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Alitalia plays down privatisation but closes on alliance decision
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Alitalia chairman Fausto Cereti is downplaying the chances for a quick privatisation of the Italian flag carrier, despite the announcement by its parent state-holding company, IRI, that it will cut its stake. The choice of a European alliance partner is promised within weeks, however. Cereti says ...
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Finnair records double profits as passenger numbers boom
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Finnair saw profits more than double over the first half of its financial year, making it the latest northern European airline to benefit from a passenger boom which has already contributed to record results for Lufthansa and gains at SAS over the latest quarter. Finnair posted ...
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GEC makes progress on European tie-ups
GEC believes that it is close to tying up its joint-venture plans with Finmeccanica and is "encouraged" by initial talks on European consolidation in the wake of the French Government's Thomson-CSF decision. GEC chairman Lord Prior, revealing improved first-half financial results, said that the Finmeccanica discussions had gone ...
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Kenya profits steady
Kenya Airways has held pre-tax profits steady for the first half of its financial year, at KShs635 million ($10 million). The net results shot up to KShs539 million, largely because of exchange gains from the fluctuations of the Kenya shilling against US dollar-based currencies. Source: Flight International
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Western Pacific wins court approval for re-organisation
Western Pacific Airlines has won bankruptcy court approval for its own re-organisation plan, backed by the Smith Management Company (SMC), after the withdrawal of a rival bid from Frontier Airlines. Frontier helped to precipitate WestPac's descent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October when it withdrew from a merger. ...
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Global warning
As the world's environment experts began to assemble in Kyoto, Japan, for the United Nations (UN)summit on global warming, amid the general pronouncements on climate change come some timely reminders that aviation remains firmly among the industries on the target list for environmental activists. Among its other positioning papers ...
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MIG MAPO flies MiG-29SMT for the first time
MIG MAPO flew the MiG-29SMT Fulcrum for the first time on 27 November, from the Zhukovski flight-test centre near Moscow. The modification, which carriers the internal designation Object 9-17, is based on a Fulcrum C airframe. The prototype aircraft, a modified Fulcrum C, has an upgraded cockpit, along with ...
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Enaer plans to fly Chilean 707 tanker/AEW in 1998
ENAER plans to fly its modified Chilean air force Boeing 707 combined tanker/airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft for the first time early in 1998. Modification work, being carried out with the support of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), will see the aircraft fitted with nose- and side-panel-mounted phased-array radars similar to those fitted ...
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Elta begins development of phased-array fighter radar
Israeli radar house Elta is working on a phased-array fire-control radar for fighter aircraft, using technology developed originally for the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Phalcon airborne- early-warning aircraft. No details of the programme have been released, but the phased-array development, if successful, will supersede Elta's family of planar-array radars, ...
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Report damns French policy
Julian Moxon/PARIS A French parliament report on the national defence industry has called for a complete review of France's long-term defence-spending plans to put right what it terms the "brutal and repetitive" reductions in funding over the past few years. The report, by the parliamentary deputy responsible for ...
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Poland threatens to cancel Huzar tender
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The new Solidarity Government in Poland is threatening to cancel the controversial avionics and weapons tender for the planned PZL-Swidnik Huzar battlefield helicopter. Programme sources say that the current tender could be dropped if no compromise agreement is reached between Boeing, which is offering an international ...
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Polish Government condemns Iryda jet trainer as a 'waste of public money'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The Polish defence ministry has attacked the PZL-Mielec Iryda jet-trainer programme as a waste of public money, questioning the cash-strapped manufacturer's ability to produce an aircraft in this class. The ministry of national defence says that the $300 million which has so far been pumped into ...
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Italy eyes JSF to replace AMX and Harrier
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Italy is the latest nation to show interest in joining the US Department of Defense's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, with the air force and industry aiming to take more than "observer status". A formal announcement on joining the concept-definition phase of the JSF programme is ...
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China and Russia combine on KR-1
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Russia and China are collaborating to develop the KR-1 anti-radiation missile, a variant of the Zvezda Strela Kh-31P(AS-17 Krypton) for the Chinese air force. The Russian tactical-missile design house has already delivered a small number of the KR-1 missiles, which may also correspond to the internal ...
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RWR for F/A-18
Litton's Applied Technology division will provide 32 ALR-67 radar-warning receivers (RWRs) for Boeing F/A-18 Hornet strike aircraft sold to the Spanish air force and Royal Thai Air Force. The foreign-military-sales contract, awarded by the US Navy to the San Jose-based unit of Litton Industries, is worth $13 million. Deliveries of ...
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Global broadcast
The US Air Force has selected Hughes Information Systems to provide ground troops with terminals capable of receiving high-quality video and other imagery from global broadcast-system satellites which are being provided by another unit of Hughes Aircraft, Hughes Space and Communications. Hughes Information Systems was chosen in preference to Boeing, ...
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Litton supports RNZN
Four Kaman Aerospace SH-2G Super Seasprite multi-mission helicopters purchased by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) will be equipped with LR-100 electronic-support measures systems made by Litton's Amecom division. Source: Flight International
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VTOL contracts loom as CL-327 UAV flies
The US Navy is expected soon to select the unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for its vertical- take-off-and-landing (VTOL) demonstration, following the successful first flight of one of its prime candidates for the programme. The UAV Joint Programme Office "is reviewing the bids and is close to awarding a contract ...
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Project Wedgetail contracts awarded
Three consortia, led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems, have been awarded long-awaited initial-design-activity (IDA) contracts for Project Wedgetail, Australia's competition for an airborne early-warning-and-control-system (AWACS) aircraft. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is expected to pick the Project Wedgetail winner before the end of 1998, and award ...
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Satellite Launcher directory
Tim Furniss/LONDON The success of the European Space Agency-funded demonstration launch of the Ariane 502 in October buoyed the European space industry after the calamitous failure of the 501 in June 1996. Assuming a successful 503 demonstration flight in May, the Ariane 5 will be taken over by Arianespace ...