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Lufthansa to study low-cost airline option
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa is considering establishing a new, low-cost airline to combat continuing losses on its domestic network. The new service could eventually have a fleet of some 50 aircraft and would offer ticket prices 20% below current Lufthansa levels. The German airline says that it ...
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Hexcel/Fiberite bid
Hexcel has dropped its $300 million bid to take over all of Fiberite after anti-trust concerns over the joining of the two US materials companies. Instead, Hexcel will pay $37 million to acquire Fiberite's satellite-composites business and a free world licence to use its prepreg technology for aerospace applications. In ...
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P&WC Rus aims for subcontractor network in Russia
Pratt & Whitney Canada's new Russian subsidiary, formed after the break-up of the engine joint venture with Klimov, is planning to establish a network of subcontractors to make parts within Russia. Klimov's resistance to such outsourcing was a key reason behind the break-up of the original venture. P&WC ...
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Samara and Kazan plants join in new Russian engines venture
The continuing integration process within the Russian aerospace industry has led to the creation a joint venture around the NKEngines design bureau in Samara and Kazan Engine production plant. The operation, registered as the NK Engines finance-industrial group (FPG), will design and build a range of rocket and aero-engines. ...
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ARIA included on 1998 public auction list
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA)has been included in a list of companies to be privatised at public auctions in 1998. Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow's main international gateway, is also included among the candidates. Maxim Boiko, who heads Russia's committee for state property, says that the list has been ...
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Prime suspect
Boeing says that it may be late delivering some aircraft this year, because neither it nor its suppliers can keep up with its delivery schedule. Rolls-Royce says that its results are not as good as they should have been because it is working too much overtime and because its suppliers ...
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AIM-9X is entered for Australian contest
Following political lobbying by the USA, the Australian defence ministry is to allow the Hughes AIM-9X short-range air-to-air missile (AAM) to be offered for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) next-generation short-range AAM requirement. The RAAF had initially discounted the AIM-9X on the basis that the missile would ...
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Japan and South Korea may share Arrow
Israel has offered Japan and South Korea participation in the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile system programme. Any such co-operation, however, is dependent on approval from the US Department of Defense, which is providing the bulk of the funding. Japan and South Korea are interested in the Israeli Arrow ...
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Bell picks Litton to perform USMC cockpit
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Bell Helicopter Textron has chosen Litton Industries to modernise the cockpits of AH-1W and UH-1N helicopters now operated by the US Marine Corps. Litton's Guidance & Control Systems group, located in Northridge, California, was selected in preference to bids by Honeywell, Elbit and ...
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Germany thinks again on EF2000 defence system
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Germany's defence ministry is once again re-considering its position on a defensive-aids subsystem (DASS) for the Eurofighter EF2000 in the run-up to the project's approval by the German parliament. The other Eurofighter partner nations -Italy, Spain, and the UK - are effectively procuring a ...
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Demand for cuts may delay JASDF tanker plans
Paul Lewis/Singapore Demands for the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) to cut expenditure over the three remaining years of its 1996-2000 mid-term plan is threatening further delays for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) in its plans for the acquisition of its first in-flight refuelling tanker. The ...
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Aerospatiale to help Norway's NSM programme
Julian Moxon/PARIS Aerospatiale is to take a stake of around 10% in the development of Norway's New Ship Missile programme as part of a potentially wider anti-ship missiles co-operation between the two manufacturers. Norwegian prime contractor Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace selected Aerospatiale following negotiations with European ...
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South Korea considers plan to extend production of F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A proposal to extend licence-production of the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Korean Fighter Programme (KFP) appears to be gaining support, as budgetary pressure grows for the follow-on F-X fighter project to be delayed. A squeeze on South Korean defence expenditure is forcing the ministry of ...
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Common module show
Lockheed Martin Sanders will demonstrate multi-function common electronic modules for signal acquisition and processing in synthetic-aperture radars, electronic-warfare and communication systems, under a $12 million US Navy contract. Source: Flight International
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SIVAM radar deal
Lockheed Martin has received a contract from Raytheon for six TPS-B34 mobile, solid-state, long-range radars for use in Brazil's $1.4 billion SIVAM Amazon-surveillance system. Source: Flight International
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RAF selects Racal command and control
Racal-Thorn Defence has won the contract to build the UK Royal Air Force's Tactical Air Control Centre (TACC), which will fill a command and control capability-gap identified in the 1991 Gulf War. Although the TACC is due to enter service in March 1999, an initial capability will be ...
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Technical problems dog THAAD testing
The next flight test of the Lockheed Martin Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon has been pushed into 1998, because of additional technical problems dogging the programme. With four failures in as many attempts to intercept a target, project officials had hoped for a successful test in ...
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More than collision avoidance
Harry Hopkins/LONDON An unplanned-for side-effect of the fitting of the traffic-alert and collision- avoidance system (TCAS) to airliners - compulsory already in the USA, and shortly to be so in Europe - is that pilots can have a much greater awareness of the positions of other aircraft around ...
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Maturing nicely
Graham Warwick/Fort Worth Risk will be a deciding factor in who wins the competition to develop the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). An unprecedented effort is under way, therefore, funded by government and industry, to reduce the risk attached to technologies judged critical to meeting the affordability and performance ...
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Master of the Loads
Graham Warwick/Washington DC Kathmandu is a long way from Albany, Georgia, but the power of the Internet has brought Ayres' Loadmaster to the attention of an operator in the Nepal capital, and others in places as far afield as Papua New Guinea and South Africa. Enquiries ...