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Malaysia leaseback
Malaysia Airlines has concluded a sale and leaseback agreement with General Electric Capital for six of its Boeing 737-500s. The airline has also signed an agreement to purchase a Boeing Business Jet, making it the first Asian customer for the corporate version of the 737. Source: Flight International
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First class goes
Sabena will drop its first-class service from 25 February, 1998, having discovered that most passengers travelling in the section were either upgraded from business class or were travelling free because of other privileges. The airline operates with first-class cabins to Johannesburg, Kinshasa, New York and Tokyo. Source: Flight ...
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Outrider autopilot
The Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle recently completed its first autopilot flight, a critical landmark in turning around the trouble-plagued drone project. In the flight test at Hondo, Texas, the autopilot was engaged after take-off, demonstrating "-excellent navigation accuracy as it flew to four pre-programmed waypoints", says the ...
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Lucas for JSF
Rolls-Royce-owned Allison Engine has selected Lucas Aerospace to supply the lift- fan drive shaft for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept development aircraft. Allison is supplying the lift fan for the aircraft. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. Lucas Aerospace is also supplying the lift-fan clutch-control ...
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USAF receives E-8
The US Air Force will achieve the initial operational capability for the Northrop Grumman Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) this month. The initial fielding landmark was made possible after the US aerospace firm delivered the third production JSTARS aircraft to the USAF in November. Although not yet "operational", ...
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Taiwan Turbo Tracker
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $24 million foreign-military-sales contract from the US Navy to repair and refurbish a TW-3 aircraft operated by the Taiwanese air force. The TW-3 is Taiwan's designation for the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early-warning aircraft. The country purchased four E-2Cs in 1994 to provide ...
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Teledyne selects
Teledyne Continental Motors has selected Perkins Technology as design consultant on development of its new two-stroke, compression ignition light-aircraft engine. The powerplant is being developed under NASA's three-year general-aviation propulsion programme, the objectives of which are to reduce the acquisition and maintenance costs of a new engine, improve reliability and ...
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Philipine Skyhawks
Philippine Airlines has taken delivery of six Cessna 172 Skyhawks for ab initio training at its aviation school at Clark International Airport near Manila. Source: Flight International
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3000 Kitfoxes
Sales of the Skystar Kitfox have passed 3,000 - making it one of the most popular kitplanes ever, the manufacturer claims. Source: Flight International
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Chester maintains
Raytheon Aircraft Services' centre at Chester in the UK has won a four-year contract to maintain a Hawker 800XP operated by Slovakia's Cassovia Air, which is owned by steel company VSZ. Source: Flight International
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Papa 51 delivers
Papa 51 is to begin shipment of kits for its Thunder Mustang three-quarter-scale P-51 replica this month. Pow- ered by a 475kW (635hp) Vee-12, the aircraft has a maximum cruise speed of 340kt (630km/h) Source: Flight International
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TTS adds F-16
Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) is to supply a Lockheed Martin F-16 unit-level trainer to Pakistan early in 1999. TTS, meanwhile, has delivered its first F-16 full-mission simulator, to Thailand. The company has also delivered the first F-16 mid-life-update aircrew trainer to the Netherlands. Source: Flight International
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Political Mission
Yuri Baturin, an aide to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, is to be launched to the Mir space station aboard the Soyuz TM28 on 2 August, 1998, to observe the condition of the ageing space base. Baturin, who has been training for the flight for many months, will return to Earth ...
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Dasa delivers first European ISS component to Russia
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has delivered the first European component of the International Space Station (ISS) to Russian partner RSC Energia. The Bremen-based Space Infrastructure unit of Dasa has handed over the computer and software for the Data Management System - Russia (DMS-R), a control, navigation and data-processing centre for ...
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One-Eleven Stage 3 hushkit will be tested soon
Flight testing of the Quiet Technology (QT)-developed Stage 3 hushkit for the BAC One-Eleven will begin early in 1998. The project's co-ordinator, European Aviation, is confident that UK Civil Aviation Authority certification will be in place by the end of 1998. Components for the prototype kit are in manufacture at ...
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Tornado forecast
The Royal Air Force's Panavia Tornado GR4 will form the core of its conventional strike capability until around 2020 Douglas Barrie/LONDON The Panavia Tornado GR4's progress from paper project to production has been far from smooth, the development path being littered with delays, the danger of cancellation and a critical ...
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Continental is open to merger offers from major US airlines
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Continental Airlines chairman Gordon Bethune says that the carrier is still open to merger offers from its major US rivals, but, in the meantime, plans to push ahead with its rapid international expansion outside any global alliances. Bethune confirms that an approach was made to Delta Air Lines ...
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FAA orders changes to 747 tanks
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued two airworthiness directives (ADs) aimed at removing potential ignition sources in or near the centre-wing fuel tank of older Boeing 747s. It says that it is best to eliminate ignition sources because it is not possible to purge ...
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AB Airlines will acquire up to 13 737s for network expansion
AB Airlines will introduce the first of up to 13 Boeing 737s in April 1998, as it expands its operations from its London Stansted and Gatwick bases. The UK airline, which introduced services from Gatwick to Berlin Schönefeld in early December, will add three seven-year-old 737-300s in April 1998, ...
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Airtours International closes on order for A330-200
Airtours International is believed to have selected the Airbus A330-200 for its long-haul fleet needs, and is in negotiations on an order for up to three aircraft. The UK charter airline, based in Manchester, has been evaluating the Airbus long-haul twinjet, along with the Boeing 777-200IGW (increased gross weight), ...