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Extra investigates turboprop EA 400
German aircraft manufacturer Extra Flugzeugbau is investigating a turboprop version of its six-seat EA 400 tourer machine. According to Extra, the idea has attracted strong interest from potential customers, particularly in the light of the US Federal Aviation Administration's forthcoming repeal of the ban on commercial, instrument-flight-rules (IFR), ...
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Lockheed Martin and Transfield tackle Jindalee problems
Lockheed Martin has formed a software-engineering joint venture with Transfield Defence Systems (TDS) to take over management responsibility of Australia's troubled Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) programme. By June, the yet-to-be named joint venture will draw up a programme to complete the over-the-horizon radar-surveillance system. If the proposal ...
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Saab penetrates Japanese market
Saab has made what it describes as a significant breakthrough in the Japanese market, with the placing of an order by the Japanese transport ministry for two Saab 2000s. The order, worth $60 million, is for the first two of what is expected to be a total of five new ...
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E&S sells visuals to BA and Thomson
EVANS & SUTHERLAND (E&S) has received contracts from British Airways and Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) to supply a total of four commercial flight-simulator visual systems. TTS has ordered ESIG-3350 image-generators for installation on Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 simulators under construction for Thai Airways international. The order ...
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BFG brakes 737-700
Maersk Air has chosen BFGoodrich to supply wheels and brakes for six recently ordered Boeing 737-700s. The Danish carrier is scheduled to receive the first aircraft in October. Source: Flight International
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Falcon 20-B retrofit
Garrett Aviation and AlliedSignal have formed an exclusive partnership under which the latter will continue to market the TFE731 engine retrofit to CF700-powered Falcon 20 operators. Garrett will put its own Falcon 20s into the programme, retrofit and refurbish them, and offer the re-engined -20Bs for sale to non-Falcon 20 ...
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Lockheed sells units
Lockheed Martin has outlined its plans to spin off ten "non-core" communications and instruments businesses into a newly created standalone company which will have sales of $650 million and a workforce of nearly 5,000. The move comes as part of announced plans to tidy up its portfolio following the Loral ...
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TAP signs ILFC leases
TAP Air Portugal has arranged to lease three CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A319-100s from International Lease Finance (ILFC)for delivery in January and March 1998, and March 1999. The airline is also to lease one A320 from the same source from April 1999. All the aircraft are on seven-year leases. ...
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DAT disposal
Sabena will sell its fleet of nine Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias operated by its Delta Air Transport subsidiary, following KLM's decision to terminate DAT's contract to operate the four-times daily feeder route between Antwerp and Amsterdam Schiphol from 1 April. KLM City Hopper will serve the route with Saab 340 turboprops. ...
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Bombardier
Michael Graff, president of Bombardier Business Aircraft division, is to take responsibility for the sales and marketing of all Learjet products, following the resignation of sales and marketing vice-president Roger Sperry. Source: Flight International
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Tupolev plans to fly Tu-334 in May/June
Valentin Klimov, general director of Tupolev, says that the prototype of the much-delayed Tu-334 regional airliner will be flown for the first time in late May or June, following project funding from the Ukrainian Government. The proposed 100-seat twinjet, which is intended to replace the CIS' ageing fleet ...
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Fokker Aviation bolsters Asian sales support
Fokker Aviation is to take over LAB Asia Pacific's airframe-maintenance site in Singapore, in an effort to bolster flagging after-sales support for airlines in the region which are continuing to operate Fokker aircraft. The Dutch company has reached an accord with LAB to take over the running of ...
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Air-force fighter competition heats up as bidders jostle
International competition to win a pending Philippine air force order for 18 fighter aircraft is intensifying, with the number of potential contenders and proposals continuing to lengthen. The air force has been given a range of industry briefings and presentations on at least nine different European, Israeli, Russian ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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SITA: Dedicated to communicating
From the start, airlines could not be efficient without good contactability. The need for better company communications, over developing long routes, gave birth in 1949 to SITA (once known as the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques) - a non-profit-making co-operative, among major airlines - to provide self-managed communications. It has ...
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Airbus suffers setback as GE walks away from A340-600
Airbus Industrie has suffered a setback in its efforts to launch the proposed A340-500/600 growth derivatives in time for a 2001 service-entry date, after exclusive discussions with General Electric over the aircraft's powerplant were abandoned this month. The collapse of talks with GE, which began in April 1996, ...
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DASA blames Boeing for Northrop pull-out
The decision by Northrop Grumman not to participate in the Airbus A3XX project has sparked accusations by Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)have put pressure on their US suppliers not to participate in the proposed European large aircraft programme. DASA chairman Manfred Bischoff says that ...
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Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow
Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow The UK air-Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a mysterious in-flight incident involving a British Airways Boeing 777-200A, which was forced to turn back to London Heathrow in October 1996 after suffering uncommanded rudder movement. BA and Boeing have so far ...
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DASA prepares to boost Airbus narrowbody production line
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) Airbus is extending its narrowbody-assembly line in Hamburg, anticipating nearly tripled production rates within three years. The German Airbus partner is to invest DM217 million ($130 million) up to the end of 1998 in the expansion. The Airbus consortium this year is scheduled to deliver ...
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Boeing kicks off flight tests of next-generation 737 family
Boeing's flight-test programme for its next-generation 737 family began smoothly on 9 February, with the 737-700 having a problem-free maiden flight from Renton, Washington. The flight marks the start of an eight-month test effort for the 737-700 which will include 1,200h of flying. Certification is planned in September, ...