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UPS closes on widebody freighter selection
UPS is expecting to finalise its choice of widebody aircraft to replace its fleet of Douglas DC-8-70 freighters by the end of March, to enable the first to enter service in 1999. The Louisville, Kentucky-based freight carrier revealed in October 1997 that it was examining various aircraft to replace a ...
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Belgium's VLM gears up to enter millennium with Fokker 70 fleet
Herman De Wulf/ANTWERPIN a bid to boost services and spread its business, Belgian regional airline VLM, of Antwerp is seeking to move up to a jet-powered fleet with the acquisition of Fokker 70s by 2000. The carrier has a fleet of four Fokker 50 turboprops, and new managing director Christian ...
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Australasian airline results suffer as Asian crisis bites
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS A relatively buoyant round of first half financial results from Air New Zealand(ANZ), Ansett Australia and Qantas has been overshadowed by warnings over Asia-Pacific's economic crisis. All three carriers announced plans to redeploy capacity elsewhere on their international networks as Asian markets continue to shrink, raising ...
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Hunting sale
Hunting Aviation has sold its interiors business to UK rival the AIM Group for £2.75 million ($4.5 million). The sale follows a damaging contract to fit interiors to the Bombardier de Havilland Dash-8 200/300 series. Source: Flight International
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AB Airlines floats
AB Airlines has announced its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange by May. The Gatwick-based operator hopes to raise £7 million by placing up to 40% of its equity with mainly institutional investors. Source: Flight International
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Pan Am runs short of cash but Frontier hopes for better times
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Financial problems continue to mount for the US low fares airlines, with the new Pan American World Airways warning that it is short on cash and could face bankruptcy. Frontier Airlines also reported big losses in the third quarter, but faces improving prospects with the demise of ...
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Swissair keeps appetite to take Sabena majority
Sabena president Paul Reutlinger has again confirmed that Swissair is ready to take a 67% majority share in its Belgian partner, provided that Switzerland is able to join the European Union (EU) single skies agreement. The Belgian Government sold Swissair a 49.5% stake in its national carrier in mid-1995, ...
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Writedown proves costly for Thai International
Because of a writedown on recent foreign exchange losses, Thai Airways International has suffered a massive loss of 26.7 billion baht ($578.3 million) in its latest quarter. The loss for the quarter ending in December, the first in Thai's financial year, compares with a 1.5 billion baht net profit ...
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TWA cuts deficit and stays optimistic
Despite posting another year-end loss, Trans World Airlines ended 1997 optimistic that its turnaround is finally beginning to gather momentum. As expected, the carrier ended the year with a net loss, but had managed to cut the deficit to $90 million (before a tax writedown), compared with the $275 ...
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The wrong stuff
Human factors (HF) is still the fashionable area for attack as airlines and aviation authorities worldwide battle to reduce accidents. This is not wholly unreasonable given that, somewhere along the line, human error remains the most common cause of accidents, with pilot error topping the list. Yet we need ...
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RAAF picks Sidewinder successor
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Matra BAe Dynamics has beaten competition from Rafael and Raytheon to have its Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile (ASRAAM) selected by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as its successor to the AIM-9 Sidewinder. The deal secures the first export order for the ASRAAM. The Australian ...
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UAVs go to SEAD
The US Air Force has carried out flight tests of the TRW/Israel Aircraft Industries Hunter unmanned air vehicle (UAV) in the suppression of enemy air defence (SEAD) role. The UAV was used to pinpoint a simulated enemy air defence system for attack by two Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters. The USAF ...
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Modified 757 for US Air Force unveiled
First picture of Boeing's C-32A on order for the US Air Force. The first of four modified Boeing 757s made its maiden flight on 11 February from the Renton plant. The USAF needs four of the aircraft for transport work.Source: Flight International
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Eurofighter carries out first supersonic tests with decoy
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurofighter has carried out the first supersonic flight tests with a towed radar decoy (TRD)deployed from the EF2000: a milestone in the development of the aircraft's defensive aids subsystem (DASS). The ability to use the GEC-Marconi decoy at supersonic speeds is crucial in beyond visual range ...
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European operators work in bid to meet F-16 MLU deadline
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin hopes that European F-16 operators will decide within the next few months on further upgrades to their aircraft, to meet the mid-year deadline for definition of the next software release for the F-16 mid-life update (MLU). Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway are evaluating ...
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Bonn's high risk An-70 strategy threatens UK FLA participation
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German brinksmanship over pre-launch activities on the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) is threatening to end UK participation in the tactical transport programme. Sources within the FLA industry partners are warning that unless pre-launch activities gets under way within the next couple of months, ...
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US GAO endorses C-5 Galaxy decision
The US General Accounting Office (GAO) says that the US Air Force made the right decision when it shifted Lockheed C-5 Galaxy depot maintenance from the closing San Antonio Air Logistics Centre, Texas, to the USAF-run Warner Robins Air Logistics Centre in Georgia. US lawmakers asked the GAO to ...
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Israel and Italy team in Turkey
Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV A venture linking Agusta of Italy with Israel Aircraft Industries has emerged as a bidder for the Turkish air force's attack helicopter programme. The team is offering an upgraded Agusta A129 Mangusta attack helicopter for the competition. Although the A129 has always been a contender for the ...
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South Korean tactical transport purchase falters
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE South Korea's planned purchase of eight Indonesia-built IPTN CN-235 tactical transport aircraft is running into problems because of the recent economic difficulties experienced by the two Asian countries. According to sources within IPTN, the South Korean Ministry of National Defence (MND) has fallen behind schedule in beginning ...
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Revived Mikoyan concentrates on upgrade of MiG-29 Fulcrum
A limited upgrade of the MIG MAPO MiG-29 Fulcrum, known internally as Object 9-17, is emerging as the near-term priority for the recently re-established Mikoyan design bureau as it struggles to secure work from a limited Russian air force budget. Mikhail Korzhuyev, MIG MAPO general director, says that Object ...