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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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Japan sets budget for aerospace projects
JAPAN'S MINISTRY OF International Trade and Industry (MITI) will allocate '11,161 million ($106 million) in fiscal year 1996, to support indigenous and international collaborative aerospace programmes. The budget includes '5,328 million for continued studies into development of the next-generation supersonic transport, and basic research of a super/hypersonic propulsion ...
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GE improves GE90 oil consumption
GENERAL ELECTRIC IS replacing the GE90 engines on the first Boeing 777 delivered to British Airways to improve the oil-consumption performance. The first engine change was performed at London Heathrow on 7 January, on one of the three 777s delivered to the airline to date, and is expected ...
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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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BA tries to salvage plan to use USAir 737 pilots
BRITISH AIRWAYS' controversial plan to use 30 USAir Boeing 737 co-pilots at its London Gatwick hub hangs in the balance, after the UK Department for Employment and Education (DfEE) indicated that it is unlikely to grant the pilots work permits. The DfEE told BA on 5 January ...
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Business Express cancels remaining RJ70 orders
BUSINESS EXPRESS IS TO cancel nine remaining firm orders for Avro International Aerospace RJ70s, following its decision to return the three aircraft, which it already operates and to withdraw from jet-powered operations (Flight International, 10-16 January). The orders are being converted into options. Avro says that it and ...
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Firing tests completed on Vulcain for Ariane 5
THE SECOND AND FINAL qualification firing of the Vulcain cryogenic first-stage engine of the Ariane 5 booster was successfully completed at Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 January, clearing the way for the booster's maiden flight on 7 May. The Ariane 5 will have its first commercial flight for Arianespace in ...
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Loral deal creates $30 billion Lockheed Martin
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN has again raised the stakes in the US defence business with its agreement to buy the bulk of Loral for $9.1 billion. The latest deal, which comes less than a year after Lockheed's merger with Martin Marietta, will create a group with sales ...
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An-32 freighter crashes on take-off, killing 250
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON IN ONE OF THE worst third-party aviation accidents in history, a freighter aircraft taking off from Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire, on 8 January crashed immediately after take-off, killing about 250 people in the Simbazikita marketplace just beyond the airfield boundary. ...
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Power surge
Arms race or just re-equipment - either way, Southeast Asian nations are on a buying spree Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DEFENCE EXPENDITURE in Southeast Asia is at an all-time high and is continuing to grow, prompting many ob-servers to suggest that the region is in the throes ...
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FSI penetrates regional-jet market
FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit Air has ordered a Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet full-flight simulator from FlightSafety International (FSI). The simulator will be installed at the airline's ICARE flight-training centre in Morlaix, alongside an FSI-supplied ATR 42/72 simulator. Brit Air is the first Regional Jet operator to acquire its ...
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France opens up internal routes
Julian Moxon and Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRANCE OFFICIALLY opened its internal air routes to competition from national airlines on 1 January, marking the final phase of the country's transformation to the fully liberalised European internal air-transport market on 1 April, 1997. All French airlines are now ...
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Filling the gap
THE 1995 BUSINESS FIGURES for the airliner manufacturers tell many stories. Boeing regained market leadership with an outstanding year, selling 346 aircraft worth some $31.2 billion. Airbus Industrie, which outsold Boeing in 1994, dropped back into second place in 1995, but delivered more aircraft than ever, giving it record revenues. ...
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DARCHEM Engineering
DARCHEM Engineering has delivered the first set of thrust-reverser insulation blankets for Boeing's next-generation 737-700. The blankets were manufactured, in accordance with CATIA computer-aided-design data, sent to the UK company by Boeing. A suite of 15 "master" models, assembly jigs, press tools and inspection fixtures were then cast ...
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India turns down three domestic carriers' plans for expansion
THE INDIAN Government has rejected the expansion plans of domestic carriers Jet Airways, Skyline NEPC and Sahara Indian Airlines. It is believed that the rejection was on the grounds that the airlines had failed to utilise earlier approvals to import aircraft. In the meantime, another Indian domestic carrier, ...
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Northrop Grumman wins the battle to buy Westinghouse Defense Electronics
Northrop Grumman is to acquire the defence-electronics and air-traffic-control (ATC) equipment businesses of Westinghouse for $3 billion. The aerospace and defence concern won a bidding war against a list of rivals which reportedly also included Hughes Aircraft, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Loral. Northrop Grumman says that it expects ...
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No alternative to BALPA/BA deal
Sir - Ivor Bennett has got the wrong end of the stick in his letter "Inconsistency in BALPA policy" (Flight International, Letters, 22-28 November 1995, P68). The facts are as follows. Early in 1995, British Airways proposed the introduction of "cadet cruise-only" pilots, on to the Boeing 747-400 ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...