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Hawaiian set to sell stake
Hawaiian Airlines looks set to sell a controlling stake to a group of US east coast investors for $20 million, ending the carriers intensive search for additional capital which has been underway since its emergence from bankruptcy. Hawaiian has declined to identify investors in the group, called Airline ...
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Makers face merger block
Before Boeing and McDonnell Douglas go much further with merger talks they will need to assess their chances of overcoming antitrust concerns. A merger of the defence divisions may succeed because of Boeing's limited exposure and US policy favouring strong defence companies over competition. But a commercial aircraft merger would ...
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FAA issues regional rules
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration issued final rules on 14 December, bringing Part 135 regional carriers operating ten- to 30-seat aircraft up to the same safety and training standards as those of Part 121 major long-haul US airlines. The harmonised rules are contained in new Part 119 carrier certification requirements. ...
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Ryanair UK plans foray into Europe
RYANAIR UK IS planning a substantial expansion of the low-fare, no-frills, service concept pioneered in Europe by its Irish parent company. While keeping details under wraps until plans have been finalised, Ryanair UK managing director Tim Jeans confirms that more UK routes and a determined foray into Europe ...
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Qantas signs
Qantas Airways has signed a ten-year agreement with CAE Electronics (Australia) covering the use of a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100 flight simulator. Source: Flight International
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The Viscount: still darting about
Harry Hopkins, who flew Vickers Viscounts in the 1960s, renews his acquaintance with one of the last passenger versions. IT WAS ALL THERE, in black and white. The cockpit instruments lacked colour coding, or pastel panels - but then I was going back 30 years. Vickers Viscounts were once flown ...
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Expanding the propulsion-control envelope
DESPITE A PCA DESIGN envelope of about 150-250kt (280-460km/h), limited to 10,000ft (3,000m) and below, the thrust-only system has been explored well beyond the original flight envelope. The guest-pilot demonstration flights were focused appropriately around the landing pattern, but test results gathered well away from the original design envelope suggest ...
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From Brabazon to Viscount
VICKERS TURNED the 1942 Brabazon Committee's requirement for a postwar Brabazon IIB into the winning VC2 design. Originally, it was to have Napier Naiad, Armstrong Siddeley Mamba or Rolls-Royce Dart engines, but it went into service with the Dart. The prototype V630 was flown on 16 July 1948, and was ...
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British World's Viscounts soldier on
BRITISH WORLD AIRLINES (BWA) is now the largest operator of Viscounts, with eight active at the end of 1995. At one stage, BWA and its predecessors operated 18 of the aircraft. Of the eight left, five have been converted to freighters and three soldiers on in passenger guise, ...
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Fair comparisons are needed on Airbus aircraft
Sir - I read the article "Battle of the big twins" (Flight International, 22-28 November, P16), which contains a number of errors and misleading comments. The airliners competing for the 300- to 350-seat market are the Airbus Industrie A330 and A340, the Boeing 777-200A, -200B and -300, ...
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Golf lease
Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services has sold a new Boeing 737-300, specially configured by Zurich, Switzerland-based Jet Aviation, to Malaysian golf resort Country Heights. The company has also announced the lease of a new 737-300 to Yunnan Airlines of China from early 1996, increasing its fleet to nine aircraft. Silk Air ...
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Lufthansa and BAe set up joint-venture company
Andrzej Jeziorski/BERLIN LUFTHANSA AND British Aerospace have established a new joint-venture company to run Avro RJ85 regional-jet simulator and classroom training at Lufthansa's Flight Training Centre at Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. The company, established on 12 December as City Line Avro Simulator and Training, will offer training for ...
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Air Macau expected to add Airbuses
Brett Hannan/MACAU START-UP CARRIER Air Macau expects to add two narrow body aircraft a year to its fleet for the next five years. The new aircraft will almost certainly be additional Airbus A320s and A321s, says airline marketing executive Dominic Ching. Air Macau, which now operates ...
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Hughes signs official ICO launch deal
ICO GLOBAL Communications, an affiliate company of Inmarsat, has officially signed a $925 million contract with Hughes Space Communications International to supply and manage launch services for 12 ICO satellites to provide worldwide, hand-held telephone, mobile-communications services. Hughes is ICO's first strategic partner and owns a $94 million investment share. ...
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Pilots pave way for Delta low-cost plan
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots' union, which would enable it to establish a low-cost, short-haul, operation to compete with carriers such as ValuJet Airlines. The accord is contingent on the pilots signing a wider agreement designed to reduce Delta's overall costs, ...
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AI(R) and DASA agree on Asian project
Andrew Chuter/TOULOUSE THE TWO European bidders in the competition to join China and South Korea in developing a new 100-seat regional jet have reached an informal agreement to join forces should either be selected by the Asian partners to take around a 25% stake in their Air express ...
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Vietnam Airlines nears 767 leasing deal with GECAS
VIETNAM AIRLINES is close to concluding a leasing deal with General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for three additional Boeing 767-300ERs, as replacements for wet-leased aircraft. The Vietnamese national airline wants to take delivery of the three aircraft in early 1996. The ex-Continental Airlines 767s are to be ...
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JAA group will define tests for evacuations
JAA group will define tests for evacuations NEW CRITERIA for cabin emergency-evacuation tests are to be defined by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to enable the safety of a greater variety of exit configurations to be accurately assessed, according to JAA secretary-general Klaus Koplin. After a 12 ...
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Airtours phases out MD-83s
UK CHARTER AIRLINE Airtours International has begun phasing out its fleet of seven McDonnell Douglas MD-83s, in favour of the Airbus A320. The first two aircraft have already been returned to the lessor for onward lease to Taiwanese carrier Far Eastern Air Transport. One aircraft will leave the ...
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Single incident claims three Russian air force Su-27s in Vietnam
THREE RUSSIAN Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers of the Russian Knights aerobatic team crashed near Kamran air base, Vietnam, on 12 December, after apparently hitting high ground. The four pilots - one of the aircraft was a two-seat Su-27B - are missing, presumed dead. The accident happened as ...