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++ BAe Asset Management - Jets has concluded the cash sale of three BAe 146-100s in deals worth a total of $21 million. Jersey European Airways has purchased two -100s off lease. A third -100 has been sold in the US for use as an executive transport. ++ El Al ...
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Air UK adds Sheffield
Air UK will become the first operator to offer scheduled flights from the new Sheffield City Airport, UK, in February 1998. The airline will operate Fokker 50s to Amsterdam thrice daily from the airport, which opened in June. Source: Flight International
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Long-range MD-90
Boeing has handed over the first MD-90-30 Extended Range (ER) to Cairo-based AMC Aviation, a charter subsidiary of Egypt's Aircraft Maintenance. An auxiliary 1,720kg fuel tank boosts range to 4,000km (2,170nm). AMC is scheduled to receive a second -30ER in October 1998 and holds two additional -30ER options. ...
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Sabena postpones flightcrew relocation
Sabena's plans to shift pilots and cabin attendants to a Swissair payroll by 1 January, 1998, to reduce the Belgian carrier's airline's high labour costs, have been postponed. The hold-up threatens plans for the airline to return to profit by 1999. Sabena secretary-general Patrick du Bois says that ...
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US Airways and ALPA save A230 purchase
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Airways and its pilots broke an impasse on labour negotiations at the eleventh hour, saving the US carrier's planned $14 billion purchase of up to 400 A320-family aircraft from Airbus Industrie. The sixth-largest US airline and negotiators for the Air Line Pilots ...
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ARIA tries to temper privatisation plans
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) general director Valery Okulov says that the carrier is trying to tone down Russian Government plans for a wholesale privatisation auction in 1998, while at the same time the airline is pressing ahead with plans to raise cash in European and US ...
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Alitalia turns in profit after ten years of making losses
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/Rome After a decade of losses, Alitalia has turned in a net profit of L163 billion ($92 million) for the first half of the year. Chief executive Domineco Cempella promises better to come, raising the prospect of early privatisation of the state-owned Italian flag carrier. ...
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Stand back
Third time lucky? That would appear to be the case when it comes to the latest US attempt to enter the Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS) in the UK's Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) competition. Having been kicked out on two previous occasions, some transatlantic political ...
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B-2 pitch oscillation mystifies US pilots
Guy Norris/Beverly Hills US Air Force test crews flying the Northrop Grumman B-2A bomber have been unable to pin down the cause of a mysterious residual pitch oscillation which affects the aircraft at low altitude and high speed. The 1.5Hz pitch oscillation which has been observed ...
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Boeing steps up Central European F-18 effort
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH Boeing has added momentum to its F-18 marketing campaign in Central Europe, signing industrial agreements in the Czech Republic and Poland covering future co-operation. The US company has struck an agreement with the Polish Aviation Institute (IL), outlining co-operation in 20 advanced-technology fields related ...
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Lockheed Martin completes final tests on C-130J stick-pusher
Lockheed Martin is completing final tests of a stick-pusher system designed to beat unexpected stall characteristics with its C-130J Hercules II. The discovery of unusual stall behaviour has delayed delivery of the first aircraft to the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and forced Lockheed ...
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Budget cuts threaten to ambush South Africa's Cheetah C upgrade
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Budget cuts have forced the South African Air Force (SAAF) to consider cancellation of the last, and potentially most critical, element of its Cheetah C upgrade project - the acquisition of a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile (AAM). The SAAF's Cheetah C fighter upgrade programme ...
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Ericsson plans flying AESA demonstrator
Andrzej Jeziorski/ MOLNDAL Ericsson Microwave Systems is planning to have a flying demonstrator of its active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar operational in 1999. The company says that it is keen to find partners to continue the project, but will start to build the demonstrator on ...
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First digital F-14B is deployed at sea
The first US Navy unit equipped with digitally upgraded Northrop Grumman F-14Bs was due to be deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for fleet exercises on 3 October. The event marks the initial operational capability for the upgraded F-14B, which was sanctioned as a programme in December 1991. The ...
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F/A-18E/F tests show 'falling-leaf' immunity
Flight testing of the Boeing F/A-18E/F has reached the half-way point and demonstrated the aircraft's immunity to the "falling-leaf" departure problem which it suffered by earlier models, according to the test team reporting at the 41st Society of Experimental Test Pilots meeting in Beverly Hills, California, on 25-26 September. ...
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F-16 spin-recovery technique invented
A new spin-recovery technique for later-generation, Block 40/50, Lockheed Martin F-16s equipped with inlet-mounted pods is to be written into the aircraft's flight manual after investigation work by the US Air Force's F-16 Combined Test Force at Edwards AFB, California. The test team discovered that inlet stores, such ...
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Pilot reflects on first flight of Raptor
Initial pilot reaction to the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is that is an aircraft "quick in roll and acceleration, yet very stable with excellent control" in formation flying and approach configuration, says chief test pilot Paul Metz. Describing the 58min first flight on 7 September, Metz says that ...
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Calspan and UK agency aim to create JSF in-flight 'simulator'
Guy Norris/BEVERLY HILLS The UK Defence Research Agency (DRA) and Calspan, a US-based flight-test support company, are to develop the DRA's British Aerospace Harrier Vectored-thrust Aircraft Advanced Control (VAAC) tests into a flight-control development aircraft for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, it was revealed at the 41st ...
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Full-scale KTX-II launch waits for US green light
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Samsung and Lockheed Martin are hoping to launch full-scale development of the KTX-II advanced-trainer/light-combat aircraft by early November, provided that the programme receives final US Congressional blessing. The South Korean Government is awaiting a US export licence to be granted before proceeding with the ...
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Russians order French equipment for MiG-ATs
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW MAPO-MIG has agreed to buy Snecma/Turboméca Larzac 04-R20 engines and Sextant Avionique avionics for the first ten MiG-AT advanced trainers, in an agreement which may be underwritten by Fr400 million ($67.5 million) in French Government export guarantees. The Russian air force has declared its ...