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Industry is warned over Wall St
US Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre has warned that Wall St demands for strong quarterly returns could undermine the long-term health of the defence industry. At the same time, British Aerospace has been elevated to the status of a US company, opening the door to further transatlantic tie-ups. Hamre ...
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Leasing merger
Indigo Aviation and the AerFi Group are to merge. Together the Swedish and Irish-based companies will become one of the world's largest independent leasing companies. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance venture
GE Engine Services has signed a memorandum of intent with All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) to acquire a controlling interest in engine maintenance house ANA-IHI Aero-Engines. Source: Flight International
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Cold may cripple Mars Lander's engine
Tim Furniss/LONDON The NASA panel investigating the loss of the $327 million Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) has uncovered a potential problem with the Mars Polar Lander (MPL), which is due to touch down on 3 December. NASA has found that temperatures as low as -20°C could affect the performance of ...
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Hubble mission aims for December
Space Shuttle mission STS 103/Discovery has been cleared for launch on 6 December, to complete the third service of the Hubble Space Telescope. The spacecraft stack was scheduled to be rolled to launch pad 39B on 13 November. NASA replaced the orbiter's main engine number three in the Vehicle ...
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ATC tiptoes to normality
Five months after the Kosovo air campaign ended, European air traffic is still feeling the effects with flights rerouted and certain air space still avoided. "It's still not over yet. Undoing it is quite lengthy and complicated," says Eurocontrol's Ian Jones. Moves toward a partial return to normality will ...
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A place in the sky
Military and civil traffic vie for European airspace DeeDee Doke/RAMSTEIN AB It doesn't take a war for military and civil air traffic to be in conflict. Each side is vying for its own piece of valuable - and crowded - European airspace. With 80-100 air movements a day in Europe, ...
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Comet chaser
Europe's Rosetta mission will be the first to land a craft on a comet Tim Furniss/LONDON The European Space Agency (ESA) will make history in 2012 when its 100kg Rosetta makes the first soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet. The Rosetta mission launch is due in January 2003, ...
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Cessna reaches Skyhawk milestone
Cessna has delivered its 1,000th 172R Skyhawk since production restarted in July 1996 and announced initiatives to stimulate sales of its light aircraft. The company has introduced a leaseback programme which allows buyers to lease their aircraft back to their local Cessna affiliates for hourly rental by other pilots. ...
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El Gavilan sells 358 to Canada
El Gavilan has sold its Gavilan 358 utility aircraft type certificate to Advanced Wing Technologies (AWT) of Canada. The Colombian company will continue to build labour-intensive parts for the twin-engined aircraft, which will be shipped to AWT's base in Richmond, British Columbia, for final assembly. Under the terms of the ...
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Italian Air Force modernises VIP fleet
The Italian air force's 31st Wing is stepping up its VIP fleet modernisation plan following the recent delivery of two Dassault Falcon 900EXs. The Wing is scheduled to take delivery of the first of two Airbus A319CJs late this year, and a second in August 2001. The fate ...
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Second Mascquito prototype assembled
Belgium's Masquito Aircraft has assembled its second M80 light helicopter prototype in preparation for ground testing at the end of this month. According to the manufacturer, the test aircraft has a longer, wider and higher cabin than the first prototype, which made its public debut in July. The cabin ...
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Production certification
MD Helicopters (MDHI) has received production certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for its civil helicopter lines at Mesa, Arizona, three months ahead of schedule. MDHI says: "We have reached the most significant milestone in our 10-month tenure. The production certificate allows us to inspect and license our own helicopters ...
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KAL boss arrested on tax evasion charges
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE South Korean police have arrested Korean Air (KAL) chairman Cho Yang-Ho on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. Cho was arrested on 11 November. Prosecutors have reportedly charged him with evading 62.9 billion won ($54 million)of taxes and embezzling billions of won in company funds. ...
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Air Canada prepares new takeover bid
Air Canada is set to make a formal offer for Canadian Airlines, after a Quebec judge declared the rival Onex bid to buy Air Canada violated federal law prohibiting any shareholder from owning more than 10%. The failure of Toronto-based Onex to acquire Air Canada and merge it with ...
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EC faces rethink on safety authority
David Learmount/RIO DE JANEIRO Julian Moxon/PARIS The creation of a European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) has virtually been put on hold after a European Commission (EC) working party, looking at the issue, uncovered constitutional problems involving individual member states giving up their aviation rulemaking powers. Its findings have resulted ...
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Tu-334 production set to take off
MAPO aims to reach a production rate of 24 Tupolev Tu-334 twinjets a year by 2007, but will need over $300 million to fund the production programme. It plans to utilise cash earned from its military export contracts to fund the production launch. The Moscow-based production plant was recently ...
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Swissair replaces MD-11 insulation
Swissair is to replace Mylar insulation on the cockpit and some cabin sections of its Boeing MD-11s with a more fire-resistant material called Tedlar. "This task is being undertaken at Swissair's initiative based on information gathered in the investigation into the cause of last year's SR 111 accident," says ...
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Marketplace
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has firmed up a commitment for 23 more A320 family aircraft, taking the Singapore Airlines/Boullioun Aviation joint venture's Airbus narrowbody orders to 41. The deal includes 20 A320s and three A321s for delivery between early 2001 and 2008. Engine selections have not been announced. Malaysia Airlines' ...
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Air safety rift puts PNG air link at risk
Key transport links between Papua New Guinea's (PNG) capital, Port Moresby, and nearby North Queensland (Australia) are threatened by a rift between Qantas and its codesharing partner Air Niugini, over air safety events. At the same time, Brisbane-based Flightwest Airlines is terminating its Australia-PNG services, due to poor traffic ...