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French withdrawal prompts ESA to drop Vega project
Julian Moxon/PARIS Andy Nativi/GENOA France's withdrawal from the Vega small-satellite launcher project has forced the European Space Agency (ESA) to drop Vega as an ESA programme. Italy, the project's main supporter, has promised it will go ahead with Vega "come what may". France has been reviewing its involvement ...
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Keeping up the pace
Commercial technology drives the flight simulation industry, and the military is trying hard to keep up Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCNowhere in the military arena is the light-speed pace of commercial electronics more keenly felt than in simulation. Without the unique demands of airborne operation to insulate it from the 18-month new ...
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Ibis targets December for roll-out of Ae270
Ibis Aerospace, the Aero Vodochody/AIDC joint venture, expects to roll out the single-turboprop Ae270 multimission aircraft on 10 December. The first production prototype will be an Ae270P variant, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A. The aircraft is pressurised, with retractable landing gear. The non-pressurised Ae207W, which has a ...
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Learjet 35 crash investigators focus on pressure drop
Investigators are looking for evidence that depressurisation caused the 26 October crash of a Bombardier Learjet 35 business jet, which killed golfer Payne Stewart and four others. The cause may be difficult to determine, warns the US National Transportation Safety Board, as the aircraft was destroyed when it crashed ...
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Safire raises investment to launch twinjet programme
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Safire Aircraft has secured adequate investment to fund its twinjet S-26 business aircraft programme through to building the first prototype. The company plans to begin computer-aided design work on the six-seat aircraft in December. "We cannot reveal how much money we have raised at this stage, ...
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Sierra develops new Citation upgrade
Sierra Industries, the Uvalde, Texas-based company known for its after-market airframe modifications, has developed an engine package to upgrade Cessna 500 series Citations. The company has fitted Williams FJ44-2 turbofans in place of the original Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15Ds. As a result, Sierra is offering the FJ44 Eagle ...
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Boeing shrugs off anticipated 777 ETOPS threat
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing says an airworthiness directive (AD) expected to be issued soon by the US Federal Aviation Administration, ordering inspections of the 777's back-up electrical generator and its oil servicing system, poses no threat to the aircraft's extended range twin operations (ETOPS) clearance. According to unconfirmed reports, ...
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Lockheed upheaval
Lockheed Martin president Peter Teets has retired after taking the blame for the company's poor financial performance. Teets announced his retirement after the company slashed its earnings outlook for next year by 50%. The company mainly blames satellite launch delays and failures. Micky Blackwell, executive vice-president of Lockheed Martin's aeronautical ...
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French swoop on Embraer shares may pave way to merger with ATR
Julian Moxon/PARISA merger between ATR and Embraer is one likely outcome of the purchase of a 20% stake in the Brazilian airframer by a group of French aerospace companies. The military sales prospects of Dassault Aviation in South America are also likely to be boosted by the move, which saw ...
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Turboprop makers bullish about stable future sales
The market for regional turboprop airliners is set for a relatively stable future, despite explosive demand for regional jets, say manufacturers. Production, they say, is expected to remain at consistent levels throughout the next decade. ATR expects to build more than 300 ATR 42/72 turboprops over the next 10 ...
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Air France signs A330 deal to replace A310/767 fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France has finalised its long-awaited medium capacity fleet renewal plans, with an order for up to 13 Airbus A330-200s. The order, worth about $1.5 billion, includes eight firm orders and five options, and provides the airline with a replacement for its medium-range fleet of 10 ...
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Marketplace
Air New Zealand has begun to update its regional fleet with delivery of the first of seven ATR 72-500s. The new aircraft will replace the airline's older ATR 72-210s. Meanwhile, the airline has sold six 13/14-year-old Nordam Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 737-200Advs to Mexican carrier Aviacsa. Sabena has phased ...
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Saab repossesses Argentinian 340s
Saab Aircraft Leasing has repossessed Kaiken Lineas Aereas' fleet of Saab 340 turboprops after the Argentinian regional carrier failed to make payments for almost a year. In the first action of its kind by the former Swedish manufacturer, all three of Kaiken's Saab 340As were seized at Rio Grande ...
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A330s set to wing their way to Iran
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Iran has reached agreement with France over its planned purchase of four Airbus A330-300s for operation by flag carrier Iran Air, with deliveries of the aircraft to begin in 2001. Iranian transport minister Mohammed Hojjati told the country's official news agency, IRNA, that the $480 million deal was ...
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Congressman urges UK ban
US Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster has called for a ban on all UK carrier flights to Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy airports unless an open skies agreement, allowing greater access to London, Heathrow, for US carriers, is finalised within six months. Congressman Shuster has also introduced a bill ...
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Top 50 Cargo Airline Ranking - 1998
Top 50 Cargo Airline Ranking - 1998 Ranking 1998 Airline Country Cargo Traffic Cargo share Total RTK's Cargo revenue $ million Cargo share of revenue Cargo yield USC/RTK Period End RTK million Change ...
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A lesson in low cost
Debonair's demise has provided a salutary lesson to other of Europe's low-fares carriers not to stray too far from the low-cost formula. Conventional wisdom may be much maligned, but it is not always wrong. Almost from the day that Franco Mancasola sketched out his plans to launch a ...
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More to come says Star, as it welcomes new members
BEN MCMILLAN/ATI TOKYO Singapore Airlines (SIA) took centre stage at the inauguration of Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) into the Star Alliance in Tokyo in October by confirming its widely anticipated entrance into the multilateral airline grouping from spring next year. ANA was to join Star on 31 ...
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Lufthansa eyes cargo alliance
Lufthansa Cargo is undertaking a feasibility study into a worldwide air cargo alliance. Lufthansa has signed memoranda of understandings with SAS Cargo and Singapore Airlines, which could lead to a more binding arrangement early next year. Source: Airline Business
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Air Canada's allies prepare rescue bid
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE A showdown is expected by 8 November on the bid by Onex to acquire Air Canada and merge it with Canadian Airlines. With high stakes for the Star and oneworld alliances, United and Lufthansa Airlines appear ready to intervene on Air Canada's behalf. Onex ...