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Northwest Airlines RJ85 order doubles AI(R)'s Avro backlog
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has seen its order backlog for the Avro RJ family doubled as a result of the $620 million deal with Northwest Airlines, which has exercised its options for 24 RJ85s. Deliveries are spread out over three years, however, so production rates will ...
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SkyWest to operate as United Express carrier
SKYWEST AIRLINES is to become a United Express carrier, operating flights from Los Angeles International Airport to destinations in California, as well as Las Vegas and Phoenix, under a marketing agreement with United Airlines. SkyWest is also a Delta Connection carrier, and has signed a new five-year agreement to provide ...
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Transaero's initial ll-96M due in 2001
Russian airline Transaero will take delivery of the first of up to 12 Ilyushin Il-96Ms in 2001, following the signing of a contract with Ilyushin and the Vordnezh Aircraft Production Organisation for six firm orders, plus six options. The deal for the Pratt & Whitney PW2000-powered aircraft was ...
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American clinches Latin deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONRamon Lopez/Washington DC The American Airlines group, AMR, is to take a stake in Aerolineas Argentinas and form an alliance with Iberia, under a deal struck with Spanish state-holding company SEPI, which effectively controls both carriers. British Airways has also started co-operation talks with the Spanish carrier, ...
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CAA warns on potential flight disruption
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has raised the spectre of a return to massive disruption to air travel if a way is not found to fund the large-scale capital investment required for the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) to keep pace with traffic growth. CAA chairman Sir Malcolm ...
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Thai limit raised to 25%
The Thai Government is to raise the limit on foreign ownership of Thai Airways International to 25%, as part of a planned increase in the flag carrier's publicly floated stock by the end of the year. The finance ministry has revived long-stalled plans to begin divesting its interest ...
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Aerosystems wins UK Apache mission support contract
AEROSYSTEMS International (AeI) is to supply the British Army with the ground support system for its McDonnell Douglas Apache WAH-64 attack helicopters in a UK Ministry of Defence contract worth £20 million ($34 million). The contract was awarded in January, but has only just been announced. AeI, which ...
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Greek air force chooses Dasa for F-4 upgrade
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) appears to be poised to win a contract to upgrade the avionics in 39 Greek McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom IIs, according to the arms directorate of the Greek air force. The air-force evaluation committee has selected Dasa's offer in preference to ...
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Four FATE fighter-demonstrator study contracts awarded
FOUR COMPANIES HAVE been awarded three-month, $300,000 US Air Force contracts to begin work on the Future Air-craft Technology Enhancement (FATE) unmanned, subscale fighter demonstrator. Under the study contracts, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and Northrop Grumman will determine which aerodynamic, flight-control, subsystem and structures technologies should be incorporated in ...
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French face more cuts in run-up to single currency
Julian Moxon/Paris The French defence industry is bracing itself for a further round of defence cuts as the Government tries to meet the criteria to allow the country to join the single European currency, due to be launched in 1999. Cuts of Fr1.8 billion ($300 million) ...
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Indonesia turns to Russia for supplies of new weapons
Indonesia is sending a strong signal to the US Government that it might purchase major new weapons systems from Russia, including fighter aircraft, in the face of growing criticism in Washington of its human-rights record. According to defence sources in Jakarta, the Indonesian Government has already signed a ...
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ITEC aims F124 at Yak-130
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES International Turbine Engine (ITEC), an AlliedSignal subsidiary, is in talks with Yakovlev and Aermacchi over the possible use of its F124 turbofan in the companies' jointly developed Yak/ AEM-130 advanced-trainer/ light-combat aircraft. "We have got engineers at Phoenix looking at the installation, and ...
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KTX-2 progresses
Lockheed Martin's influence on the design of the South Korean KTX -2 can be seen in this latest picture of the advanced-trainer/light-combat aircraft. The US company has agreed a deal with Samsung Aerospace to develop the aircraft jointly (Flight International, 23-29 July) in a $2 billion programme. Source: ...
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Australian Nomads move on
The Australian Defence Forces' remaining Government Aircraft Factory Nomad utility aircraft have been transferred to the Indonesian navy. The 20 aircraft include two "stretched" N24s, modified with VIP interiors by Brisbane-based Jetcare, the maintenance and engineering division of Flightwest Airlines. Australia declared the type unsuitable for its requirements when operational ...
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Taurus to get its sea legs as KEPD missile family grows
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) and its Swedish programme partner, Bofors, are planning to make their Taurus KEPD 350 Kinetic Energy Penetrating Destroyer the basis of a family of long-range missiles, including a ship-launched variant. The basic 1,400kg, 5m-long KEPD 350 stand-off weapon is designed to ...
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Turkey wants Israeli-upgraded CH-53s
TURKEY PLANS TO buy ten US-surplus Sikorsky CH-53 heavylift helicopters for its special forces. The aircraft will be upgraded either by IsraelAircraft Industries (IAI), or in Turkey with Israeli assistance. The helicopters are likely to receive the IAI-developed CH-53 2000 upgrade. This includes improved navigation systems and cockpit ...
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Single-lane progress
Cessna's latest revisions keep the 182 Skylane up with the best Dave Higdon/INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS of flyers, the Cessna Skylane has always been the ideal family aeroplane: comfortable, economical, and with more than ample load-carrying ability for far-flung holiday trips. For thousands of others, its ...
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Risky business
The gambles associated with Macau Airport are beginning to pay dividends PaulLewis/MACAU To invest over $1 billion on an all-new airport for a small city of 400,000 inhabitants would appear to be a financial gamble, but Macau, having built its economy around the casino industry, is accustomed to ...
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Special observer
Guy Norris/WACO, TEXAS Twenty-four years ago, the Boeing 747SP was designed to be flown higher and further than anything in its class. These attributes, plus the large payload capacity of the "Special Performer", have now landed one aircraft in the small world fleet the unique role of the ...
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Sweden is taking steps towards closer inter-European defence-industry links Tim Ripley/LONDON Sweden is keen to join moves to hasten European-wide aviation- and defence-industry consolidation by building alliances, according to senior Saab executives and Government figures. A Saab team, headed by Sweden's special envoy for defence exports, ...