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Jersey European
Jersey European Airways has made internal changes. Deputy chief executive Jim French takes on the additional role of chief operating officer. Simon Chance, formerly chief operating officer, and also managing director of sister company JEA Engineering, will hold the new position of chief technical officer. Jonathan Breedon (top) is promoted ...
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Elliott
Marty Grier is named vice-president/general manager at business-aviation centre Elliott Aviation, of Moline, Illinois. He was formerly centre manager at FlightSafety International's Raytheon Maintenance Learning Center in Wichita, Kansas. Warren Tanner, vice-president of operations at has been promoted to the new position of director of special projects. Alan Nitchman, until ...
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Arianespace keeps up monthly launch rate
Arianespace completed its 26th launch in 26 months on 25 June when an Ariane 44P carried the Intelsat 802 communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. The European commercial launcher company's next launch is due on 7 August, carrying the ...
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Hughes sues ILS over alleged price breach
Hughes Space and Communications has filed a $300 million lawsuit against ILS International Launch Services - a Lockheed Martin/Khrunichev/ Energia US/Russian launch company - claiming that ILS had reneged on a contract to launch Hughes satellites at a fixed price. Hughes claims that the launch price was raised ...
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First Space Station modules prepared for 1998 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON With the first elements of the International Space Station (ISS) due to be launched in a little under 12 months, the USA and Russia, the two leading members of the international consortium building the Station, have begun to reveal progress the initial modules scheduled to be ...
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Satellite down under
Australia is to develop a 400kg satellite, the Aries 1, which will be launched into low-Earth orbit in 2000 to provide geological mapping, environmental monitoring and land-use assessment data for agriculture, forestry and defence applications. The project will be the "world's first commercially sustainable resources-information satellite", says Peter McGaurun, Australia's ...
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Europe: US victim or partner in aerospace industry?
Sir - The editorial "Europe 0, USA 1" was correct to spell out the global complexities of the world aerospace industry today. The joint British Aerospace/ Lockheed Martin venture on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) may well represent the future. This does not mean, however, the end of ...
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Air Jamaica aims to defeat American in the Caribbean
Graham Warwick/MONTEGO BAY AIRJAMAICA has inaugurated a Caribbean hub at Montego Bay, and signed a co-operation agreement with Delta Air Lines, in a bid to challenge American Airlines' dominance in the region. The Montego Bay hub, which was officially inaugurated on 30 July, links flights from ...
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An-124 Chapter 3 hushkit wins certification
A hushkit has been certificated for the Antonov An-124 which enables the cargo aircraft to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Chapter 3 noise legislation . The approval marks the first step towards the modification of all An-124s to Chapter 3 rules as additional hushkits become ...
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Atlantic Southeast will send back leased 146s
ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST Airlines is to return its five leased British Aerospace 146s, after deliveries of Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) begin in August. The Atlanta, Georgia-based Delta Connection carrier had leased the 88-seat 146-200s for five years from British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets, but is to return them after only two ...
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Asiana has to wait on offset deals for widebody order
Asiana Airlines of South Korea has been told by the country's Government that it will not approve the planned purchase of 58 new widebody aircraft until it has obtained industrial offsets from Airbus Industrie and Boeing. The carrier has already completed negotiations for the aircraft and been given ...
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Beech runway collision is blamed on King Air pilot
THE RUNWAY collision of a Beech King Air A90 with a United Express Beech 1900C on 19 November, 1996, at Quincy Municipal Airport, Illinois, resulted from failure of the King Air pilots "-to effectively monitor the common traffic-advisory frequency [CTAF], or to properly scan for traffic", says the US National ...
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Bangladeshi regional prepares for start-up
A new Bangladeshi airline is preparing to start operations later this year, as a direct result of the country's new deregulation policy which is designed to encourage start-ups. GMG Airlines will launch domestic and regional services from Dhaka, Bangladesh, within a few months operating a fleet of secondhand ...
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Bombardier acts to fix cracks in CRJ fuselage bulkheads
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTONDC BOMBARDIER EXPECTED most of the 38 Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) found to have fuselage-bulkhead cracks to be back in operation by 5 July. Repair of the final eight aircraft is awaiting the availability of hangar space. The repair takes three days and involves attaching ...
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EuroLOTkicks off with ATR fleet
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH EuroLOT, the regional subsidiary of LOT Polish Airlines, has started operations, aiming for proÌt at the turn of the century. The new division, certificated by Polish aviation authorities in June, will initially be taking over LOT's network of 200-plus flights per week to six ...
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India may perform U-turn on overseas investors
The Indian Government is considering reversing its ban on foreign airlines taking an equity stake in domestic operators. The ban was enacted earlier this year by the administration led by prime minister Deve Gowda. His replacement in April by a new leader has led to a reconsideration of the move, ...
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Kiwi will expand under new investor-group ownership
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines is to continue to expand its route structure and fleet size after its planned emergence from US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection later this month. Jerry Murphy, Kiwi's president and chief executive, expects the Kiwi International Holdings investor group to gain control of the airline. The ...
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Marketplace
++ Air Caledonie has placed an order for one additional new Aero International (Regional) ATR 42, for delivery before the end of 1997. The airline already flies three ATR 42s. ++ United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A319-100. The International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered aircraft is one of ...
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United adds 767ERs
United has ordered eight Boeing 767-300ERs for delivery between May 1998 and 2000. As part of the deal, the airline has placed a contract with Pratt & Whitney for 18 PW4000 engines (16 installed, two spare) worth $115 million. Source: Flight International
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SAA suffers from 777 delay
Chris Yates/JOHANNESBURG South African Airways (SAA) says that its continuously deferred order for Boeing 777s is about to have a financial impact on the airline, while the delay is forcing the carrier to acquire interim aircraft capacity. Deliveries of four 777s had originally been due to ...