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Helipro gets 'Shortsky' final assembly under way
Helipro has begun final assembly of the first S-61 Short conversion of the Sikorsky S-61N helicopter to be destined for use on offshore-oil support. A heavylift S-61 Short, which is used mainly for logging work, is already available. The company has delivered six aircraft and has one more on order. ...
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Hyundai maintains hopes of role in AT-2000 programme
Hyundai has re-iterated its determination to participate in Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (Dasa) proposed AT-2000 advanced jet-trainer programme, despite the South Korean Government's recent decision to back development of the rival Samsung/Lockheed Martin KTX-II programme. The company says that it is continuing to discuss the AT-2000 with Dasa and prospective ...
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India postpones first light-combat flight
India has put back the first flight of its LCA light combat aircraft until at least the start of 1998. The aircraft was rolled out in November 1995 and has been subjected to a series of delays since. The delay to the 8.5t fighter is thought to be ...
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Is the worst over?
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The 1990s have been difficult years for the aviation industry of the former Soviet Union. In the previous decade, it had been delivering annually some 220 jet airliners and freighters, plus more than 80 turboprops, as well as combat aircraft and helicopters. In 1996, just five ...
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Japanese abandon HOPE spaceplane project
Japan has cancelled the HOPE unmanned spaceplane project as a result of budget cuts. The HOPE was to have been launched on an H2A rocket to provide logistics support for the Japanese element of the International Space Station. There were hopes of following it up eventually with a manned version. ...
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KLM and Northwest agree to settle their differences
KLM has agreed to sell its stock in Northwest Airlines, in a deal which draws an end to the bitter dispute over ownership. It will also allow the carriers to start expanding their alliance, including the search for new partners, with Alitalia as a prime candidate. KLM has ...
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Launch activity includes first GPS 2R
Tim Furniss/LONDON A McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on 23 July carried the first Navstar GPS 2R global- positioning-system-satellite to reach orbit. It is the 42nd in the Navstar series to be launched. The original 2R spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was ...
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LHTEC focuses on CTP800 design
Guy Norris/Indianapolis US engine manufacturers AlliedSignal and Allison are completing final-design work on the CTP800 turboprop for the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster freighter, following selection of a Hamilton Standard propeller system. The Loadmaster will be powered by twin CTP800s, a turboprop version of the T800 turboshaft, developed ...
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Lockheed Martin eyes options for advanced F-16
Graham Warwick/Washington DC LOCKHEEDMARTIN IS considering using company funds to develop upgrades for the F-16, if a launch order for an advanced derivative is delayed beyond the end of this year. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reportedly in serious negotiations to purchase the so-called "Block ...
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Looking at cheap access to space
Sir - Regardless of what happened to the Interim Hotol (Letters, Flight International, 9-15 July, P52), such a system would never produce the cheap access to space for which Nick Francis of Matra Marconi Space asks ("Speaking frankly", Flight International, 21-27 May, P36). Studies conducted by Reaction Engines, ...
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Lucas eyes military power-by-wire applications
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTONDC LUCASAEROSPACE hopes to have identified an initial application for its power-by-wire technology by the time a 1,000h in-service evaluation of electric flight-control actuation on a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 StarLifter is completed early in 1998. The company is pursuing military retrofit opportunities for ...
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Malaysia favours Lynx
The Westland Super Lynx has moved a step closer to being selected as Malaysia's new naval helicopter, with the navy coming down in favour of direct negotiations with the UK manufacturer instead of going to a planned competitive tender. The Royal Malaysian Navy has already completed an evaluation ...
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Marketplace
++ Icelandair has signed an agreement with eight financial institutions for the provision of $100 million loan, arranged by HSBC Investment Bank Asia and Landesbank Kiel, to finance two Boeing 757-200s due for delivery in January 1998, and April 1999. ++ The Florida based Aviation Management Support has acquired ten ...
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Martian panorama
NASA has released this 360¹ panorama of the Ares Vallis region of Mars, taken by the US Mars Pathfinder lander which bounced down on to the Red Planet on 4 July (Flight International, 16-22 July). The Sojourner rover, also pictured among the rocky terrain, has been used successfully analysed the ...
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MHI aims for entry to PW6000 project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is signalling its interest in joining the proposed Pratt & Whitney PW6000 engine programme, which it considers a possible candidate powerplant for a new 90-seat regional jet now under study with Bombardier. The Japanese manufacturer has said that it would like to take a ...
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MHS to cut its Cambodian ties
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Malaysian Helicopters Services (MHS) looks set to pull out of its joint venture with Royal Air Cambodge (RAC), following the new Cambodian Government's decision to establish a joint venture airline with Thailand and open international air services. The Cambodian Government has signed a memorandum ...
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Airlines adopt AMICOS
Wideroe of Norway has ordered Danish firm Cimber Data's JAM/Prolifics AMICOS system for managing its DHC Dash-8 fleet maintenance. Meridiana has also selected the AMICOS for its maintenance base in Olbia with on-line connection to its base in Florence, Italy, where the AMICOS will be running on an HP9000 Unix ...
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Debonair launch
Debonair, a UK-based low-cost airline, has signed agreements to lease another five British Aerospace BAe 146s. The aircraft, which are to join the fleet from the third quarter of this year, are part of a $12 million investment following the company's public launch on the EASDQ in July, raising $38 ...
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New US taxes may take a toll on airline boom
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US airlines could be hit with extra taxes of almost $4 billion over the next five years under recommendations from the US Congressional committee set up to establish an alternative to the 10%federal ticket tax. The recommendation, which is expected to become law from ...