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Frontier lease
Frontier Airlines, the new Denver-based low-fare US entrant, is to lease two Boeing 737-300s from GE Capital Aviation Services. Frontier recently closed a public offering, which yielded sufficient financing to lease up to four Boeing 737-300s. The aircraft, which will go into service in November will join Frontier's present fleet ...
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USAir Express launches Magellan GPS/ACARS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA USAIR EXPRESS HAS become the launch customer for Magellan Systems' CNS-12 communication/navigation/surveillance system. USAir has ordered systems to equip around 100 de Havilland Dash 8s and Dornier 328s operated by subsidiaries Allegheny, Jetstream International and Piedmont Airlines. Magellan says that it plans to ...
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Beware non-EU pilot licence-holders
Sir - Capt. Rackham would appear to be confused on the subject of licence validation within the European Union (Flight Inter-national, 20-26 September, P76). A European Commission directive in 1991 brought down his perceived barriers to the movement of labour within the EU. All EU licence-holders are subject ...
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Ayres considers Dual Pac power for new types
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FRED AYRES, developer of the Ayres Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft, is designing a series of new types - ranging from a fire fighting tanker to a utility freighter - using the Soloy Dual Pac with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As as the power plant. ...
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ATR supporter
DRS has signed a product-support agreement with TAC, the Belgian manufacturer of mechanical rods installed on ATR 42/72s. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA-based DRS becomes North and South American Product Support Center. Source: Flight International
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Anglo-Tunisian venture to develop cargo trade
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE ANGLO-TUNISIAN all-cargo airline, North African Airlines (NAA), has received the first scheduled air-cargo licence in Tunisia. In partnership with the Tunisian Government, which has granted the airline important fiscal advantages, including waiving corporation tax for ten years, it has been charged with the ...
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ValuJet goes back to MDC and Boeing as Airbus waits
VALUJET HAS re-opened negotiations with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing after failing to reach agreement with Airbus over the seemingly imminent sale of up to 25 A319s. The negotiations with Airbus, were expected to be sealed by the beginning of October, but appear to have foundered, primarily ...
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BAe aims Gripen at Saudi Arabia
Douglas Barrie/LINKOPING SAUDI ARABIA HAS emerged as a key target of the British Aerospace/Saab joint venture marketing the JAS-39 Gripen fighter. BAe has briefed Saudi Arabia on an export derivative of the Gripen to meet its Northrop F-5 replacement programme. BAe has teamed ...
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Crack causes delay in Trent 777 ETOPS tests
THE START OF extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 is to be delayed by "two to three weeks", says the engine maker, after a seal crack developed in the low-pressure (LP) turbine. The crack, in the seal arm of the LP1 turbine disc, ...
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Aer Lingus withdraws its last 747
AER LINGUS WITHDREW ITS last Boeing 747 from revenue service on a Boston-Shannon-Dublin flight on 1 October. The 747 entered service with the Irish carrier in December 1970 and, since then, the three aircraft in the fleet have carried 8 million passengers. All three aircraft are now in storage. Aer ...
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Additional ATR 72s
British Airways Express franchise operator CityFlyer Express has ordered two additional ATR 72-200s. The first will be delivered in November, and the second in February 1996. The order brings CityFlyer's ATR fleet to four ATR 72s and six ATR 42. Source: Flight International
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Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS considering launching a family of stretched 747 derivatives in 1996 if market conditions are right. The possible introduction of the 700-seat aircraft emerged in evidence given by British Airways to a public inquiry on the expansion of London Heathrow Airport. ...
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Slovakia in MiG-29 deal
RUSSIA AND SLOVAKIA have concluded an agreement covering the delivery of a further seven Mikoyan MiG-29 single-seat fighters and one MiG-29UB two-seat trainer as part of a debt write-off package. The aircraft will be ferried to Slovakian airfields by December. The Slovakian air force took delivery of five ...
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DC-10 misses Frankfurt runway - by 300km
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON A NORTHWEST AIRLINES McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 carrying 241 passengers from Detroit to Frankfurt missed its intended destination by 300km (160nm), landing at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. The pilots of Flight 52 only realised their error when they ...
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Uncommon sense
IT MAKES FOR GREAT copy, but does it really make sense for two great business-jet manufacturers to distract attendees with an old-fashioned slinging match at their industry's most important annual event? The Gulfstream V and the Bombardier Global Express, when they enter service, will be far more ...
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Ryanair plans to raise Prestwick profile with Stansted schedule
IRISH LOW-COST operator Ryanair is linking its successful Dublin-Glasgow Prestwick flights into a new schedule from Prestwick to London Stansted, to be flown four times daily from 26 October. The move brings to three the number of scheduled destinations served from Prestwick - in its heyday Scotland's premier ...
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Independents jockey for position in India
THE LOW PRICE OF FIVE 20-year old Boeing 737-200s being offered for sale by Government-owned Indian Airlines has elicited bids from two independent rivals - NEPC Airlines and Sahara India Airlines. The five aircraft are expected to fetch up to $40 million. NEPC and Sahara have ambitions to ...
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Fibre-placement fuselage
PREMIER I FUSELAGES will be produced in two sections, which will be bonded together at the aft pressure-bulkhead. The skins are a sandwich of Nomex-honeycomb core between carbonfibre-reinforced plastic layers, formed on a wooden mandrel using automatic fibre-placement. First a bladder is slipped over the mandrel, then ...
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EJA expands NetJets with European move
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) has launched the long-awaited expansion of its NetJets business-aircraft fractional-ownership programme into Europe. EJA will base four company-owned Cessna Citation S/IIs in Europe, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1995 and will begin selling aircraft shares, in the first quarter of 1996 says, ...
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Eastern expansion
Vietnam is on the brink of major air-transport growth. Paul Lewis/HANOI THE INDOCHINA region of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) is emerging from more than four decades of conflict and economic isolation and today represents the last real undeveloped air-transport market in the area. ...