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Eurocontrol agrees on central European unit
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROCONTROL has agreed on the basic details for the creation of a common centre for the control of upper airspace in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy. Legal, operational and financial principles for the Central European Air Traffic Services ...
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Pena calls for safety summit
US TRANSPORTATION Secretary Federico Pena is promising an industry/Government safety summit and an airline-industry safety audit. The yet-unscheduled meeting will be chaired by Federal Aviation Administrator David Hinson and will include senior airline management, chief pilots, aircraft manufacturers and FAA/DoT officials. Source: Flight International
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Tough medicine
The FAA's new regulations for commuter airlines will hit regional carriers hard. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US regional carriers could end up paying dearly for the loss of 83 lives in the two recent American Eagle crashes, which prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to undertake to ...
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New C-130J deals due soon
LOCKHEED EXPECTS to receive a contract for the first two US Air Force C-130J Hercules IIs in February. At about the same time, the company should receive a request for proposals from Australia for 12 stretched C-130J-30s. Canada is also "very interested" in the aircraft, Lockheed says, ...
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Pentagon presses for approval of Singapore DC-10 tanker
THE US DEPARTMENT of State is being pressed, by the Pentagon and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to approve the sale of two converted DC-10-30 tankers to Singapore, to support its fleet of Lockheed F-16 fighters. The Singapore air force has a requirement for up to three tanker aircraft, ...
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JAL sells ANZ stake but maintains links
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) stresses that it plans to continue its partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL), despite the Japanese carrier's decision to sell its 5% holding in the group. Announcing the share disposal, ANZ managing director Jim McCrea heaped praise on JAL's role as a strategic partner ...
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Hughes and Raytheon are picked to develop AIM-9X
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US NAVY has picked Raytheon and Hughes to begin development of the next-generation Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missile. The USN awarded Raytheon $25 million and Hughes $22 million to begin 18-month demonstration/validation work on the AIM-9X programme. The contract includes ground and ...
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Japan chooses Gulfstream IV for support role
THE JAPANESE Government has named the Gulfstream IV business jet, as the air force's future U-X multi-purpose support aircraft, during its review of the country's fiscal year 1995, defence budget. The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) had originally selected the Gulfstream IV over the Dassault Falcon 900B and Canadair ...
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An-70 has maiden flight
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW ANTONOV ACHIEVED a double first on 16 December 1994, with its An-70 four-prop-fan-powered wide-body transport: flying it for the first time and recording the first take-off of an aircraft powered by prop-fans only. The aircraft was flown for 28min from Svyatoshino airfield in ...
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Practical fudging
The UK Government's decision late in 1994 both to buy Lockheed C-130Js for the Royal Air Force and to opt back into supporting the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA programme) might look like a typically British fudge. Surprisingly, in view of the UK's long record of fudge making, however, it ...
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Estonian Air faces crisis
NEAR-BANKRUPT carrier Estonian Air's board of directors has been sacked by transport minister Andi Meister and replaced with a new board. The carrier has made an operating profit of about 1 million Kroons ($80,000) over the past ten months, but this amount is far short of the earnings ...
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Simera secures freighter deal
SIMERA OF SOUTH Africa, has won its first contract to convert Airbus A300B4s into freighters, since signing a co-operation agreement with Deutsche Aerospace Airbus. The deal calls for it to convert four A300B4s for BankAmerica Leasing and Capital ready for service in 1996. The work will be carried ...
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Australia reduces trainer shortlist
THE ROYAL Australian Air Force has shortened the list of contenders for its advanced jet-trainer requirement to six types. The air force is expected to release requests for tenders shortly to Aermacchi, for the MB.339FD; Aero Vodochody, for the L-59; Alenia, for the AMX-T; British Aerospace, which is ...
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Ariane launches to resume launches in February
ARIANE LAUNCHES are to be resumed in mid-February. Arianespace made the announcement following the release of the findings by the official inquiry into the loss of the Ariane V70 and its PanAmSat 3 payload on 1 December 1994 (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994). The inquiry found that the ...
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Continental to retire A300s
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES is to retire its fleet of 21 Airbus A300s in a bid to reduce capacity to 10% below 1994 levels by 1 March. The airline had previously announced the grounding of four Boeing 727s and three Boeing 747s in a move to improve financial performance. The ...
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Osprey design review completed
THE BELL BOEING V-22 design has been frozen following completion of its critical design review (CDR). Programme director Stuart Dodge says that completion of the CDR and the Pentagon's endorsement of Osprey production clears the way to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) and initial entry into service of the V-22 ...
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Delta orders 727 hushkits
DELTA AIR LINES has ordered 46 FedEx Stage 3 hushkits for its Boeing 727-200s and placed options on a further 52 shipsets. Deliveries will begin in late 1996. The US carrier has yet to announce its plans to hushkit Boeing 737-200s to meet Stage 3 noise limits. AvAero, ...
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Russian Grumble reaches US Army
THE US ARMY has acquired a Russian S-300 (SA-10 Grumble) air-defence system for evaluation. The S-300, Russia's equivalent of the US Raytheon Patriot surface-to-air missile system, is believed to have been purchased from Belarus in a $50 million deal brokered by US defence firm BDM International, despite Russian objections. ...