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NavCanada softens user-fee proposal
Canada's privatised air-traffic-services provider NavCanada has modified and deferred planned user fees after consultation with aircraft operators. The changes will delay the transition from an air-transportation tax to full cost-recovery by user fees to 1 November, 1998. NavCanada says that the revised proposal will give airlines more time ...
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Japanese consortium prepares plans to launch regional airline
An Okinawa-based Japanese business consortium is drawing up plans to launch an airline within three years, to operate domestic routes and, possibly, international services in the longer term. A group of 32 island investors led by Okinawa Electric Power has established a new company called Southern Cross to ...
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Canada's Royal takes over CanAir cargo
Montreal-based Royal Aviation has acquired the assets of CanAir Cargo, and added the Ontario-based overnight-freight carrier's six leased Boeing 737-200 freighters to its fleet. Royal plans to maintain CanAir's coast-to-coast cargo network, which produced revenues of C$49 million in 1996, and will convert at least three additional 737s ...
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Pan Am progress
Pan Am, which expects to close its acquisition of Carnival Air Lines in September, has posted a a net loss of $17 million during the second quarter of 1997, blaming unexpectedly weak traffic. In the deal announced in March, Pan Am will acquire Carnival's underutilised fleet of 21 aircraft, including ...
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Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
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B-2 stealth bomber suffers housing problems
The Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber has been declared fit to fight, but forward deployments are not possible because of problems in maintaining the stealth aircraft. The US Air Force announced in April that the B-2 had achieved its initial operational capability with delivery of the thirteenth aircraft to ...
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Arrow failure
The fifth test of the Israel Aircraft Industries Arrow 2 anti-tactical ballistic missile failed on August 20. The missile was launched from the test site at Palmachim, Israel, 3min after the target, a surrogate ballistic missile, was launched from a ship anchored offshore. The Arrow 2 went out of control ...
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Outrider UAV resumes flight test
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS has resumed flight testing of the Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) after a two-week hiatus while improvements were incorporated on the prototypes. It completed the seventh Outrider test flight on 9 August - the third successive flight longer than 20min. During the evaluation at the ...
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Dassault keeps low-key profile on Taiwan sales
Dassault has adopted a wait-and-see approach to the politically sensitive issue of possible further fighter sales to Taiwan, in spite of French Government assurances to China that no more arms will be sold to the island. "We've developed a relationship with Taiwan and we think we have a ...
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Antonov ascending
The An-38 marks the comeback of one of the oldest aircraft manufacturers in the CIS. Will it survive in the modern world? Paul Duffy/Novosibirsk As one of the major Soviet aviation design bureaux, and the only one based outside Russia, Antonov has developed two specialities in ...
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Central Asia's rising star
Ian Sheppard/TASHKENT The Republic of Uzbekistan, a land-locked country lying at the centre of the historic "Silk Road" between Europe and China, gained independence on 1 September, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The aviation industry it inherited was in two state-owned blocks - The Uzbek ...
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Jet charter sold
GAMA Aviation has acquired fellow UK-based air-ambulance and ad hoc charter operator Heathrow Jet Charter (HJC) for an undisclosed sum. GAMA, which is based at Fairoaks Airport, in Surrey, will add HJC's two Learjet 35As to its fleet of one 35A, two Cessna Citations and two Raytheon Beech King Air ...
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Conair joins Orenda in study
Conair Aviation is studying the feasibility of re-engineing Cessna 400-series and Piper Navajo piston twins with fellow Canadian company Orenda Recip's OE-600 Vee-8 aero-engine. The study is to be completed in mid-September, after which the pair plan to sign a commercial agreement under which Conair would certificate OE-600 installations, which ...
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New administrator looks to sell Skyfox Aviation or find investor
Australian light-aircraft manufacturer Skyfox Aviation will either be sold or seek a shareholder to invest additional funding. It manufactures the Skyfox Gazelle at the rate on one aircraft a week, and holds an order backlog representing several months' worth of production (Flight International, 28 May-3 June). Brian Irving, ...
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Taiwan's Chung Sang Institute develops initial turboprop designs
Taiwan's Chung Shan Institute has completed the preliminary design work on its proposed new six-to nine-seat turboprop, and is now seeking to enlist partners to launch full-scale design and development of the programme. Conceptual and preliminary design work on the tentatively designated small aircraft project (SAP) has until ...
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Cathay to place orders with Airbus and Boeing
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is planning to place orders for up to 20 additional new Airbus Industrie and Boeing widebody aircraft, as part of a large-scale expansion of its international operations. The airline is opening up the engine side of the competition to all three potential suppliers. ...
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Bombardier proposes Dash 8-300X flightdeck upgrade
Bombardier is showing customers an upgrade of the 50-seat Dash 8-300, which incorporates the Sextant Avionique glass-cockpit suite being introduced on the new 70-seat Dash 8-400. The move would be in line with the Canadian company's moves to achieve a common type-rating across its turboprop family. The upgrade, ...
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Reasons why outsider Mullin heads Delta
The decision of Delta Air Lines to pick a new chief executive from outside the USA's third-largest carrier was prompted by the need "-to take a fresh look at the way things are done", says Delta board member Gerald Grinstein (Flight International, 20-26 August). Leo Mullin was hired ...
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Yeltsin arms shake-up
Russian President Boris Yeltsin has sacked the head of the country's arms export agency, Rosvooruzheniye, and decreed that a new organisation be set up under MAPO-Bank chairman Yevgeny Ananyev. Yeltsin has also given some other organisations permission to trade arms, supplanting the previous monopoly situation. Source: Flight International
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Circuit-card cloning beats avionics obsolescence
Lockheed Martin has "cloned" a circuit card in the F-16 stores-management system to demonstrate a method of solving the problem of out-of-production parts in military avionics. The technique involves developing a software model of the card's behaviour, then programming a current-technology replacement board. The US Air Force awarded ...