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Raytheon seeks UK tanker team
Raytheon is negotiating with British Aerospace to create a single team offering Airbus aircraft for the UK Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) requirement. BAe is a partner in Airbus Industrie and Raytheon has an exclusive deal with the four-nation consortium to use its aircraft as platforms for airborne early ...
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USAF settles on 'waverider' scramjet missile
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US military has settled on development of a scramjet-powered "waverider" vehicle as its candidate for an inexpensive hypersonic stand-off missile, according to US Air Force Lt Col Walt Price, the Affordable Rapid Response Missile (ARRM) programme manager. Development of a Mach 6.5tactical missile employing ...
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US Marines get message with Cypher II
Sikorsky Aircraft has received $5.5 million from the US Congress to build two Cypher II unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with ground control stations, for testing by the US Marine Corps. The contract includes options for another 10 of the all-composite vertical take-off and landing UAV rotorcraft. Dubbed Dragon Warrior by ...
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Austrian defection leaves Qualiflyer seeking new ties
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Swissair is claiming that its faltering alliance remains intact, despite the spectacular defection of core Qualiflyer Group member Austrian Airlines to the rival Star Alliance camp. Austrian and its partially-owned associates Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways will assume full Star membership in the second quarter of next year. ...
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Hong Kong to climb down over airport fees
Hong Kong's Airport Authority (AA) is cutting landing and parking fees at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) by 15% from 1 January in response to criticism over high charges at the new Chek Lap Kok airport, which opened last year. The AA says the move should "increase the competitive ...
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Fighter buy re-ignites BAe-Denel talks
British Aerospace (BAe)is preparing to resume talks with South Africa over its planned acquisition of an equity stake in state-owned defence company Denel. The move follows Pretoria's decision to purchase up to 28 Saab/BAe Gripen fighters and 24 Hawk trainers. BAe reveals that the signing of the defence contract, ...
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Olympic runs up a profit despite slump
Troubled Greek flag-carrier Olympic Airways saw turnover fall by 2% last year compared with 1997, although it was able to report a net profit of Dr1.66 billion ($5.3 million) for the period, thanks to a Dr12 billion gain from a write-back of previous provisions. The airline also suffered an ...
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Crossing the line
New Piper Aircraft has moved firmly into business aviation territory with its single-turboprop Meridian Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Next July, five years after it emerged from bankruptcy, New Piper Aircraft plans to deliver the first Malibu Meridian. This single-turboprop business aircraft symbolises the resurgence of a firm that was driven into ...
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The China syndrome
The People's Republic is overflowing with airlines, but in the wake of the Asian crisis, few are turning a profit Chris Jasper/LONDON Though Beijing, in the form of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), has been talking up the prospect of consolidation within the country's airline industry for some ...
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Consolidate to accumulate
The maintenance, repair and overhaul market is expected to swell to around $35.9 billion by 2004, according to Doug Birch/LONDON Think of consolidation within the aviation industry and the frenzied merger activity gripping the aerospace manufacturing sector immediately springs to mind. Yet consolidation is also beginning to change the ...
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NetJets forum
Executive Jet is to conduct a forum at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in October to brief fixed-base operators, charter operators, repair stations and other support service suppliers. Meanwhile, the first phase of the company's new $25 million US operational headquarters at Port Columbus International Airport, ...
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NASA ready to detail transporter plans
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NASA will brief the US Administration by the end of September on its proposal to spend $1.2 billion over five years to prepare for a "low risk" competition to select a next-generation space transporter by 2005. The agency is to present its plans to the US Office ...
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India/France plan weather satellite
India and France are to build and launch in 2005 a climate monitoring satellite called Megha Tropiques. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and French space agency CNES will use the satellite to study climate patterns to help develop a scientific model for weather forecasting that could benefit farmers, ...
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Second test flight for Roton
Rotary Rocket's Roton Atmospheric Test Vehicle (ATV) made its second test flight on 16 September. The ATV rose to 6m (20ft) altitude and hovered virtually stationary for two and a half minutes during the 4min 30s flight, powered by small thrusters on the tips of its helicopter-like rotating blades. ...
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Communications sale
Lockheed Martin is to offer excess Ka-band capacity on NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) to commercial customers under its Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC). Deployed in September 1993 from the Space Shuttle Discovery with a five-man crew, the multiple spot-beam ACTS is expected to remain operational beyond June next ...
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Safety team to probe Shuttle maintenance
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has appointed an independent industry team to review the overall safety of the Space Shuttle and its maintenance and refurbishment practices. The team will be led by Dr Henry McDonald, director of NASA's Ames Research Center. The move follows the discovery of maintenance-related damage to ...
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Arianespace moves to reduce launch backlog
Arianespace plans to launch six boosters before the end of the year in an effort to reduce the backlog of launches caused by delays to deliveries of several communications satellites earlier this year. The next mission is due on 24 September, involving the launch of a Telstar 7 satellite ...
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H-II delay
The delayed launch of the Japanese H-II booster with the Loral-built MTSAT has been put back to November to give Japanese space agency NASDA time to conduct a review of technical problems that have delayed a planned August launch. The problems have included a deformed electrode on a battery on ...
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Il Avia loses licence after using time-expired engines
Russia's Federal Service of Air Transport has withdrawn the operating licence of a leading air cargo operator for maintenance violations involving the alleged use of time-expired engines on an Ilyushin Il-76TD. Il Avia, 10%-owned by the Ilyushin Aviation Complex and 90% by Vozrozhdenniya, a foundation set up to support ...
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TNT's first A300F ready
British Aerospace Aviation Services has completed the conversion of the first of up to 14 Airbus A300B4 freighters for TNT. The express parcels specialist will operate the 45t freighters on its European network from its Liège, Belgium, hub and is restructuring into a single group with its own operating certificate. ...