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Japanese first
Japan Airlines (JAL) subsidiary J-Air has become the country's first airline to order regional jets, with a deal for two Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet Series 200s. The Hiroshima-based airline, which operates five British Aerospace Jetstream 31s, will receive the two 50-seaters in November next year and in March 2001. Source: ...
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Injury payment
China Southern Airlines will pay up to HK$5,000 ($645) compensation and medical costs to passengers hurt when a Boeing 757 hit severe turbulence injuring 45 on board, some of them seriously. The aircraft dropped 2,000ft (600m) in 10s from 21,000ft before the captain regained control. The co-pilot, who was not ...
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GPS glide bombs
Raytheon has delivered the first EGBU-15 glide bombs enhanced with global positioning system (GPS) guidance to US Air Forces Europe. Adding GPS to the daylight TV/nighttime imaging-infrared guidance gives all-weather capability. The EGBU-15 was developed and delivered in 44 days, more than three years faster than the original schedule. The ...
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Italian VIPs
The Italian air force has taken delivery of the first of two Dassault Falcon 900s for use on VIP services. It will receive the second Falcon by the end of this year when it is also due to take delivery of the first of two Airbus A319CJs. The aircraft are ...
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FBO expansion
Two US fixed-base operator (FBO) chains are expanding. Raytheon Aircraft Services is forming a joint venture with Mexico's AeroLineas Ejecutivas to provide maintenance services for Beech and Hawker aircraft at Mexico City's Toluca airport. Piedmont Hawthorne, meanwhile, is buying Shell Canada's Aerocentre FBOs in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. These ...
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Charter services
The flight departments of DaimlerChrysler and General Motors have formed Automotive Air Charter to offer worldwide charter services with a combined fleet of 16 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Simulator purchase
SimuFlite Training International has ordered four flight simulators from CAE Electronics, for the Cessna Citation Bravo/Ultra and Excel and Gulfstream IV-SP and V, plus 14 visual systems to upgrade its business aircraft simulators. Source: Flight International
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PC-12 update
Pilatus is evaluating a new cockpit for the PC-12, featuring a large-format flat-panel display, developed by US company IS&S. This replaces most of the current instruments. Flight tests could begin within two months and the 230 x 250mm display may be offered initially as an option on the co-pilot's side ...
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Innotech order
Innotech-Execaire Aviation, the Canadian Cessna Citation business jet distributor, has ordered five Citations. Its contract for a Citation Sovereign, two Citation Excels, a Citation Encore and a Citation CJ2 is worth $40million. The company's Montreal-based subsidiary Innotech has installed a Flight Dynamics head-up guidance System on a Bombardier Challenger 604. ...
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European arrival
Cirrus has delivered its first European-owned SR20 to its Dutch sales agent. The aircraft, the third of five handed over by the Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus since deliveries began in July, will be used as a demonstrator. Source: Flight International
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USAF to contract out student pilot screening
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The US Air Force has abandoned plans to return its troubled fleet of Slingsby T-3A Firefly trainers to flying status. Instead it will contract out all student pilot screening to private schools on a permanent basis to cut costs. Enhanced flight screening (EFS) using the ...
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Burning issues
A new report challenges aviation's complacency about the long-term effect it may have on the atmosphere Julian Moxon/PARIS Look at the sky on a clear day and you are likely to see contrails produced by high-flying aircraft, their criss-cross patterns melting slowly to form light, wispy cirrus-type clouds before they ...
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Out on a wing
NASA is set to turn an experimental project into full-scale scientific and commercial work Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESAs shopping expeditions go, visiting NASA's display of Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) project aircraft on 13 October has to rank as one of the strangest. On show, under the appropriate banner ...
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Silence please
As stringent Stage IV noise limits loom, US aerospace engineers are studying how far noise reduction is technologically and economically possible Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESWhile the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) moves relentlessly towards an undefined Stage IV noise limit for airliner operations in the 21st century, the industry is hard ...
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First Ikonos images released
Space Imaging, the commercial high-resolution remote-sensing satellite imaging company, has released the first black and white panchromatic images taken by the Lockheed Martin-built Ikonos satellite which was launched on 21 September. The picture shows Washington National Airport. The company expects to start selling 1m-resolution black and white, or 4m-resolution colour ...
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EADS deal clears Airbus reorganisation logjam
The most important immediate effect of the formation of EADS may be to fully unblock the Airbus logjam. With 80% of the consortium in the hands of one entity, the path to the creation of a single corporate entity (SCE) through one more bilateral involving British Aerospace seems clear. ...
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Boeing recovery
Boeing's continued production recovery boosted the company's third-quarter performance, with operating earnings soaring to $501 million in its commercial aircraft business, compared with a loss of $142 million for the same period last year. Chairman Phil Condit says an that improved Asian economy will allow the company to maintain 747 ...
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SIA gets set to join Star Alliance
Jens Flottau/TOKYO Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to join the Star Alliance by the start of the second quarter of next year after an on-off saga in which the Asian giant seemed to distance itself from the group after clashing with Star member Air New Zealand over ownership of Ansett Australia. ...
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Levitation kick-start could cut costs
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and PRT Advanced Maglev System have built a track to test whether a rocket-powered spacecraft could be given a low-cost, high speed kick-start into the atmosphere before the craft's engines are ignited. The 15m (50ft)-long development is an electrically powered advanced linear induction motor-powered magnetic ...