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737 support
Kellstrom Industries of the USA, France's Euralair Industries and Israel Aircraft Industries have launched a Boeing 737 maintenance joint venture targeted at European operators at Euralair's Paris facility. Source: Flight International
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High spirits
Australian low-cost start-up Spirit Airlines aims to start operations by June on the Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane triangle with two Boeing 737-400s and plans to add Perth, Darwin, Townsville and Cairns services later. Source: Flight International
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EHUD success
Israel's BVR Systems has won a $43 million contract to supply its EHUD rangeless air combat manoeuvring instrumentation system to the South Korean air force. The deal includes pods and ground debriefing systems. EHUD is based around a differential global positioning system to give accurate aircraft positioning data. Source: Flight ...
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Call for GA statistics
General aviation (GA) has lost a useful tool for measuring safety performance and industry activity since the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stopped publishing GA statistics in 1998, says the International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA). ICAO says most of its 185 member states do not file reliable GA ...
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PC-12 enforcement
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has taken delivery of a Pilatus PC-12 just two months after placing a contract for the 10-passenger single-turboprop utility aircraft. Pilatus expects the DEA to order more PC-12s to replace some of its 20 turboprops. Source: Flight International
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Biggin development
London's Biggin Hill Airport plans to develop its passenger terminal into a dedicated business and private aviation centre if it gets approval to develop a new £15 million ($24 million) terminal. The airport has a VIP terminal for executive aircraft, with a pilots' lounge, VIP lounge and conference and meeting ...
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Noisy module
The noise level on the Russian service module Zvezda, which will be launched next year, is reportedly going to be 74-16dB above the limit established by NASA and 1.5dB above the noise level of the Russian Zarya control module. Source: Flight International
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Astro chiefs
Two European astronauts have been given key positions in the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Astronaut Centre. Ernst Messerschmid, who flew as a German payload specialist on the Spacelab D1/Space Shuttle mission 61A in October 1985, becomes chief of the centre, while French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haignere becomes chief of ESA's ...
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Airbus flying-wing studies
Alongside immediate plans on the A3XX, Airbus Industrie and its partners are looking at configurations that could lead to the introduction of radical airliner designs further into the 21st Century. The first of a series of meetings to consider future concepts took place in November at Airbus Toulouse headquarters. Airbus ...
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Ariane launches Helios 1B
Arianespace launched an Ariane 40 booster from Kourou on 3 December, carrying the 2,500kg Helios 1B "spy satellite" into 700km sun-synchronous orbit. It was the 50th consecutive successful launch of an Ariane 4 model and the eighth successful Ariane launch for the year. The $1 billion two-satellite Helios 1 ...
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New angle on Quiet Wing system for 727
Duganair Technologies (DTI) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a version of its Quiet Wing System Stage 3 modification that allows the use of 40° flap settings on the Boeing 727. DTI says the clearance allows operators to regain the 727's original short field performance capabilities that ...
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Aeroflot agrees to lease six Ilyushin Il-96-300s
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has signed an agreement with Ilyushin's finance arm to take delivery of six Ilyushin Il-96-300s on lease. Production of the 240-seat Il-96-300, powered by the Aviadvigatel PS-90A, has been running at a trickle at the VASO Voronezh plant, where unfinished aircraft have been stockpiled. ...
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German leasing new entrant to acquire A320/737 portfolio
Deutsche Operating Leasing (DOL) expects to order a mix of 18 Airbus A320 family aircraft and Boeing Next Generation 737s early next year and to bolster its fledgling regional jet portfolio with a series of airline sale and lease-back deals. The company, set up by Germany's BfG Bank in ...
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JetBlue ready as first A320
New York-based low-fare startup JetBlue Airways has taken delivery of the first of at least 32 International Aero Engines V2500-powered Airbus A320s. The airline has received one of seven aircraft to be taken on operating lease - two from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise and five from International Lease Finance - ...
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Crossair gears up for ATM-2000+
Andrew Doyle/SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS Crossair aims to become the first regional airline to have aircraft compliant with Europe's future communications, navigation and surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) operating environment when it begins taking delivery of a fleet of 15 Embraer ERJ-145s in February. The carrier says it decided ...
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USA reveals plan to beat congestion
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has revealed a new joint programme with the US Federal Aviation Administration, the US Department of Defense and industry to establish a top-level technology roadmap for the US and global air transport system. The national research and development plan is co-ordinated by the US National ...
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Europe may go it alone on environment
David Learmount/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has threatened to enforce its own environmental standards for the aviation industry if the international community fails to agree action. The new EC document Air Transport and the Environment was released almost unnoticed on 1 December by Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio and ...
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US political pressure forces El Al to delay Airbus and R-R plans
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV El Al has firmed up its planned purchase of three Boeing 777s, but its acquisition of up to four Airbus A330s is still in the balance amid a tense row between the airline's management and Israel's minister of transport. The airline is also understood to have ...