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Airsat deliveries
AlliedSignal has begun initial shipments of the new Airsat 1 satellite communication avionics for use with the Iridium satellite system. The single-channel Airsat 1 will provide voice communication services on corporate and general aviation aircraft. The system costs $29,500, with telephone calls priced from $3.50/min within the same country to ...
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Indian order
Hindustan Aeronautics has ordered two Schweizer 330 light helicopters for its new helicopter training school. The Indian manufacturer and distributor plans to assemble Schweizer machines at Bangalore. Source: Flight International
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Service centre sale
Oxford Aviation Services (OAS) of the UK has acquired Bournemouth Airport-based Cessna Citation service centre IDS Aircraft for an undisclosed sum. OAS, which owns engineering and training company CSE Aviation, has renamed the company CSE Citation Centre. Source: Flight International
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Winair folds
US carrier Winair has folded after eight months of operation as a low-cost carrier. The Salt Lake City-based airline, which had its hub at Long Beach, California, shut down last week having lost $15 million. Winair was launched as a charter carrier but switched to cut-price scheduled flights in November. ...
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Japan link-up
NTT Communications and Japan Satellite Systems are to merge their activities. NTT operates two N Star communications satellites, while JSS operates five JCSATs. Source: Flight International
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OrbComm contract
OSC's OrbComm subsidiary has contracted Hughes Global Services to deliver OrbComm communications services to the US Government and military customers. Source: Flight International
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VentureStar equity
The Lockheed Martin team is committed to providing at least 20% of the equity capital to the VentureStar project, Peter Teets, president and chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin points out. In an article (Flight International, 2-8 June), it was incorrectly stated that Lockheed Martin will not invest in the ...
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AOL investment
American Online (AOL) is to invest $1.5 billion in Hughes Electronics for high speed broadband entertainment and Internet services by satellite, with a view to playing a major role in the proposed Hughes Spaceway satellite system to provide broadband multimedia applications. Source: Flight International
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Simulator job
Vortek Industries of Vancouver, Canada, has sold a $500,000 advanced large area simulator/photovoltaic test system to Fokker Space of The Netherlands, a major supplier of solar cell arrays for satellites. Other major Vortek customers include NASA and the US Air Force. Source: Flight International
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Travel agents revolt
The uprising by travel agents was prompted last year when Cintra reduced their commission from 10% to 7% on domestic ticketing. At the heart of the reaction to the move, which put commission rates at international levels, is a deeply rooted resistance and inability of many Mexican business sectors to ...
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Long sight for the UK
The UK's lengthy search for an airborne stand-off radar has resulted in a unique surveillance system Stewart Penney/LONDON Simultaneous announcements in London and Paris of the winner of the UK Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) competition ended a battle which has raged for the best part of this decade and concludes ...
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Estonian revival
Western philosophies are about to pay dividends for Estonian Air, which is on the verge of its first operating profit Andrew Chuter/TALLINN Looks are deceiving, I hoped, as the taxi approached the dowdy Soviet-style offices of Estonian Air at Tallinn Airport. I had come to the Estonian capital to report ...
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Brigade management
Italian air force operations are managed by brigades, controlled by the Comando Squadra Aerea. They are: Missile Systems, in Padova: 17th Missile Wing with three squadrons (58th, 72nd and 80th), equipped with the Nike Hercules missile system; Fighters/Interceptors, in Bari: 4th, 5th, 9th, 36th and 37th ...
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Fit to survive
LanChile is determined to flourish in the an unpredictable economic climate that has already claimed two airlines David Learmount/SANTIAGO DE CHILE Latin American airlines are punch drunk. They have been successively hit by precarious home economies, a diving Brazilian currency, the Asia-Pacific economic crisis and a wave of ...
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Training objectives
LanChile trains its engineers at Santiago in a school run by Lufthansa Technik. This is likely to be expanded to become a maintenance training centre for the region. In the past, says Cueto, maintenance engineers came from Chile's air force. Pilot needs so far have been met by former ...
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SITA members say yes to IT separation
SITA members have approved plans to form its information technology businesses into a separate company, raising the prospect of substantial windfalls for airlines when the new entity goes on the stock market. The move has been prompted partly by SITA's success in creating Equant, which provides data services to ...
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Airline stance stalls UK-US bilateral talks
The UK has cancelled talks on a new air services treaty with the USA after failing to persuade UK carriers to adopt a position likely to lead to agreement on a liberal "open skies" bilateral. Formal negotiations had been due to resume in Washington DC during the week beginning ...
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Greek start-up chooses 717 for fleet expansion
Greek start-up Axon Airlines has launched services with two leased Boeing 737-700s, and is set to expand operations with up to five Boeing 717s. The Athens-based privately owned carrier gained its air operator's certificate last month, and is initially operating services to Brussels, Milan, Paris and Rome, with two ...
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Kosovo Apaches come under US Army fire
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Army Boeing AH-64A Apache attack helicopter pilots were undertrained and ill-equipped to engage Serb forces in Kosovo, according to a report written by Brig Gen Richard Cody, who led Task Force Hawk in Albania. The internal memorandum that was sent to Gen Eric Shinseki, the US ...
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Airlines continue Y2K compliance fight
The US airline industry has notified the Clinton Administration that all year 2000 (Y2K) compliance work should be completed by 31 August. The move comes as other organisations prepare to file their findings on the worldwide status of the industry. US aviation officials say the situation in the rest ...