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VisionAire considers fractional ownership scheme for Vantage
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON VisionAire is evaluating a fractional ownership programme for its six seat Vantage single engined business jet, which will be aimed at small to medium sized companies with an annual turnover of $5-$500 million. "Our programme will be unique. We will make it closer to owning your ...
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Boeing 717 price emerges but fails to meet early hopes
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Kevin O'Toole/LONDON As Boeing prepares to reveal an official price for the 717, there are already indications that the 100-seat aircraft will sell for closer to $25 million, deflating hopes among airlines that it could be offered below $20 million. When the aircraft was ...
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Uprated 172 Skyhawk to bridge Cessna gap
Cessna plans to produce a more powerful variant of its four seat, single engined 172R Skyhawk. The Skyhawk SP is designed to bridge the gap between the 120kW (160shp) 172R and the 182 Skylane. It is believed that the aircraft will be powered by a 135kW Textron Lycoming IO-360 ...
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AOPA warns Europe's training schools on licencing rule change
David Learmount/LONDON Up to 40% of Europe's pilot training industry will be lost to foreign schools if pressure to amend European pilot licensing regulations goes ahead, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (UK) executive director Pamela Campbell has warned. Campbell was the only Joint Aviation Requirements for Flight Crew ...
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UK accident investigators study GE90 after aborted 777 take-off
A British Airways Boeing 777-200IGW had to abort take off from London Heathrow Airport, UK, following low pressure turbine failure of its left-hand General Electric GE90-92B engine. The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch is examining the engine to determine whether further action needs to be taken. The event occurred ...
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Hawk circles over Poland as Iryda struggles
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW British Aerospace is pushing its Hawk jet trainer in Poland as an alternative to the PZL-Mielec Iryda programme, which is teetering on the brink of collapse. The campaign has been given an additional boost by the 11 March release of an invitation to tender for various airframe work ...
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Kinnock raises stake over US open skies
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON European Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has renewed his legal battle to win rights to negotiate a direct air agreement with the USA. If this is successful it could pave the way for all of the region's air bilaterals to come under a European Union (EU)banner. Kinnock ...
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Scale model of Space Station lifeboat prototype flies
NASA's X-38 unmanned scale model of a seven-person emergency crew return vehicle lifeboat for the International Space Station (ISS) made its first glide flight over the Mojave Desert, California on 12 March. The prototype lifting body was dropped from a B-52 deployed from Edwards AFB, California, at 23,000ft (7,000m ). ...
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Lockheed Martin in bid to save merger
A team from Lockheed Martin is working to come up with a new proposal to put to the US competition watchdog, the Department of Justice (DoJ), to salvage its proposed merger with Northrop Grumman. The eleventh hour effort began at the start of March after the DoJ had informed ...
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GE unveils new CF6 growth study
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric is studying a new growth variant of the CF6-80C engine which will be aimed at the planned 747-400X stretch, as well as increased gross weight variants of the 767-400ER. The new study variant, known as the CF6-80CG2, will have a baseline thrust capability ...
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Rolls-Royce streamlining sees restructure into smaller units
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A major restructuring at Rolls-Royce will see the aero-engine arm divided into a series of smaller, market focused, units, in a bid to co-ordinate product strategy across the group and its growing tally of international partnerships. The existing umbrella Aerospace division, which covers all R-R aero-engine ...
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American and BA head talks on alliance to challenge Star group
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Talks are under way which could lead to the creation of a worldwide airline alliance grouping involving British Airways, American Airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific Airways. If the deal is cemented it would rival that of the Lufthansa/United Airlines-led Star Alliance. JAL, which recently ...
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UK industry looks for cash to fight off German A3XX wing bid
Ian Sheppard/LONDON The UK aerospace industry is stepping up pressure on its Government to match Germany in funding future wing research, warning that failure to do so would mean losing strategic wing development work for the Airbus A3XX 600-seater airliner to German industry. British Aerospace Airbus is waiting ...
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Patria fills Saab void with Embraer work
Sonaca of Belgium is to outsource production of some of the front and rear fuselage sections it manufactures for the Embraer RJ-145 to Patria Finavicomp of Finland, which has been hit by closure of Saab 2000 production. The last components for Saab will leave its plant in Halli, Finland, ...
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USAF develops flow visualisation method
The US Air Force's Wright Patterson Research Laboratory at Dayton, Ohio, has developed a new flow visualisation technique for combustion flows, using holography and lasers. The flow is recorded by firing two Nd:YAG lasers into it, injection seeded with titanium oxide particles to allow reconstruction of the flow as ...
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Taiwan rivets
Aerofit Products of California has contracted with National Aerospace Fasteners of Taiwan to manufacture fitting devices and fasteners for Boeing 757s and 767s. Source: Flight International
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A merger too far ?
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman shocked the industry in July 1996 with news of their merger agreement. Now it is the turn of the US Departments of Defense and Justice to shock, with their last-gasp opposition to the merger plan. Just weeks ago, as shareholders voted to ...
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Ice find leads to renewed interest in lunar probe
Tim Furniss/LONDON Prospects for an eventual mission to one of the poles of the Moon to obtain ice samples have been boosted because data returned from the Lunar Prospector orbiter show a "high probability" that water ice exists. NASA, however, will be unable to support a fully funded ...
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Polar Lander construction is under way
Lockheed Martin Astronautics is constructing the Mars Surveyor '98 Polar Lander which is due to be launched on 3 January, 1999, to land at the southern polar cap of the Red Planet on 3 December, 1999. The Mars Polar Lander will be equipped with cameras, robotic arms and instruments ...
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Hughes to construct Asiasat replacement
Asia Satellite Communications has ordered an Asiasat 3S from Hughes to replace the Asiasat 3 satellite stranded in orbit after an ILS International Launch Services Proton launch failure on 25 December last year. Asia Satellite received $200 million insurance compensation for the loss and will use the funds for ...