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Uzbekistan plans
Uzbekistan Khavo Jullari, Uzbekistan's national carrier, plans to lease between ten and 15 Boeing 757 and 767 airliners over the next few years, says the airline's general director, Arslan Razmetov. It has already received two 767s this year, under a contract worth $181 million. It also has two Airbus A310s ...
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British World takes delivery of ATP QC
British World Airlines took delivery of its first British Aerospace ATP QC (Quick-Change) on 15 September. A second will arrive in December and "at least another two" in 1998, says sales director Mike Sessions, who adds that the aircraft "-have only been flown for about 20h each". ...
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Zurich leads battle to penalise polluters with landing-fee rise
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Zurich Airport has become the world's first major airport to introduce an emissions charge, amounting to as much as 40% of normal landing fees, for operators of aircraft which fail to meet the highest environmental standards. The charge, introduced from 1 September, is balanced by ...
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Slowdown in USA hurts airport growth
A Slowdown in the US domestic-passenger market has left its mark on mid-year figures from the world airports, despite a continuing boom in the European and Asia Pacific regions. Airport passenger numbers continued to grow at a relatively steady rate of 4.7% around the world during the first ...
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Missing the bus
British Aerospace's reluctance to commit itself to the development of a new European regional jet says more about the state of the civil-aerospace market worldwide than can any bunch of encouraging traffic statistics. In the regional-jet business, the old law of supply and demand has been turned on its head: ...
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Improved AMRAAM motor is flight-tested
Hughes, Norway's Raufoss Technology and Alliant Techsystems have conducted the first flight demonstration of an enhanced rocket motor for the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The company-developed motor is being proposed to improve the performance of both surface-launched and air-launched versions of the AMRAAM. The flight test, at ...
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Russia reviews Chinese sales
Paul Lewis/BEIJING The flow of Russian weapons to China, including new fighters, ships and missiles, is showing signs of slowing in the face of contractual differences and reservations in Moscow about the type and capability of systems sought by Beijing. Some major new arms purchases for ...
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US GAO urges use of towed decoy for F/A-18C/D
The US Navy should reconsider its opposition to fielding a towed radar decoy on its Boeing F/A-18C/Ds, says the US General Accounting Office (GAO). The GAO wants the USN to conduct a detailed engineering analysis of the modifications needed to adapt towed decoys to the F/A-18C/D. ...
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German Eurofighter funding is 'secure'
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH German defence minister Volker Rühe has told the federal parliament that 1998 funding for the Eurofighter EF2000 is secure. A cabinet procurement go-ahead is now expected at the end of this month. Rühe's statement follows German press reports that the cabinet had again removed the ...
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Boeing launches competition to find advanced FLIR for F/A-18
Boeing is planning to release a request for offers shortly, to initiate a contest for an advanced-targeting, forward-looking infra-red system (ATFLIR) for the F/A-18C/D and the more-advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Naval Air Systems Command says that it will award Boeing a contract for development, integration and installation of ...
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South Korea selects the Popeye
Rafael and Lockheed Martin have emerged as the victors in a battle with Rockwell to provide the South Korean air force with a stand-off missile for its Lockheed Martin F-16 and McDonnell Douglas F-4Phantom aircraft. Following a two-year evaluation, the air force has selected the AGM-142 variant of ...
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USAF chooses Warner
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has been selected over Boeing and Lockheed Martin to provide depot maintenance for the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin C-5A/B Galaxy transport aircraft. The decision shifts heavy-cargo-aircraft overhaul from the San Antonio Air Logistics Center at Kelly AFB, Texas, due to close in ...
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S Korea picks radars
ITT Gilfillan has received a $40 million follow-on contract from South Korea for fixed and mobile RAPCON air-traffic-control and air-defence-surveillance radars for the army and air force. Source: Flight International
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Hughes UK wins order to supply RAF reconnaisance pods
Hughes UK has won a £55 million ($90 million) order from the UK Ministry of Defence to provide the Royal Air Force with reconnaissance pods for its Panavia Tornados. The Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado programme requires Hughes UK and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems to deliver eight pods and two ...
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Russian air force faces cuts to save projects
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Senior Russian defence-ministry officials are advocating cutting the vast majority of combat-aircraft and helicopter development projects now under way in Russia, in an attempt to protect a handful of core programmes. In early September, defence-ministry acquisition chief Col Gen Anatoly Sitnov told a special ...
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GE completes growth T700 altitude tests
General Electric has completed altitude testing of the growth T700 turboshaft. The first T700/T6E flight-test engine will be delivered to NHIndustries later this year for installation on the NH90 military helicopter. The first CT7-8 commercial version will be delivered to Sikorsky in mid-1998. GE Aircraft Engines ...
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Widnall resigns as USAF Secretary to take up MIT teaching position
US Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall will leave her job on 30 October to return to teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Widnall became the first female service secretary in 1993. In resigning from her post, Widnall says: "It has always been my intention to see ...
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The fleet builds up
Increases in numbers of corporate aircraft during the past 12 monthsshow a healthy market The Flight International Corporate Aircraft Census is prepared by Aviation Data Services (Avdata): PO Box 2398 Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON DATA TABLES/Aviation Data Services If the 1997 Flight International Corporate-Aircraft Census is ...
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Falcon with frills
With its Falcon 900EX newly certificated, Dassault is in a strong position to resist its rivals. Julian Moxon With four years of strong sales, and 1997 figures looking as if they will set a record, Dassault Aviation had good reason to celebrate when its latest business-jet offering received its ...