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Transaero shake-up may lead to merger
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A battle for control at Russian airline Transaero has seen the airline's founder, Alexander Pleshakov, ousted, with Aeroflot Russian International Airlines majority shareholder Boris Berezovsky now believed to be have taken control through a share trading deal. There is now speculation that the two airlines could be ...
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Virgin Holidays seeks A320s for new charter operation
Virgin Holidays says that it will outline its plans in the coming weeks for new UK-based charter airline Virgin Sun. The company is believed to be finalising the acquisition of its own dedicated fleet of Airbus A320s to operate alongside aircraft wet-leased from Sabre Airways. Both parties deny industry ...
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South Korea works on merger
Paul Lewis/SEOUL South Korean Government and industry officials are working to come up with a mechanism to merge the assets of four competing aerospace companies into a single entity, while also trying to entice foreign manufacturers to invest in the planned new conglomerate (Flight International, 19-25 September). The ...
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Ayres takes over Let Kunovice
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH After almost a year of talks, US agricultural and utility aircraft manufacturer Ayres has completed the purchase of 93.6% of Czech regional aircraft producer Let Kunovice. The US company says that it has taken over Let's long-term debt as part of the deal, but declines to disclose the ...
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AlliedSignal move
AlliedSignal has acquired DuPont Lanxide Composites, the Delaware-based DuPont/ Lanxide joint venture which produces ceramic matrix composites used in aerospace products. The company, which had sales of $9 million last year, will be renamed AlliedSignal Composites and folded into the Aircraft Landing Systems unit of AlliedSignal Aerospace Equipment Systems. AlliedSignal ...
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Pan Am Academy investor hunt ends in Boston
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has been acquired by a US investment firm which has agreed to at least double the size of the Miami, Florida-based independent training company over the next three years. PAIFA was purchased by private Spanish investors in 1992 from the estate of defunct ...
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Qantas warns on competition
Paul Phelan/SYDNEY Qantas has warned that increasingly desperate competition from rivals in the region will make it difficult for the Australian airline to sustain the record profits it has just declared for the 1997/8 financial year. Operating profit was up 13.6% on the previous year at US$282 million, ...
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Mounting losses spin World Airways into turmoil
World Airways has reported a second quarter of heavy losses amid continuing concern among investors over the viability of parent company WorldCorp. Second quarter net losses of $3.2 million were only slightly worse than those for the previous period, but they amounted together to a $6.2 million loss for the ...
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Get Lean
Everyone who considers dieting needs a compelling reason, be it physical or more intangible. The same applies for the aerospace industry. The drive to eliminate wasted time and effort which currently has the industry in its grip, and which is at the heart of lean manufacturing, has gained its urgency ...
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Dasa/MAPO to work on Bulgarian MiGs
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is in discussions with Bulgaria to provide an upgrade for 22 MiG-29 Fulcrums through its MiG Aircraft Production Support (MAPS) joint venture with MAPO of Russia. The upgrade includes bringing the cockpit avionics up to NATO standards, and possibly improving the maintenance procedures for the engines, ...
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Northrop system flies UAVs in test
Northrop system flies UAVs in test Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new control system which allows autonomous control of several unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to be undertaken by a single operator. The capability of the firm's Co-operative Aggregate Mission Management System (CAMMS) was demonstrated in a company-funded flight ...
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UK forces examine combat rescue approaches
Howard Gethin/LONDON The UK armed services are investigating possible solutions to a requirement for a combat search and rescue capability (CSAR) as a result of experience in the Bosnia conflict and the priority being given to out-of-area operations in the recent defence review. The Royal Navy Commando helicopter ...
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S Korean air force considers stopgap fighter
The South Korean air force is considering leasing interim fighter aircraft to make up for a two-year delay in its future F-X programme. Samsung Aerospace is lobbying to sell more Lockheed Martin F-16C/Ds to make up the shortfall and keep its Sachon licence production line open beyond 2000. South ...
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USA picks civil boosters for intercept role
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense has selected a booster originally developed for civil use as the launcher for the proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) ground-based interceptor, in preference to refurbished surplus Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The launcher will be assembled by Boeing in association ...
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TRW delivers crucial F-22 avionics suite
TRW has delivered the first communications, navigation and identification (CNI) avionics system to the US Air Force for installation in the Lockheed Martin F-22A. The CNI is a vital element of the integrated avionics architecture, allowing pilots to navigate to and from targets reliably, detect and avoid threats and ...
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Failed tests threaten future of Outrider unmanned air vehicle
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The future of the Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV) is under new threat after a US Department of Defense report criticised the system for failing to meet several key flight test requirements and exceeding the promised purchase price by 50%. The damning ...
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AlliedSignal wins new IHPTET work
AlliedSignal has won a $7.4 million award from the US Department of Defense under the Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine technology (IHPTET) programme. The deal is the second advanced military engine research and development contract for AlliedSignal in four months. The contract covers the demonstration of technologies for expendable ...
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Rotor blade collision is blamed for Ka-50 crash
A collision between the co-axial main rotor blades caused the fatal crash of a Russian army Kamov Ka-50 attack helicopter in June 1998, says an official investigation into the accident. The helicopter's pilot Maj Gen Boris Vorobyev, commander of the Army Aviation centre at Torzhok in the Tver region, ...
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Slimming down
Assembly times are under attack on British Aerospace's regional airliner production line Ian Sheppard/Woodford While Boeing struggles to stay profitable producing hundreds of airliners a year, British Aerospace Regional Aircraft (BARA) faces a different challenge - how to make money producing a handful of aircraft each year. Based at Woodford, ...
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Lean machines
BAe is relying on lean manufacturing to meet cost goals for the Eurofighter Ian Sheppard/Samlesbury Recession and restructuring can have their benefits, as is the case for British Aerospace's Samlesbury site in the north of England. With the closure in the early 1990s of the nearby Preston plant, then the ...