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Miami parts merger
Miami, Florida-based civil aircraft and engine parts business Aviation Sales is to take over Caribe Aviation, a licensed components repair station. Caribe, also of Miami, has an interiors refurbishment operation. Source: Flight International
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GECAS buys Simuflite
GE Capital Services (GECAS) has completed the acquisition of SimuFlite Training International, which will be used to extend the finance company's services for the US business aviation community. SimuFlite, based at at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, in Texas, provides pilot and maintenance training, employing more than 450 workers at three sites. ...
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ATI acquired
Pittson Burlington Group operating unit BAZ Global has agreed to acquire US freight carrier Air Transport International (ATI) for under $30 million in cash. ATI operates a fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-8 freighters. Source: Flight International
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Sun Jet sale
A US bankruptcy court has approved an offer by investment firm Aviation Industries to acquire the assets of charter carrier Sun Jet International, which suspended operations in June 1997. Initial financing provided by Aviation Industries will enable Florida-based Sun Jet to resume charter operations, possibly within three months. Source: Flight ...
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Indian setback
Air India's plans to turn around its finances have run aground, with losses mounting towards the end of last year as load factors fell. By December, after the first nine months of its financial year, the airline had lost $51 million. The target was to bring that down to $15 ...
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Tradewinds launches
US cargo carrier TradeWinds Airlines launched passenger charter services on 12 February with its first ex-Gulf Air, 345-seat Lockheed L-1011 TriStar leased from Interlease Aviation Group. Tour operator Sunburst Holidays has chartered TradeWinds to fly Boston-Montego Bay, Jamaica. A second Interlease aircraft is due in April. Source: Flight International
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Supersonic funding
NASA has budgeted $17 million for fiscal year 1999 to begin a six year effort to develop and ground test a full scale powerplant for a Mach 2.4 supersonic airliner. Its funding will rise to $73 million in FY2000, followed by $97 million in FY2001, $118 million in FY2002 and ...
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Hefty helicopter
EH Industries has demonstrated an overweight capability with the EH101 of 900kg above the 14,600kg maximum take-off weight, enabling extended range search and rescue missions of almost 2,000km (1,100nm) with auxiliary internal fuel tanks. An emergency evacuation capability with 55 passengers in the cabin has also been demonstrated. Source: ...
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Robo vehicle
Schweizer Aircraft is marketing an unmanned helicopter developed in Japan by Kawada Industries. The company is pursuing US Coast Guard and Navy requirements for vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicles with the RoboCopter 300, a 795kg piston-powered aircraft with a 295kg useful load. Two prototypes of the aircraft could ...
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Hot convert
Sikorsky is converting a US Army UH-60L Black Hawk, dubbed the Firehawk, to a firefighting configuration with the addition of a removable 3,800litre Aero Union underbelly tank and extended landing gear. US Congress has provided $3 million for testing and certification of the Firehawk, with demonstrations of the conversion planned ...
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Systems advances
Honeywell/Racal's smaller, lighter and cheaper Aero-I satellite communications systems will be available to helicopter operators from March. BFGoodrich Avionics has introduced a helicopter compatible bottom-mount antenna for its Skywatch traffic advisory system. Source: Flight International
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Joint advanced HUMS
UK company Stuart Hughes is to participate in the US Joint Advanced Health and Usage Monitoring System (JHUMS) programme, leading to an 18 month operational demonstration of open standards JHUMS modules on six US Army CH-47s and six US Navy SH-60s from 2000. Source: Flight International
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Bell selects Sextant
Bell has selected Sextant Avionique's AFDS95-1 automatic flight control system for the instrument flight rules version of its Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopter. Certification flight testing will be conducted by Premier Aviation under contract to Bell. The AFDS95-1 is certificated on the Agusta A109K2, with approval on the PZLSwidnik Sokol ...
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Parker's role
Parker Aerospace has been selected by Rolls-Royce as the supplier of fuel atomisation nozzles and lubrication and scavenge pumps for the new Trent 500 engine. The nozzles will be designed and produced by the company's Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division in Andover, Ohio, and the pumps by the Nichols ...
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Greek F-16 deal?
The Hellenic air force (HAF) has completed a series of 30 evaluation flights in the Lockheed Martin F-16 at Nea Anchilos AFB in Greece. The HAF has 80 Block 50 F-16s on order, but is evaluating candidate fighters for another purchase which Lockheed Martin (Pavillion) says is expected to ...
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Bell Boeing 609
In Flight International, 7-13 January, the digital flight control system for the Bell Boeing 609 tilt rotor aircraft was mistakenly referred to as a Hamilton Standard unit. In fact, the system is produced by Lear Astronics. Source: Flight International
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Dunlop brakes
Hydro-Aire, of the USA, and UK companies Dunlop Aviation and Fairey Hydraulics, are to develop jointly new electro-mechanical braking systems for landing gear to replace hydraulics, as part of the UK Department of Trade and Industry's "More Electric Aircraft Challenge" project. Source: Flight International
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L-3 wins FDR deal
American Airlines has selected L-3 Communications' Fairchild cockpit voice and flight data recorders (FDRs) for 134 Boeing aircraft on order. FA2100 solid-state recorders will also replace existing FDRs in more than 650 in service aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Shuttle on a wave
The Boeing/Lockheed Martin United Space Alliance has selected ADEPT 7 technical document management system from ArborText, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to support the Space Shuttle fleet at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A new work authorisation, document authoring and validation environment (WAVE) will be fully implemented by Altro Solutions of ...
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BA picks Alydaar Y2K
British Airways Engineering has awarded Alydaar Software a contract to modify software code for year 2000 compliance, using its SmartCode re-engineering technology. David Cliffe, British Airways general manager of information management, says that the plan is designed to have BA Engineering compliant by 1999. Source: Flight International