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Eagle Aircraft picks Kansas distributor
Eagle Aircraft has delivered six Eagle 150B trainers to its recently appointed US partner, GLH Aviation of Augusta, Kansas. GLH is responsible for final assembly, quality-assurance flights, and sales and marketing for the US market. GLH is negotiating with Eagle to expand the deal to include installing key components ...
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Dassault and Embraer discuss joint venture light business jet
Andrew Doyle/SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS Dassault Aviation and Embraer are discussing the possible joint development of an all-new light business jet and a long-range corporate version of the Brazilian manufacturer's ERJ-170 regional airliner. Embraer has previously played down potential involvement in a business aircraft venture with Dassault, part ...
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JAA subcommittee starts work on OPS requirements
A European Joint Aviation Authorities subcommittee is drawing up recommendations for Joint Aviation Requirements Operations (JAR OPS 2) - the regulatory code that will cover corporate and aerial work. Requirements for these operations are being developed by the aerial work and general aviation sub-committee (AWGAS), which is part of ...
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Libyan company looks to charter market
The aviation company that helped keep Libya's vital oil industry functioning during the United Nations sanctions is turning to the corporate aviation charter market to boost its activities. Air Jamahiriya, until recently known as the Light Air Company, is refurbishing a Gulfstream II, which it hopes to have in ...
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Business jet charters seeing 10% growth
Business jet charters are increasing at a rate of 10% a year, according to business aircraft management company KaiserAir. The Oakland, California-based operator says: "Because today's executives place such a high value on their time, we are seeing an increase in the number of charters for pleasure as well ...
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Supersonic business jet 'on the market in the next five years'
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The business aircraft market is ready for a supersonic business jet (SSBJ) and one could be available within the next five years, according to an industry-sponsored study. The research was conducted by the UK's Meridian International for "several" business aircraft manufacturers and potential risk-sharing partners on an ...
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Ariane 5 faces critical lift-off
The Ariane 5 launcher will conduct its first operational and commercial flight from Kourou, French Guiana, on 10 December. It will carry the $1 billion X-Ray Multi Mirror (XMM) telescope - Europe's largest-ever science satellite. The first full commercial Arianespace-operated mission - Ariane 504 - will place the 10m ...
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China confirms proposals for manned spaceflight
China has announced a four-step manned spaceflight plan, with the aim of the country establishing a fully fledged space station served by an aerospace vehicle. The first stage of the programme will involve launching astronauts on Shen Zhou spacecraft to gain experience of operating in space, says China's Zhongguo ...
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Shuttle poised for Hubble repair
Tim Furniss/LONDON The 214th and final manned spaceflight this century will be launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 9 December. Space Shuttle Discovery/STS103, flying the 126th US manned space mission and the 96th by the Shuttle, will conduct the third and most difficult service mission to the ...
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NASA plans the first of Mars mission series
NASA will launch a navigation and communication microsatellite into orbit around Mars in 2003 as the first of a series of micromissions there. NASA plans to launch the 485kg (1,100lb), $50 million, microsatellites, built by Ball Aerospace, with an Aerojet propulsion unit, to form the Mars Network. The network ...
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Spaceport work
California Spaceport at Vandenberg AFB has won its second launch support contract. It will provide services for the launch of the US Air Force's MightySat satellite aboard a Minuteman missile. The first contract was awarded to support the USAF Minuteman launch of JawSat, due in December. Source: Flight International
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Embraer studies short-field ERJ-170 for Crossair
Andrew Doyle/SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS Embraer expects to determine by February whether it must install a speedbrake on the belly fairing of its new ERJ-170 regional jet to meet steep-approach guarantees given to launch customer Crossair. The Brazilian manufacturer says it hopes the requirement can be met by introducing an ...
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Oneworld looks to JAL to seal global network
Paul Lewis/NEW YORK The oneworld alliance is making Japan Airlines (JAL) its next priority in cementing a global network, while simultaneously considering throwing a collective financial lifeline to founding member Canadian Airlines. Oneworld admitted Aer Lingus as its ninth partner during a gathering of oneworld chief executives in New ...
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Matra BAe outlines plan for cruise missile-firing airliner
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Matra BAe Dynamics (MBD) has unveiled a concept for deploying cruise missiles from a converted Airbus airliner fitted with twin stern launcher tubes. A modular missile storage and handling system occupies the passenger deck. The missile builder is also exploring the use of the system with ...
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Spain's CASA becomes EADS member
Julian Moxon/MADRID CASA has joined the European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) company only seven weeks after the merger of Aerospatiale Matra and Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace (Dasa). The addition of the Spanish company as a founding member of the grouping is seen as a logical step after the announcement in ...
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Financial woes hit South American purchases of new fighters
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCBrazil and Chile have begun to switch their attention to the second-hand fighter market for future combat aircraft purchases. The move comes as conflicting pressures to replace obsolete aircraft and a shortage of defence modernisation funds put a question mark against buying new aircraft. The two South American ...
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KAI is infuriated by BAE Systems' talks with Hyundai
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) shareholder Hyundai Space & Aircraft has revealed that it is in talks with BAE Systems over a possible equity sale. Its two partners in KAI, the aerospace divisions of Samsung and Daewoo, see the move as threatening the restructuring process in South Korea. Hyundai briefed ...
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Clinton and Sukhoi in RNZAF F-16 debate
US President Bill Clinton has moved to shore up a lease deal for 28 Lockheed Martin F-16s by New Zealand, following the announcement of a review of the deal by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Clark says Clinton raised the lease's future during a telephone conference on 3 ...
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$100m Virgin deal launches System 3000
Emma Kelly/LONDON Virgin Atlantic has signed a $100 million letter of intent with Matsushita for the interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) system supplier's new System 3000 hardware. The airline, expected to announce the deal later this month, is the first carrier to confirm a commitment to the fully interactive IFE ...
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MAPO designers quit over new policy
A group of senior MiG designers and managers have resigned from MAPO. The group includes Andrei Gorlov, chief designer and head of Mikoyan design bureau; Valery Novikov, MiG-29 chief designer and programme manager; his deputy Victor Kochurov, Edward Kostrupsky, MiG-31 chief designer and programme manager and his deputy Andrei ...