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Elisra highlights electronic warfare trainer at show
Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd has given pride of place on its display at Asian Aerospace to a production version of its ACT-100 Air Crew Electronic Warfare Trainer. The EW Training Systems is a PC-controlled Electronic Warfare pilot trainer, which features EW theory and tutorials, system operation including responses, given ...
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Corporate BAe 146
British Aerospace Asset Management Jets has sold a BAe 146 to a Texan customer for use as a corporate aircraft. Source: Flight International
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FAA calls public meetings on 727 freighter payload limits
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is giving affected cargo carriers a final chance to express their views on four proposed airworthiness directives (ADs) that would severely limit the payloads of Boeing 727 freighters converted by third party maintenance organisations. The FAA has scheduled public meetings ...
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747s go as Ansett rethinks future fleet strategy
Ansett Australia is re-examining its future fleet strategy, focusing on its international capacity and an overhaul of its regional operations. The carrier says that it expects to finalise its long haul fleet early in 1999 and has advised Singapore Airlines that it will return the first of three Boeing ...
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American Eagle confirms CRJ-700
American Eagle has signed a firm contract with Bombardier for up to 50 Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 700s, worth $1.4 billion. The contract is for 25 firm orders and 25 options, and confirms a commitment announced in June 1997 at the Paris air show. Deliveries will begin in early ...
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Industry launches safety initiative
Airlines, aerospace manufacturers and pilots have formed a coalition to help the airline industry and government regulators prioritise leading safety issues. The Commercial Aviation Safety Strategy Team (CASST), which includes the Air Transport Association, Aerospace Industries Association, Air Line Pilots Association, Airbus Industrie, Boeing, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney ...
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CFMI tests solution to CFM56 cracking problem
CFM International (CFMI) has completed endurance tests of an improved dual annular combustor (DAC), which it hopes will address "durability issues" experienced on the CFM56-5B/P engine, in service on the Airbus narrowbody fleets of Austrian Airlines and Swissair. The DAC has suffered problems with cracking of the outer liner near ...
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China finalises Boeing allocations
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has reached agreement with five international and provincial Chinese carriers on the final allocation of about half of the 50 new Boeing 737s, 757s and 777s ordered recently. As expected, flag carrier Air China will receive five of the eight 777-200IGWs ordered ...
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EuroLOT prepares to build up turboprop fleet
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LOT Polish Airlines' regional subsidiary EuroLOT will begin building up its own turboprop fleet with the acquisition of "at least" two aircraft this year. The Warsaw-based company, which has been using its parent's eight 64-seat Aero International (Regional) ATR 72s, says that it wants to begin ...
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Early launch in store for 428JET
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE Fairchild Dornier 428JET could be launched as early as the AsianAerospace show in Singapore which starts on 24 February, providing outstanding technical issues can be resolved in time, says the manufacturer. The aircraft is a 42- to 44-seat stretched version of the 328JET, with a ...
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Marketplace
-Bombardier has received an order from Austrian regional Tyrolean for two de Havilland Dash 8-300s, one Dash 8-400 and two Canadair Regional Jet 200s, while Austria's Rheintalflug has ordered one Dash 8-300 and has a conditional order for one more. -Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines has taken delivery of a Boeing ...
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Manufacturers issue fresh bids as SIA revives long haul plans
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie and Boeing have submitted fresh proposals to Singapore Airlines (SIA) in response to a renewed impetus within the airline to move ahead with its ultra long haul requirement with either the A340-500 or 777-200X. The two rival manufacturers are understood to have made improved ...
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SkyWest buys Brasilias for new United Express services
Skywest Airlines is to buy 20 new Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias after United Airlines awarded the carrier a contract to provide United Express regional services in the US Pacific North-west, replacing WestAir. Skywest will also acquire seven used Brasilias because it requires a total of 27 additional aircraft for its ...
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Transbrasil resurrects plans to purchase Boeing 777-200s
Brazilian independent airline Transbrasil has revived plans to acquire Boeing 777s, some 30 months after it scrubbed a deal with Boeing. The Sao Paulo-based airline has signed a letter of intent for four 777-200IGWs, say airline sources in Latin America. The airline's last deal with Boeing was for three ...
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Airtours acquires Air Belgium with Sun
UK group Airtours has acquired a majority stake in Air Belgium following its take-over of Belgian tour operator Sun International. The move marks a further incursion for the UK charter airline business into the continental European market. Airtours will take over an 80% stake in the largely privately owned ...
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European airlines continue to wage war on airport charges
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Europe's airlines are continuing their attack on airport charges, unveiling a study which highlights massive variations in costs within the region and suggests that European charging levels are two or three times higher than for their USor Asian counterparts. The issue re-ignited in 1997 when members ...
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MAPO plans to fly MiG 1.42 by August as LFI demonstrator
MAPO MIG's Object 1.42 fifth generation fighter prototype will finally be flown by the third quarter of this year, with the aircraft being used as a technology demonstrator for the company's Lightweight Frontal Fighter (LFI), according to Mikhail Korzhuyev, new general director of Mikoyan design bureau. The aircraft has ...
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P&W completes F100-229A altitude testing
Pratt & Whitney has completed initial altitude tests of an advanced version of the F100-229A flight engine, which is fitted with a new fan and inlet to boost power and increase durability. The -229A is designed to power the Boeing F-15E and Lockheed Martin F-16C/D from 2000 onwards - ...
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Singapore negotiates on JSF participation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Singapore is conducting talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on participating in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme as an observer, in a further sign of increasingly close defence co-operation between the two nations. The Singapore Ministry of Defence is understood to be discussing a memorandum ...
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Calculated landings
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS According to David Jacobson, a training captain on Qantas' Boeing 737 domestic fleet, in this age of "-technical precision, the manual landing flare manoeuvre has remained imprecise. Conventional techniques have relied upon an inconsistent, critical estimation of height above the landing surface, and are subject to a number ...