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Paris congestion sees calls for more capacity
Julian Moxon/PARIS Continued air traffic congestion in France has led to renewed calls for more capacity at Paris' two main airports. But airlines which file more than one flightplan in an attempt to obtain the air traffic control (ATC) take-off slot they want are under criticism for causing ...
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Kitty Hawk/Kalitta companies take decision to merge
Kitty Hawk, the Dallas-based charter passenger and cargo air carrier, has agreed to merge with the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Companies, which includes American International Airways (AIA), American International Cargo, American International Freight, Flight One Logistics, Kalitta Flying Services and OK Turbines. In a related transaction, Kitty Hawk will ...
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Guam crash MSAA alert
Minimum-safe-altitude-alert (MSAA) systems on some 200 airport radars across the USA are undergoing checks for a possible software fault, the US Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed. This follows the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovery that an MSAA system in Guam which might have prevented the 6 August Korean Air ...
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Olympic near the edge
During take-off from Iraklion, Crete, on 12 August, an Olympic Airways Boeing 737-200Adv shed the tyre tread from two of its main wheels and the pilot elected to abort the take-off run. The aircraft, carrying 110 passengers, came to rest 200m from the runway end, just beyond which there is ...
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Stage 3 DC-8s approved
Miami-based Quiet Technology Venture (QTV) has received US certification of its Stage 3 hushkit for the McDonnell Douglas DC-8-50, powered by the short-duct Pratt &Whitney JT3D-3B. QTV plans to complete work on an increased-gross-weight version for DC-8-61s by year end. Approval of a Stage 3 hushkit for Boeing 707s and ...
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New Zealand officials examine delayed crash warning-
Paul Phelan/Cairns New Zealand's Transport Accident Commission is probing whether paint on the radar-altimeter antennas may have degraded the performance of the ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) on an Ansett New Zealand Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8, which crashed at Palmerston North, New Zealand, in June 1995, with the ...
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-and get tough on maintenance deficiencies
In its toughest punitive move to date, New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority is to ground the small Palmerston North-based operator United Aviation because of "serious maintenance deÌciencies" discovered during audits. The airline, which ßies a small ßeet of piston twins, suffered a fatal accident with one of its ...
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Olympic 727 written off during landing in storm
An Olympic Airways Boeing 727-200Adv's landing gear was ripped off and its left wing destroyed when the pilot steered it off the runway while landing at Thessaloniki, northern Greece, airport authorities have confirmed. The pilot appears to have been attempting to avoid overrunning into the sea. On 12 ...
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Yakovlev launches Yak-42A, shelves all-new Yak-242 twin
Yakovlev is preparing to start production of an upgraded Yak-42 model at the Saratov production plant, but has decided to shelve its planned all-new twin-engined airliner, the Yak-242. The new Yak-42A, a development of the current Yak-42D, will enter production at Saratov in early 1998, following Russian approval, ...
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Jersey European ends record year and promises more to come
Jersey European Airways (JEA)has joined in the boom in Europe's regional markets, reporting record results for its latest financial year to March 1997. The carrier, which last November signed a franchise deal with Air France on routes from London Heathrow to Toulouse and Lyon, posted a 27%rise in sales to ...
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USclears Eurocopter
American Eurocopter has been cleared to bid on US government contracts. The threat of a ban had followed the manufacturer's guilty plea in a US federal court earlier this year in connection with commissions paid to an Israeli businessman. Eurocopter was accused of attempting to defraud the US Government by ...
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Maintenance hots up with two sales and Boeing's China move
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES TWO MAJOR North American maintenance and modification companies have been put up for sale in what could be the first signs of a consolidation in the aircraft-overhaul industry. At the same time Boeing is to taking a stake in the TAECO freighter ...
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Table talk
The trouble with league tables is that they usually either tell you what you already know, or confirm what you already suspect. Occasionally, however, they tell you what you didn't want to know. If you work for a state-owned aerospace corporation which is trying to establish itself in the new ...
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Successful test for prototype kinetic-energy ASATkill vehicle
The US Army successfully tested a prototype kinetic-energy anti-satellite (KE ASAT) kill vehicle (KKV) at Edwards AFB, California on 12 August . In the hover test, the 43kg (94lb) device designed to destroy satellites by impact performed autonomous powered flight, and its electro-optical (EO) sensor locked onto a ...
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South Korea's air force considers buying additional ASPJs
The South Korean air force (RoKAF) is considering buying more Northrop Grumman/ITT ALQ-165 Airborne Self-Protection Jammers (ASPJs). It has already bought the jammer for some of its Lockheed Martin F-16s, and Northrop Grumman officials say that the firm is talking to South Korea about a follow-on purchase. The ...
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US Navy looks to refine CSA cofiguration
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON The US Navy (USN) is expected to release Common Support Aircraft (CSA) definition studies in early 1998. It is keen to bring forward the aircraft's initial operational capability (IOC) to between 2005 and 2008. The USN has a requirement for some 250 CSA aircraft, ...
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French Government warns of serious defence budget cuts
Julian Moxon/paris France's recently elected socialist Government has made it clear that there will have to be major cuts in the five-year defence plan approved by the previous Government, to pay for planned social programmes. Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, has yet to identify which ...
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JDA purchase may spark missile war
The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is requesting initial funding to purchase a small batch of Hughes AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM), raising local concern over the future of the indigenous Mitsubishi XAAM-4. According to industry sources, the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) wants to acquire a ...
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Aero Vodochody's L-159 gets airborne
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Aero Vodochody's L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft (ALCA) was flown for the first time on 2 August. A further three flights were made before the aircraft was returned for work on planned structural modifications and vibration testing. Flight testing of the aircraft is due ...
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USBorder Patrol picks MD 600N to replace Hughes OH-6A
THE US BORDER Patrol has ordered 45 Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems)MD600Ns in a deal worth almost $71 million. The aircraft will replace the agency's fleet of Hughes OH-6A helicopters, with deliveries of nine MD600Ns a year starting n 1998. The eight-seat, single-turbine MD600N was ...