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Sogerma lines up maintenance ventures in China and Lebanon
Julian Moxon/BORDEUX Middle East Airlines (MEA) is set to sign a deal with French maintenance company Sogerma to create a new venture at Beirut Airport in Lebanon. Sogerma president Henri-Paul Puel says that he will sign a deal "within weeks" to create a company 34% owned by Sogerma, with ...
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Transbrasil resurrects plans to purchase Boeing 777-200s
Brazilian independent airline Transbrasil has revived plans to acquire Boeing 777s, some 30 months after it scrubbed a deal with Boeing. The Sao Paulo-based airline has signed a letter of intent for four 777-200IGWs, say airline sources in Latin America. The airline's last deal with Boeing was for three ...
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Air Holland takeover
The Dutch Derksen family's 69% stake in Air Holland has been acquired by a group of minority shareholders, including the Netherlands' largest tour operator, Sudtours. The group exercised its right to buy in preference to rival UK bidder easyJet. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia cancels cheap fares after Kinnock threat
Alitalia cancelled all promotional fares within Europe on 11 February after the European Commission (EC) warned that it would reconsider its approval of the carrier's state aid unless there was immediate action. The state aid package was finally cleared by the EC in mid-1997 after a lengthy investigation, but ...
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Asiana steps up partner hunt
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Asiana Airlines is stepping up the search for a partner following South Korea's decision to lift the cap on airline foreign ownership to 49%. The carrier also raises the possibility of acting as a British Airways franchise partner in the Asia Pacific region. The South Korea ...
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Airtours acquires Air Belgium with Sun
UK group Airtours has acquired a majority stake in Air Belgium following its take-over of Belgian tour operator Sun International. The move marks a further incursion for the UK charter airline business into the continental European market. Airtours will take over an 80% stake in the largely privately owned ...
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European airlines continue to wage war on airport charges
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Europe's airlines are continuing their attack on airport charges, unveiling a study which highlights massive variations in costs within the region and suggests that European charging levels are two or three times higher than for their USor Asian counterparts. The issue re-ignited in 1997 when members ...
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GV sales help Gulfstream to chalk up record results in 1997
Gulfstream Aerospace soared to record financial results in 1997 and expects the trend to continue as production ramps up for the ultra long range GV business jet. The corporation's sales virtually doubled over the year, reaching $1.9 billion, with deliveries of the GV climbing to 29 aircraft, alongside 22 GIV-SPS. ...
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Brave new world
GLOOM-MONGERS aside, Asia's aerospace sector is strong enough to host Asian Aerospace '98, but this show does represent a watershed. It comes at a time when economic turbulence has spelled the end of many old assumptions about the shape of the aerospace world, and the position of the players in ...
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MAPO plans to fly MiG 1.42 by August as LFI demonstrator
MAPO MIG's Object 1.42 fifth generation fighter prototype will finally be flown by the third quarter of this year, with the aircraft being used as a technology demonstrator for the company's Lightweight Frontal Fighter (LFI), according to Mikhail Korzhuyev, new general director of Mikoyan design bureau. The aircraft has ...
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USAF military 757 makes first flight at Renton
The first of four military Boeing 757s, designated C-32A, made its maiden flight from the company's Renton site on 11 February. The first aircraft, NP901, landed at nearby Boeing Field after a 2h test flight. Unlike previous military transports built for the US Air Force, the C-32As are being ...
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F/A-18E/F funds wait for wing drop cure
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC US Defence Secretary William Cohen says that funding for the second tranche of Boeing F/A-18E/Fs will be withheld until the Department of Defense (DoD) is satisfied that the US Navy has corrected the problem of wing drop. Almost $2.4 billion in fiscal year 1998 funding for the ...
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Russian air force to be halved
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Russian air force (VVS) plans to cut nearly half of its personnel and aircraft. The cuts are part of a restructuring package being implemented by recently appointed commander-in-chief Col Gen Anatoly Kornukov, who is overseeing the merger of the VVS with the air defence force (PVO). It ...
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German air force seeks more A310s
Germany's air force is hoping to acquire up to four more Airbus Industrie A310s to bolster its fleet of long range air transport aircraft in the face of increasing logistics demands. The creation of a German rapid reaction force, as well as humanitarian operations, has led to increased transport ...
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US DoD to select missile defence team in April
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense is expected to choose the prime contractor for the multi-billion dollar National Missile Defense Lead System Integrator (NMD LSI) programme in April, say US defence industry officials. The two competing teams submitted their proposals in November to the US Ballistic ...
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Rafael tackles air launched Scud killer
Seeker dome heating is emerging as probably the single largest technical challenge for Israeli missile design house Rafael in developing an air-launched anti-tactical ballistic missile weapon. Rafael is working on a weapon, dubbed the MOAV, which draws on elements of its Python-4 infra-red (IR) guided short range, air-to-air missile ...
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Black Hawk support
The US Army has awarded Sikorsky Aircraft a $26 million contract to produce 56 additional External Stores Support Systems (ESSS) for use on UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters made by the US defence contractor. Source: Flight International
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Ethiopian support
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an additional $11 million foreign military sales contract to provide contractor logistics support for four C-130Bs previously sold to Ethiopia. Source: Flight International
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P&W completes F100-229A altitude testing
Pratt & Whitney has completed initial altitude tests of an advanced version of the F100-229A flight engine, which is fitted with a new fan and inlet to boost power and increase durability. The -229A is designed to power the Boeing F-15E and Lockheed Martin F-16C/D from 2000 onwards - ...
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Singapore negotiates on JSF participation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Singapore is conducting talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on participating in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme as an observer, in a further sign of increasingly close defence co-operation between the two nations. The Singapore Ministry of Defence is understood to be discussing a memorandum ...