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FLIGHT mm.'mm^m.-m.'m •••••wwi FOUNDED 1909 NUMBER 4555 VOLUME 151 HEAD OFFICE Quadrant House, The Quadrant. Sutton. Surrey SM2 5AS. UK. 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("fques made payable to Flight International Distributed by Marketforce Flight Inttmational is a weekly news magazine for professionals working in all sectors of the aerospace industiy worldwide, serving all branches of airframe systems, support equipment and component manufacture and all sectors of opera tion, including air transport, general 3vation, defence, spaceflight and regulatory and other authonlies ^5^ REED f2S* BUSINESS *^ INFORMATION ^BPA Comment 3 • Headlines F-22 production slows 4 AI(R) courts Saab S Korea reviews KTX-II trainer... 5 NASA selects SOFIA team Embraer studies EMB-145 range. 6 GKN floats compound EH 101 • Air Transport Airline trio orders A330s 7 Marshall approaches more TriStar conversions Airbus prepares to sign A3XX deal 8 Blue Dart aims to increase capacity NTSB favours fuel-tank changes... 9 SAS steps further towards free flight Philippines will start cargo carrier... 10 MAS 777 service entry triggers overhaul • Defence Hughes beat Raytheon to AIM-9X 11 Two more Il-76MFs will join flight-tests Sweden clears third Gripen order. 12 GE cures F-18E/F compressor failure Embraer plans AEW EMB-145 13 Iryda prototype is ready to be flown UK looks at Tornado successor 14 New stealthy designs are on UK MoD list Elbit wins AL-X avionics work • Business BA severs USAir partnership 15 Aerospatiale and Dassault beat deadline Racal closes in on Aerad deal 16 US industry ends year with improvements • General Aviation GV gets provisional acceptance .... 17 New Williams turbofan gets flight-test date • Spaceflight Second Ariane 5 delayed 18 Indonesian orders bolster Space Systems/Loral VUJJYMNTS ISSN 0015-3710 • Industry 19 • News Analysis Merger mania 20 Who will do what at the new giant Boeing • Features Smooth progress 23 Singapore's SilkAir sees bright future SilkAir makes good use of its Fokker 70s Keeping up tradition 26 The 757 is the latest Boeing to be stretched FLIGHT tmmmmmj mifjl O H (A £ 111 > O o In the picture 35 External video cameras have many uses • People 38 Flight International takes a look at what 1997 holds in store for the world airline and aerospace industry 29 Letters. 39 • Straight and Level 40 • Classified 41 The top international marketplace for aircraft, equipment, tuition and jobs. United Nations' helicopter surveillance operations in the Lebanon are featured in an issue that also looks at the impact of microlights on the GA market FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1 - 7 January 1997
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