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British Midland plans a foray into third-party maintenance market
British Midland is planning a major expansion into the third-party maintenance market, with the formation of British Midland Engineering, a new subsidiary company based at East Midlands Airport in the UK. The airline is also setting up a separate ground-handling company to expand its services in this area. ...
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Boeing increases rates - again
BOEING IS TO raise production to 43 airliners a month by mid-1998 - the sixth rate increase announced over the past 14 months - citing its 1,389-aircraft firm-order backlog and the signing of long-term exclusive agreements with American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Continental Airlines reportedly has agreed an exclusive ...
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FAA grounds Great Lakes Aviation
GREAT LAKES Aviation suspended flights on 16 May in the face of a US Federal Aviation Administration-imposed shutdown because of alleged deficiencies with maintenance operations. The action forced codeshare partners United Airlines and Midway Airlines to accommodate stranded passengers. Great Lakes served 82 cities in 21 US states ...
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Fokker to expand services in maintenance markets
Fokker Services plans to expand its activities beyond providing spares and technical support for Fokker turboprops and jet-powered aircraft, to include maintenance and modifications of other civil and military aircraft. As part of the Dutch company's planned diversification, it has acquired a two-bay service centre at Singapore's Seletar ...
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US Federal Aviation Administration demands EMB-120 ice-detection
The US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed an airworthiness directive (AD) calling for the installation of ice-detection systems on the Embraer EMB-120 regional turboprop. The AD follows the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report into the crash of a Comair EMB-120RT in Michigan on 9 January, which ...
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Affordable start
Remarkably, Skyfox has been awarded the first certification for not one, but two aircraft under European/ Australian joint airworthiness regulations for very light aircraft (JAR/VLA). As a result of the certification of the tailwheel CA25 Impala, and its newer derivative, the nosewheel-equipped Skyfox Gazelle, the Queensland-based manufacturer is now promoting ...
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Will A3XX ever get off the ground?
Sir - M Newman, writing about the Airbus Industrie A3XX (Letters, Flight International, 2-8 April, P96), asks: "Will political chicanery and commercial advantage preclude [its] worldwide adoption?" Urging us to "-remember Concorde", he also asks: "-how many of these aircraft were expected to be sold worldwide?" ...
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Leisurely delivery schedule speeded up by Leisure
Leisure International Airways is to accelerate the delivery of its fleet of four Airbus A321-200s. The charter airline, owned by the Unijet travel group, received the first aircraft in May and started commercial services on 12 May. The original plan was to introduce the aircraft at the rate of one ...
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Premier enters Malaysian regional market with 146s
The latest in a long line of new Malaysian start-up carriers, Premier Air, plans to launch charter services in September, equipped with two British Aerospace 146 regional jets. Premier general manager Selva Kumar says that the privately backed airline has already been granted an air-operator's certificate by the ...
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SIA results hit by high costs and strong dollar
Rising costs and a strong Singapore dollar which weakened passenger yields undermined Singapore Airlines' (SIA) financial performance for the year ending 31 March. The lacklustre results included only a marginal profit rise of 0.6% and an increase in net profit to $1.032 billion ($714 million) from a revenue of $7.22 ...
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A friend in need
The Society of British Aerospace Companies wants the new UK Government to increase its "seedcorn" funding of the UK aerospace industry fivefold, to some £100 million ($150 million) a year. Over the next five years, that same industry will give the UK Government £100 million a year in repayments of ...
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Pratt & Whitney
Karl Krapek, president of US engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, has taken over management of P&W's large commercial-engine business. The current president, Robert Wolfe, is to leave the company. Krapek has named eight top executives, with four new appointments: Robert Leduc, senior vice-president for commercial-engine programmes and service; John Wohler, ...
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Lockheed
Norman Augustine will retire as chief executive of Lockheed Martin on 1 August, 1997, to teach engineering at Princeton University. He will continue to serve the US aerospace powerhouse as its board chairman. Vance Coffman, president and chief operating ofÌcer will be elevated to chief executive upon Augustine's leaving. He ...
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BMW R-R
Dr Klaus Nittinger has been appointed chairman of joint-venture aero-engine company BMW Rolls-Royce, of Oberursel, Germany. Nittinger, who has served German national carrier Lufthansa for the past 23 years, will replace Albert Schneider, when he retires on 31 July. Source: Flight International
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Boeing multi-media
Boeing will take a 10% share in communications consortium Teledesic, with an investment of $100 million. It will lead the $9 billion venture as prime contractor, to design, build and launch an initial 288-satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit, providing global multi-media services, starting in 2002. The system will allow Internet ...
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HAL moves up
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) reports that sales grew by 10%,to $493 million, over the last financial year to March 1997. Although the bulk of sales are within India, the state-owned company managed exports of $9.5 million and expects that to rise this year because of $20 million-worth of work contracted by ...
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AI(R) defers engine choice for new regional-jet programme
The rapid rise of the regional jets at the top end of the market and the intense competition between engine makers seeking to power them dominated debate at this year's Regional Airline Association convention in Reno, Nevada, on 12-14 May. There was also spirited defence of 19-seat aircraft at the ...
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Chirac's Chinese visit reaps a harvest of civil orders
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has placed a $1.5 billion order for a second batch of 30 Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, further strengthening the European consortium's growing presence in that country. It is the biggest of three deals announced during the visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Beijing in ...
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SilkAir selects engine
SilkAir has selected the International Aero Engines V2500-A5 for its planned new fleet of Airbus Industrie A319/A320s. The Singapore-based airline is to order a mix of eight A319s and A320s to replace its two Fokker 70s and Boeing 737-300s (Flight International, 14-20 May). SilkAir will also take options on another ...
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P&W plans demonstration of new JSF engine diagnostics
PRATT &WHITNEY plans to demonstrate pro-active diagnostic technologies planned for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engine. "Prognostics" will be able to detect impending failures, increasing powerplant reliability in the single-engined fighter, the company says. "Single-engine safety is paramount in the JSF," says Frank Gillette, P&W director of advanced ...