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News prices Qantas out
Ansett New Zealand's owner News Corporation is considering a float of its entire holding in the carrier after scaring off Qantas with the asking price. Efforts by Qantas to secure a permanent toehold in New Zealand's domestic market by buying Ansett NZ appear to have foundered on a ...
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SIA prepares for stardom
As the clock runs down on one of the oldest alliances in Asia, US and Taiwanese carriers are forging closer ties following the recent open skies deal between the two countries. The first sign that Singapore Airlines' Global Excellence alliance with Delta Air Lines and Swissair is starting ...
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Sydney syndrome
As Australia's government prepared to launch the second phase of its airport privatisations in October, the difficulty of finding a buyer for Sydney remained a significant cloud on the horizon. By Tom Ballantyne.Three down, 15 to go and one odd man out. That constitutes a pretty good summary of where ...
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Weight increase puts off SJ30-2 certification plans
SINO-SWEARINGEN Aircraft is delaying certification of the SJ30-2 business jet by nine months because of recent changes to the aircraft's specification. Approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration has been deferred until at least the third quarter of 1999 following a gross-weight increase which has led to a ...
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Corporate market beckons for 328JET
Fairchild Dornier expects an annual market for as many as 16 of the corporate version of its 32-seat 328JET regional aircraft. The company launched the executive aircraft project at the NBAA show (Flight International, 24-30 September). No orders are yet in hand, but the first Pratt ...
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Direct television
CAL is to deliver aeronautical direct satellite-television systems for business aircraft, from mid-1998. The system will support eight television channels, using a tail-mounted antenna designed for co-location with Ottawa, Canada-based CAL's satellite-communications antenna. Source: Flight International
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Adding EVS
Flight Visions has introduced the Night Hawk head-up display for corporate aircraft, with 30degree field-of-view, for use with enhanced-vision systems (EVS). The Sugar Grove, Illinois-based company is working with EVS sensor developers FLIRSystems, Kollsman and Lear Astronics. Source: Flight International
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High altitude choice
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites has selected the Williams-Rolls FJ44-2 to power its twin-turbofan Model 281 High Altitude Platform, a piloted long-endurance aircraft designed to carry 900kg-class payloads to altitudes above 60,000ft (18,000m). A first flight is planned for mid-1998. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal study forecasts bright outlook
Business-aircraft manufacturers can expect to sell about 5,300 new business aircraft, worth around $60 billion, over the next ten years, according to AlliedSignal's annual Business Aviation Market Outlook. The forecast is based on the results of telephone interviews with 1,125 business-aircraft users operating 2,160 aircraft in the Americas ...
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Pilatus boosts PC-12 output after IFR approval
Pilatus is stepping up production of its single-turboprop PC-12 in anticipation of increased sales following recent US approval of commercial single-engined operations in instrument-flight-rules (IFR) conditions. Production was increased from three to four a month in August and will reach five aircraft a month by early 1998. ...
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Four-seat Phoenix rises from the Squalus
Alberta Aerospace plans to develop a four-seat version of the former Promavia Jet Squalus jet trainer. The Calgary-based company is now working to certificate the basic two-seat, side-by-side version, renamed the Phoenix FanJet, for the airline-pilot ab initio training market. The follow-on pressurised four-seater would be marketed as ...
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Standard Aero boosts maintenance presence in USA with Alliance
Engine-maintenance specialist StandardAero is expanding support for the Allison AE3007 turbofan following its acquisition of Alliance Engines. Winnipeg-based Standard is now the only North American centre authorised to overhaul the AE3007, which powers the Cessna Citation X business jet and Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. Alliance, based in Maryville, ...
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Raytheon fractional scheme exceeds initial targets
Raytheon Aircraft says that its Travel Air fractional-ownership programme is growing faster than was expected when the scheme was launched in June. The programme will involve 11 aircraft by the end of 1997, two more than originally projected, and subsidiary Raytheon Travel Air plans to add 16 aircraft in 1998. ...
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VisionAire makes plans to follow Vantage
VisionAire is working on plans for a family of small, all-composite, single-engined jet aircraft which would form a follow-on to its Vantage business jet. Tom Stark, president emeritus of VisionAire and senior vice-president of its Future Works subsidiary, says that the initial family of a two-seat trainer and ...
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XMM telescope is ready for testing
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) subsidiary Dornier has completed integration of the development model of the European Space Agency's 11m-long, 4,000kg X-Ray Multi Mirror (XMM) telescope, due for launch on the Ariane 506 in August 1999. The 2m-wide craft, which has three identical mirror assemblies (pictured) containing 58 mirrors, will be tested ...
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Space Station costs soar as delays bite
Work on the International Space Station (ISS) in 1998 is expected to cost NASA and Boeing at least $430 million more than the $2.1 billion proposed in the space agency's 1998 budget. The extra cost includes $100 million set aside to compensate for delays caused by possible difficulties with Russian ...
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Ariane 502 launch is put back
Tim Furniss/LONDON The lift-off of the second Ariane 5 has been put back from the end of September, possibly to November, but the 100th Ariane launch was completed from the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, in French Guiana on 24 September, The Ariane 502 development flight from ...
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Boeing 757-300 takes shape at Renton factory
Major assembly of sub-components for the first Boeing 757-300 will begin at Boeing's Renton, Washington, assembly site in November. Manufacturing has already begun at the plant with the loading of the front left-wing spar into an automated spar-assembly tool. "This is breaking new ground for the aircraft," says ...
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Fuel-pump problem results in 767 AD
Boeing 767s must be operated with at least 450kg of fuel in their centre-wing fuel-tanks to help prevent an explosion caused by the ignition of fuel vapour, according to a new US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD). A centre-wing fuel-tank explosion is suspected as the cause of ...