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IATA fights airport emission rules
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a legal challenge to the new aircraft-emissions surcharges at Switzerland's Zürich Airport. The action is seen as a key test case for the legality of similar penalties proposed elsewhere in Europe. Zürich became one of the first major airports to ...
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USAF F-22 award
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin $1.2 billion as part of a restructured F-22 Raptor engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) effort. The USAF says that the award is in response to recommendations from the Joint Estimate Team (JET), formed to guard against cost overruns in the advanced tactical ...
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Supply Extension
Rolls-Royce has extended its purchasing of Chinese-manufactured components to include steel and light-alloy rings for Adour, RB.211, Tay, Trent 700/800 and V2500 engines. The $10 million contract is in addition to the supply of nozzle guide vanes and low-pressure turbine blades by R-R's joint plant with Xian Aero Engines. ...
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Boeing prepares to fly the first 777-300
Boeing expects to begin flight-testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777-300 on 16 October, which was rolled out at the Everett, Washington, plant on 8 September. Certification and first delivery to Cathay Pacific is scheduled for May 1998. Meanwhile, the first Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered 777-300, for All Nippon Airways, ...
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Airbus will increase weight and performance of A340-500/600
Airbus Industrie has completed a review of the A340-500/600's baseline specification, resulting in an increase in design weight and boosting range by some 370km (200nm) to meet requirements from potential customers, such as Singapore Airlines. Alan Pardoe, A330/A340 product manager, says that the review was completed in mid-September, ...
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American Eagle fits its fleet with EGPWS
American Eagle is to equip its regional aircraft with AlliedSignal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS), beginning with the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. The EMB-145s will be delivered with the EGPWS installed, with the first of 42 aircraft on order due to arrive in February 1998. American Eagle will ...
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Fokker responds to reliability protest
A joint protest by several European operators of Fokker aircraft expressing grievances over poor reliability has forced Fokker Services to introduce support measures. In a letter to Jan van der Giessen, the Dutch company's technical vice-president, the group of airlines - the "Fokker 70/100 Customer Community" - details ...
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Israir wants BAe 146s for international growth
Israir is seeking two British Aerospace 146s to enable it to expand its international operations, and has held discussions with the manufacturer. The Tel Aviv-based private Israeli airline operates three Aero International (Regional)ATR 42s on scheduled domestic flights to Eilat, as well as on charter flights to destinations ...
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US Congress opens Dallas Love Field to Legend Airlines
Texas-based start-up carrier Legend Airlines hopes to select an aircraft type and apply for an operating certificate before the end of October, after the US Congress eased restrictions on services from Dallas Love Field. Legend's plans are dependent upon gaining approval to operate 56-seat, all-business-class, Boeing 737-200s or ...
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Lufthansa Cargo evaluates 747-400F
Lufthansa Cargo Airlines will more than double the number of widebody freighters in its fleet within the next eight years. The German carrier is evaluating the Boeing 747-400 Freighter to replace its 747-200Fs. Karl Ulrich Garnadt, network vice-president of the wholly owned cargo arm of Lufthansa Group, says ...
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Cargolux switches to R-R for new 747's
Cargolux has switched to Rolls-Royce engines for five Boeing 747-400 Freighter orders, plus two options, recently placed with Boeing. The Luxembourg-based cargo carrier has selected the RB.211-524G/HT hybrid engine, despite the fact that the four 747-400Fs already in its fleet are powered by the General Electric CF6-80C2B1F, while ...
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Two Russian Far East airlines plan merger
Two Russian airlines in the Far East, Vladivostok Avia and state-owned Sakhalin Airlines, are preparing to merge. According to Vladivostok Avia's financial director Alexei Katashonov, a merger agreement has been signed, and the new joint airline will be called Dalnevsotochnaya Aviakompaniya (Far East Aviation Company). Katashonov ...
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CNAC is cleared for flotation as airlines face consolidation
China National Aviation (CNAC) has been been given the go-ahead to become the latest Chinese carrier to float on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The move comes as China prepares for a round of consolidation within its crowded airline market. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which ...
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Fairchild Fasteners
US fasteners manufacturer Fairchild is to spin off its non-aerospace businesses in 1998 after completing a $140 million stock-offering and debt-refinancing package. The restructured company will consist of manufacturer Fairchild Fasteners and its 64%-owned subsidiary, Banner Aerospace, which distributes fasteners and other aerospace parts. Aerospace accounts for more than 90% ...
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KLM signs Braathens and Northwest deals
KLM has firmed up details of its deal to take a 30%stake in Norway's Braathens SAFE, while also giving an official signature to the ten-year alliance commitment with transatlantic partner Northwest Airlines. Under the Braathens deal, first announced in August, KLM will pay NKr749 million ($105 million) for ...
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Cash problems put Chengdu FC-1 in holding pattern
China's Chengdu FC-1 lightweight fighter project is on hold until at least 1998, because of a shortage of funding and continuing Chinese and Pakistani air force wavering on support for the programme. The Pakistani air force has made procurement of the single-engine FC-1 fighter contingent on the Chinese ...
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MEADS future threatened by funding pressure
The future of the multi-national Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) surface-to-air missile (SAM) programme is being threatened by funding pressures on both sides of the Atlantic, according to a senior US politician. The USA is working with Germany and Italy on the MEADS programme, intended to replace ...
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Three-nation European military-satellite project gathers pace
France, Germany and the UK are poised to launch the project-definition study for a next-generation military-communications satellite, the results of which may determine the future of the UK's Skynet 5 programme. The three countries have issued invitations to tender for the Trimilsatcom project to Matra-Marconi Space (MMS) and ...
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Sukhoi continues S-32 flight tests
Sukhoi has carried out at least three test lights of its still-classified forward-swept-wing next-generation fighter since late September. Flight tests of the Sukhoi S-32, exclusively revealed in Flight International (8-14 October), have included at least one test in which the pilot, Iogor Votintsev, retracted the undercarriage. The S-32, ...
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Boeing/NASA X-36 undergoes Phase 3 tests
The third phase of flight tests has begun on the Boeing/NASA X-36 tailless-fighter research aircraft at Edwards AFB, California, after "exceptional" agility was proved in its first two flight phases, says the test team. By the end of September, the X-36, a 28%-scale remotely piloted vehicle, had accomplished ...