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MDC postpones MD-XX launch to early part of 1997
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is now hoping to launch the MD-XX stretched, re-winged MD-11 derivative at the start of 1997, says president Harry Stonecipher. MDC had been tipped to launch the MD-XX at the Farnborough air show in September, but is expected instead to give detailed briefings to interested airlines, led ...
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Matra BAE sign deal
Matra and British Aerospace have signed the commercial agreement covering the merger of their two respective missile divisions. The move legally establishes the joint venture, although Government approval from the UK and France is still needed. Following the UK selection of the BAe Matra bid for the UK's stand-off missile ...
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Recovered TWA No 2 engine has turbine blades missing
INVESTIGATORS working on the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 crash off Long Island, New York, in July are still searching for conclusive evidence of what triggered the explosions, which destroyed the aircraft. The badly damaged No 2 engine has now been recovered, however, and is understood to have three ...
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USA/Mexico GPS
The USA and Mexico have established technical pacts on satellite-based navigational systems and other navigational services. The two sides can now formally begin co-operative work on future navigation systems involving the global-positioning system (GPS). Also established are specific functional areas of air-navigation services under which co-operative projects may be instituted ...
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USA and Venezuela fight over safety
AIR SERVICES BETWEEN the USA and Venezuela stopped on 7 August, with both countries grounding each other's aircraft. US Federal Aviation Administration officials in Miami had grounded two Venezuelan airliners for safety reasons. Venezuelan inspectors in Caracas then grounded two American Airlines aircraft. Services have been resumed following talks in ...
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Top of the heap
Samsung of South Korea, it seems, is close to signing two deals, which would propel it into the front ranks of Asian aerospace companies. If it does end up buying the Fokker Jetline programme, and agreeing the joint development with Lockheed Martin of the KTX-II advanced military trainer it will ...
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Giant Boeing order paves the way for first United 747-600X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has radically revised its large Boeing order, shifting the emphasis away from more 777s to 747-400s and, at the same time, paving the way for its first 747-600Xs. Negotiations for the long-anticipated order were originally based around an additional 17 777s, ...
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Gulfstream gets Frasca
Frasca International, of Urbana, Illinois, has delivered a Raytheon Beech 1900C flight-training device to Miami-based Gulfstream Airlines. Source: Flight International
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MDC takes F-18 on sales tour of Central Europe
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has begun a ten-day demonstration tour with its F-18 of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The Czech Republic air force, meanwhile, has completed an eight-flight evaluation of the competing Lockheed Martin F-16 as the three central European nations move towards acquiring Western fighter aircraft. ...
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Ageing airliners
AiRLINES DEFINED AS ageing are turbine-powered aircraft with accommodation for at least 30 passengers (or an equivalent freight capacity), and built more than 15 years ago (before 1 January, 1982). The 1996 Flight International Ageing-Airliner Census covers 38 turbine-powered passenger and cargo aircraft types, designs with few examples still flying ...
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Virgin Express Boeing 737 ready for delivery
THE FIRST OF TWO NEW BOEING 737-300s on order for Virgin Express, in the carrier's bright red colour scheme, is being prepared for delivery at Seattle. The low-cost carrier, which was created this year when Virgin took control of Brussels-based EuroBelgian Airlines by purchasing a 90% stake, operates eight 737s. ...
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767 AWACS makes first flight
THE FIRST BOEING 767 AIRBORNE Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft had its maiden flight on 9 August, with a 2h 55min sortie from Everett, Washington. The flight marks the start of a seven-month test programme, before the installation of the aircraft's prime mission equipment (Flight International, 14-20 August, P4). ...
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Learjet 25B pilots 'fought' in cockpit over go-around
THE crash of a Learjet 25B, which overran the runway at Royal Air Force Northolt in London in the UK and burst through the perimeter fence on to a road, had followed an argument between captain and co-pilot, says the passenger, actress Lisa Hogan. She says that the co-pilot had ...
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Looking at the priorities
Looking at the priorities Sir - I was surprised at the substantial coverage of the IPTN N250 project in the Indonesian air show supplement (Flight International, 19-25 June, P17). I have lived, and flown in, Indonesia for two years and believe it to be a country ...
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Pratt & Whitney
Stephen Finger has been named senior vice-president for operational military-engine programmes at West Palm Beach, Florida-based Pratt & Whitney's Government Engine & Space Propulsion unit. He was previously senior vice-president of propulsion systems for the PW2000, JT8D and V2500 programmes and is a former director of engineering on the F100 ...
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AAR
AAR Engine Group, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Vincent senior vice-president and general manager for AAR Engine Sales & Leasing. He was most recently vice-president and general manager for the Pratt & Whitney product line at AAR Aircraft Turbine Center. Source: Flight International
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Southampton
Colin Hobbs has been named managing director of BAA's Southampton International Airport in the UK, with effect from 19 August. He worked for UK airports operator BAA for ten years and is a former director of marketing and external relations for London Stansted Airport. He was most recently managing director ...
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Rockwell
US technology company Rockwell Aerospace's North American Aircraft Modification division has appointed Edward Laase its director of programmes. Laase, who is based at Anaheim, California, was formerly manager of airborne-electronic-warfare programmes for Raytheon's E-Systems Goleta division. Source: Flight International
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Brand X
Vance Brand, former astronaut and assistant chief of the Shuttle and Flight Support Office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, will lead the five person official inquiry into the crash of the McDonnell Douglas/NASA Clipper Graham DC-XA after its landing at White Sands, New Mexico, on 31 ...