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EC promises review after attack on EGNOS
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC)has promised a complete review of the region's plans for global-navigation-satellite systems (GNSS)by the end of the year, following complaints from airlines that the existing programme should be halted. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) raised the issue early in October ...
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Marketplace
marketplace ++ CS Aviation Services has placed an ex-Alitalia Airbus A300B4 freighter with the Dutch general sales agents Jet Link Holland. Delivery is scheduled for February following conversion by BAe Aviation Services. ++ New Argentinian airline AeroVIP has leased three Jetstream 32EPs from British Aerospace Asset Management - ...
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Tower leases
Tower Air is to wet-lease up to four of its Boeing 747s to a Middle East airline for nine months beginning in October, and a further three 747s to an Asian airline for two months a year over the next three years. Source: Flight International
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Qantas considers A340/777 competition
Qantas' new order will lift its 747-40 Qantas is evaluating the Airbus and Boeing 300-seat models, and has confirmed orders for three additional Boeing 747-400s, worth some A$650 million ($478 million)including engines and spares. According to chief executive James Strong, Qantas has been studying closely its ...
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Ryanair reveals plans to double fleet by 2002
Ryanair has revealed plans to expand its fleet as part of a wide-ranging strategy to push its low-cost services further into the mainstream European market. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the Dublin, Ireland-based carrier, says that the airline is "-actively negotiating with Boeing and Airbus" for new aircraft ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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FAA rethinks fuel-tank approval
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC In an apparent change of heart, the US Federal Aviation Administration is considering the case for changing the way it certificates commercial-aviation fuel tanks, say senior officials close to the year-long investigations into the mid-air explosion of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100. ...
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US Airways selects engines and secures deliveries for A320s
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC US Airways has moved closer to finalising its long-standing commitment for up to 400 Airbus A320 family aircraft, with the selection of CFM International CFM56 engines, and an agreement over the delivery schedule for the first 30 aircraft. Some of the early delivery positions ...
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Kiwi expands fleet
Kiwi International is formalising plans for the acquisition of new aircraft types as it prepares to undertake gradual expansion. The airline will acquire four more aircraft to add to its fleet of eight Boeing 727-200s, with the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 or Fokker F28 being considered. Kiwi says that ...
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Spinetta gets 'free hand' for more-commercial Air France
Julian Moxon/paris The French Government has confirmed the new president of Air France, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, in his post and given him unprecedented control over the running of the airline. It has also asked him to prepare for a "partial" opening of capital to the workforce and outside investors ...
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New BMW R-R chief cuts board numbers
New BMW Rolls-Royce chairman Klaus Nittinger has started making moves to tighten the firm's management by removing the finance director. Former finance director Günter Frölich left the company early in October. BMW R-R says that this reduces the membership of the company's board of management from five to ...
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Virgin Express plans to join public bandwagon
Virgin Express is to become the latest of Europe's low-cost carriers to seek a public listing ,with plans to launch on the Brussels stock exchange and the USNASDAQ exchange. Start-ups UKDebonair and Belgian's City Bird have sought listings on Europe's EASDAQ, while Ireland's Ryanair has also recently floated. ...
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Balancing Act
Boeing is losing money because it's making too many airliners; Saab is losing money because it's making too few. Both are victims of a market which refuses to conform to the normal laws of economics - but each could benefit from the other's woes. Boeing's ...
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Buffalos still roam the Kenyan bush
The Kenya Air Force is to keep its de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo transports in service until 2005. The service, which has eight of the aircraft, had been looking at replacing them with Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules. Brig S Muttai, deputy commander of the air force says, however, that the ...
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Kaman eyes H-2 for new Australia bid
Graham Warwick/BLOOMFIELD Kaman Aerospace plans to offer an armed-reconnaissance version of its SH-2G Super Seasprite shipborne helicopter for Australia's Air 87 requirement, if the country's defence force decides to acquire a multi-role machine rather than a dedicated attack helicopter - a choice expected to be made later this ...
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Boeing hopes to clinch Kuwaiti Apache contract
Boeing expects to sell 16 AH-64D Longbow Apache helicopters to Kuwait before 1998, but the foreign-military-sales deal may not cover the Longbow fire-control radar (FCR). In September, the Clinton Administration disclosed that Kuwait is seeking to buy 16 AH-64Ds, 384 Hellfire missiles, spare engines and other related weapons ...
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Anti-satellite laser test is successful
The US Army successfully tested the TRW-built Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 17 October. During two firings, lasting about 1s and 10s respectively, the 2m- wide laser beam was aimed at the infra-red camera aboard a US Air Force ...
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Boeing delivers E-3 kit
Boeing has begun delivery of radar-system improvement kits to Daimler-Benz Aero-space for installation on 18 NATO E-3 Sentrys. Kits will also go to the US Air Force and Royal Air Force. Source: Flight International
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RAH-66 team prepares for 'snap turn' tests
The Consolidated Test Team working on the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche attack helicopter has begun to expand the high-speed envelope and plans to make first tests of the aircraft's unique "snap-turn" capability shortly. After a slow start, caused by two major updates and down periods, the team has ...
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Royal Thai Air Force unwraps extended-range Paveway LGB
Paul Lewis/UTAPAO The Royal Thai Air Force has unveiled an extended-range development of the Texas Instrument GBU-12/Paveway II laser-guided bomb, equipped with extendible wings and a global-positioning-system (GPS) antenna. The strap-on Longshot modification kit is claimed to extend the range of the 227kg munition to up ...