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Airbus software
Northwest Airlines has agreed a deal to fit its fleet of 385 aircraft and 50 new Airbus A319s with AlliedSignal's new enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Deliveries start this month and are to be completed by the end of 2000. The company has also delivered its first multimode receiver ...
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Arianespace wins Japanese launch contract
Arianespace, the European commercial launcher organisation, has won a contract to launch the Lockheed Martin-built N-SAT 110 communications spacecraft, owned by Japan's Space Communications (SCC). The order brings to 38 the number of satellites on the Arianespace manifest and it is the ninth in 1998. The latest satellite and ...
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Mobile service for Eutelsat
Eutelsat has finalised a deal with Italy's Telespazio for control and commercialisation of the European Mobile Satellite (EMS) payload, developed by the European Space Agency and carried on the Italsat F2 satellite, pictured on a Spelda dual-satellite container before its 1996 Ariane launch. The voice, fax, data, messaging and positioning ...
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Boeing succeeds with fourth Delta
It was fourth time lucky for Boeing's Delta II on 22 November when the booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying Russia's Hughes-built Bonum 1 communications satellite. The launch had been ditched three times on successive days, starting on 19 November, by an engine gimballing problem, a communications glitch and ...
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Dispenser delivery
Aerospatiale has delivered to Starsem the first of six payload dispensers, each to carry four Globalstar satellites on launches of Soyuz boosters from Baikonur. The first flight is being planned for later this month. Three additional Soyuz flights were booked by Globalstar after the Zenit failure in September. Source: ...
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Zarya enters final orbit and waits for next components
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian International Space Station (ISS) control module Zarya completed its fifth and final planned orbital correction burn on 23 November, placing it in a 396 x 85km, 51°-inclination orbit. The module was launched successfully aboard a Proton booster from Baikonur on 20 November. The NASA ...
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Denel to expand helicopter activities in Agusta deal
Denel Aviation is to move deeper into helicopter assembly following its deal with Agusta to purchase up to 40 A109 twin turbine rotorcraft for light utility duties with the South African Air Force (SAAF). Although the deal, including the offset package, will not be signed until next year, the two ...
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Alliance fights for single engine change
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The international single-engined aircraft community has formed an alliance to fight for a change of rules in Europe on the prohibition of single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial aircraft. The European Joint Aviation Authorities is now reviewing whether to alter its longstanding opposition to single-engined IFR ...
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Nordam reveals 'single pivot' reverser design
An advanced "single pivot" thrust reverser design for corporate and regional aircraft has been unveiled by Oklahoma-based nacelle and reverser specialist Nordam. The Advanced Single Pivot (ASP) design is aimed at engines in the 2,000-10,000lb (9-45kN ) thrust range and, in some configurations, can be used to shape the exhaust ...
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A300B2/B4 retrofit provides global positioning capability
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON An electronic retrofit developed by Airbus Industrie for the A300B2/B4 twinjet, which provides increased efficiency and meets new navigation requirements, has been certificated. The B2/B4 variants - the first examples of the A300 to be produced - are equipped with analogue, electromechanical-instrument cockpits and, with a few ...
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Testing a stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLEPicture the scene. A Boeing 757-300 emerges from the blackness of a North Atlantic storm, fighting a vicious crosswind with gusts of 40kt (75km/h) or more. Ahead, through the gloom and screaming wind, lies the rain-slicked runway of Iceland's Keflavik Airport. Testing the automatic landing system to its limits, ...
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Bold endeavour
Tim Furniss/LONDON Russia has done its bit, now its NASA's turn. The Russian Zarya control module is in its planned orbit, ready and waiting. NASA's space shuttle Endeavour/ STS 88 is poised on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to embark on the first mission ...
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Top 50 Airports first half Jan-Jun 1998
Rank City Airport Country Code Pax Jan-Jun Freight Jan-Jun Mvmts Jan-Jun Full year ‘97 ‘98 ‘97 Million Change 000t Change 000 Change Pass m rank ...
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Portugalia postpones
Portuguese regional carrier Portugalia has abandoned plans for a flotation in favour of seeking a Esc5.7 billion ($33.7 million) capital injection from its shareholders. The airline cites the volatility of the financial markets as the reason for its about-turn. Source: Airline Business
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UK delays worsen
Flight delays at UK airports increased in the second quarter of 1998, compared to the corresponding quarter in 1997. According to figures released by the CAA, delays for scheduled flights at the London airports worsened by one minute to 15 minutes, with charter flights increasing to 43 minutes, from 40 ...
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Germany's Flying Dutchman
Germany's regional Eurowings and KLM have sealed their long-term alliance by signing a contract for an expansion of their current co-operation. As well as joining KLM's Flying Dutchman frequent flyer programme, the two airlines are planning to increase their share of the German market from the current 7% to 15 ...
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Airport financial results 1997/8
Airport company/authority Country Main city/airport Revenue $ Million Net result $ million Year end 1997/8 change 1997/8 1996/7 BAA UK London Heathrow/Gatwick 2818.4 22.3% 624.0 469.1 ...
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Airports Gearing up to grow
An unprecedented enthusiasm for commercialisation is sweeping the world's airports. Old public service concepts are out. The new creed is cost containment, private finance, aggressive marketing and even acquisition strategies. But before the airline customers start to celebrate, there are potential penalties as well as gains from this latest trend. ...
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Boullioun changes owners
Boullioun Aviation, which aspires to be the world's number three aircraft lessor, is about to change owners. In a $120 million deal, which the parties hope to close before year-end, Japan's Sumitomo Trust and Banking has agreed to sell Boullioun, a wholly owned subsidiary, to Germany's Deutsche Bank. Seattle-based ...