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Cargolux switches to R-R for new 747's
Cargolux has switched to Rolls-Royce engines for five Boeing 747-400 Freighter orders, plus two options, recently placed with Boeing. The Luxembourg-based cargo carrier has selected the RB.211-524G/HT hybrid engine, despite the fact that the four 747-400Fs already in its fleet are powered by the General Electric CF6-80C2B1F, while ...
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Two Russian Far East airlines plan merger
Two Russian airlines in the Far East, Vladivostok Avia and state-owned Sakhalin Airlines, are preparing to merge. According to Vladivostok Avia's financial director Alexei Katashonov, a merger agreement has been signed, and the new joint airline will be called Dalnevsotochnaya Aviakompaniya (Far East Aviation Company). Katashonov ...
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CNAC is cleared for flotation as airlines face consolidation
China National Aviation (CNAC) has been been given the go-ahead to become the latest Chinese carrier to float on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The move comes as China prepares for a round of consolidation within its crowded airline market. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which ...
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Fairchild Fasteners
US fasteners manufacturer Fairchild is to spin off its non-aerospace businesses in 1998 after completing a $140 million stock-offering and debt-refinancing package. The restructured company will consist of manufacturer Fairchild Fasteners and its 64%-owned subsidiary, Banner Aerospace, which distributes fasteners and other aerospace parts. Aerospace accounts for more than 90% ...
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KLM signs Braathens and Northwest deals
KLM has firmed up details of its deal to take a 30%stake in Norway's Braathens SAFE, while also giving an official signature to the ten-year alliance commitment with transatlantic partner Northwest Airlines. Under the Braathens deal, first announced in August, KLM will pay NKr749 million ($105 million) for ...
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Cash problems put Chengdu FC-1 in holding pattern
China's Chengdu FC-1 lightweight fighter project is on hold until at least 1998, because of a shortage of funding and continuing Chinese and Pakistani air force wavering on support for the programme. The Pakistani air force has made procurement of the single-engine FC-1 fighter contingent on the Chinese ...
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MEADS future threatened by funding pressure
The future of the multi-national Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) surface-to-air missile (SAM) programme is being threatened by funding pressures on both sides of the Atlantic, according to a senior US politician. The USA is working with Germany and Italy on the MEADS programme, intended to replace ...
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Three-nation European military-satellite project gathers pace
France, Germany and the UK are poised to launch the project-definition study for a next-generation military-communications satellite, the results of which may determine the future of the UK's Skynet 5 programme. The three countries have issued invitations to tender for the Trimilsatcom project to Matra-Marconi Space (MMS) and ...
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Sukhoi continues S-32 flight tests
Sukhoi has carried out at least three test lights of its still-classified forward-swept-wing next-generation fighter since late September. Flight tests of the Sukhoi S-32, exclusively revealed in Flight International (8-14 October), have included at least one test in which the pilot, Iogor Votintsev, retracted the undercarriage. The S-32, ...
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Boeing/NASA X-36 undergoes Phase 3 tests
The third phase of flight tests has begun on the Boeing/NASA X-36 tailless-fighter research aircraft at Edwards AFB, California, after "exceptional" agility was proved in its first two flight phases, says the test team. By the end of September, the X-36, a 28%-scale remotely piloted vehicle, had accomplished ...
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Here's to the next 50
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the Corporation Aircraft Owners Association, which held its first convention in New York on 24 September, 1947, attracting 19 companies and collecting around $1,900 in revenues. Fifty years later, the contrast could ...
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Persistent ambitions
Unmanned combat-aircraft are coming, but they will not be going into battle any time in the too-near future. Harsh lessons learned developing relatively simple and inexpensive unmanned air-vehicles (UAVs) have made manufacturers and operators alike extremely cautious in planning the introduction of more costly and sophisticated uninhabited combat air-vehicles (UCAVs). ...
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Sabreliner offers speedbrake
Sabreliner is offering to install a speedbrake on the Sabreliner 65 business jet, for $79,000. Previously only available on the Sabreliner 40, 60 and 80 models, the speedbrake helps pilots manage speed on approach and reduces landing roll by 6%. Installation takes around ten days, Sabreliner says. Source: ...
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US racing team picks Jetstream 31 for shuttle
A British Aerospace Jetstream 31 is to be used to shuttle US NASCAR motor-racing teams between events. The 19-seat aircraft has been purchased from BAe Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT) by Southern Pride Trucking, for use by Greensboro, North Carolina-based Petty Enterprises. The aircraft will be delivered in ...
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Operators offered RVSM help
Operators of out-of-production business jets are being offered help in gaining reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) approval for their aircraft. Everett, Washington-based AeroMech has joined forces with flight-test specialist Kohlman Systems Research to gain RVSM approval for aircraft types for which manufacturer support is no longer available. ...
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VisionAire selects SimCom to provide training on Vantage
VisionAire has selected SimCom International to provide pilot and maintenance training for the Vantage single-turbofan business jet. St Louis, Missouri-based VisionAire will provide training for one pilot and one maintenance technician within the Vantage's $1.75 million purchase price, and plans to require pilots to gain a type rating ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...
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Fairchild Dornier bypasses 50-seat market
Fairchild Dornier is planning to develop a 70-seat regional jet and has abandoned a scheme to compete in the already-crowded 50-seat market sector with a stretched derivative of its 328JET. The US-German manufacturer will roll out the prototype of its Dornier 328 turboprop-derived 32-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Air Flandre signs first order for EMB-135
Air Flandre has become the launch customer for Embraer's short-fuselage EMB-145 derivative, the EMB-135, with a deal for up to 20 aircraft. The Brazilian manufacturer has also revealed a clutch of EMB-145 orders, including 20 for a US leasing company and ten for British Regional Airlines (BRAL). ...