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AIRPortland chief
Portland, Oregon-based start-up AIRPortland has appointed former Pan Am president and chief executive, David Banmiller, as head. The airline plans to operate transcontinental services early next year from Portland to New York and later to Boston and Washington DC. Source: Flight International
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PAL lays out revamp plans
Brent Hannon/MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) will reduce its fleet to 13 aircraft and become a strictly domestic airline unless it can find an investor willing to take a 40% stake. If it finds an backer, it would keep 22 aircraft and fly overseas routes, says PAL senior vice-president of ...
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Domestics ignore international opening
The Philippines' three domestic airlines do not plan to fly overseas despite the vacuum left by Philippine Airlines (PAL), which discontinued its international routes at the end of September. All three have permits to fly internationally, but are deterred by poor business prospects. "The Asian economic crunch and the ...
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Engine surges trigger directives from FAA
Uncommanded engine acceleration and the risk of engine shutdown has prompted an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requiring a software upgrade for the CFM International CFM56-7B engine's electronic engine control (EEC), says the US Federal Aviation Administration. The engines are fitted to the Next Generation Boeing 737 family. Also required within ...
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Workshop
-Pratt & Whitney is creating a unified service operation for civil and military engine customers. The Engine Services organisation will merge traditional support and spares functions with the services formerly offered by Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services. -H+S Aviation, the Portsmouth, UK-based engine repair organisation, has agreed with Sundstrand Aerospace ...
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Boeing builds profits and 737s as 747 slips
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is to reduce the production rate of the 747-400 from five to three and a half aircraft a month by the second quarter of next year in the face of a continuing soft market, particularly in the Asia region. Company chairman Phil Condit warns that ...
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Raytheon sells Montek as restructuring bites
Raytheon is to sell its Montek subsidiary to Moog for $160 million cash. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Montek supplies aircraft flight control actuation systems, missile steering controls, as well as other products for the aerospace industry. Montek became part of Raytheon through its acquisition of E-Systems in ...
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Snecma snaps up stake in Sabena company
Sabena is to spin off the engine repair and maintenance business of Sabena Technics into an independent business and sell a 50% stake to French engine builder Snecma. The new operation will be based at the Zaventem, Brussels, engine facilities run by the Belgian airline. The partners plan to ...
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Winning fractions
The business aviation community seems at last to be waking up to the ultimate win-win business solution - fractional ownership. So much so that the concept itself is on the cusp of driving one of the biggest transformations in business travel and the business aviation industry at large - and ...
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US Army plans UH-60Q Dustoff
The US Army has successfully completed operational testing of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60Q medical evacuation (medevac) helicopter and will modify 357 in-service UH-60As to the new standard from 2002. Sikorsky reconfigured four UH-60A Black Hawk utility helicopters to the UH-60Q "Dustoff" standard for integration of new mission equipment, including ...
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Modifications delay Japan's XF-2 prototypes
The Japanese Technology Research Development Institute (TRDI) is working on a series of modifications to its four XF-2A/B flight test prototypes, causing further delays to the flight test schedule. Work includes structural reinforcement to the aircraft's wing-tip for rolling pull-out manoeuvres and the reshaping and positioning of underwing missile pylons ...
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Sukhoi develops new multirole naval two-seat Flanker variant
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Sukhoi design bureau is developing a new two-seat side-by-side multirole naval fighter based on the Su-27IB prototype, claims the bureau's general director, Mikhail Simonov. The new model will have a conical, rather than a flattened "platypus" nose, housing a multimode radar. The Su-27IB (also designated ...
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Kuwaiti Mirage sale
Boeing has begun assembly of the forward fuselage of the second X-32 joint strike fighter demonstrator, two months after the first X-32's centre fuselage was assembled at the company's St Louis plant. Assembly of the second (X-32B) forebody is scheduled to be completed by next summer for final assembly . ...
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Upgraded Indian MiG-21 takes off from Sokol for first trials
Howard Gethin/LONDON The first flight of an upgraded MiG-21 for the Indian air force took place on 6 October at ANPK's Sokol plant in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. Preparations are under way for live firing trials of Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer) infrared short-range and R-77 (AA-12 Adder) active-homing medium range ...
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Japan starts SAR amphibian design
The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is to begin detailed design work on an updated search-and-rescue (SAR) amphibian, having finally selected the Allison AE2100J turboprop engine for its planned improved development of the ShinMaywa US-1A. JDA's Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI), tasked with overseeing the programme, is expected to ...
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Comanche radar decision due soon from US Army
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Army will decide within two months whether to pursue alternative fire control radar solutions for the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance/attack helicopter, says programme manager Brig Gen Joe Bergantz. It had been assumed that a smaller version of the Northrop Grumman/Lockheed Martin ...
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New Zealand launches P-3 Sirius
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA The New Zealand Ministry of Defence has released an invitation to register (ITR) for the Project Sirius tactical sensor suite upgrade for its six Lockheed P-3K maritime patrol aircraft, aimed at extending the P-3's life by at least 20 years. The ITR is expected to be followed ...
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IAI unveils tank firing laser homing missile
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has developed and tested a barrel-launched laser homing anti-tank weapon (LAHAT) which is being offered to the US military and Israeli Army to allow tanks to engage helicopters and armoured vehicles. The Israeli company has teamed with General Dynamics Ordnance Systems division in marketing the advanced ...
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Singapore aims to pull US strings for Longbow
The US Congress is being asked to approve the release of the Northrop Grumman/Lockheed Martin Longbow millimetre wave radar to Singapore in support of the Boeing AH-64D Apache bid for the Singapore air force's new attack helicopter, to be decided soon. Singapore is pressing the USA to release the ...
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Volvo Norsk
Volvo Aero has agreed in principle to buy 67% of Norsk Jetmotor, the Kongsberg, Norway-based aircraft engine component manufacturer, which is being sold by Kongsberg group and the Norwegian Government. Norsk is also owned by US engine builder Pratt & Whitney (22%)and France's Snecma (11%). The firm works on military ...