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Grey closes on Aussie start-up
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian airline entrepreneur Bryan Grey hopes to secure a partner soon to help fund his proposed start-up airline Aussie Air, with Malaysia Airlines (MAS)tipped as a likely contender. Grey, who was founder of Compass Airlines which went into liquidation in 1991, has told a ...
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Marketplace
++ Varig Brazil has signed a letter of intent with GE Capital Aviation Services for the lease of three new Boeing 737-300s for five years. Deliveries of the aircraft will begin later this year. ++ Monarch has taken a Lockheed TriStar on sub-wet lease from Air Atlanta Icelandic for five ...
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-as New Zealand gets new regional charter airline
A New Zealand-based regional charter airline has been formed and will launch operations from the city of Nelson on the country's South Island with a fleet of 18-seat aircraft. OriginPacific Airways has been set up by Robert Inglis, the founder of regional carrier Air Nelson, which was eventually ...
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An-74 delivered to Iran
Iran has taken delivery of the first two of ten Antonov An-74-200s on order from the Ukraine's State Aviation Production Company of Kharkov. The remainder will be delivered by the end of 1997. The An-74-200 can carry either 52 passengers over a range of 2,800km (1,500nm), or 10t of cargo ...
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Airlines oppose FAA 747 recommendations
AIRLINE organisations have collectively told the US Federal Aviation Administration that more study is required before the agency orders any costly changes in the way it certificates commercial-aircraft fuel tanks. They question the efficiency of measures recommended by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for preventing the ...
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Qantas considers NZ options-
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas is now considering at least three options for entry into the New Zealand domestic market. Following Air New Zealand's (ANZ) acquisition of a 50% stake in competitor Ansett Australia, the two national carriers have severed all commercial links, leaving Qantas without an adequate presence on ...
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Douglas airliner range comes under scrutiny
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DCGuy Norris/Los Angeles Boeing has begun to study the future of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) airliner range following the combination of the two companies, which began as promised on 4 August. A team led by Richard Pearson, who has managed the Boeing Commercial Airplane ...
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Cathay profits dip as traffic disappoints
Cathay Pacific Airways saw profits for the first half fall marginally under pressure from currency fluctuations, an unexpected drop in traffic and the recent grounding of its Airbus A330-300 aircraft fleet. The Hong Kong carrier reported a net profit of just above HK$1 billion ($130 million) for the ...
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Strong dollar helps Dasa return to profit in first half
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has swung back into profits over the first half of 1997, helped by rising aircraft sales and a strengthening US dollar. Dasa turned in first-half net profits of DM74 million ($40 million), an improvement on the disastrous performance a year ago, when the company's losses ...
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BA counts strike cost
British Airways estimates that the cost of recent strike action could mount to £125 million ($205 million) in lost revenue and contingency measures. The warning came as BA results for its first quarter to June showed a 28%drop in operating profits to £140 million, including an initial £15 million cost ...
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Northrop seals deal
Northrop Grumman has completed its merger with Logicon in a $750 million share-for-share deal. The US manufacturer will operate Logicon as a wholly owned subsidiary. In July, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman agreed to merge by the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Pakistan shelves privatisation of PIA,but fleet renewal nears
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Privatisation plans for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)have been put on hold, says the carrier's new chairman Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, but he confirms that decisions are close on new-aircraft purchases which will mean that the entire fleet will be renewed over the next few years. ...
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Help me, buddy
If anybody had any illusions that the airline industry could relax about its safety record, events of the last few days should have dispelled them. In the space of ten days, at least three large airliners and one small one were destroyed in the course of regular services ...
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Israel opts for PAWS
The Israeli air force will be the launch customer for the Elisra passive airborne-warning system (PAWS). The air force will equip its transport helicopters with the system. According to Elisra, the PAWS will provide the helicopter with a reliable and accurate warning against surface-air and air-air ...
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Dasa advances hypersonic programme
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (Dasa's) hypersonic missile (HFK) research programme is beginning to progress "out of a research background" towards an application in a future short-range air defence (SHORAD) system. According to Peter Gleich, head of aeromechanics at the company's missiles subsidiary LFK, the technology will ...
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US Army picks Northrop minefield detector for Bosnian operation
The Northrop Grumman Airborne Standoff Minefield Detection System (ASTAMIDS) is to be sent to Bosnia for three months, says John Martin, a new-business-development manager for the US firm. The ASTAMIDS, which consists of an infra-red (IR) sensor, processor and display station, is designed to survey minefields accurately from ...
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South Korea sets KTX-II deadline
South Korea has given competing engine manufacturers General Electric and Snecma until 16 August to submit their final proposals for the powerplant of the planned Samsung/Lockheed Martin KTX-II advanced trainer/light combat aircraft. The Government and KTX-II prime contractor Samsung are planning to complete the evaluation and make a ...
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USAF leadership
US President Clinton has nominated Gen Michael Ryan, now commander of US Air Forces in Europe, to replace Gen Ronald Fogleman as the USAF's chief of staff. Fogleman resigned after disagreement with US defence chief William Cohen over the handling of the terrorist bombing at the Khobar Towers apartment block ...
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Philippine air force misses deadlines in fighter search
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The selection of a new multi-role fighter aircraft for the Philippine air force is in danger of slipping by as much as a year, following the failure of its evaluation team to meet successive deadlines in choosing a shortlist. Following the submission of tenders ...
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Taiwan starts to consider fifth-generation fighters
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Taiwan's air force has begun planning the procurement of a fifth-generation fighter as a follow-on to the Dassault Mirage 2000-5s and Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs on order and now entering service. "We're now drafting a plan to study and evaluate the next-generation fighter," ...