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Indian separation
Indian Airlines chairman P C Sen is studying proposals to spin off the domestic carrier's engineering services into a stand-alone business with its own identity and accounts. Sen has cited the lead set elsewhere in Asia by Singapore Airlines and Gulf Air, which have successfully turned their engineering departments into ...
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Japanese airline finanical performance -...
Japanese airline finanical performance - 1996/7 Sales (´bn)Operating marginNet profit/loss (´bn)Forecasts 1997/8 (´ bn) 1996/7change1996/71995/61996/71995/6SaleschangeNet profit Japan Airlines1,1957.1%0.4%1.4%(9.2)0.51,2444.1%0.0 All Nippon Airways8874.9%2.0%3.2%3.9 3.19335.1%3.9 Japan Air System3197.1%-0.1%-0.1%0.2 0.13416.9%0.4 Japanese airline operating statistics - 1996/7 Total passengersInternationalDomesticCargo tonnes (million)change(million) change(million)change(000)change Japan Airlines30,1984.8%11,4216.4%18,7773.9%8285.4% All Nippon Airways39,7205.6%2,67416.6%37,0464.9%5026.6% Source: Flight International
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Power shortage
According to current folklore, engine makers don't actually make any money out of building engines: they give them away, and then hope they will recoup the cost out of spares and maintenance in years to come. The engine makers, at least in public, will reject that as a wild exaggeration, ...
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Raytheon begins material build-up for new missile
Raytheon has begun purchasing long-lead material for production of enhanced fibre-optic-guided missiles (EFOGMs) destined for the US Army. The US aerospace firm was recently awarded $5.1 million of a $35 million contract to begin making 256 EFOGMs. The weapon, which will equip one company by the year 2000, ...
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IAI upgrades Harpy
The MBT weapons division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has unveiled an upgraded variant of its Harpy anti-radar attack unmanned air vehicle. The improved model has a greater range and loiter capability and improved accuracy. South Korea and India have purchased the Harpy, and other countries are evaluating the air ...
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USA and Japan study MPA
The US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) have signed an agreement to co-operate on finding a possible future replacement for the Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA) . Under the technical-review deal, US and Japanese officials are to exchange information and individual ...
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Lockheed Martin to fly all-electric F-16
LOCKHEEDMARTIN has been cleared to proceed with modification of an F-16 to demonstrate the all-electric flight controls planned for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI)/ F-16 will be modified in 1998 for flight tests starting in January 1999. The six-month, 60-flight demonstration, under ...
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Greelk lantirn
Lockheed Martin has delivered 16 LANTIRN targeting pods and 24 LANTIRN navigation pods for installation on Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters previously sold to the Hellenic air force. Source: Flight International
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Airbus will offer RAF early VC10 replacement option
Airbus Industrie is to offer to replace the Royal Air Force's Vickers VC10 tanker/ transport fleet as early as the turn of the century, more than a decade before the service originally planned to retire the aircraft. The consortium is preparing to submit an unsolicited proposal to the ...
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Malaysian F-18s arrive
The first four of eight Royal Malaysian Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-18Ds were delivered to Butterworth AB in late May. The remaining four will be delivered in August. Source: Flight International
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Turkish clearance
US manufacturers have been cleared to bid to provide Turkey with more than 100 advanced attack helicopters. The US Government says that it is in the US national security interest to provide assistance to Turkey. In 1996, political controversy over US concerns that they would be used against Kurdish civilians ...
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The cost of free flight
RUNNING an orderly air-traffic-management (ATM) system using airways, by definition, confines aircraft to a fraction of the airspace available. At a time when the skies are becoming increasingly crowded - particularly in Europe - any ATM system which fails to use all available airspace is, therefore, giving up part of ...
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Duncan Aviation completes Dassault Falcon 900 RVSM update
DUNCAN AVIATION has modiÌed a Dassault Falcon 900 business jet to comply with reduced vertical-separation minimum (RVSM) regulations now in force on North Atlantic routes. The update involved the upgrade of both air-data computers, a visual inspection of skin waviness around the pitot and static ports and a test ßight ...
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Paperwork holds up Il-103 sales
Russia's new light trainer, the Ilyushin Il-103, will realise its sales potential once outstanding certiÌcation paperwork issues are resolved, according to the aircraft's chief designer, Andrei Pupkov. The four-seat aircraft received Russian certiÌcation to AP-23 standards in February 1996, but to date just two aircraft have been delivered to customers, ...
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Kitplane popularity soars as sales increase
WORLDWIDE Kit sales could total around 7,750 aircraft annually by the end of the decade, according to research published by the US magazine Kitplanes. A survey examined the expected growth in sales of kitplanes and plans-only designs for 95 home-build aircraft manufacturers, around 60% of the industry, from 1990 up ...
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Kestrel funds
Kestrel Aircraft plans a public offering in 1998, to raise $30 million to build a factory able to produce up to 500 of its K-250 all-composite aircraft a year by 2001. Source: Flight International
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Horten flies again
Two aircraft enthusiasts have begun flight tests of a prototype ultra-light flying wing, built from a design by Second World War flying-wing pioneer Professor Reimar Horten, who died in 1993. The two-seat PUL 10 had its 30min maiden flight in May from Breitscheid airÌeld in Germany, under a Provisional Certificate ...
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VisionAire books European orders
VISIONAIRE SAYS that it received orders for four Vantage single-engined business jets at the European Business Air Show in the UK in May. The agreements take the company's orderbook to over 60 aircraft. The orders were placed by buyers in Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK. The ...
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Boeing battles to complete 777-X definition for Paris
Boeing is struggling to get its proposed 777-200X/ 300X growth derivatives off the ground in time for the Paris air show, as the company considers a further increase to the maximum take-off-weight (MTOW) of the aircraft to meet airline range and payload demands. The US manufacturer is discussing ...
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A340 growth engine is stuck in stalemate
Airbus Industrie, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are locked in a three-way stand-off over the way forward on the growth A340-500 and -600. P&W and R-R are seeking exclusivity on the new variants, while Airbus does not want to offer it.The engine makers expect a final decision by ...