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Bomb detector tested
A Thermedics SecurScan prototype walk-through explosives detector has been field-tested at Boston's Logan International Airport, USA. Developed with US Federal Aviation Administration funding, it is designed to pick up explosives traces on people. Up to ten passengers can be screened every minute. The FAA has awarded Thermedics a $1 million ...
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London limits blocked
A UK court ruling on 10 December blocked the planned introduction of new noise limits for aircraft taking off from London airports. The regulations cannot be introduced until a judicial review of the legislation, requested by the International Air Transport Association, takes place. A date has yet to be set. ...
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CTA approves Emb-145
Embraer has received a type certificate from the CTA, Brazil's civil- aviation authority, covering the standard and extended-range versions of its EMB-145 aircraft. US Federal Aviation Administration certification is expected this month followed by European Joint Airworthiness Authorities approval, in January. Continental Express was due to take delivery of the ...
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Botswana takes out arrest warrant
The Botswana Government has started an international search for airline executive Brian Pocock after issuing a warrant for his arrest, alleging an offence of corruption during the period when he was general manager of national airline Air Botswana. The warrant was issued following, a two year investigation into ...
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FAA approval for single-engined IFR operations nears
The long-standing rules, banning single-engined commercial operations under instrument-flight-rules (IFR), will be withdrawn in the USA, if a Federal Aviation Administration notice of proposed rule-making is accepted. If it occurs, this will be a blow to US/European regulatory harmonisation, because the European Joint Aviation Authorities appears to have ...
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Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International has been launched in Moscow by Egypt's Kato Aromatic and its partners, to spearhead marketing for the re-engined Tupolev Tu-204-120. A list price for the aircraft, which is powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535s, has been set at around $36 million. The ...
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Condit takes over as chairman as Boeing booms
Boeing president and chief executive Phil Condit will be appointed chairman, on 1 February, 1997. The surprise board decision was made known at the company's year-end press conference on 9 December, when Boeing revealed orders for 621 commercial aircraft for the year to date, almost double the 1995 tally and ...
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French Government rethinks plans for Thomson group sale
The French Government has decided to divide the sale of its defence and consumer electronics giant, Thomson SA, into two components following the collapse of the attempt to sell off the entire company in one piece. The privatisation process will now take place in two distinct phases. Firstly, ...
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Malmo steps in
Sweden's Malmö Aviation has stepped in to help struggling Irish start-up CityJet fight to avoid bankruptcy, promising to provide the carrier with a fifth British Aerospace 146 regional jet. It is also discussing taking a stake in the carrier. CityJet, set up three years ago, hopes for 4 million of ...
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MTU and Volvo strengthen ties
AndrzejJeziorski/ MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) aero-engine subsidiary MTU Munich and Swedish power plant manufacturer Volvo Aero are on course to achieve closer co-operation in civil-engine programmes. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on 10 December, the two companies have agreed to intensify their links ...
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Gulf Air considers share sale as part of shake-up
Gulf Air is considering a major revamp which could involve the Abu Dhabi Government acquiring a majority stake in the company, says a report in the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED). The airline's board met late in November to discuss the carrier's future. Chief executive Majed Bin Saud ...
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Israel/Germany discuss Aramis
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Douglas Barrie/LONDON Israel is emerging as a potential industrial partner for Germany on the latter's proposed Aramis ramjet-rocket anti-radiation missile now in development. German-programme lead company Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik (BGT), has been forced to look for other collaborative partners, in the wake of the ...
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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IAI meets MAPO to discuss MiG upgrade teaming
Senior management from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Russia's MAPO are discussing a teaming agreement to address potential upgrades of Mikoyan combat aircraft. IAI president Moshe Keret recently met senior MAPO officials to discuss the possibility of co-operating in bidding for upgrade programmes on the the MiG-21 Fishbed, ...
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Details of JSF initial production are revealed
First details of the proposed initial production run of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) show that a sharp build-up is being planned, with more than 240 aircraft either due to be built, or to be under assembly, within six years of the first flight of development test aircraft. ...
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Kamov reveals Ka-52 MMW radar
Kamov has shown its Ka-52 two-seat derivative of the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter fitted with a mast-mounted "rotodome" intended to house a millimetre/centimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Although the development of the radar has previously been associated with St Petersburg-based Leninetz, Kamov says that the company responsible for the installation is Phazotron. ...
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Slovakian hokum
Slovakia is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Russian state arms agency Rosvoorouzhenie, to purchase six Kamov Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopters. Some aircraft remain at the Progress production plant in Arseneyev. These were originally intended for the Russian armed forces, but have not been completed because of ...
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South Korean missiles
South Korea has not decided, as has been suggested, to purchase both the Rockwell AGM-130 and Lockheed Martin/Rafael AGM-142 stand-off missiles for its McDonnell Douglas F-4s. A decision is due in 1997. Source: Flight International
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India to receive Krypton for its Sukhoi Su-30MKIs
The Indian air force will receive the Zvezda Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons package for its 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft now on order. A model of the Indian air force aircraft displayed at the Aero India '96 show in Bangalore earlier this month showed ...
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Germany defers Helios II entry
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany has pushed back its entry into the joint Helios II/Horus reconnaissance-satellite programme with France by at least a year, but has committed to production of the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 military helicopters. The decisions were announced at the meeting of the ...