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Boeing to offer IGW versions of 737-700 next year
Boeing is proposing to begin offering increased-gross-weight (IGW) versions of the new 737-700 passenger aircraft from mid-1998 as follow-on derivative developments to the planned Boeing Business Jet (BBJ). Three new IGW variants of the 737-700 are now under study - an extended-range passenger aircraft, a convertible quick-change jet and, ...
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Boeing considers enhancing 777-200X/300X performance
Boeing is considering range and lift enhancements to the proposed 777-200X/300X to improve field performance. Programme officials are seeking at the same time to stretch pre-launch funding and allow more time to firm up potential customer support. The company is studying design refinements to the 777 in an effort ...
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Matra and GEC jostle for Gulf missile deal
Matra BAe Dynamics and GEC Marconi are locked in a battle to sell a stand-off precision attack missile to Qatar for its Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft, deliveries of which began recently. The competition mirrors the procurement programme under way in the United Arab Emirates, where the same two ...
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Improved digital engine control system ordered for Egypt's L-59s
Aero Vodochody has contracted AlliedSignal to produce an improved digital engine-control system for Egypt's Progress DV-2 turbofan-powered L-59 trainer/light-strike aircraft. The Egyptian air force's fleet of 48 tandem-seat L-59s has been suffering reliability problems. In an effort to improve operational availability, the Czech manufacturer wants to replace the aircraft's ...
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Fairchild Dornier sets target on 70-seater
FAIRCHILD DORNIER has set itself a target of 1 April to launch its proposed 70-seat regional-jet. It is in talks with potential partners about taking a share of up to 50% in the programme. Peter Klonk, vice-president of sales, says that the programme go-ahead depends on whether the company ...
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Pakistan will press China on commitment to FC-1 and K-8
Pakistan's prime minister will use a a forthcoming visit to Beijing to press the Chinese Government to make a firm commitment to the planned new Chengdu FC-1 fighter and jointly developed Nanchang K-8 trainer. Islamabad is making an order for the FC-1 and K-8 conditional on the PLA Air ...
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More Mirage 2000s are on course for UAE Air Force
The visit of French President Jacques Chirac to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in mid-December 1997 will clear the way for the sale of up to 20 more Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft for the UAE air force. Dassault is negotiating the final details with the UAE centring on supplying ...
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HISAR heads for environmental duty
The Hughes Integrated Surveillance and Reconnaissance System (HISAR) has secured its first international customer with an order from German company Traffic 2000. The system will be used mainly for environmental monitoring in the North Sea, mounted on board a Beech King Air 200T, although it is also available on a ...
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Kuwait will tackle training
The Kuwaiti air force is attempting to revitalise its near-moribund in-country pilot training with a major refurbishment effort for its British Aerospace Hawk jet trainers as well overhauling its spares-starved Shorts Tucano turboprop trainers. None of the Kuwaitis' BAe Hawks, of which the air force has 12, is in ...
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GEC-Marconi sets its sights on Kuwaiti AH-64 orders
Kuwait has become the main target for GEC-Marconi Avionics in its bid to secure export orders for its Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System (HIDAS) following a contract from the British Army to fit the equipment on its Boeing WAH-64 Apache attack helicopter. The UK Ministry of Defence signed the ...
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Indonesia's IPTN wants gas turbine engine capability
Indonesian aircraft manufacturer IPTN wants to develop a gas-turbine capability as part of its selection of a powerplant for the proposed new N2130 regional-aircraft. IPTN's Universal Maintenance Centre (UMC) is discussing becoming involved in component manufacture and possibly engine assembly. An expanded capability for UMC is part of ...
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Air Maldives signs leasing deal for Airbus A310-200
Air Maldives has become the latest customer for the Airbus A310-200, following the signing of a deal with the European airframe builder to lease a single aircraft for three years, with an option to purchase. The carrier will use the aircraft to replace a larger A300B4 on wet lease ...
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Simulator solution
CAE Electronics is to open a customer-service distribution centre at Dubai Airport. The centre is planned to become operational by August 1998, providing support for customers in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. The Canadian-based company has also signed a deal which gives Emirates Airlines the ability to offer ...
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Saudi air force may add on 25 more F-15s to Boeing order
The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) has begun preliminary discussions with Boeing over the acquisition of as many as 25 F-15Ss to complement the 72 it already has on order. The RSAF has asked for "pricing and availability data" on the two-seat variant of the F-15. The purchase would ...
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S-37 design 'experimental' says Sukhoi
Sukhoi general designer Mikhail Simonov took the opportunity of the show to discuss, for the first time, the design bureau's S-37 forward-swept-wing fighter programme. While remaining guarded over the genesis of the project, Simonov stresses the "experimental nature" of the radical Sukhoi design, with the aircraft being used as ...
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Sirocco enters Lufthansa Tu-204 talks
Sirocco Aerospace International is negotiating with Lufthansa Cargo to lease between eight and ten Tupolev Tu-204-120C freighters. A deal which could see the aircraft introduced on Lufthansa's intra-European routes during 1999 is possible in the first half of 1998. Sirocco will not comment on the negotiations. Sirocco already ...
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Gulfstream introduces fractional ownership to the Middle East
Gulfstream Aerospace is to combine with Executive Jet and a group of regional investors to launch the Middle East's first fractional-ownership programme. Bill Boisture, Gulfstream's president and chief operating officer, says that the investor group also intends to put into place a complementary scheme offering a smaller aircraft to ...
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STAe seeks second overhaul/maintenance site in USA
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is planning to acquire a second overhaul-and-maintenance site in the USA in a bid to relieve capacity constraints at its Mobile subsidiary. Speaking at the show, STAe chief operating officer Wee Siew Kim said that the company is in the process of looking for a ...
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FMS hitch holds up Saudi air force's tanker-fleet plans
The Royal Saudi Air Force's (RSAF) ambition to replace its fleet of five Boeing 707 tankers is being delayed by problems servicing Saudi Arabia's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) debt to the USA. The impending resolution of Saudi Arabia's purchase of commercial aircraft from Boeing for Saudia, its national airline, ...
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Tiltrotor will be used to support oil-production operations
Dubai is to play host to the first company in the world set up solely to operate the Bell Boeing 609 Tiltrotor aircraft. The company, Petroleum Tiltrotors International, is a joint venture between Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Sheikh and an unnamed Dubai oil and gas support company. ...