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Air France posts strong sales
Air France reports an encouraging 8.5% growth in passenger revenues and a strong rise in yields over the first half of its financial year to September, raising expectations of a healthy profits performance when the figures are finally announced. The group has promised a full year profit of around Fr1 ...
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Germany questions A3XX site
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany's bids for the final assembly of the proposed Airbus A3XX large airliner have become entangled in political arguments over the preferred site for the work. Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (Dasa Airbus) has put forward its Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant as a prime German candidate, competing against ...
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Portugalia may list
Portugalia Airlines (PGA) is looking to list on the Portuguese stock market by the end of 1998, according to local press reports. PGA believes that, by then, its passenger numbers will have reached the 1 million mark, from 750,000 today. Source: Flight International
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Snecma takes on GE in push to double CFM56 maintenance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Snecma is mounting a determined effort to double its share of the increasingly lucrative market for maintaining CFM56 engines, competing head-on with its CFM International partner General Electric. Through its Snecma Services division, formed in January, the French manufacturer says that it intends to ...
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US Airways completes delayed shuttle purchase
US Airways, having sealed its long-awaited pilot deal, is pressing on with the acquisition of the former Trump Shuttle operation, which flies under the group's colours on the US East Coast. US Airways had expressed interest in acquiring the remainder of the shuttle service when it came up ...
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No frills
No sooner had British Airways announced plans to set up its own low-cost operation at London Stansted, than the howls of protest began from the existing no-frills carriers. Their complaint (writ large in whole page newspaper advertisements) is that the BA intends to put them out of business by fair ...
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Lockheed Martin offers ex-RAF C-130Ks
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems has begun reselling up to 25 C-130K Hercules due to be traded in by the Royal Air Force in part-exchange for new-build C-130Js. The US manufacturer plans to submit proposals to 13 different potential buyers in the next four to ...
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F-22 Raptor still suffers overweight problems
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor advanced tactical fighter continues to exceed its target weight, but is meeting all of its performance specifications, says Paul Schlein, Lockheed Martin's F-22 deputy air-vehicle product manager. The weight is expected to increase slightly as the engineering and manufacturing development programme continues, but ...
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GE starts F110 upgrade project
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has committed to a self-funded qualification programme for an upgraded version of the F110-129 engine to power Boeing F-15E and Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters from 2000 onwards. The company originally hoped to tie the launch of the -129EFE (enhanced fighter effort) to the ...
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Pentagon team gives FOTT its blessing
The Pentagon's Joint Requirements Oversight Council has endorsed the Follow-On To TOW (FOTT) missile programme, allowing the US Army to proceed to engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) of the next- generation short-range anti-tank missile. One missile manufacturer will be selected to begin the EMD phase, which is due to ...
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Poland suspends Huzar upgrade deal with Israel
The new Polish Government has suspended a controversial agreement signed by Poland and Israel in October to upgrade 100 PZL-Swidnik Huzar attack helicopters. The inter-governmental agreement, signed on 13 October by the outgoing Polish Government, has been shelved pending a review of the process which led to the deal ...
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Germany clears IRIS-T missile development
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Germany has given the all-clear for the start of development of the planned IRIS-T infra-red guided air-to-air missile, intended to succeed the AIM-9Li Sidewinder as the standard German air force short-range missile for the Eurofighter EF 2000. The German Federal Ministry of Defence (FMoD) now expects similar ...
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Committee promises progress on JAD
The committee co-ordinating work on the Joint Air Defence (JAD) programme to establish an integrated air defence system across the CIS has emerged from a meeting in Moscow promising progress on the project, despite a serious lack of funding. CIS defence ministers had promised to provide 101 billion roubles ...
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Litton receivers
Litton's Amecom division has been awarded $18 million by the US Air Force to develop a next-generation, broadband digital receiver able to identify and locate the origin of all radio-frequency emitters found in combat scenarios. The system will be carried on a host of combat aircraft with the Joint Strike ...
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USAF will receive NVIS upgrade for its Lockheed Martin F-16s
Lockheed Martin F-16s will receive modified night-vision imaging systems (NVIS) under an innovative US Air Force contract awarded to Control Products. Previous use of night-vision goggles (NVG) in the F-16 has been limited to air-to-air intercept missions, but the aircraft will now be able to conduct all combat missions. ...
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Outrider builds up flight hours
Alliant Techsystems says that its Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle has completed four test-flights, including its first back-to-back flights and the longest flight to date, 1h 22min. The tests, which used the new UK-built UAV Engines 801R rotary powerplant, verified the performance of the stability-augmentation system. Following design changes, the ...
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China seeks helicopter carrier
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China is approaching foreign manufacturers looking for new attack and naval-transport helicopters, while the country's navy is looking at the options for the construction of a new helicopter carrier. According to Western defence sources, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been paying visits to European, Russian ...
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Boeing teams up for Australian F-111 work
Boeing has signed a teaming agreement with seven Australia-based aerospace operations to bid for a new commercialised contract to provide deep maintenance for the Royal Australian Air Force's F-111s. Among the Australian firms are Wormald Technology, already responsible for the aircraft's simulator development and maintenance; Rosebank Engineering, supporting hydraulic ...
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Iranian engineers begin training for An-140 assembly by 2000
Antonov and the Kharkov State Aircraft Manufacturing Company have begun training engineers and technicians from Iran in preparation for assembly of the An-140 turboprop aircraft to start by the year 2000. The Ukrainian companies have a licence agreement with state-owned Iranian company HESA to produce the 52-seat airline version ...
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TAG boosts Bombardier with record corporate-jet order
Bombardier has landed its largest-ever corporate-jet order - a deal worth well above $250 million with the Canadian company's Middle East distributor, TAG Aeronautics. Five Global Expresses and an equal number of Challenger 604s are to be delivered, starting in late 1998. Orders for the long-range Global Express now ...