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    Fast launch

    1996-08-14T11:32:00Z

    NASA's Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) satellite is to be air-launched by an Orbital Sciences' Pegasus XL booster over the Pacific Ocean on 16 August. The $45 million FAST satellite will be used to investigate how particles are accelerated in space to create auroras.   Source: Flight ...

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    Space insurance

    1996-08-14T11:32:00Z

    The state-owned People's Property Insurance Company of China is insuring the Chinasat 7 and DFH 3 communications satellites for $228 million. The Hughes-built ChinaSat will be launched on 18 August aboard a Long March 3 and the domestically manufactured DFH 3 will be launched on a Long March 3A in ...

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    Rescue accident

    1996-08-14T11:29:00Z

    A Eurocopter BO105 helicopter of Russia's central rescue detachment crashed on a test flight close to Fisht Mountain, Sochi, near the Black Sea. Deputy head of the detachment Igor Pokopchik was killed and four others seriously injured.   Source: Flight International

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    Whittle dead

    1996-08-14T11:29:00Z

    Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, has died at the age of 89. The Royal Air Force officer filed the first jet patent in January 1930, and set up his own company, called Power Jets, test-running the WU engine in 1937 while still a serving officer. The ...

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    MDC eyes purchases

    1996-08-14T10:23:00Z

    McDonnell Douglas (MDC) chief executive Harry Stonecipher has confirmed that the aerospace group is looking for acquisitions and that it has the resources to spend in the region of $5-6 billion.   Source: Flight International

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    ILFC profits

    1996-08-14T10:23:00Z

    US leasing company, International Leasing (ILFC) reports an 18% increase, in pre-tax profits over the first half year, to reach $193 million. Revenues grew by 17%, to $787 million, of which some $694 million came from aircraft rentals. Mid-year assets stood at $13.9 billion. Source: Flight International

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    PAL cash

    1996-08-14T10:22:00Z

    Philippine Airlines (PAL) is understood to be planning a major international bond issue to fund its $4 billion fleet renewal. The airline will first have to pay off its 1993 $100 million bond issue, which matures this month.       Source: Flight International

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    Air Lanka stake

    1996-08-14T10:22:00Z

    Sri Lanka says that a 40% stake and effective management control of Air Lanka will be offered to a strategic airline partner. The country's privatisation commission says that potential partners will be contacted shortly, with a mid-September deadline set for bids. Another 9% of the flag carrier's shares are due ...

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    Maersk disposals

    1996-08-14T09:50:00Z

    The UK division of Maersk Air, Maersk Air Ltd, has completed the sale of its four ex-British Airways BAC One- Eleven 400s to Nationwide Air Charter of South Africa. The Birmingham-based airline, which flies as a British Airways partner, is replacing the One-Eleven 400s with Boeing 737-500s.   ...

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    Merpati separation

    1996-08-14T09:50:00Z

    Merpati Nusantara Airlines plans to complete its separation from flag carrier Garuda Indonesia by the end of the year, according to the country's transportation minister, Haryanto Dhanutirto. The regional airline reportedly lost Rs93.12 billion ($40 million) in 1995 and is need of urgent restructuring.   Source: Flight ...

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    Grob crash

    1996-08-14T09:50:00Z

    Konrad Lewald, sales manager of German aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob, has died in an accident involving one of the company's G115T aerobatic trainer aircraft. His co-pilot, an air force major from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was also killed. The accident occurred near Schwabm_nchen. Eyewitness reports suggest that the aircraft ...

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    Flight sponsor

    1996-08-14T09:30:00Z

    Pratt & Whitney is to sponsor Linda Finch's World Flight 1997 attempt to recreate Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight around the world. Finch will fly in a restored Lockheed Electra 10E powered by P&W Wasp radial piston engines.   Source: Flight International

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    Firefighting crash

    1996-08-14T09:30:00Z

    A Canadair CL-215 fire fighting amphibian of Italy's civil-protection service crashed on 30 July while scooping water from a lake in Sicily, killing one crewmember and injuring the other.     Source: Flight International

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    Falcon approval

    1996-08-14T09:30:00Z

    Dassault has received US certification for the extended-range Falcon 900EX business jet. The first three customer aircraft have been delivered to its Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre. Source: Flight International

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    Threat warning

    1996-08-14T08:55:00Z

    The US Army has awarded a contract, potentially worth $97 million, to Litton's Applied Technology division to produce APR-39A (V)2 threat-warning systems, for US Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The first contract, which is valued at $45.7 million, covers the production of 210 systems. Provision for a ...

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    Nellis training

    1996-08-14T08:55:00Z

    Cubic Defense Systems has won a modified US Air Force contract, now worth $43.6 million, to streamline and accelerate the upgrade work on the Nellis Air Combat Training System. Under the $18.7 million modification to the original contract, completion will now be brought forward by five months, to April 1998. ...

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    Litton contract

    1996-08-14T08:55:00Z

    Litton's Guidance and Control Systems division has won a $41.3 million US Navy contract to support and repair ASN-92(V) inertial-navigation systems on carrier-based Northrop Grumman F-14s and E-2Cs, as well as Lockheed Martin S-3s. Source: Flight International

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    Trent 900 partners

    1996-08-14T08:49:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has asked Kawasaki Heavy Industries to join its planned new Trent 900 engine programme to power the proposed Boeing 747-500/600X growth aircraft. The Japanese manufacturer maintains a close re- lationship with R-R and has a 3% risk-and-revenue sharing interest in existing Trent 700/800 engines. Snecma, a partner with General ...

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    Asiana leases

    1996-08-14T08:49:00Z

    International Lease Finance (ILFC) has leased two new 737-400s to Asiana Airlines of South Korea. The aircraft will be delivered in February and October 1997 on six-year leases and will take the total number of ILFC aircraft operated by Asiana to seven. Source: Flight International

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    TWA 757 services

    1996-08-14T08:49:00Z

    TWA put the first of 20 new 180-seat Boeing 757s into service on 1 August, operating between St Louis, Missouri and Orange County, California. The aircraft is one of three 757s which TWA will take in 1996 on ten-year leases from International Lease Finance (ILFC). Seven more ILFC 757s, plus ...