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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ageing-airliner census
Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...
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Joining the FANS club
Qantas has been proving FANS equipment and refining procedures. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES AIRLINE PLANNERS AND civil-aviation authorities understand the long-term benefits of future-air-navigation-systems (FANS) technology. Early unease among pilot unions over reduced separation standards and other aspects, however, suggests that some line crews may have been kept ...
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Pakistan K-8 deliveries
The Pakistan air force is to take delivery of a further six Nanchang K-8 Karakorum jet trainers from China. An initial six were handed over in late 1994, for evaluation. The aircraft are among a first production batch of 15 AlliedSignal TFE731-2A-powered K-8s produced by Nanchang Aircraft. Source: ...
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SIA expands 777 options
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has widened its "Y aircraft" evaluation of the Boeing 777 to include the longer range -200 B-market and -300 stretch variants. The 777 is competing against the Airbus Industrie A330/340 for an SIA order for up to 17 aircraft. A final selection was due ...
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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. ...
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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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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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Concorde faces up to old age
David Learmount/LONDON UK AND FRENCH authorities will decide in 1996 on the modifications required to keep the Concorde flying beyond 2000. The UK Civil Aviation Authority, has been conducting research in association with its French counterpart, the DGAC, the manufacturers and British Airways on the ...
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Big three airframe builders demand IFE standard
THE WORLD'S three largest airframe builders have joined together to warn the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry that it has to standardise hardware or face serious consequences. Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) executives shared a stage at the recent World Airline Entertainment Association conference in Amsterdam to give ...
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NTSB starts work on Boeing 737 wake-vortex testing
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is conducting wake-vortex flight-tests as part of its continuing probe of the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 on 8 September 1994, outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The USAir aircraft had passed through an area where a wake vortex created by a Boeing ...
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Two new orders for Fokker 70
A new customer and an existing operator have placed orders for four Fokker 70 regional jets. Vietnam Airlines has confirmed a previously unannounced order for two aircraft as a first step in replacing its 12 Tupolev Tu-134s. Based at Hanoi, the Fokker 70s will be operated in a 79-seat single-class ...