to the route, between Qantas and one-time challenger Australia Air International and, later, Ansett Australia. Source: ...
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Siemens halts defence alliance talks
SIEMENS HAS broken off talks aimed at finding a partner or buyer for its defence electronics division, saying that it will carry on the business on its own. Siemens had been negotiating for a year with Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) on a possible joint venture in defence-electronics operations. Talks ...
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Stinger On Guard
AAI will deliver a Stinger air-defence-missile trainer to the North Dakota National Guard in mid-1996 under a $4.5 million US Army contract. The Improved Moving Target Simulator features a 12m (39ft)-diameter dome. Source: Flight International
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US Army may cut Avenger purchases
AS BOEING CONTINUES to seek foreign-military sales for the Avenger air-defence system, the US Army is considering a further reduction in procurement. The Pentagon originally planned to buy 1,700 Avenger firing units, but three years ago it elected to reduce its total purchase to just over 1,000 ...
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MTCR Team In Egypt
UK Foreign Office officials have visited Egypt in an attempt to persuade the country to curb plans for the export of medium-range ballistic missiles. Egypt, with North Korean assistance, is working on the production of an improved Scud missile. The UK asked Egypt to respect the Missile Technology Control Regime ...
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History of ASTOVL
The ASTOVL programme originally emerged from a US Navy STOVL fighter strike study and continuing research under the US-UK ASTOVL co-operative research agreement. The ARPA programme was examining STOVL as a way of reducing the cost of performing a strike mission. As this is one of the main drivers of ...
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Apache Orders
Egypt is to purchase, a further 12 McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apache attack helicopters, at a cost of $318 million, with a potential follow-on sale of an additional 12 AH-64s. Kuwait has also selected the AH-64, with the announcement for the order for an initial batch of 16 helicopters expected shortly. ...
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Hughes conducts UH-1N WST review
Hughes Training is conducting the critical design review on the Bell UH-1N helicopter weapon-system trainer (WST) for the US Marine Corps. The simulator features a Lockheed Martin Compu-Scene VI visual system (pictured), providing geospacefic photo-textured imagery, a dome display and six-axis motion. Up to five UH-1N WSTS are planned. ...
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Airlines In The Red
With major US airlines completing their year-end financial reports, the Air Transport Association (ATA) predicts that the industry will record a cumulative loss of $100 million in 1994, the fifth consecutive year of losses. Since 1990, US carriers have lost nearly $13 billion, says ATA. In 1994, its members posted ...
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India turns down offer of Su-30
THE INDIAN Government has rejected a Russian offer of Sukhoi Su-30 fighters. Russian delegations have recently visited New Delhi for discussions about a plan to sell 35 Su-30s. Indian defence officials say that they are still facing supply problems on spares for various Mikoyan aircraft and ...
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Independence for Lufthansa school
LUFTHANSA'S AIRLINE pilots' school is to be renamed the Lufthansa Flight Training and run as an independent company. The move is the last major restructuring project in the Lufthansa Group. Lufthansa Technik, Lufthansa Cargo and Lufthansa Systems have all been turned into independent companies. ...
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Air Jamaica receives a facelift
British Aerospace Aviation Services, has completed the refurbishment and repainting of the first of Air Jamaica's four Airbus A300-B4s. The £2 million contract calls for the aircraft to be painted in the airline's new livery, adopted after privatisation and seen above. The aircraft are also undergoing C-checks, including corrosion-prevention measures. ...
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AXAF mirrors ahead of schedule
POLISHING AND MEASUREMENT of the eight mirrors for the Advanced X-Ray Facility (AXAF), to be deployed by the Space Shuttle in September 1998, have been completed ahead of schedule at Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. The TRW-built AXAF will follow the Compton gamma-ray observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope in NASA's ...
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Eastleigh Display
Siemen's air-traffic-management division has been awarded a contract to supply a Watchkeeper/AP100 display system to Eastleigh Airport in the UK. The system is scheduled to be installed by mid-May and it will be configured as the aerodrome traffic monitor, displaying both primary- and secondary-radar data. Source: Flight International
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Angry Canada stops payments to Hughes
THE CANADIAN Government is refusing to make payments to Hughes Aircraft in a major dispute over the modernisation of the nation's air-traffic-control system. Deputy minister of transport David Wightman says that the C$659 million ($464 million) programme is "up to two years" behind schedule, prompting the suspension of ...
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Lufthansa transforms financial results
LUFTHANSA PRODUCED its promised return to profits in style, with a set of results ahead of expectations. The now-privatised German carrier underlined its financial transformation by revealing that it has halved debts and almost doubled cash flow over the past year. Full group figures will not be released ...
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ICAO Lists Accidents
Scheduled airlines suffered 28 accidents involving passenger fatalities during 1994, compared with 34 in 1993, says the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). In 1994, the number of deaths was 941, an increase of five fatalities on the 1993 total. Non-scheduled operations suffered 54 accidents, accounting for 251 fatalities, reports ICAO, ...