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NASA plans interim module for Space Station
NASA IS TO build its own Interim Control Module in an attempt to reduce the effect of the delay in the production of the Russian Service Module for the International Space Station (ISS) (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996). The Service Module, the third major component of the ISS, ...
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US picks states for 'free-flight' tests
A two-year "free-flight" test programme is set to begin in Alaska and Hawaii during 1999, following US Government approval of the so-called Ha-laska free-flight demonstration project. US vice-president Al Gore says that, beginning in 1999, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will conduct a two-year demonstration of "free-flight" ...
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Japanese airlines finalise low-cost plans
Japan Air System (JAS) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are planning to incorporate new low-cost subsidiary carriers shortly, in the face of growing domestic liberalisation and the entry of new competing start-up airlines. JAS also announced that its new subsidiary operation, Harlequin Air, was to have been established on ...
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Manchester approval
The UK Government has granted Manchester Airport permission to construct a second runway. The new 3,050m (1,000ft) runway will open in early 2000 . Flying colours extra Flying Colours is to lease an Airbus A320 from Air France, and carry out charter flights from Glasgow, UK, ...
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ValuJet disposes
ValuJet has sold three additional surplus aircraft, including its last remaining McDonnell Douglas MD-83, as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration order to reduce its fleet. The airline has also pre-paid the debt on a fourth aircraft, which it will sell. Source: Flight International
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EMB-145 wins Portugalia verdict over CRJ
Portugalia has selected the Embraer EMB-145 to operate on its expanding regional network from Portugal, following a two-way contest involving the Brazilian aircraft and the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet. The privately owned carrier says that it will shortly sign firm contracts covering four EMB-145s, for delivery in May, ...
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Approval granted for Slovakian airline
A new Slovakian national airline is to be set up, operating a fleet of Russian airliners, following government approval of the plans. The new carrier, named Slovenske Aeroline, is expected to begin operations by the end of the year, initially concentrating on services between Slovakia and Russia, using ...
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Bombardier gets Dash 8-400 order boost from Tyrolean
Austria's Tyrolean Airways has become the second European customer, after Wider¿e, for the high-speed, 70-seat de Havilland Dash 8-400 with an $83 million order for four aircraft. The airline, which has also taken an additional four options, will take delivery of the four firm Dash 8s between ...
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MDC/NASA pursue X-plane
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and NASA are working on a proposal for an X-plane programme in which a manned, quarter-scale model of the company's blended wing-body (BWB) airliner design would be flight tested. Officials say that the project is continuing, although it is not known whether it will survive Boeing's acquisition ...
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Gulf Air restructures fleet and network
Gulf Air is to dispose of six aircraft and cease operating certain routes, as the airline attempts to turn round its heavy losses and reduce its debt mountain. The announcement comes only a week after the four Gulf States which own the airline again failed to agree on terms for ...
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Heathrow responds to Fokker 50 delay
Sir- In response to N Malle's letter (Flight International, 8-14 January, P37), about the landing of a damaged Fokker 50 at Heathrow in December, I would like to make the following points. Landing-gear failure was apparent on final approach. By the time the aircraft had been manoeuvred in ...
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Russian Aerospace '97
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com Source: Flight International
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Conventional simplicity
The Cessna 172R is an all-metal, high-wing monoplane which, unlike the more-recently designed pretenders to its throne, is utterly conventional in design. The wing is a simple two-spar structure of 10.29m span, built in two halves which are bolted to the cabin frames and joined by a carry-through ...
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KLM
Willem Kooijman has been appointed executive vice-president personnel and organisation of Dutch national airline KLM, effective from 1 May. He succeeds Cees Van Woudenburg, who has joined the KLM board of managing directors. Kooijman joins from Rotterdam-based catering firm Van Hecke. Source: Flight International
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Air London
David Savile has become managing director of UK-based Air London in place of Tony Mack, who moves to executive chairman. Savile, previously operations director, is joined by Michael Guina director-commercial aviation and Stephanie White, finance director. Source: Flight International
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Transworld moves to GHI
Transworld Airlines (TWA) has appointed Gatwick Handling (GHI) as its ground-handling agent at the London airport in south-east England. GHI managing director Peter O'Boyle (left) is seen here confirming the deal with TWA station manager, Mike Spencer. TWA operates a daily Boeing 767 transatlantic service from Gatwick to St Louis ...
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Launch window extension bid
Japan's Science and Technology Agency is negotiating with the powerful national fishing industry in a bid to extend the restrictive 90-day annual period during which satellite launches over the sea can take place from the Tanegashima and Kagoshima launch bases, during 45-day windows in January-February and August-September. The restriction is ...
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OSC contracts to launch Kompsat
The contract between Korea Aerospace and Orbital Sciences (OSC) to launch in 1999 the TRW-built Kompsat multipurpose satellite aboard a Taurus booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, has been formally signed. The Taurus has been flown just once (in 1994), but OSC has two firm contracts for launches on ...
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'Abrupt failure' results in loss of second Telstar 4 satellite
AT&T Skynet says that its Telstar 401 satellite experienced an abrupt failure of its telemetry and communications on 11 January. It is the second in-flight loss of this spacecraft series. The company restored services to only those 401customers whose contracts called for transfer of their transponder services, to ...
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Italy receives new MB.339 trainers
The Italian air force took delivery of the first of an initial batch of 15 Aermacchi MB.339CD advanced jet trainers in December 1996. The aircraft are equipped with three multi-function displays and one head-up display in each cockpit. The first four aircraft will go to the Pratica di Mare flight-test ...