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China forces Israel to freeze Taiwan project
PRESSURE FROM CHINA has led to Israel freezing talks about the establishment of a joint maintenance centre with Taiwanese industrial interests. The talks, which started in 1993, had advanced to the point where Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) had signed a memorandum of understanding with a group of Taiwanese ...
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MAS seeks long-range aircraft
MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) has asked for proposals from manufacturers for up to six new long-range passenger aircraft to replace its McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10-30 on thin international routes. Under consideration for the deal are the Airbus A340, Boeing 777 and MDC MD-11. The airline is understood to want ...
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Vietnam Airlines to lease Region A340
VIETNAM AIRLINES is negotiating to lease an Airbus A340 from Region Air of Singapore, in addition to its more immediate requirement for up to nine replacement 150-seat aircraft for its wet-leased Airbus A320s. Region Air is understood to have already ordered one A340 and is considering the ...
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JAL and Thai consider expanding ties
JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) and Thai Airways International are considering expanding their recently concluded co-operation agreement into a wider strategic tie-up covering Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The two airlines have agreed to increase joint flights from Bangkok to Nagoya and Fukuoka, introduce new joint services to Kansai Airport ...
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Air New Zealand boosts profits
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) boosted profits in its first half-year, despite continuing problems with its domestic Boeing 737 fleet and a rapid expansion of capacity on international routes. The New Zealand carrier managed to raise net profits by nearly 60%, to more than NZ$140 million ($89 million) ...
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NASA disputes JAA duty plan
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authority (JAA) proposals for airline-pilot working hours exceed safe limits, with excessive duty time and inadequate rest periods, according to a study from NASA. The JAA has declined to comment. The study was led by, Mark Rosekind of NASA's Ames ...
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Beech boosts 1900D production
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT is to increase production of Beech 1900D 19-seater airliners in 1995 to meet a surge in orders. The company is expected to raise its annual output to around 55 aircraft this year, compared to 50 in 1994 and 45 the previous year. Raytheon declines to be ...
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Endeavour prepared for longest Shuttle flight
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE SPACE SHUTTLE Endeavour/STS67 is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 01.27 local time on 2 March to attempt a 16-day mission, the longest by the Space Shuttle. Carrying the Astro 2 payload of three ultraviolet astronomy telescopes, ...
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Executive Jet sells all 1995 Ultra shares
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) says that it has sold full shareholdings in 16 Citation Ultra business-jets due for delivery in 1995 for its NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The aircraft are part of a $150 million order for 25 Citation Ultras announced in July 1994. First delivery is due in ...
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Thais seek funding for fighters
THE THAI AIR force is pushing for funding in the next defence budget for an additional 18-20 fighter aircraft to equip its third frontline squadron. The air force has been receiving informal preliminary briefings from competing manufacturers and is expected to make an official request for more information ...
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BAe studies TIALD for Harriers
BRITISH AEROSPACE is carrying out a project-definition study into equipping the Royal Air Force's BAe Harrier GR.7s with the GEC-Marconi Thermal Imaging and Laser Designation (TIALD) pod. The TIALD pod is already in service with the RAF on its Panavia Tornado GR.1 strike aircraft. The air force has ...
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Lockheed executives retire before merger
KENNETH CANNESTRA, who heads Lockheed's aeronautics unit, has become the latest senior executive to announce early retirement ahead of the US aerospace group's merger with Martin Marietta. Cannestra was to have been in charge of the combined aeronautics division until the end of this year, when he would ...
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Multi-national bid scuppers CorpsSAM
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA HAS finally dumped its CorpsSAM medium-range air-defence system in favour of an international programme to replace the Raytheon Patriot air-defence missile. The USA, Germany, France and Italy have agreed in principle to jointly develop and produce a next-generation medium-range air-defence ...
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An-70 investigators face FDR problems accident
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE INVESTIGATION of the fatal crash of the first and only Antonov An-70 prototype may be hampered by a lack of useable information from the flight-data recorder (FDR). Sources close to the Antonov flight-test operation allege that pressure on staff to accelerate the ...
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Date set for critical Ariane launch
ARIANESPACE HAS set 14 March as the date of the launch of an Ariane 44LP on flight V71, from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying Eutelsat's first direct TV broadcast satellite, the Hot Bird 1, and the Brasilsat B2 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The company has invested $8 million ...
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Four to bid for Nilesat
FOUR INTERNATIONAL consortia have been invited to bid for a contract from Egypt to build a turnkey satellite system, called the Nilesat. The consortia, are led by Aerospatiale, whose team includes, Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Alcatel, Alenia and Space Systems/Loral, Hughes Space and Communications, Martin Marietta Astro Space and Matra ...
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Mir enters tenth year in orbit
THE CORE MODULE of the Russian Mir 1 space station entered its tenth year in orbit on 20 February, three days after the routine docking of a tanker ship, the Progress M26. The Mir, which now consists of a Kvant 1 astrophysics module, and the Kvant 2 and ...
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Ground-to-air control
The need to put many more aeroplanes safely in any given airspace sector implies smaller separations and much greater flying accuracy in all four dimensions, including time. That can be achieved only by pre-programming air-traffic-control computers with the aircraft's flight plan, and having the aircraft's flight-management system (FMS) continually feed ...
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Lufthansa decides on A319 as successor to 737-200
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS to order 20 Airbus A319 short- to medium-range airliners to replace its remaining Boeing 737-200s. The airline says that it chose the latest and smallest product of the Airbus stable on "grounds of fleet policy and economics". The decision still requires the ...