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Air NZ open to SIA bid
Air New Zealand says it is open to a proposal from any foreign airline, including Singapore Airlines (SIA), to invest in the expanding carrier once it has finalised its buy-out of Ansett Australia. Days after signing to buy 50% of Ansett Australia from News Corp for A$680 million ($430 ...
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Near stall investigated
US low-fare carrier Spirit Airlines and the FAA are investigating an incident in which the crew of one of its MD-80s may have nearly stalled the aircraft twice by flying too high for the MD-80's weight, reports the Washington Post. The newspaper also reports that the pilots of the ...
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Smiths set to buy BAE Systems Actuation subsidiary
Smiths Industries has announced that it is to acquire the actuation systems subsidiary of BAE Systems North America for $100 million. This follows the $175 million acquisition of the aerospace division of Invensys plc in January. Chief executive Keith Butler-Wheelhouse says: "We are already among the world leaders in ...
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Airbus keen to proceed with A330-100 by 2003
Airbus Industrie expects to put the proposed 250-seater A330-100 into service in 2003, the company's senior executives revealed yesterday. Noel Forgeard, Airbus president and chief executive, says the company needs to think about launching a new aircraft in this sector that would offer better cost effectiveness, especially in fuel ...
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Airframe icing blamed for Bettenhausen air crash
Airframe icing is emerging as the likely cause of last week's fatal air crash that killed American car racing team owner Tony Bettenhausen, his wife and two business colleagues. Bettenhausen, 48, was piloting his own twin-engined Beech Baron 58 from Florida to his home near Indianapolis when he reported ...
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Air France strike over JV exit
Air France says that up to 5% of its services were expected to be cancelled yesterday following a two-day lightning strike by pilots over a decision by the flag-carrier to pull out of Aeropostale, its joint venture airline with French mail service La Poste. French financial daily Les Echos ...
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New technologies aim to keep Apache battle-ready
Paul Derby Boeing has revealed a series of technological advances and research programmes designed to keep the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter effective on the battlefield over the next decade and beyond. The manufacturer says the enhancements could be integrated either individually or as a package and they ...
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Philippines office for API
Steve Nichols Aerospace Products International (API) is opening a new Philippines office to serve the Asian, Pacific Rim and Australia/New Zealand markets. Its new Logistics and Distribution Centre will be located in the Special Economic Zone at Clark International Airport, just north of Manila. API's new 24,000 ...
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New EFI received certification
Astronautics of America has won FAA and CAA approval for its 5 ATI electronic flight instrument (EFI), destined for the UK Coastguard. The EFI, provided to Bristow Helicopters in support of coastguard operations, replaces existing electro-mechanical instruments, while also providing navigation search pattern and colour weather radar overlays. The ...
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Auction focuses on eye hospital
The world's only flying eye hospital looks set to benefit from a special auction which is taking place during the air show. A unique collection of aerospace memorabilia is going under the hammer to raise money for Orbis, the humanitarian organisation that created the flying hospital by converting a ...
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Top of the class
High fliers of the industry got the ultimate accolade last evening at a gala celebration in the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore. Eleven trophies were presented at Flight International's Aerospace Industry Awards 2000, including the prestigious Aerospace Personality of the Year Award. The annual awards, launched at Asian Aerospace six years ago, ...
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Lancer puts in rare appearance at show
Geoff Thomas The presence in the static park of Boeing's B-1B Lancer long-range strategic bomber is a first for Asian Aerospace. Although the B-1B is scarcely new technology - the first production example being delivered to the US Air Force back in June 1985 - the supersonic swing-wing bomber ...
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Asian fleets make urgent checks on 747 engines
Mike Martin and Geoff Thomas Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are among regional carriers carrying out urgent checks on some Boeing 747-400 engines after the discovery of a problem on a Lufthansa aircraft led the German carrier to ground its entire fleet. Boeing is working with ...
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Bombardier reaches new Standard contract
Bombardier Aerospace Regional Aircraft has signed an agreement at Asian Aerospace for engine repair, overhaul and maintenance services with Standard Aero, which has its headquarters in Winnipeg, Canada. The agreement - worth around $20 million over the next five years - covers the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 series ...
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CASA promotes C-295 as Hercules complement
Mike Martin Money saved by not operating "expensive to run" Lockheed Martin C-130s could be invested in the CASA C-295 military transport for use in some operations, Juan de Ariarte, vice-president sales and marketing for CASA, said at the show. The aircraft is here - for the first ...
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Japan's World Cup goals
Mark Hannant Football fever may not have taken hold in Japan just yet but the country which will jointly host the four-yearly football World Cup in 2002 is thinking ahead and putting in place the infrastructure to ensure the event can cope with the influx of visitors. Many ...
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Airshow China organisers promise better management
Andrew Douse Organisers of Airshow China have apologised for their last two events, blaming problems on their lack of experience and unsatisfactory management. The admission was made by Zou Jinfeng, president of the Zhuhai Airshow Company, at a press conference to publicise Airshow China 2000, which runs from ...
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Raytheon-BGT alliance targets European missile need
Tim Ripley Raytheon is to forge a "strategic alliance" with German missile specialist BGT in a bid to up the stakes in the battle to supply Europe's air forces with hi-tech beyond visual range missiles (BVRAAM). A link-up between the US missile giant and the missile arm of ...
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Researchers make airborne police ops safer
Tim Ripley Scientists at the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) have recently been instrumental in developing systems to minimise the risk of collisions between police helicopters and other low flying aircraft. DERA has helped develop two methods of minimising collision risks in conjunction with Dyfed Powys ...
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Helitech firms up order for AB139
The first customer to sign up for a Bell/Agusta AB139 medium twin helicopter in the Asia-Pacific region handed over a £150,000 deposit on the aircraft at the show yesterday. Joe Moharich, group managing director of Brisbane-based Helitech Industries, placed the deposit with Antonio Giovannini, executive marketing director for Bell/Agusta ...