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Singapore solutions
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE At a glance, aircraft, armoured vehicles, automated taxi-dispatchers and container ships would appear to have little in common. Not so, says Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero), which has just merged with its ST sister companies, Automotive, Marine and Electronics, to form a single S$3.5 billion ($2 billion) listed ...
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Mars fever
Tim Furniss/LONDON The first flights to enable assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) to begin are scheduled to start in June, but such is the intense public interest in Mars after the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 that NASA is considering a more Martian-orientated approach to the later stages ...
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AASI predicts a sales boom for its Jetcruzer 500
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) has announced a further ten sales of its Jetcruzer 500 turboprop business aircraft, bringing the total backlog to 86, worth around $103 million. The Long Beach, California-based manufacturer hopes that sales will exceed 220 by the end of 1998, based on the current interest ...
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Live TV takes to the air for business aviation
Live television has become available to business-aircraft users, following US certification of Datron Systems' new satellite-television antenna for corporate aircraft. The Escondido, California-based company, launched its direct-broadcast satellite antenna DBS-2100 at the National Business Aviation Association convention in September 1997. The system underwent its first flight tests at the ...
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Dassault Aviation reveals soaring aircraft sales
Dassault Aviation claims to have taken over 50% of business-jet sales in its market sector in 1997 - for the first time. Sales in 1997 totalled 98 aircraft, with the balance between the four products - the Falcon 50EX, 900B, 900EX and 2000 - "about equal", according to Dassault ...
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Air Methods eyes EMS franchises
Emergency-medical-service specialist Air Methods is discussing establishing franchise operations in Israel and Turkey. The US company already has a franchise partner, Flamingo Unimed Air Taxi Aereo, in Brazil. Air Methods is not predicting when the Israeli and Turkish medical-transport programmes could get under way, but says that discussions are ...
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Eurocopter delivers AS365 to Slovakia
Eurocopter has made its first helicopter delivery to Slovakia, after identifying a potential market for about 20 sales in the East European country. The company has handed over one AS365 Dauphin to Slovakian trade organisation Martimex. The helicopter has been bought by power company Slovenske Elektrarny. The Slovakian media ...
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Learjet 45 deliveries 'by end of January'
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier hopes to begin deliveries of the Learjet 45 business jet before the end of January. US certification was received in September 1997, nine months later than originally planned, but deliveries were delayed by completion of post-certification work, says John Holding, executive vice-president for engineering and product ...
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LEA adds Citation II
UK London Executive Aviation (LEA) has taken delivery of a Cessna Citation II business jet, to be used for air-ambulance operations, bringing to 13 the number of aircraft in the London City Airport-based firm's private charter aircraft fleet. Source: Flight International
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Dakota Aero backs Orenda
Rockwell Twin Commanders are to be re-engined with Orenda piston engines by a new company in North Dakota. Dakota Aero Manufacturers has teamed with Dick MacCoon, the engine's original developer, to offer the re-engined aircraft, to be called the Dakota Commander. MacCoon's company, MRRPM, is developing a supplemental type-certificate ...
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737 is back under FAA quality control microscope
Boeing is expecting, on 21 January, the results of a US Federal Aviation Administration audit of its quality control which was triggered - along with inspections of 211 Boeing 737s - by the unexplained crash of a SilkAir 737-300 on 19 December. The FAA's quality-assurance audit is focused on ...
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Aerospatiale reveals details of new corporate structure
Aerospatiale has unveiled a new holding company structure, paving the way for its Airbus operations to be included in the new Airbus corporate set-up, and creating a new ATR subsidiary. The new Airbus subsidiary will include the main production sites at St Nazaire, Nantes, Toulouse (Blagnac) and Méaulte, as ...
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Asiana and MAS attempt to offload widebody orders
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is circulating a letter to rival international carriers offering newly ordered and existing aircraft for sale or lease. There appear to be few takers in Asia, though, with Malaysia Airlines (MAS) offering its Boeing 777 delivery positions in 1998 to Delta Air Lines and other struggling ...
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1997 showed highest CFIT death total
David Learmount/LONDON Having caused a record 640 fatalities in airline accidents during 1997, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) has been confirmed as the accident category which poses the greatest danger to life. The latest figures reveal that, despite new technology and a well-orchestrated international campaign to reduce the mistakes ...
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KLM talks with MAS bring Asia-Pacific deal closer
KLM could be close to tying up an Asia-Pacific partner for its global alliance after opening co-operation discussions with Malaysia Airlines (MAS). The two carriers are now carrying out joint studies on opportunities for linking their networks, with the aim of emerging with a detailed agreement in the next ...
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GV JSTARS
Northrop Grumman will use the Gulfstream V business jet as the platform in its bid for the UK Airborne Stand-off Radar requirement. Supported by the US Government, Northrop Grumman is pushing a business-jet derivative of its Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) for the UK. The UK had ...
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R-R and American in US maintenance venture
Rolls-Royce and American Airlines have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 engine repair joint venture based at American's existing Alliance maintenance base in Fort Worth, Texas. The tie-up follows the US carrier's selection in November of Trent 800 engines for 11 Boeing 777-200IGWs (Increased Gross Weight) ...
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Flight Dynamics sells HGS to SAS for 737s
SAS has selected the Flight Dynamics HGS-4000 head-up guidance (HGS) system for its forthcoming fleet of Boeing 737-600s. The choice marks another significant victory for the US company in the intensifying head-up-display battle with the UK's GEC-Marconi Avionics and Sextant Avionique of France. The SAS order, for 41 systems ...
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Sextant, Dassault sign avionics deal
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sextant Avionique and Dassault Electronique are to form a commercial alliance under which their avionics products will be jointly marketed to airlines. Talks on the deal have been under way for more than a year, and are unconnected with last year's decision to incorporate Dassault Electronique ...
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US airport introduces firefighting advances
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Connecticut's Bradley International has fielded the "Snozzle", a firefighting device manufactured by Crash Rescue Equipment Service of Dallas, Texas, and mounted on one of the airport's two new fire trucks . The Snozzle's adjustable boom can apply fire retardants on hard-to-reach aircraft areas, concentrating firefighting ...