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Boeing triumphs in S African contest
BOEING HAS EMERGED as the winner of the South African Airways (SAA) aircraft competition with an order for seven 777-200s and two extra 747-400s. Engines have yet to be selected, says SAA, but the airline has asked for proposals from General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, with ...
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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GE works to cut CF6 emissions
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES GENERAL ELECTRIC IS studying the possible development of a dual-annular combustor (DAC) for its CF6 engine family, building on low-emissions technology developed for the GE90 and CFM56. The company is considering the CF6 DAC as part of a broad-based attempt to take the ...
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USA calls for disclosure of pilot work records
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is to examine airline rights of access to pilots' previous employment history, following the investigation of a 1994 regional-airliner accident which killed 15 people. The NTSB, which blames the pilot of the Flagship Airlines ...
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A better pace-setter
Harry Hopkins/OBERPFAFFENHOFEN SINCE IT FIRST ENTERED service, the Dornier 328 high-speed turboprop has been the subject of a great many detail refinements, not least to its aerodynamics, its propellers and systems. So extensive are these changes that the designation of the current production version has been changed from ...
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Launch set for new Shuttle-Mir mission
Tim Furniss/LONDON The STS74/Atlantis, the second Shuttle mission to dock with the Mir 1 Russian space station, is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 11 November. The primary mission is the installation of a docking module on Mir to improve clearance ...
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Arkia lease deal
Arkia, the Israeli private airline, has signed a purchase/lease-back deal with Canadian Airlines International. The Israeli airline has purchased six Boeing 737-200s from the Canadian airline and leased them back for a six-year period. Canadian will pay $624,000 a month for the lease of the aircraft. The 737s cost Arkia ...
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Powered Texas JSOW flight-tested
THE POWERED VARIANT OF Texas Instruments' Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) has had its first free-flight test. The JSOW, which is being offered to meet the Pentagon's Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile and the UK's conventionally armed stand-off missile, is powered by the Williams WJ-24 engine previously used in target drones. ...
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Road to Damascus
Lord Hesketh, the charismatic chairman of British Mediterranean Airways, celebrates the airline's first anniversary in style. Guynter Endres/BEIRUT and DAMASCUS BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways' charismatic chairman Lord Alexander Hesketh might not be the archetypal airline boss, but he has achieved success in one of the ...
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CFM goes for out-of-the-box ETOPS
CFM INTERNATIONAL is to apply for clearance for extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) at entry into service for the CFM56-7B on the next-generation Boeing 737 series. CFMI and Boeing hope that the move may entice long-range scheduled and charter operators to place earlier orders and expects strong interest in ...
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Vnukovo completes privatisation
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW VNUKOVO AIRLINES has become the first of Russia's state-owned carriers to complete its privatisation, with the sale of a 41% stake to a Russian investment company for $150 million. The holding was purchased by VIL, a little-known Russian trading company, after the privatisation auction ...
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Engine makers fight for stretched A340
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS CFM INTERNATIONAL partners Snecma and General Electric, and rival Pratt & Whitney, are engaged in a battle to secure an exclusive position as powerplant supplier for the planned stretched version of the Airbus Industrie A340. The US/French partnership pressed its case in St Petersburg, ...
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US firm tries to resurrect Turkish F-5 project
Guy Norris/SAN ANTONIO HOPES OF REVIVING the long-delayed Turkish Northrop Grumman F-5 upgrade programme have been renewed with the involvement of a US-based investment company bidding to fund and manage the stalled modernisation effort. Washington DC-based Triton Systems is soliciting immediate bids from all the major ...
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Lufthansa to establish Munich hub
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS planning to introduce intercontinental flights and broaden its European services from Munich, Germany's third-largest airport. The move will effectively turn the Bavarian capital into the airline's second hub after Frankfurt, says Lufthansa. The carrier cites Munich Airport's modern infrastructure, positive development forecasts ...
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Saudi payment plan
Saudi Arabia has agreed a deferred-payment schedule for its $6 billion purchase of 61 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas airliners for flag carrier Saudia. The initial payment is just $10 million, followed by $67 million in 1997, with the remainder to be paid off over seven years. The deal will be ...
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Talon claws Korean deal from Hawk
SOUTH KOREA is on the brink of leasing Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon trainers rather than purchasing new-build British Aerospace Hawks, and will use the savings to launch the KTX-II light fighter/trainer-aircraft programme. The South Korean air force is understood to be negotiating an agreement, worth $100 million, to ...
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S Korea presses China on choice of Western partner
Paul Lewis/SEOUL SOUTH KOREA IS pushing to reach an agreement with China by mid-November on the selection of a Western partner to help develop the planned Airexpress AE-100 passenger jet. The Korean Commercial-Aircraft Development (KCDC) consortium and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) are under pressure to ...
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Estonia inaugurates London Gatwick service
ESTONIAN AIR has started scheduled services between Estonian capital Tallinn and London. The arrival of the Boeing 737-500 at Gatwick Airport on 2 November marked the first-ever service between the two cities. Four flights a week are operating to London, two of them via Copenhagen. The Estonian national ...
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Fokker 70 jets in
Air France began Fokker 70 services at London City Airport on October 30, using the 79-seat twinjet to replace ATR 42s on flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle. City has been sold by construction group Mowlem to Irish entrepreneur Dermot Desmond for £14.5 million. Source: Flight International
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JAL orders stretched 777-300
JAPAN AIRLINES HAS ordered five stretched Boeing 777-300s in a deal worth $800 million. It already has ten 777-200s on order, with options for a further ten. The first -200 Model will enter service in the second quarter of 1996, with service entry for the stretched -300 planned for 1998. ...