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Malev sale
Hungarian banks OTP and MKB have stepped in to acquire Alitalia's 30% stake in Malev for $65 million, the sale was a condition of European Commission approval of the Italian airlines recent state-aid injection. Source: Flight International
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Sikorsky may accelerate S-92
Graham Warwick/STRATFORD Sikorsky is coming under increasing pressure from potential customers to launch production of its private-venture S-92 medium helicopter. The current plan calls for a production decision after the first flight, scheduled for September, but increasing interest in the aircraft could lead to a decision early in 1998, ...
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Honeywell flight-tests magnetic head tracking
Honeywell and the US Army have completed flight testing of a magnetic head-tracker in the Boeing AH-64 attack helicopter. The company says that its advanced metal-tolerant tracker (AMTT) exceeded the performance of the electro-optical sensor now used in the AH-64 to slave the gun and pilot's night-vision sensor to crew ...
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Pilatus Britten-Norman will adopt Islander silencer
Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) is planning to offer as an option a silencer developed by German Islander operator Luftverkehr Friesland of Harle (LFH) and designer Hermann Liese to meet stringent 85dB noise regulations in the the country, cutting noise signatures by up to 11dB. LFH president and chief pilot Jan ...
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Bell Boeing 609
Sales of the Bell Boeing Model 609 civil tilt-rotor are ahead of expectations, with deposits received for more than 40 aircraft so far. "The order rate is beyond what we hoped for this early," says marketing chief Ron Reber. "We are overwhelmed by the response." The $8-10 million pricetag ...
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BAe buys Australian Aviation College
British Aerospace Training Services has acquired the Adelaide-based Australian Aviation College from BTR-owned Hawker de Havilland. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, places Australia's two biggest training organisations under full BAe control, following the UK company's acquisition of Ansett's 50% stake in the Tamworth, New South Wales-based Australian Air ...
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Spacehab wins new NASA contract
Spacehab of Vienna, Virginia, which leases pressurised Spacehab modules to NASA for missions on the Space Shuttle, has been awarded a $42 million contract from the US space agency to provide modules for three Shuttle missions to support the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). A further $19 ...
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Mir inspection has to be abandoned
The remote-controlled flight of the Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) Inspector free-flying satellite around the Russian Mir 1 space station on 17 December had to be abandoned on safety grounds after the vehicle suffered a suspected star-sensor failure. The 1m-long, 72kg Inspector was unable to point towards its planned targets of ...
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First Boeings delivered to Saudi Arabian
Saudi Arabian Airlines received its first Boeing 747-400, 777-200, MD-11F and MD-90 during a ceremony in Seattle on 22 December. The $7.5 billion order, placed in 1995, for up to 61 aircraft, includes 23 777-200s, five 747-400s, four MD-11Fs and 29 MD-90s. Delivery has been delayed by several months while ...
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Crossair bases new sister in France
Andrzej Jeziorski/Basle Crossair has launched a new Alsace, France-based carrier aimed at avoiding European Union (EU) rules which have denied the Swiss airline access to a variety of destinations. Switzerland is not a member of the EU and cannot operate under its liberalised internal traffic arrangements. The Crossair-dominated ...
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Airbus loses as El Al takes cut-price 737s
El Al will introduce the first of five Boeing Next Generation 737s on its services to Europe in early 1999, following the airline's selection of the 737 over the rival Airbus A320 family. Although the Israeli airline's traditional preference has been for Boeing aircraft, the Airbus A319 and A320 ...
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MD-10 conversions for FedEx remain on track
The McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10 freighter/upgrade programme for FedEx is on schedule, according to the carrier's chairman, Frederick Smith. The project to rework the aircraft, known as the MD-10, has been unaffected by Boeing's recent take-over of MDC. The two-phase programme, which first involves the freighter conversion, and later ...
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Boeing 'goes basic' on MMR
Boeing is to make the newly developed multi-mode receiver (MMR) a basic feature on all its commercial aircraft. The company was expected to certificate the 757, the first type to be fitted with the system without an MMR, by the start of the year. "We have decided to move ...
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Look both ways
The trouble with forecasting is that it is rarely as accurate as hindsight - although hindsight is rarely as optimistic as forecasting can be. Elsewhere in this issue are recorded this magazine's best forecasts of what will happen in 1998, Laid down here, however, are the best expressions of what ...
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Lockheed Martin to support USAF A-10s
Lockheed Martin has won a $488 million multi-year contract to provide the US Air Force with long-term contractor support for the Fairchild A-10 attack/observation aircraft. The company beat Northrop Grumman to the contract. The competition started before the planned merger of the two firms was disclosed. So-called "firewalls" were ...
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Boeing and the US Navy identify F/A-18E/F wing-drop solutions
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing and the US Navy are testing three solutions to the wing-drop problem encountered during flight testing of the F/A-18E/F. The Navy is now "extremely confident" that an expensive wing redesign will not be required, says a US Department of Defense official. Wing drops of ...
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Mixing fire and water
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Most of the world's aviation industry abandoned development of flying boats in the 1940s, when the increased range of land-based aircraft, plus the birth of turbine engines, seemed to indicate the end of an era. A few manufacturers stayed with the flying boat - Canadair has continued to ...
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Forecasts 98': Airlines
Paul Lewis/Singapore Kevin O'Toole/London For the world airline industry, 1998 begins much as 1997 ended, with two issues on top of the agenda: the fall-out from Asia's economic woes and the next step in the industry's increasingly rapid consolidation. Both issues should make 1998 a busy one for airline ...
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Forecasts 98': Aerospace
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON While the US aerospace/defence industry will spend 1998 largely preoccupied with consolidating on its mammoth restructuring effort, the real will be focused across the Atlantic, on how Europe plans to respond. Boeing's mid-1997 acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, and the political furore it raised from the European ...
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Forecasts 98': Defence
Douglas Barrie/LONDON While 1998 may hold little excitement for European and US combat-aircraft manufacturers at home, the year promises some interesting battles in what are increasingly becoming crucial export markets. By the end of 1998, Lockheed Martin may have a clear-cut view of the limits of the export ...