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Help sought to bolster Belize with national carrier
As part of a programme to boost the economy of Belize, the Central American country's recently elected government is seeking a European carrier to help set up a national airline. Belize does not have a home-grown international operator, and the only major carriers serving the country include American Airlines, ...
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GAMCO Gulf Air deal launches expansion
Max Kingsley-Jones/ABU DHABI Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO) is pushing forward with a programme to become a major force throughout the Gulf region, setting up regional maintenance divisions and absorbing Gulf Air's line maintenance worldwide. Abu Dhabi-based GAMCO is 60% owned by the local government, with the remainder held ...
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Boeing firms up design for latest 737 model
Boeing has finalised the design of the fourth major member of the Next Generation 737 family, the -900, which is due to enter service with Alaska Airlines in April 2001.The 180-seat aircraft will be stretched by 2.6m (8.5ft) overall, taking it to 42.1m in length - or roughly 2.7m longer ...
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Condit warns of take-over threat to Boeing
Boeing chairman Phil Condit has warned that the giant may be potentially vulnerable to a take-over as a result of its low share price, the Seattle Times reports. Quoting managerial sources, the newspaper says that Condit shared his concerns with senior colleagues at an annual meeting early last month. ...
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Cordant takes a greater stake in Howmet business
Cordant Technologies has increased its stake in aero-engine castings manufacturer Howmet International to 84.7% from 62% through the $385 million acquisition of 23 million shares which were formerly held by the Carlyle Group. After exercising an option to make the purchase, Cordant, of Salt Lake City, Utah, indicated that ...
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US aerospace sector pauses for breath
Chris Jasper/LONDON Twelve months ago the US aerospace industry seemed set for yet another major upheaval, with Lockheed Martin poised to merge with Northrop Grumman in a move that would have created an entity big enough to challenge the pre-eminence of Boeing. A year on, the league of ...
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Budget axe prompts slippage in airborne laser flight testing
Flight testing of the Boeing-led Airborne Laser (ABL), designed to shoot down ballistic missiles during the boost phase, will be delayed by at least a year because of Congressional funding cuts, according to senior US Air Force officials. A new Boeing 747-400F, designated YAL-1A, was to be modified ...
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Hungary set to follow Poland's lead with MiG-29 upgrade
Howard Gethin/London MAPO and Danubian could upgrade Hungary's MiG-29 fleet Hungary is considering options for upgrade programmes for its MAPO MiG-29A fighter aircraft, as its plans to buy or lease more modern Western fighters are delayed by continuing funding problems. Poland has already opted to go down ...
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Data Linking
Lockheed Martin has received a contract to upgrade the software in US and European air force F-16s equipped with modular mission computers. The upgrade will add provisions for the Link 16 datalink, Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System, AIM-9X and IRIS-T high off-bore sight air-to-air missiles, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct ...
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UK invites private sector interest in RAF tanker replacement
RAF VC10s may be retired by 2004 if the economics are right The UK Ministry of Defence has issued a request for information to industry for a replacement tanker aircraft for the Royal Air Force. The move could lead to the private sector providing an air-to-air ...
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Diamond DA40 approval slips back to year end
Diamond Aircraft has pushed back certification of its DA40 four-seat single by 12 months. The piston-powered aircraft will enter service by the end of this year. Test flights of three pre-production prototypes of the 135kW (180hp) Lycoming-powered DA40 are continuing from Diamond's base in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. A production-conforming ...
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Boom in business aircraft sales is set to continue
Graham Warwick/Washington DC Worldwide business aircraft deliveries rose by almost 15% in 1998, and manufacturers are projecting a further increase this year based on record order backlogs. Piston aircraft deliveries jumped by almost 70% last year, as the US industry continued its recovery. The US General Aviation ...
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News in Brief
Falcon delivery - Executive Jet has taken delivery of the first Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet for its Netjets fractional ownership programmes. The Woodbridge, New Jersey-based company has ordered 38 Falcon 2000s in total - 26 aircraft for the US programme and 12 for the European operation - and ranks ...
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Europe navigates independent satellite route with Galileo
The European Commission (EC) has proposed development of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) independent from the US global positioning system (GPS) as the second stage in Europe's satellite navigation programme. The Galileo project, announced by EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock on 10 February, will require funding of up ...
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Tu-334 flies as Iran eyes licence production
Tupolev's new 100-seat Tu-334 has made its maiden flight. The Russian company says it is in talks with Iran for licensed production of the aircraft. The flight, which took place on 8 February from Zhukovski, the research and experimental airport near Moscow, lasted 43min. Igor Kalygin, the aircraft's ...
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FSI's first Level D helicopter simulator wins US approval
FlightSafety International (FSI) has received the first Level D certification for a helicopter simulator to be awarded by the US Federal Aviation Administration. Approval was won for the FlightSafety-built Bell 412EP simulator installed at the training company's Bell centre, adjacent to the helicopter manufacturer's Fort Worth, Texas, plant. Level ...
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Pan Am Academy snaps up SimCom
Continuing its rapid expansion, Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) is to acquire training company SimCom International. SimCom, which operates simulator centres in Orlando and Vero Beach, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of privately owned PAIFA. Miami-based PAIFA, which is building new simulator ...
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RAF Valley hosts private centre
THE FIRST industry-funded simulator centre to be established under the UK Ministry of Defence's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has opened at Royal Air Force Valley in Wales. The Hawk Synthetic Training Facility has been built by British Aerospace subsidiary Reflectone UK. The centre opened for training equipped with a ...
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Stardust launched
The NASA Stardust comet-dust collector spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Delta II Medlite booster on 7 February. The Stardust, a NASA Discovery programme mission, will collect dust from the comet Wild 2 during a flyby in January 2004. It is scheduled to return the samples ...
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Costs force testing to be cut
Commercial pressures are forcing satellite manufacturers to cut corners when conducting tests, according to Christopher O'Gwen, assistant vice-president of US insurance company Aviation Underwriters. Last year was one of the worst on record for the space industry, with losses of $1.9 billion - amounting to nearly double the $950 ...