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KLM talks with MAS bring Asia-Pacific deal closer
KLM could be close to tying up an Asia-Pacific partner for its global alliance after opening co-operation discussions with Malaysia Airlines (MAS). The two carriers are now carrying out joint studies on opportunities for linking their networks, with the aim of emerging with a detailed agreement in the next ...
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GV JSTARS
Northrop Grumman will use the Gulfstream V business jet as the platform in its bid for the UK Airborne Stand-off Radar requirement. Supported by the US Government, Northrop Grumman is pushing a business-jet derivative of its Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) for the UK. The UK had ...
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R-R and American in US maintenance venture
Rolls-Royce and American Airlines have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 engine repair joint venture based at American's existing Alliance maintenance base in Fort Worth, Texas. The tie-up follows the US carrier's selection in November of Trent 800 engines for 11 Boeing 777-200IGWs (Increased Gross Weight) ...
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Flight Dynamics sells HGS to SAS for 737s
SAS has selected the Flight Dynamics HGS-4000 head-up guidance (HGS) system for its forthcoming fleet of Boeing 737-600s. The choice marks another significant victory for the US company in the intensifying head-up-display battle with the UK's GEC-Marconi Avionics and Sextant Avionique of France. The SAS order, for 41 systems ...
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Sextant, Dassault sign avionics deal
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sextant Avionique and Dassault Electronique are to form a commercial alliance under which their avionics products will be jointly marketed to airlines. Talks on the deal have been under way for more than a year, and are unconnected with last year's decision to incorporate Dassault Electronique ...
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US airport introduces firefighting advances
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Connecticut's Bradley International has fielded the "Snozzle", a firefighting device manufactured by Crash Rescue Equipment Service of Dallas, Texas, and mounted on one of the airport's two new fire trucks . The Snozzle's adjustable boom can apply fire retardants on hard-to-reach aircraft areas, concentrating firefighting ...
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Lucas wins Rolls-Royce Trent derivatives control-system contract
Lucas Aerospace has signed a risk-sharing agreement with Rolls-Royce to supply control systems for the recently launched Trent engine derivatives. The contract is estimated to be worth over £1.25 billion ($2 billion), including spares support. The UK company will manufacture electronic engine-controls, fuel-metering units and actuation equipment for the Trent ...
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CSC to run trial of airport smartcard
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Computer Sciences (CSC) is close to launching a trial with a major European airport operator, based on a prototype "contactless" smartcard for airline passengers, which, for the first time, will act as a re-usable boarding pass, electronic-ticket and multiple-airline loyalty-scheme card. Paul Seaton of the company's ...
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Order boom peaks
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON If the latest round of year-end order announcements from Airbus and Boeing seemed to lack some of the high drama of previous years, perhaps it comes as recognition that there may be some tougher times ahead. Quite apart from the internal restructuring issues that pre-occupy both manufacturers, the ...
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Arianespace looks to halve Ariane 5 price
Julian Moxon/PARIS Arianespace is looking for cuts of up to 50% in the purchase price of its new Ariane 5 as part of its planned production order for up to 50 launchers. "We will negotiate the deal based on our cost-reduction objectives," says president, Jean-Marie Luton. The contract would ...
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NEAP experiments may fly in Discovery mission
SpaceDev, which is promoting the privately funded Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) mission, hopes to obtain partial funding indirectly from NASA as a result of the space agency's next announcement of opportunities to participate in Discovery missions (Flight International, 29 October-4 November, 1997). In March, NASA will invite proposals ...
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Enhanced Skynet 4 launched
Tim Furniss/CAPE CANAVERAL The UK's Skynet 4D military-communications satellite was lofted into orbit by a three-stage Boeing Delta 2 booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10 January. The launch was the first of 18 planned by the Delta this year and the first of 11 Matra Marconi Space ...
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Safety perceptions
David Learmount/LONDONThe past year has provided confirmation of society's readiness to believe that air travel is inherently dangerous. Media interest in aviation, often used to advantage by the industry, proves to be a double-edged sword when a series of accidents occurs close together, as happened at the end of 1997. ...
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Crisis threatens $30 billiion orderbook
Latest backlog figures reveal that Airbus and Boeing have firm orders worth an estimated $30 billion at stake in Asia Pacific as the region's airlines struggle with the unfolding economic crisis. In their 1997 year-end backlog figures, the two manufacturers count firm orders for about 260 aircraft destined for the ...
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Asia-Pacific pathfinders
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Asia-Pacific region has been at the forefront of promoting the new communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic-management (CNS/ ATM) system since the concept emerged in 1983. These efforts will begin to bear fruit in 1998, with the planned opening and start of trials on key new routes between Asia, ...
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Cox develops hybrid de-icer for Premier I
Ice-protection specialist Cox is testing the ice-protection system for the horizontal stabiliser of Raytheon's Premier I business jet at its newly established LeClerc icing research laboratory in New York. The hybrid de-icing system, now under test, combines an electro-thermal leading-edge parting strip and electro-mechanical actuators to throw off ice, ...
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USA and France plan joint UCAV testing
Bids are being sought for a 48-month US/French programme to demonstrate flight-control and flight-management technologies enabling combined strike operations by manned aircraft and unmanned combat air-vehicles (UCAVs). The Integrated Tactical Aircraft Control research programme will flight-test two concepts for the control of UCAVs: by aircrew in manned strike aircraft ...
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Bangladeshi Fulcrums
The Bangladeshi air force is to procure an unspecified number of MIG MAPO MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to supplant its obsolescent Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighter aircraft. The air force also continues to receive Chengdu F-7s from China. Source: Flight International
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SEAKR recorder
SEAKR Engineering of Englewood, Colorado, has received a follow-on contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory to develop further its advanced solid-state-recorder technology, using new modular architecture and fault-tolerant and radiation-tolerant components. Development of a commercially based digital signal-processing board is central to the project. Source: Flight ...
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BMW R-R first
BMW Rolls-Royce has become the first European engine manufacturer to be awarded design-organisation approval by the European Joint Aviation Authorities, under Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 21. Source: Flight International