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Price slashed
MD Helicopters has cut the price of the seven/eight-place MD 600N tail rotorless single-turbine helicopter by $50,000 - to $1.2 million. The company plans to deliver 56 helicopters this year, including 20 MD 600Ns, up from the 36 delivered by Boeing last year. Source: Flight International
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Spy sats
A Russia Soyuz U booster was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 18 August carrying a reconnaissance satellite for the Defence Ministry. Meanwhile, Arianespace will launch the Helios 1B reconnaissance satellite on an Ariane 4 in November. The satellite is believed to carry a 1m resolution camera. Source: Flight International
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First step
UK rocketeer Steve Bennett has successfully launched the Starchaser 3A rocket to 6,000m off the Lancashire coast as part of a programme to develop a Starchaser booster capable of flying two people on a suborbital flight in 2003 as part of the X-Prize competition. Source: Flight International
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Hybrid motor
The first long-duration burn of a new 113,340kg (250,000lb) thrust hybrid rocket motor developed by a consortium of major US aerospace companies has been tested at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, to demonstrate an environmentally-friendly propellant and a new head-on combustion approach and ignitor system. Source: Flight International
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Launch delay
The US Air Force has delayed the launch aboard an Atlas 2A booster of the DSCS B8 communications satellite - the first of a new series of upgraded models. The launch is postponed from 22 October to January/February next year after the discovery of wiring insulation defects in the craft. ...
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US-Israeli systems link
Cubic Defense Systems has demonstrated interoperability of US and Israeli rangeless air combat training systems for the first time during a joint US Air Force and Republic of Singapore Air Force exercise. The trial involved Singapore's Israeli-supplied pods and displays and the USAF's Cubic-developed Kadena Instrumented Training System. Source: Flight ...
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Emirates trainers
Dubai-based Emirates has taken three Boeing 777 flight management system trainers from Thomson Training & Simulation. Two are desktop devices and one is a new three-dimensional console-based version providing greater realism. Source: Flight International
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Reserve training
US Air Force Reserve aircrew have begun training on a Raytheon-built Lockheed Martin C-130H3 simulator at Dobbins AFB in Georgia. The simulator integrates a partial glass cockpit with flight test data, aerodynamic models and aircraft system models. The Level D-standard machine joins a similar Raytheon-built C-130H2 simulator delivered last November ...
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AAIC calls police in SilkAir 'suicide' crash
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Indonesian accident investigators say they have contacted police after formally confirming that a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 may have been deliberately crashed by one of the crew in December 1997, near Palembang, Sumatra. All 104 passengers and crew on board the 737, which was operating flight MI185 ...
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Pan Am Academy orders RJ-85 and Saab 340 devices
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) is continuing its expansion by ordering from CAE Electronics new British Aerospace RJ-85 and Saab 340 full flight simulators. The Level D-standard Saab 340 simulator, equipped with a 180°-wide CAE MaxVue Plus visual system, will be delivered soon to PAIFA's new training centre ...
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SAirGroup the latest to suffer slump
SAirGroup is blaming a 29% fall in first-half operating profits on an "accelerating deterioration in yields" in its airline operations, coupled with air traffic control (ATC) restrictions caused in part by the Kosovo conflict. It has become the latest major European airline group to report a slump in profits, ...
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Regional aid ruled illegal
The long and bitter dispute between Brazil and Canada over government subsidies for regional jet sales has been settled by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which has upheld earlier rulings that such activities are illegal. An appeal panel's investigation found that original WTO rulings were correct and ordered that ...
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Orlando courts Europeans
Virgin Atlantic Airways has signed a long-term agreement for a $58 million international 12-gate terminal to be built at Orlando airport, Florida. The recent approval of the lease, which runs until 2008 for one gate, is described by Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) officials as "unique" for a foreign ...
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China's fortunes improve
Nicholas Ionides SINGAPORE The Chinese Government is claiming success in its struggle to turn the country's unprofitable airlines around, but has warned that the industry is not out of the woods yet. The state-run China Daily newspaper says total losses by the country's 30-plus airlines in the first half of ...
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NZ's anti-monopoly laws
New Zealand has introduced new laws to protect airport users from monopoly abuse by the country's three leading airports - Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. The measures come into effect in September and include the mandatory disclosure of a statement of profit and loss as well as a balance sheet for ...
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US carriers gripe over China routes
David Knibb SEATTLE All three US carriers that have been tentatively awarded new rights to China have asked the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for more flights than they have received. Of the 17 new weekly flights allowed under the China-US bilateral between now and next April, the DoT ...
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AB Airlines becomes a low-fares casualty
Industry analysts have been keenly awaiting a first casualty among the new generation of low-cost airlines. The waiting was finally over last month as London-based AB Airlines went into administration. AB has been around since late 1993, but came to the fore a year ago as it made a ...
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KLM, Alitalia produce the goods with cargo deal
Peter Conway LONDON Airline alliances tend to generate much rhetoric about cargo partnerships, but little action. However, the tie-up between KLM and Alitalia, announced in July, looks set to be different. Cargo departments within the two carriers have already gone further in their planning than KLM's long-running tie-up with Northwest. ...
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KLM uk eyes low-cost route
Lois Jones LONDON Fierce competition from low-cost carriers at its London Stansted base is forcing KLM uk to rethink its market position and restructure. Launching its own no-frills service is one possibility. The KLM regional subsidiary is to axe six unprofitable routes from 12 September and streamline its fleet. The ...