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FAA opts for Quiet Wing 727 solution
Kelowna Flightcraft of Canada has begun modifying the US Federal Aviation Administration's Boeing 727-100 testbed and research aircraft with DuganAir Technologies' stage three compliance kit. This is a coup for the Washington-based company, whose Quiet Wing System kit was chosen over several other hushkitting, re-engining and stage three aerodynamic ...
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Freighter funding due soon
The US Exim bank is expected to release by the end of the year long-awaited funding for an initial batch of three Ilyushin Il-96T widebody freighters being acquired by Aeroflot. The Pratt & Whitney PW2000-powered aircraft received US Federal Aviation Administration certification in June, but the aircraft have not ...
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MAPO plans diversification through Tu-334
Russian manufacturer MAPO plans to join a consortium of companies to produce the Tupolev Tu-334 medium commercial transport. The consortium is being formed by the Tupolev design bureau, the Aviant production plant of Kiev, Ukraine and MAPO. According to MAPO general director and general designer, Nickolay Nikitin, the three ...
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Dasa partners with Russian industry on MiG-29 upgrades
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) is gearing up for an aggressive sales drive in the emerging Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum upgrade market following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian manufacturer MAPO and arms export agency Rozvoorouzhenie. The German company has also revealed plans to establish a similar venture ...
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MiG 1.44 now scheduled to fly in September
Unlike its Sukhoi forward-swept wing counterpart the S-37 Berkut (above), the MAPO MiG 1.44 advanced fighter prototype failed to appear at the Moscow air show. After its first public appearance in January, the 1.44 remains in MAPO's hangar at the edge of the Zhukovsky airfield where it has been stored ...
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Mil, Kazan and Eurocopter sign Mi-38 deal
The MVZ Mil design bureau, Kazan Helicopter Plant, Eurocopter and Euromil (a joint venture between Mil and Eurocopter) have signed two memoranda covering the development and production of the Mil Mi-38 multipurpose helicopter. Eurocopter will act as avionics integrator. Kazan general manager Alexander Lavrentyev says the first Mi-38 fuselage ...
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Too late
Iridium's project for a constellation of satellites providing a global telephone service seemed to have real credibility in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Unfortunately, as is often the case with pioneering high technology, high investment schemes, it took too long to materialise, rendering the company a legend even before its own ...
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Boeing completes 717-200 tests as certification nears
Boeing is "on track" to achieve certification of the 717-200 on 1 September after completion of the flight test programme at its Yuma test site in Arizona. This will allow deliveries to begin next month to launch customer AirTran Airways, which has begun training crews. The 717 is set to ...
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Live Brimstone fired
Alenia Marconi Systems and Boeing carried out the first live firing of the Brimstone anti-armour weapon on 12 August. The trial, at the US Yuma Proving Grounds, follows carriage and jettison tests on a Panavia Tornado GR1. Airborne firings will follow later this year. Boosted, non-guided firings will be conducted ...
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Heads roll in Kazakhstan over N Korean deal
Kazakhstan has sacked its defence minister and launched a criminal investigation into alleged illegal sales of fighters, following South Korean protests that the country had supplied Soviet-built fighters to North Korea. South Korea has expressed "serious concern" over the alleged sales, and intelligence chief Chun Yong-Taek claims North Korea ...
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Lufthansa halves predicted profits
Lufthansa has lowered its pre-tax profit prediction for 1999 by 50% - despite returning the second-best first-half operating result in its history. The German carrier's operating profit of DM578 million ($312.3 million) for the first six months was second only to the same period last year, but still 40.4% down ...
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Kazan's Ansat makes first flight
The Kazan Ansat helicopter had its first flight on 17 August, marking the manufacturer's debut as a helicopter designer. Kazan is better known as the major maker of Mil helicopters, having produced more than 11,000. The 3,000kg Ansat, powered by a pair of Klimov-built Pratt & Whitney Canada PK206C ...
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Cessna and Dassault expect slow CIS sales
Business jet manufacturers Cessna Aircraft and Dassault Aviation expect the current trickle of sales to customers in Russia and the CIS to continue, but rule out any significant pick-up until the region's economies improve. The two were the only Western firms to exhibit aircraft at MAKS '99. Cessna says ...
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Canadian gets three-month deadline
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Canadian Airlines has been given three months to find a financial lifeline, with Ottawa suspending competition rules for 90 days from 13 August to help the ailing carrier find a saviour. The Calgary-based airline seems unlikely to emerge from the period in its current form. Ottawa's move ...
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Iridium seeks rescue package as it files for bankruptcy
Tim Furniss/LONDON Mobile satellite communications company Iridium is striving to put together a financial rescue plan after filing for bankruptcy protection from its creditors on 13 August. As the Motorola-led company works on the plan, fellow start-up mobile satellite communications (satcom) company ICO Global Communications is feeling the "Iridium ...
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Mergers
Ground services provider Worldwide Flight Services of the USA is to buy Miami Aircraft Support for $66.4 million, giving it a presence at a total of 82 airports. Worldwide was previously owned by American Airlines parent AMR, but was bought by private investors in March. US third-party maintenance provider Aviation ...
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Sun glimmers
The closure of South African domestic carrier Sun Air is in doubt, with employees and trades unions lobbying Pretoria in a bid to save it, and a takeover by South African Airways (SAA) - which planned to close it - dependent on the write-off of a R25 million ($4 million) ...
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Share sale helps Qantas profit rise
Australia's Qantas has reported a pre-tax profit of A$662.5 million ($432 million) for its financial year to 20 June, up by 38.6% on the previous 12 months. Turnover rose by A$320 million - or 3.9% - to A$8.45 billion, while net profit was up by 38%, to A$420.9 million, buoyed ...
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Russia takes programmed route to restructure
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Russian Aerospace Agency (RASA), which recently took over responsibility for more than 350 aircraft industry enterprises, is planning a programme-oriented - rather than merger-led - approach to industry restructuring. RASA's newly appointed industry deputy general-director, Yuriy Bardin, defends Moscow's reluctance to force mergers of aircraft ...
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Troubled World may defer payment
Wet lease specialist World Airways, which lost $11 million last year, may delay a multi-million-dollar interest payment due before the end of this month, prompting renewed speculation about its future. The airline and financial advisor CIBC World Markets are considering whether to delay a payment of about $1.7 million on ...