All air transport news – Page 2450
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Cathay retires L-1011
Cathay Pacific has retired the Lockheed TriStar from its fleet after some 21 years of operations. The last revenue service was flown on 15 October between Nagoya and Taipei. The airline has operated 19 TriStars since 1975, and is replacing them with Airbus A330/A340s and Boeing 777s. ...
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Maldives dash
Air Maldives has placed an order for one Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 Series 200, for delivery in November. The carrier has taken an option on an extra Dash 8-200 for delivery in mid-1998. Air Maldives now operates an Airbus A300 and two Fair-child Dornier 228s. ...
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Sextant supplies MMRs
Sextant Avionique is to supply multi-mode receivers (MMRs) for United Airlines' Airbus A319 fleet. The French firm, a co-supplier of MMRs for Airbus with Collins Avionics, is the first MMR supplier for Airbus narrowbodies. Source: Flight International
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Chromalloy sues UTC
United Technologies (UTC) is being sued by Chromalloy Gas Turbine for alleged infringement by UTC's Pratt & Whitney division of patents covering production of cooling holes in aero-engine turbine blades. San Antonio, Texas-base4d Chromalloy's action seeks an order blocking further alleged infringement, as well as unspecified damages. Source: ...
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DRS distributes
DRS of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been appointed as an approved distributor of Inter-technique fuel circulation equipment for Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Eurocopter, Fokker, Jetstream and McDonnell Douglas aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier
John Giraudy has been appointed senior vice-president for sales at Bombardier Regional Aircraft division of Canada. He succeeds Tom Appleton as head of marketing and sales. Appleton was recently appointed president of the Amphibious Aircraft division. Giraudy is replaced as vice-president for international sales, covering Europe, the Middle East and ...
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A bi-plane Airbus could be an answer
Sir - When considering the merits of the shoulder-mounted wing over the more "conventional" low-wing design (Letters, Flight International, 18-24 September, P49), I cannot help thinking that simple aesthetics will decide the outcome. Ask which is the "nicer" aircraft - the Boeing 747 or the Lockheed-Martin C-5A, and ...
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Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC)
AIDC has developed a single-seat attack variant of its AT-3 two-seat trainer. Some AT-3A trainers are being upgraded to AT-3B close-support aircraft, with Westinghouse APG-66 radar, head-up display and 1553B databus. Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) Production of the IDF was halted in October 1995 over ...
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British Aerospace McDonnell Douglas
HARRIER II/HARRIER II PLUS The RAF has taken delivery of the Harrier T Mk10 two-seat operational trainer, based on the TAV-8B airframe. A total of 13 of the aircraft have been ordered. McDonnell Douglas is continuing to work on remanufacturing 73 USMC AV-8Bs to the Harrier II Plus ...
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Chengdu Aircraft Industrial
F-7 Pakistan has test-flown the FIAR Scipio radar in an F-7P as part of its upgrade programme for the aircraft. The F-7-II, a considerably upgraded Chinese development of the F-7 (MiG-21F), entered production in the early 1980s and, by 1982, was being exported as the F-7B. ...
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ENAER
T-35 DT Pillan Turbo Studies for the design of this turbine-powered derivative of the original T-35 Pillan began in 1985. The following year, the Allison 250-B17D 315kW turboprop was fitted for the first time. The canopy was subsequently modified to a sideways-opening one-piece component. Soloy of Olympia, Washington, ...
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Lockheed Martin Skunk works
F-117A NIGHTHAWK The USAF has scaled-back or dropped some upgrade packages intended to improve the Lockheed Martin F-117 low-observable characteristics for budgetary reasons, preferring to retain avionics and systems upgrades for its 54-strong fleet. The company continues to offer the USN a carrier-based variant of the F-117, the ...
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Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
F-16 FIGHTING FALCON Lockheed Martin's F-16 Block 60 proposal remain in the UAE's strike fighter competition, with an announcement now expected by the turn of the year. The last F-16 on order for the USAF will be delivered in 1997, although the service has a stated requirement for ...
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Lockheed Martin/Boeing
F-22 Re-phasing of the USAF's F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter programme to cope with budget cuts has delayed the first flight of a development aircraft from the mid-1996 to the first quarter of 1997. The number of development aircraft has been cut from 11 to nine (seven single-seat F-22As ...
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MAPO
MIG-21 FISHBED India has "agreed" an upgrade programme for some 100 of its MiG-21s with MAPO, although it is not known as to whether the programme has actually begun. The package is based on Mikoyan's MiG-21-93 proposal, which includes the Phazotron Kopyo multi-mode lightweight radar. Israel Aircraft Industries ...
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McDonnell Douglas
C-17 GLOBEMASTER III The US DoD and Congress have approved a multi-year procurement for 80 additional C-17s for the USAF. This brings the planned fleet total to 120 aircraft by 2005. The decision followed the successful conclusion of a reliability, maintainability and availability demonstration concluded in August 1995 ...
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Northrop Grumman
A-6 INTRUDER The A-6E carrier-borne attack aircraft is being withdrawn from service. A limited upgrade of USN A-6Es added missile-approach warning, towed active decoys, satellite navigation and other improvements. Boeing-built composite wings were retrofitted to 172 A-6s. The last new A-6E was delivered in February 1992. ...
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Maersk begins overhaul of Estonian Air
Max Kingsley-Jones/BILLUND MAERSK AIR has set about ploughing its airline expertise into Estonian Air, following ratification of its agreement to take a 49% stake in the privatised Baltic carrier. In May, the Danish airline, in partnership with investment consortium Baltic Creco, was chosen by the ...
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Frontier dips
Frontier Airlines is the latest of the US start-ups to warn of a likely dip in its fortunes in the September quarter. The Denver-based carrier says that it expects to post a loss over the three months, blaming sluggish traffic, rising fuel costs and rising lease rates. The loss would ...
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Manufacturers' forecasts chart bright future for cargo aircraft
BOEING AND McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are forecasting strong growth in the air-cargo market, with the world's freighter fleet expected to double over the next 20 years. MDC's predictions are slightly more optimistic than Boeing's, with an annual growth rate in air cargo of 7.9%, compared with Boeing's assessment ...