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TAI aims for September flight testing for its first design
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) plans to begin flight testing its single-engined agricultural and firefighting aircraft in September. "The design phase should be completed shortly and then we will start building the first prototype," says TAI marketing director Yilmaz Guldogan. The single-seat aircraft, yet to be named, will be ...
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Pakistan orders more F-7MG fighters, plans upgrades
Paul Lewis/ISLAMABAD Pakistan plans to order around 50 improved Chengdu F-7MG fighters from China, as the air force moves ahead with the upgrade of its existing F-7P and Dassault Mirage III/5 fighters and the delivery of more secondhand French aircraft. The Pakistan air force (PAF) is looking for ...
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SAS opts for A330/A340s but order awaits cost cuts to bite
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH SAS has selected the Airbus A330/A340 family for its planned long-haul fleet renewal but is holding off signing a firm order until its internal cost cutting targets have been met. The airline has decided to reject Boeing's offer of 10 Boeing 777-200ERs in favour of a ...
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Pop goes the boom
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON On the face of it, the Airbus and Boeing orderbooks have so far escaped much of the Asian gloom, with a third successive year of solid sales and production records. Order deferrals, however, have already begun, and airliner salesmen are bracing themselves for a tougher time ahead ...
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Boeing wins Globalstar launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON Boeing has been contracted by Space Systems Loral to launch 28 more Globalstar worldwide mobile communications satellites on seven Delta IIs. The first eight - and so far only - satellites in the series were launched on two Delta II boosters from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1998. Forty-eight ...
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Russian 1.44 to fly soon despite money shortage, says MAPO
MAPO MiG's MFI (Article 1.44) fifth generation fighter prototype will fly by early March, MAPO officials said at the aircraft's first public appearance on 12 January at the LII flight test centre at Zhukovsky, near Moscow. The aircraft taxied in front of an audience that included Russia's ministers of defence ...
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Fairchild fastens on
Fairchild has agreed to acquire Kaynar Technologies, a maker of aerospace fasteners, for $267 million. The combination of Fairchild Fasteners and Kaynar Technologies is expected to generate $685 million in revenues for the company in the fiscal year ending 30 June 1999. Source: Flight International
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Components plant
Snecma Services, the French engine maker's after-market arm, and the USA's Praxair Surface Technologies are negotiating to set up an aircraft engine component repair centre in France. Initially, it will provide compressor component repair services for CFM56, and later the General Electric GE90 powerplant. Praxair provides metallic and ceramic coatings ...
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Air France pilots back wage cuts
Eight out of 10 Air France pilots have agreed to wage cuts and a subsequent freeze in salaries in return for a stake in the airline when it is partially privatised. The decision means that the French Government can go ahead with its partial privatisation plans, under which up ...
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Ansett to replace 747-300s with -400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The board of Ansett International has endorsed a plan to acquire two Boeing 747-400s as interim replacements for two 747-300s it leases from partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The decision removes any near term plans to acquire smaller twinjets. The airline operates the 747-300s between Australia and ...
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ATR team sets tight deadline for regional jet project talks
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia are trying to wrap up, by the end of March, a deal with either Fairchild Dornier or Embraer for the joint development of a family of regional jets. Talks with Fairchild Dornier, which began last month, are to continue through ...
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RJ100 delivered for EuroCross services
Crossair has taken delivery of its latest Avro RJ100 adorned in its new EuroCross livery to promote the new hub operation at EuroAirport Basle-Mulhouse-Freiburg. The RJ will initially be operated on a new service between Basle and Stockholm, and will also replace a Saab 2000 on services to Bilbao. Crossair ...
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Israel opens up cargo market
El Al is to decrease its cargo carrying capability in reaction to an Israeli Government committee recommendation to allow a private company to fly scheduled cargo services from the country. The committee, headed by the director-general of the Israeli ministry of transport, has recommended that Cargo Air Lines (CAL) ...
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Lauda Air bolsters fleet with Next Generation 737s, additional 767
Lauda Air has ordered a further six Boeing Next Generation 737s and an additional 767-300ER in a $519 million deal with the US manufacturer. The carrier, part of the Austrian Airlines group, will take delivery of the 767 in August. Two 737-600s and four 737-700s will be handed over ...
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Marketplace (1)
-UK remarketing agent Cabot Aviation has purchased Thai Airways International's two eight-year-old ATR 42-320s, which are now being offered for onward sale or lease. -Swedish lessor Indigo Aviation has acquired two Boeing 737-400s which are currently leased to Istanbul Airlines and Italy's Blue Panorama. The aircraft are leased until 2003. ...
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Marketplace (2)
-Hawaiian Airlines has purchased two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s from the Italian airline Meridiana, for delivery in February. The airline already operates 13 DC-9-51s on its inter-island route network, and is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-out noise legislation that takes full effect at the end of 1999, because Hawaii ...
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Profits boost prompts PIA to decide on fleet replacements
Paul Lewis/KARACHI Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) says that it is ready to decide on the long-awaited replacement aircraft for its Boeing 747-200s. It has been spurred on by an end of year boost in profits and the need to combat increased competition after the government opened up access by foreign ...
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Raisbeck completes Stage 3 tests on hushkit
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has completed US Federal Aviation Administration Stage 3 certification flight tests on its Boeing 727-200 High Gross Weight (HGW) hushkit, and says that it is on track for March approval. In the meantime, the Seattle-based company is offering its Increased Gross Weight (IGW) kit for ...
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Routes
Taiwan's EVA Airways has dropped its seven-month-old Kaohsiung-Los Angeles service because of low demand. The decision marks an end to EVA's ambitions to make the southern Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung its second international hub. -South African Airways is increasing its Hong Kong to Johannesburg non-stop service to three weekly ...
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Boeing agrees SAA's swap of 777 orders for 747 whitetails
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South African Airways (SAA) has agreed with Boeing to swap its outstanding orders and options for up to seven 777s for two whitetail 747-400s originally built for Philippines Airlines. Two General Electric CF6-80C2-powered 747-400s were delivered at the end of 1998 after nearly three years ...