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Leasing joins corporate fray
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON A new business aircraft leasing company, touted to be the world's first dedicated leasing operation, has been launched in the UK by joint venture partners CAPITAL BANK Corporate and aviation specialist, Exxtor. The first aircraft is scheduled for delivery next month. Corporate Aircraft Leasing (CALL) is designed to ...
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Orenda wraps up Turkish deal
Canada's Orenda Recip has clinched its first original equipment manufacturer contract after a multimillion dollar deal with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). Orenda will supply and install its OE-600 V-8 piston engine for a multimission aircraft, under development at TAI's Ankara, Turkey-based factory. "The agreement is expected to result in ...
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DeCrane Aircraft Holdings plans to acquire PATS
DeCrane Aircraft, a growing US avionics components manufacturer and integrator, has agreed to acquire Columbia, Maryland-based PATS, which manufactures and installs auxiliary fuel tanks and other equipment for corporate and commercial aircraft. DeCrane, based in El Segundo, California, declines to reveal any acquisition details, saying only that "-the closing ...
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Greek order marks launch of Canadair 415GR
Bombardier has marked the launch of its Canadair 415GR amphibian twin-turboprop with a contract from the Greek Ministry of Defence for 10 aircraft and an option for five more. The $250 million deal includes spare parts, ground support equipment and training. "The Canadair 415GR variant offers higher operating weights to ...
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Boeing loses ground to Airbus in backing of firm orders
Boeing again sold more aircraft than Airbus Industrie in 1998, but its high delivery rate, combined with cancellations, saw it lose ground to its European rival in terms of firm order backlog. Provisional figures from Airbus suggest its share of the total backlog in the 100-seat plus sector grew ...
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Denel and BAe pave the way for industry link
South Africa's Denel and British Aerospace have taken another step towards integrating Denel into the emergent European defence and aerospace alliance on 7 January with the signing of a memorandum of understanding setting the framework for closer ties. The agreement, signed by Stella Sigcau, South Africa's public enterprises minister, ...
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Fresh delay threatens A3XX
Julian Moxon/PARIS The Airbus Industrie A3XX is facing further delay as potential customer airlines, confronted by increasingly tough market conditions, retreat from committing to the aircraft in time to support an already delayed late 1999 launch deadline. While the airlines consider their options on timing, the European consortium is believed ...
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Aerospace awards
The list of sponsors for The 1999Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards has been completed with the addition of Airbus Industrie, Marconi Electronic Systems and SITA. They join Bombardier, CFM International, Lockheed Martin, Lucas Aerospace, Rockwell Collins, Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries. The event will culminate in a gala dinner on ...
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MHI wins agreement with Boeing to work on Delta IV engine
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Japan has reached preliminary agreement with Boeing to help develop a powerplant for the Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The company is also hoping to win manufacturing contracts with Airbus Industrie. Mitsubishi has traditionally been a major defence contractor, but it is ...
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747 cut forces Northrop Grumman to take pre-tax charge
Northrop Grumman is taking a pre-tax charge of $125 million in the fourth quarter of 1998, mainly because of a reduction in deliveries of fuselages for the Boeing 747-400 programme. A $20 million charge was also taken to cover a cost estimate increase on the Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) programme. ...
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Ex-Cathay executives try to save PAL
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Four senior executives at Cathay Pacific Airways have quit to form a new management consultancy that will try to save struggling Philippine Airlines from collapse. The executives are Peter Foster, formerly Cathay's general manager for Taiwan and the Philippines, who will become chief company adviser; Michael ...
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SAA/Air Namibia shake hands on long-term commercial alliance
South African Airways (SAA) and Air Namibia have agreed on a long term comprehensive commercial alliance which will include regional feeder carriers South African Express, South African Airlink and Kalahari Express Airline. A memorandum of understanding has been signed by SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews and Air Namibia's acting ...
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767 'Stretch 2000' progresses
Boeing plans to load the first wing spar of the first 767-400ER next month following 90% completion of the engineering definition stage. The -400ER programme is dubbed "Stretch 2000" to denote its first delivery date to launch customer Delta Air Lines in May 2000. Some 80% of the 767-400ER has ...
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Big changes on the way for aerospace, says NASA scientist
Information technology (IT), environmental concerns and global competitiveness will stimulate major changes in aerospace, says Dennis Bushnell, NASA's chief scientist at the Langley Research Center, Virginia. Speaking at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, Bushnell envisaged a future including "dramatically improved air transports, automatic VTOL aircraft for personal use, ...
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Neural net controller for trial on F-15 ACTIVE
NASA and Boeing plan to begin flight tests of an advanced "neural network"-based controller on the F-15 ACTIVE (Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles) testbed by the end of next month. This is the first part of the Intelligent Flight Control System programme. The neural network-based controller is expected ...
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French achieve equivalent of Mach 7.5 in scramjet tests
Julian Moxon/PARIS French researchers have successfully tested a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) at an equivalent speed of Mach 7.5 - the highest performance for such an engine to have achieved in Europe. The engine ran for 10s, ending a five-year, Fr370 million ($62 million) programme involving France's aeronautics ...
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PIA is aiming to retire...
PIA is aiming to retire its six 747-200s Source: Flight International
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Kourou studied for Soyuz
Julian Moxon/PARIS Arianespace is close to deciding whether to extend its launcher base at Kourou, French Guyana, for use as a second pad for the Russian Soyuz launcher. Arianespace chairman Jean-Marie Luton says that a political decision is likely "later this month".The Russian launcher forms the basis of ...
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New Lockheed arm
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space has established a new company, Lockheed Commercial Space Systems, to offer turnkey communications and remote sensing satellite systems. Commercial Space Systems will complement the Global Telecommunications division in building and marketing turnkey systems, including spacecraft, launch, ground systems and on-orbit support. Source: Flight International
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NASA's Mars Polar Lander is launched successfully
Boeing launched NASA's Mars Polar Lander (MPL) aboard a Delta II booster from Cape Canaveral on 3 January. Its sister craft, the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), was launched last month. The MCO will enter orbit in September, while the MPL is scheduled to touch down close the Martian south ...