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European services
Bombardier Business Aircraft president Michael Graff says that response to the European Business Jet Services joint venture with Lufthansa City Line has been so good that "-we expect to be able to offer it throughout Europe" by the time it is launched this year. "We will use customer aircraft not ...
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Malaysian delivery
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has taken delivery of its first four McDonnell Douglas F-18D fighters. The remaining four two-seater aircraft will be handed over by June. The eight F-18s will be operated by the RMAF's No 18 Sqn and are to be initially based at Butterworth AB, in ...
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Europe & the CIS
Compiled by John Christovassilis, Neil Remmer,Andrew Griffin and Gabrielle Villano The 1997 Flight International World Airline Directory lists airlines involved in scheduled services or those which offer significant charter services. Our selection criterion has been to list operators with one or more aircraft with more than 19 seats. Where justified ...
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Yemen share sale
Yemen Airways (Yemania) is considering conducting a private share placement to help finance the acquisition of two Airbus A310-300s, the company's chairman Abdo Sohbi has told local newspapers. The Yemeni flag carrier has already paid a $24 million advance on the aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Breakthrough nears on burn-through
Airline passengers will soon have dramatically improved post-accident fire-protection if an Airbus Industrie-led group of European companies can win a European Commission (EC) research grant. Research has already established that the use of different cabin-insulation materials at manufacture could increase tenfold the time it takes for external fire to burn ...
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Chinese close in on Boeing 777 contract
There are growing indications that China might finally sign a $1 billion deal with Boeing for ten 777-200/300s during US Vice-President Al Gore's trip to the country in the last week of March. Airbus Industrie is also pushing to conclude a deal for up to 75 A320 family aircraft during ...
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KBM offers major upgrade to Strela SAM
Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) specialist KBM Engineering Bureau is offering an upgrade which is intended to extend radically the life of its best-selling Strela-2M(SA-7 Grail) man-portable SAM. KBM, in collaboration with Russian infra-red-seeker design house LOMO, is offering to retrofit customers' existing Strelas with the considerably more capable ...
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Russian Raduga offers Sunburn retrofit deal
Russian missile-design house Raduga is offering Middle Eastern states a retrofit deal covering the fitting to large patrol vessels and frigates of its ramjet-powered 3M-80E (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic anti-ship missile. The design bureau considers that Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among the potential customers. As well as offering ...
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ESA swaps Space Station nodes for free launch
The European Space Agency (ESA) will provide Nodes 2 and 3 for the International Space Station, along with advanced-technology laboratory equipment, to NASA in exchange for a free launch of its Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) aboard the Space Shuttle. The COF is due to be joined to the ...
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GAMA censures FAA's 'burdensome'tax plans
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration may impose new fees on general-aviation aircraft, to recover part of air-traffic-control-system costs. The proposal has immediately drawn fire from aviation groups, including the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), which dubbs the proposed fee "...an entirely new tax." "If it becomes ...
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Troubled Piaggio reduces price of its Avanti
Piaggio of Italy is mounting a last-ditch attempt to revive its fortunes by cutting the price of its P180 Avanti. At the same time, the troubled company is undertaking a significant upgrade of the 30 or so P166s owned by Italian Government agencies. The price cut (from $5 ...
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New agency chief
Antonio Rodota has been appointed director-general of the European Space Agency, to succeed Jean-Marie Luton. Rodota is director of Finmeccanica's space division. Source: Flight International
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Embraer commits to Erieye for EMB-145
Ericsson Microwave Systems of Sweden has signed a $145 million deal with Embraer to supply five Erieye airborne-early-warning (AEW) and control systems for installation on the Brazilian aircraft builder's EMB-145 regional jet. The aircraft is part of the equipment for a wider surveillance scheme being managed for the Brazilian Government ...
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GE is first to agree MoU for 777-200X/300X powerplant
General Electric has become the first engine company to sign a formal agreement with Boeing to offer a high-thrust engine for the airframe company's heavyweight long-range 777-200X and -300X twins. The move comes as Boeing applies continuing pressure on the big-three engine makers to commit to develop the 445kN (100,000lb)-thrust ...
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737-700 reaches new heights
The Next-generation Boeing 737-700 has reached an altitude of 41,000ft (12,500m) during flight testing, beating previous 737 altitudes by 4,000ft and attaining the target height which was planned for type certification. The record height was achieved by the crew of the second 737-700 flight-test aircraft on a test ...
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Assembly-line issues hold up AI(R) 70
South Korea is holding off signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) on joining its planned regional-jet programme, until differences over final assembly can be settled. The Korean Commercial-Aircraft Development Consortium (KCADC) had planned to sign an MoU with AI(R) on 14 March, following ...
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An-24 crashes en route to Turkey
AROUND 50 people died when a Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Antonov An-24RV crashed on 18 March, 42min into a flight from Stavropol, near Chechnya in southern Russia, to Trabzon, northern Turkey. Air-traffic controllers reported a prolonged buzz on the local communications frequency, a signal which pilots can send if ...
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BA streamlines
British Airways has confirmed orders for three more Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Boeing 757-200s, as part of its strategy to reduce the number of types in its Heathrow based short-haul fleet, through the relocation of its Boeing 737s. Source: Flight International
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United signs up for warning system
UNITED AIRLINES has placed a $14.6 million order for AlliedSignal Aerospace's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). The US air carrier had previously won US Federal Aviation Administration approval to install the safety device in 12 Airbus A320s for evaluation. AlliedSignal says that the contract covers more than 400 ...
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Emirates studies New York route
Emirates Airlines is studying the possibility of launching a transatlantic service via the UK to New York as it looks to the next phase of expansion with an incoming fleet of Boeing 777s and Airbus A330-200s. Managing director Maurice Flanagan says that the airline is already in a ...