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Unijet to take control of Leisure International
TOUR OPERATOR Unijet is to take full control of Leisure International Airways, by acquiring the 60% equity stake held by the Air UK Group and parent company British Transport Holdings before 30 April, 1997. The move has been widely predicted following KLM's increased investment in Air UK, presaging ...
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Pemco
Vince DiSciullo has been named general manager at the Pemco nacelle-services division of aircraft maintainer and modifier Precision Standard, of Denver, Colorado. He was formerly vice-president for operations at the EDM division of Chromalloy Gas Turbine. Martyn Craig becomes sales manager of Pemco World Air Services. He has had 20 ...
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UNC
Engine-component manufacturer UNC, of Annapolis, Maryland, has named John Demase general manager for UNC Industrial Engines. Demase, who will be based at UNC Metcalf, of Odessa, Texas, was with engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney for more than 20 years. Jim Lundeen is appointed general manager for UNC Accessory Services, in ...
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Falcon Jet
Kenneth Root has been named director of Dassault Falcon Jet's Little Rock, Arkansas, Jet Center. He replaces acting director Earl Philpott, who is to resume his duties as director of production engineering. Root was most recently manager of component repair at Garrett Aviation Services, of Augusta, Georgia. ...
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Canadair
The Canadair Business Aircraft Division of Bombardier Aerospace of Quebec, Canada, has named Ton Diening director of technical support and R‚my St-Martin manager of field service. Diening was formerly director of business development at Bombardier. St-Martin will be responsible for all field service support for Canadair Challenger operators. ...
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SIA sells
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has completed the sale of two Boeing 747-200s to United Parcel Service for conversion into freighters. The two form part of SIA's sale of six surplus aircraft. The aircraft, including a fourth 747-200 for an unidentified US carrier, are due for delivery by September. SIA has sold ...
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Slow start
Six months after opening, Macau International Airport is struggling to generate business. Terence Hardeman and Brent Hannon/MACAU WITH FANFARE and speeches, the $1.1 billion Macau International Airport was officially opened in December 1995. Apart from the arrival of Dr Mario Soares, president of Portugal, and a Lockheed Martin ...
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European airlines return to profit but warn on delays
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S AIRLINE industry has turned in its first profit since 1989, but any celebrations over the news were quickly tempered by stark warnings over the congestion and pending European legislation which the carriers believe could damage progress. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) reports ...
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Why not use the safer Halon gas?
Sir - During the 1980s, I campaigned (unsuccessfully) for the withdrawal of highly toxic Halon 1211 portable extinguishers from flightdecks and cabins, suggesting their replacement by five-times-safer Halon 1301. My fear was - and remains - that 1211, in the confined space of a flightdeck, could cause the ...
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Ametek introduces monitor to keep track of regional-turboprop balances
AMETEK AEROSPACE Products has introduced a system to give fast, accurate propeller balancing, allowing regional-turboprop operators to keep down damaging vibration levels throughout an aircraft's life. The Balance Monitoring System automatically stores vibration data in flight. These data are then downloaded to a ground-based lap-top computer which calculates ...
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The Endeavour lands after rendezvous record mission
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE SPACE SHUTTLE Orbiter Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 May, after setting a civilian Shuttle record with a series of four space rendezvous. The successful STS77 mission was the 11th flight by the Endeavour and marks the mid-way point ...
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Lufthansa tests remote maintenance system...
Martin Hindley/LONDON LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS is testing an airport-based remote diagnostic system designed to provide ground engineers with an incoming aircraft's maintenance history and repair requirements. The company has teamed with Berlin-based software house Sietec Systemtechnik to develop the tool, as part of a telecommunications-research programme sponsored ...
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R-R buys equipment
ROLLS-ROYCE is investing £23 million ($34.5 million) in advanced manufacturing equipment for its Hillington manufacturing site near Glasgow, UK, to enable the factory to produce compressor blades for Trent 895, BMW Rolls-Royce BR715 and Allison AE3007 turbofans. The site manufactures compressor blades, seals and shrouds. The Government is providing £6.9 ...
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New Shanghai airport gears up for substantial growth
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS PLANS ARE BEING finalised for the new international airport of Shanghai-Pudong in China, which will have an initial capacity of 20 million passengers a year when it opens in 2000. The airport will ultimately be capable of handling 70 million passengers by the first quarter of ...
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A new Fulcrum for Russian industry
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW IT IS EITHER a confederation of cripples, or the creation of a group which mirrors the scale advantages enjoyed by US aerospace goliath Lockheed Martin: only time will tell which is true of VPK MAPO. The creation of VPK MAPO (Military Industrial Complex - ...
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Wilcox makes formal WAAS protest to FAA
WILCOX ELECTRIC has issued a formal protest against the award of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft, its former subcontractor on the $475 million programme. Wilcox says that the protest follows discovery that the US Federal Aviation Administration "-had given Hughes more time to ...
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More than illusion
Graham Warwick/ORLANDO THINK OF ORLANDO, Florida, and you are likely to think of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World. Managers of Orlando International Airport would like you to think also of a vibrant community of young, affluent, people, working not only in tourism, but also in ...
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British Airways lines up multi-billion dollar deal
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS is expected soon to finalise a $2 billion order for around 20 Boeing aircraft, which could include a mix of 747-400s, 757s and some 777s. The deal will be the airline's first major order since 1991. BA declines to comment on the ...
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MAS profits recovery fails to impress
MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) again saw profits leap for the 1995/6 financial year, but the extent of the improvement failed to impress market analysts, who had been hoping for more. The airline ended its financial year to March showing a 68% increase in net profits, to M$233 million ($93 ...