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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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China and S Korea wrangle over AE-100 assembly
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA AND SOUTH Korea, have again pushed back their selection of a Western partner, to develop the AE-100 passenger aircraft, until the two countries agree on the location of a final assembly line. Nearly 15 months after the Chinese and South Korean Governments agreed ...
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Loral deal creates $30 billion Lockheed Martin
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN has again raised the stakes in the US defence business with its agreement to buy the bulk of Loral for $9.1 billion. The latest deal, which comes less than a year after Lockheed's merger with Martin Marietta, will create a group with sales ...
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Lockheed Martin tests pre-production APALS
Graham Warwick/ALBUQUERQUE LOCKHEED MARTIN has begun flight demonstrations with a pre-production version of its autonomous precision-approach and landing-system (APALS). Airline demonstrations are scheduled for early February at Richmond, Virginia, following a series of approaches conducted at Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an APALS-equipped Gulfstream II. The ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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Firing tests completed on Vulcain for Ariane 5
THE SECOND AND FINAL qualification firing of the Vulcain cryogenic first-stage engine of the Ariane 5 booster was successfully completed at Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 January, clearing the way for the booster's maiden flight on 7 May. The Ariane 5 will have its first commercial flight for Arianespace in ...
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Varig president leaves within first year
VARIG PRESIDENT Carlos Willy Engels has stepped down after less than a year in charge of the Brazilian flag carrier. Officially, the company cites personal reasons for his departure, although it is believed that results for 1995 were not good enough to satisfy creditors who also sit on the Varig ...
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Dornier and Kulon to develop Open Skies radar for Tu-154M
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace subsidiary Dornier has signed a co-operation agreement with the Moscow-based Kulon Research Institute to develop a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to be integrated into Germany's Tupolev Tu-154M/OS Open Skies aircraft. The 32-month programme is to incorporate the SAR into the aircraft for the second phase of the ...
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BA tries to salvage plan to use USAir 737 pilots
BRITISH AIRWAYS' controversial plan to use 30 USAir Boeing 737 co-pilots at its London Gatwick hub hangs in the balance, after the UK Department for Employment and Education (DfEE) indicated that it is unlikely to grant the pilots work permits. The DfEE told BA on 5 January ...
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Loral pins future on space
IN THE 23 YEARS since Bernard Schwartz acquired control of Loral, he has built the company from sales of only $27 million into a $6.7 billion defence-electronics giant, in one of the most aggressive and sustained acquisition sprees in US aerospace history. The business, which he acquired ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
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Burkhart Grob sacks half of its workforce as funding deadlock threatens Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob has sacked half of its employees because of continuing delays in the release of Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research programme. The whole project now faces cancellation. Grob has made 131 of its staff redundant, shattering ...
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Chinese skies are safer, says CAAC
THE HEAD OF THE Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has declared a marked improvement in the country's air-safety record, after nearly 18 months without a major accident. CAAC minister Chen Guangyi says that the country's airlines flew some 1.2 million hours without incident in the period. ...
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Delta used UK slots in disguise
Sir - In reply to the letter "US carriers should think again" (Flight International, 3-9 January, P39), Mr Howard is mistaken in thinking that Delta ever had slots at London Heathrow. What he recalls seeing were McDonnell Douglas DC-8-33s painted in Delta Air Lines' colours, beginning in 1969, which were ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls Royce of Reston, Virginia has named Dr Kenneth Bushell, vice-president of the company's St Louis, Missouri office. Since 1989, Bushell has served as vice-president for aircraft programmes for Rolls Royce, Long Beach, California. Source: Flight International
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Business Express cancels remaining RJ70 orders
BUSINESS EXPRESS IS TO cancel nine remaining firm orders for Avro International Aerospace RJ70s, following its decision to return the three aircraft, which it already operates and to withdraw from jet-powered operations (Flight International, 10-16 January). The orders are being converted into options. Avro says that it and ...
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GE improves GE90 oil consumption
GENERAL ELECTRIC IS replacing the GE90 engines on the first Boeing 777 delivered to British Airways to improve the oil-consumption performance. The first engine change was performed at London Heathrow on 7 January, on one of the three 777s delivered to the airline to date, and is expected ...
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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...