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CanJet canned
The launch of Canadian start-up CanJet has been scrapped by the Nova Scotia-based IMP Group, which blames the decision on Air Canada's near-monopolistic position in the domestic sector after its takeover of Canadian Airlines. CanJet was to have operated out of Hamilton, Ontario. In addition, Air Canada plans to start ...
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Boeing begins 70-seat 717 study
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has begun concept studies of a 70-seat regional-jet variant of its 717 as part of wider family options based on the -200, -100X and -300X derivatives. It has also commissioned a broad-ranging study of the regional airline market to help guide its 717 development plan. The ...
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Soloy proposes utility aircraft for Internet distribution work
Soloy, the Washington-based design and turbine conversion specialist, is negotiating with an unidentified airframe manufacturer to develop a Dual Pac powered utility aircraft to distribute goods for the booming Internet-spawned on-line shopping market. The proposed aircraft will build on concepts developed for the stalled Pathfinder 21 Cessna 208B Grand ...
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Russia studies light-aircraft network
Russia's light aviation industry could get a boost from the launch of a project that aims to cover the vast country with a light-aircraft transportation network connecting Moscow with other regions. A group including the Russian Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs, the Light Aviation Club and foreign investment company ...
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Piaggio delivers first new-build P.180
Piaggio Aero Industries delivered a P.180 business aircraft to an unnamed US customer on 2 February. The event marks the first handover of the twin turboprop by the Italian manufacturer since 1998, when the former Rinaldo Piaggio was sold to an Italian/Turkish consortium. The new P.180,which has undergone a series ...
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Rockwell HUD
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics' Head-up Guidance System has been certificated on the Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet. The head-up display (HUD) is usable in all flight phases from take-off to landing. Installations will begin immediately. Source: Flight International
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MD takes power
MD Helicopters has begun delivery of the MD Explorer powered by uprated Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207E turboshafts. The engine produces 530kW (710shp) for take off, with a single-engine rating of 595kW - representing increases of 11% and 8.5% respectively. Meanwhile, the Mesa, Arizona-based company has clinched an order from ...
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NAS offers Middle East medevac
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON National Air Service (NAS) plans to kick-start the first Middle East-based commercial medical-evacuation (medevac) service by the end of the year, in conjunction with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based King Faisal Specialised Hospital (KFSH). NAS is also considering offering the service to customers of its NetJets Middle East fractional ownership ...
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Israel Aircraft Industries to boost Galaxy production
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) plans to double production of its Galaxy super-mid-size business jet to two a month from April and expects to deliver 22 aircraft this year, rising to 24 in 2001. The green aircraft will be shipped to US joint venture partner Galaxy Aerospace for completion. IAI is ...
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Fit cockpit video, says NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended the compulsory installation of cockpit video recorders in turbine-powered aircraft which at present are not required to carry flight data recorders (FDRs). The NTSB recommendation springs from its investigation of a 1997 Scenic Airlines Cessna 208B Caravan crash in Montrose, ...
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Part-share simulator centres are in the pipeline
Two Denver, Colorado-based companies are moving into the training centre business, with new approaches to providing affordable access to simulators. Training Devices International (TDI) is marketing fractional ownership of simulators. It holds letters of intent from regionals interested in buying shares in two in-production Raytheon Beech 1900s, says president ...
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X-33 engine passes test milestones
The X-33 Technology Demonstrator's linear aerospike engine has been test fired for 125s at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. It was the longest test to date at 100% power for the Boeing Rocketdyne engine, exceeding a previous run by 30s. The test also featured the first demonstration of ...
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SIA requirement sparks new battle for Airbus and Boeing
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Singapore Airlines (SIA) has launched its long-awaited W requirement for an aircraft to replace the Airbus Industrie A310, with a request to airframe and engine manufacturers for pricing on a mix of up to 19 widebody and narrowbody jets, plus 22 options. The move is ...
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Serge Dassault retires as chairman
Serge Dassault is to quit as chairman and chief executive of Dassault Aviation. His successor is Charles Edelstenne, the 62-year old accountant who is the company's executive vice-president of economic and financial affairs and chairman and chief executive of Dassault Systemes. Serge Dassault, 75 on 4 April, was compelled ...
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Olympic Airways likely to order 737s
Olympic Airways is expected to order 15 Boeing 737s on the advice of British Airways' Speedwing consultancy, which took over management of the Greek flag carrier last year. The 15 aircraft will replace Olympic's 11 737-200Advs, plus a handful of leased aircraft due for return, while allowing for planned ...
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MBD offers Meteor as basis for transatlantic partnership
Matra BAe Dynamics (MBD)and Boeing have written to US Undersecretary of Defence for Technology and Acquisition Jack Gansler suggesting the Meteor medium-range missile as the basis for a transatlantic development partnership. The move by the Meteor team members is a riposte to a US Department of Defense proposal to the ...
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SAS decides to buy A321s and leaves Boeing in cold
SAS has dealt a blow to Boeing by deciding to acquire up to 22 Airbus A321s, rather than extend its large 737 commitment to include the 737-900. The deal, worth more than SKr 4.5 billion ($524 million), includes 12 firm orders and 10 options, with deliveries beginning in the ...
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ANZ snaps up Ansett Australia
Paul Phelan/MELBOURNEAir New Zealand (ANZ) has taken over Ansett Australia after agreeing to buy the 50% of Ansett Holdings it did not already own from News Corporation for A$580 million ($365 million). The combined entity will be 85% the size of Australian flag carrier Qantas, with annual revenues of over ...
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Weapons tester accuses DoD
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is being accused of moving too rapidly in its plan to advise US President Bill Clinton on whether to deploy the $13 billion national missile defence (NMD) system by 2005. The Pentagon's top weapons tester says the schedule, which calls on US Secretary ...
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KTX-2 renamed
South Korea's Samsung KTX-2 supersonic advanced trainer/light combat aircraft, under development with Lockheed Martin, has been redesignated the T/A-50. The aircraft is to enter service with the Republic of Korea Air Force in late 2003. Source: Flight International