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TWA firms up plans for more MD-83s
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has firmed up its plans for additional Boeing MD-83s with the signing of a $1.1 billion order for 24 aircraft. It emerged earlier this month that the carrier was discussing an order with Boeing for 24 MD-83s, which would see production of the former McDonnell ...
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Britannia ponders Australian venture
Britannia Airways is believed to be eyeing the southern hemisphere for its next off-shore subsidiary, with a new Australian operation under consideration. The UK-based charter carrier has already established a start-up operation in Germany and a Swedish-based carrier, built on the acquisition of existing charter airline Blue Scandinavia. ...
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Reno sheds staff
Reno Air is to shed 330 of its 2,000 staff and slim down its management in an effort to restore profits. Source: Flight International
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GEC targets greater access to USA through Tracor purchase
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC GEC hopes that its $1.4 billion acquisition of Tracor will improve the UK company's access to US Department of Defense (DoD) business. The deal will make GEC-Marconi's North American arm the sixth largest US defence electronics contractor, more than doubling the unit's annual revenues to a ...
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Varig profit adds to Latin American recovery
More good news has emerged from the Latin American airline industry, with Brazilian carrier Varig returning to profit in 1997 after six successive years in the red. Varig's main airline operations ended the year with a net profit of Real27.8 million ($24.2 million), turning around a loss of Real64 ...
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Single Mandate
British Airways and American Airlines appear on the verge of securing the long-awaited competition approval for their alliance from the European Commission (EC) with Brussels insiders set to give a mid-May date and a painful but probably realistic demand for slot surrender at London Heathrow. With some irony, however, ...
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Dasa continues to test decoy despite ministry doubters
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)expects to complete flight testing of its towed radar decoy this year, in the face of a continued lack of commitment to the project from the German Ministry of Defence. Dasa has been proposing its decoy for German air force Transall C-160 transports, Panavia ...
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First OH-1 scout helicopters poised for series production
Paul Lewis/GIFU, JAPAN Series production of the first batch of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) OH-1 scout helicopters will begin in June, as flight testing of four prototypes by the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) approaches the halfway mark. The JDA has concluded a production contract with KHI, clearing the way ...
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Turkey wants to add Arrow to its quiver
The US Government is considering an Israeli request to allow the sale of a variant of the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile to Turkey. The USA has already given Israel the go-ahead to brief Turkey about the Arrow system, which is being developed by Israel with the help of US ...
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Raduga funds anti-ship missile
Russia's Raduga cruise missile design bureau is to use cash from its sale of the 3M-80 (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic anti-ship missile to China to fund development of a next-generation hypersonic anti-ship weapon. China will receive the rocket/ ramjet-powered 3M-80 as part of its purchase of two Sovremmeny- class destroyers. ...
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RAF will replace Hawk fuselages
Ian Sheppard/LONDON The UK Ministry of Defence has given its approval for the Royal Air Force to replace the centre and rear fuselage sections of 80 British Aerospace Hawks in a major structural upgrade required to keep the advanced jet trainer fleet in service until 2010. British Aerospace is due ...
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Kentron removes wraps from Raptor 1 weapon
South African guided- weapons specialist Kentron this week unveiled its previously classified Raptor 1 stand-off glide bomb at the Aerospace Africa 98 show at Waterkloof AFB, Pretoria. The Raptor 1 is a 1,200kg, 60km (32nm)-plus range weapon, with a television seeker and also fitted with flip-out wings (Flight International, ...
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SAIC's VTOL UAV prototype crashes
SAIC's bid for the US Navy's vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) project has been dealt another blow by the crash of its prototype. The SAIC Vigilante air vehicle crashed on 20 April during a test flight at a small airfield in Virginia. The composite ...
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India's avionics indecision holds back second batch of Su-30s
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Douglas Barrie/LONDON The Indian air force's second batch of Sukhoi Su-30 two-seat multi-role fighters has been delayed by up to 12 months because of difficulties encountered in finalising the aircraft's avionics configuration. Alexei Fedorov, former general director of AVPK Sukhoi, says that delivery of the ...
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US Army launches initiatives aimed at improving missile arsenal
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The US Army has launched a raft of weapons initiatives aimed at improving its short-range air-defence and air-launched anti-armour guided weapons, as well as extended-range high-precision guided munitions. The US Army Aviation and Missile Command has programmes under way to develop improved variants and potential successors ...
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Japan considers SARV-22 tiltrotor
Japan's Defence forces and its Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) are showing growing interest in a search and rescue (SAR) version of the V-22 Osprey, which Bell and Boeing are promoting as one of several future military variants of the tiltrotor. Japan has opened tentative discussions with Bell Boeing on ...
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Malaysia postpones AEW procurement for five years
Aircraft manufacturers lining up to meet Malaysia's airborne early warning (AEW) requirement are anticipating a delay of up to five years because of Asia's continuing economic crisis. Malaysia cut its defence budget by 10% after its currency plunged against the US dollar, although defence minister Syed Hamid Albar says ...
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Brunei seeks SAM
Brunei's requirement for a point defence low-to-medium altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) is turning into a straight fight between Matra BAe Dynamics and Thomson-CSF. According to Matra, the competition has become a "head-to-head" between the Matra BAe Jernas, with its range of up to 8.5km (5 miles), and the Crotale-NG ...
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Malaysia backpedals on CN-235 buy
Malaysia's defence ministry is rethinking its contract to buy six CN-235 transport aircraft from IPTN because of concerns over the long-term future of the Indonesian manufacturer. The RM286 million ($75 million) deal was struck in February 1995. The aircraft were to have been delivered to the Royal Malaysian Air ...
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Kaman and GKN Westland battle for Indonesian order
Kaman and GKN Westland are once again facing off in South-East Asia, this time in Indonesia, to contest a requirement for a shipborne anti-submarine helicopter. Westland is plugging its Super Lynx 300 to meet an anticipated helicopter requirement for the Indonesian navy's six Ahmad Yani frigates, while Kaman is offering ...