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Ontario court sets Air Canada Onex date
Ontario's Superior Court has timetabled a hearing for 22 September on the Onex investment group's planned hostile take-over of Air Canada. Onex, which aims to merge Air Canada with troubled Canadian Airlines, will ask the courts to force the flag carrier to hold a shareholders' vote on its bid ...
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El Al gets widebody purchase go-ahead
Chase Manhattan bank has backed a plan for the financing of a new widebody purchase by El Al, concluding that the Israeli flag carrier's market projections are sound. The US bank was contracted to assess the funding scheme last month and reports that El Al made relatively conservative cashflow ...
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Kiwi and Community slide as Pan Am perks up
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Kiwi International Airlines has moved closer to extinction, with bankruptcy trustee Charles Stanziale requesting US court permission to liquidate the few remaining assets of the carrier. Chapter 7 liquidation is expected to be approved this month. Newark, New Jersey-based Kiwi ceased operating on 24 March and ...
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Cash crisis halts AB
UK independent AB Airlines, which went into administration on 30 July, has ceased scheduled services after its administrator decided its negative cashflow was "too serious" to allow it to continue operations. AB offered flights from London Gatwick to Nice, France, and Shannon, Ireland. The airline says its wet-lease and ...
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Trainer role for baby Bell
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe US Marine Corps is drafting a mission needs statement for a military trainer variant of the BA609 civil tiltrotor, in the first formal step towards an expected joint programme with the US Air Force. Following the USMC needs statement, the next step will be the drafting of ...
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Sikorsky widens Shares offer
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Sikorsky plans to extend its Sikorsky Shares fractional ownership programme to California and Florida next year and to Europe in 2001, as the concept of helicopter sharing gains acceptance. "We hope to have sold our first S-76C+ by the end of the year and to have three ...
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Kelly wins NASA deal
Reusable space transportation systems company Kelly Space and Technology has been awarded a $2.1 million contract by NASA to continue studying the development of space transportation through to 2030. Under the second phase of the programme, California-based Kelly will develop alternatives to meet NASA's future spaceflight requirements from 2000 ...
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NASA reveals close-up images of moons
NASA has released images of the earth's moon (above) and Io - the volcanic moon of Jupiter (below). The moon image was taken during the close flyby of the earth-moon system last month by the Cassini spacecraft en route to Saturn, proving the quality of the craft's imaging system in ...
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Russia restarts Baikonur Proton services with launch of Yamals
Tim Furniss/LONDON Russia launched two Yamal communications satellites on a Proton K booster from Baikonur on 6 September, marking the first launch of a Proton booster since launches from Baikonur were banned by Kazakhstan after the Proton M failure on 5 July. The launch was also the first by ...
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ESA ponders Vega's future after France withdraws
Europe's controversial $300 million Vega small-satellite launcher project has been hit by the withdrawal of France from the international partnership established to build the vehicle. France has been considering its involvement in the programme for some time and resisted further investment (Flight International, 7-13 July). Its decision leaves Italy ...
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US delays could keep Mir station in orbit
Russia's Energia company has suggested that, if funding can be found, a new crew could inhabit the Mir space station for six months next year, rather than the short visit planned to prepare the station for de-orbiting. The Russian move is in response to US delays to the International ...
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DC-9 detection
Securaplane has received US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification for its wireless smoke detection system on McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s. Arizona-based Securaplane's wireless fire detection system has been cleared for "D" and "E" class lower cargo compartments. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance support
Dynacorp Technical Services has won a seven-year maintenance deal to support US Air Force Northrop T-38A/Bs and German air force McDonnell Douglas F-4Fs at three bases in the USA. Source: Flight International
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Australian ANVIS
The Australian Army has ordered Elbit ANVIS/HUD (Aviators Night Vision Imaging System/Head Up Display) helmet systems to equip 12 of its 36 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Raytheon Australia will install the electro-optical system that combines a night vision goggle image with computer generated graphics and digital symbology. Source: Flight ...
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Popeye lightens up
PGSUS, the Lockheed Martin/Rafael joint venture, is to start development of the Popeye Lite, a lighter version of the Popeye missile known in US service as the AGM-142 Have Nap. The decision comes as the first AGM-142 rolls out from the company's Troy, Alabama, factory. The Popeye Lite is a ...
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Capital aircraft
Welsh charter operator Capital Trading Aviation (CTA) has acquired a new five-seat Cessna Golden Eagle. The aircraft will join the Cardiff-based operator's charter fleet, consisting of two Piper Chieftains. Source: Flight International
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Deliveries begin
Langford Lodge Engineering of Northern Ireland has shipped the first of 120 sheet metal details for the Raytheon Hawker 800XP business jet fuselage to British Aerospace, less than four months after the $825,000 contract was signed. Source: Flight International
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Training contract
Helicopter Adventures has signed a three-year deal with the Hong Kong Government Flying Service to provide UK Civil Aviation Authority commercial pilot's licence training for up to six cadets at its California base. Source: Flight International
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Jet acquisition
Jet Aviation has signed a letter of intent to acquire privately owned Jet East, a fixed-base operator (FBO) at Dallas Love Field, Texas. The transaction is expected to close this month, when Jet East, a Bombardier Learjet and Cessna Citation service centre, will join three other US Jet Aviation FBOs. ...
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Force of the future - Flexible forces
The Netherlands air force's knowledge of the airspace over the former Yugoslavia was a tactical advantage Stewart Penney/THE HAGUE Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) commander in chief Lt Gen Ben Droste (left) says Operation Allied Force showed that his service is "ready and available" to be used as an ...