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++ Aeronavali has been selected by Ten Forty to convert 20 ex-Japan Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40s to cargo, for delivery between 1998 to 2005. ++ Amarillo, Texas-based Leading Edge Aviation Services has opened its fifth paint hangar, becoming the first independent commercial-aircraft painting centre in the USA able to ...
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Sabena springs surprise by taking City Bird stake
Sabena has taken a stake in Belgium start-up City Bird, adding a surprise twist to the low-cost carrier's flotation, and the airlines have unveiled a co-operation deal to cover new long-haul services. The listing had been delayed as news of the deal was released, but went ahead on 30 October, ...
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CNAC delays launch of Hong Kong listing
China National Aviation (CNAC) has postponed the initial public offer of its stock on the Hong Kong exchange in the face of recent market volatility and a sharp drop in share prices. The airline, a subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, had planned to float shares ...
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Lagardere swoops for Signaux
Lagadere is to buy the defence activities of France's Compagnie des Signaux in a move seen as an early response to the French Government's recent decision in favour of the Alcatel-led bid for control of Thomson-CSF. The purchase adds around Fr600 million ($100 million) to Lagardère's Matra defence-electronics ...
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Calspan/Veda buys rail
Recently merged Calspan SRL/Veda has agreed to acquire RAIL, a provider of test and evaluation services on the US Army Boeing/ Sikorsky RAH-66 and US Navy Boeing F/A-18E/F programmes, boosting annual sales above $270 million. Source: Flight International
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France revisits CNES and Onera
A further round of consolidation in the French aerospace industry is on the cards as the Government studies merging the CNES space agency with Onera, responsible for fundamental aeronautics research. A merger would bring together two organisations of about the same size, and enable cuts in management costs ...
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SIA sees profits rise, but warns over Asia's financial 'drama'
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that the recent spate of Asia-wide currency and stock-market upheavals could affect air traffic in the region. The warning comes despite a healthy jump in the group's profits for the first six months of the financial year. SIA's second-half forecast notes that traffic "-may ...
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BAe and Dasa buy Siemens division
British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) have emerged as winners in the long-running battle to take over the Siemens Defence Electronics division, marking another step in an increasingly rapid consolidation within the sector in Europe. The Siemens business, which has sales of nearly DM1.2 billion ($685 million) and ...
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Losses put pressure on Finmeccanica to speed up restructuring
Finmeccanica, which holds the bulk of Italy's aerospace industry, is under pressure to speed up its restructuring efforts after posting heavy losses for the First half of the year. The group ended the First six months showing a loss of L1,900 billion ($1.1 billion). Although the bulk of ...
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Too big a crowd
The withdrawal of first British Aerospace and then Saab from regional-turboprop manufacture does not signal the collapse of the sub-40-seater market so much as confirm that this market is changing rapidly into one for small jet airliners. It is also a market in which, no matter how buoyant the passenger ...
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Matra BAe ASRAAM hits targets in Eglin firings
Matra BAe Dynamics has carried out two successful test firings from a Lockheed Martin F-16 of the Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) at the USAir Force's Eglin AFB, Florida. The first firing was the final dispersion round in the ASRAAM trials programme, which was completed on 20 September. ...
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Congress blocks new-build B-2s
The US Congress has rejected attempts to restart Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth-bomber production in its Final review of the US Department of Defense's fiscal year 1998 budget, despite boosting numbers in other programmes. The FY98 defence-authorisation bill includes $268 billion in total spending, some $3 billion more than ...
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GKN Westland begins belated DIRCM testing
GKN WESTLAND has finally begun flight-testing of the Northrop Grumman Nemesis directed-infra-red countermeasures (DIRCM) system. Flight testing on a Sea King testbed began on 27 October, about a year behind schedule. Trial installations are already under way and production systems are expected to be fielded by late 1998. ...
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UK MoD considers tri-service helicopter brigade structure
Helicopters from across the UK armed forces will be pooled into two joint operational brigades, if proposals forming the basis of a continuing Strategic Defence Review (SDR) study are acted upon. The study of a joint helicopter group (Flight International, 29 October-4 November) proposes that all of the ...
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South Korea signs for KTX-II development
South Korea's KTX-II programme at last looks ready to get off the ground, after more than two years of delay, with the signature of a deal between the air force and prime contractor Samsung Aerospace to launch full-scale development of the advanced-trainer/light-strike aircraft. The 1.2 trillion won ($1.27 ...
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BAe broach partner
British Aerospace has selected Gencorp Aerojet as its US partner for the Broach penetrator warhead, which is a candidate for use on the Raytheon TI Systems Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) and the Boeing AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missile (CALCM). Gencorp will support engineering and integration of the Broach system on ...
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South Korean SAM
South Korea successfully test fired the locally produced Chunma, a "Pegasus" surface-to-air missile (SAM) on 27 October. Development of the 10km (6nm)-range weapon, which has been aided by Thomson-CSF, is due to be completed by December. Prime contractor Daewoo hopes to put missile into production in 1998. . ...
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Singapore to double Chinooks
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to purchase up to ten more Boeing CH-47D Chinook heavylift helicopters, while neighbouring Malaysia and Thailand are wrestling to reconcile their future helicopter requirements with contracting defence budgets. Singapore is understood have signed an initial agreement to order six additional ...
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Kaman finalises RAN SH-2G(A) supplies
Kaman Aerospace is finalising the selection of suppliers for the upgraded avionics in the SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite shipborne helicopter for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The last major element, the digital automatic flight-control system, will be chosen soon, says vice-president of engineering Michael Bowes. Australia, meanwhile, has completed ...
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Harrier creates challenges for Royal Thai Navy
The Royal Thai Navy is grappling with major logistical and training challenges following the recent entry into Navy service of the British Aerospace AV-8A Harrier. Thailand has acquired seven AV-8S and two tandem-seat TAV-8S Matador versions of the Harrier from the Spanish navy. The vertical/short-take-off-and-landing (V/STOL) aircraft were ...