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World departs from schedule to focus on core businesses
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WORLD AIRWAYS is departing entirely from scheduled-airline operations, having already decided to phase out unprofitable scheduled charter flights to Europe. The US carrier now says that it is terminating scheduled flights from New York to Tel Aviv and Johannesburg. World Airways will operate ...
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Europe shows FAA advanced ATC
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is evaluating Eurocontrol's advanced air-traffic-control (ATC) technology to help it decide on investment in automated ATC systems. Eurocontrol is mounting a real-time simulation of its operational-display and input-development (ODID) system at its Bretigny-sur-Orge experimental centre, near Paris, to ...
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Philippines budget reduction curtails air force ambitions
Paul Lewis/MANILA THE PHILIPPINE Government has halved its projected 15-year defence-modernisation budget, to 170 billion pesos ($6.48 billion), throwing into doubt many of the air force's long-term procurement plans. President Fidel Ramos, under pressure from the Philippine Senate's finance committee, has cut by 50% the ...
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Cargo Beech
Raytheon Aircraft Services has received supplemental type certification for a Beech 1900C cargo conversion. The modification takes three weeks and enables the aircraft to carry 3,000kg of cargo. Source: Flight International
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Taiwanese lessor revealed as MD-90 customer
HWA-HSIA LEASING, a Taiwan-based leasing company, has been named as the previously unidentified buyer of MD-90s revealed in July by McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The first three MD-90s on firm order will be delivered in August, September and October of 1998. Follow-on orders, "contingent on final agreements and approvals ...
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Air charter swaps
Air France subsidiary Air Charter is to take over the Spanish routes formerly operated by Air Inter (now Air France Europe) later this year, flying daily scheduled services from Paris to Malaga, Palma and Seville. Air France Europe abandoned the routes this year to save money. Source: Flight ...
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NASA and USAF develop 'intelligence' for waverider
NASA AND THE US Air Force have unveiled an aircraft equipped with a computerised flight-control system designed to "learn as it flies", which could eventually be used to control ultra-high-speed aircraft. The 2.54m-long aircraft, called the Low-Observable Flight Test Experiment (LoFLYTE), has been developed by Accurate Automation of ...
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C-17 handover
The third of four refurbished McDonnell DouglasC-17 flight-test aircraft has been handed over to the US Air Force at Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Source: Flight International
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Tracking down spare parts
Airline outsourcing is hardly front-page news, but most spares-suppliers welcome the attention. Some spare-parts companies are enjoying growth Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE AIRCRAFT spare-parts industry is unsure of itself. At the same time as some companies are enjoying growth, others face uncertain futures. New regulations around ...
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United to dedicate fleet to shuttle division
SHUTTLE BY UNITED, THE US airline's low-cost division set up in October 1994, will operate a dedicated fleet of 45 Boeing 737s from next March. The division's 23 134-seat 737-300s and 22 116-seat 737-500s will have new interior layouts, with galleys replaced by eight economy seats and new galley equipment. ...
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Cessna targets Germany with CitationJet
CESSNA AIRCRAFT HAS APPOINTED Bremen-based dealer Atlas Air Service to increase sales of the CitationJet entry-level business jet in Germany. The US manufacturer says that Germany "-is the largest business-aircraft market in Europe" and "-has a disproportionately high ratio of turboprops to jets". '' Source: Flight International
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US Customs opens Canadian GATE to GA
US AND CANADIAN general-aviation pilots flying into the USA from Canada, will be able to circumvent US Customs procedures, by making telephone reports of their entries under a new scheme, unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft Association convention at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The General Aviation Telephonic Entry (GATE) programme is ...
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Lloyd takes on police helicopters
AUSTRALIA'S LLOYD Helicopter Group has won an A$38 million ($30 million) contract to operate Victoria's police and ambulance helicopter service. Lloyd will take over ownership and maintenance of four aircraft based at Melbourne's Essendon Airport. The helicopters will continue to be flown by police crews. Victoria's police and ...
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Irish SAR
Bond Helicopters (Ireland) has been awarded a contract by the Irish Government for search-and-rescue (SAR) services on the Atlantic coast. The Helicopter Services Group subsidiary will use a Sikorsky S-61N made available through the acquisition of a stake in South Africa's Court Helicopters in June. Source: Flight International
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French DGAC sets deadline for operators of EMS helicopters
14/08/96Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH emergency-medical-services (EMS) helicopter operators have until the end of the year to furnish plans on how they will meet the new European Joint Aviation Authorities JAR OPS 3 rules on twin-engined operations. The DGAC, France's certification authority, has told operators that they ...
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Aiming for the top
Phillipine Airlines is being revamped in a determined effort to polish its tarnished image Paul Lewis/MANILA For many years Phillipine Airlines (PAL) had the reputation of being a carrier with a problem. A series of soap-opera-type shareholder battles for control, a geriatric fleet of aircraft, poor punctuality ...
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New chairman aims to begin rapid shake-up plan at BWIA
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON NEW BWIA International chief executive Gilles Filiatreault is to present to a meeting of the main board on 16 August a new strategy for the Caribbean carrier, just 11 days after his appointment was made public. BWIA announced the elevation of the former ...
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Chinese Mir hopefuls book in for Russian Star City training
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINESE PILOTS are to start training as cosmonauts at Russia's Star City, near Kaliningrad, in October, for flights to the Mir 1 space station. Russia has also sold China a space-station life-support system and will supply rocket-engine technology, says Rex Hall, the London-based ...
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Corrosion found in Kuwaiti F-18s
KUWAIT IS HAVING corrosion problems with some of its 40 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18s, supplied after the Gulf War in 1991. MDC acknowledges the problems and says that an industry team is being sent to Kuwait repair the aircraft. The US manufacturer declines to identify the nature of ...
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DARPA investigates ways to counter cruise missiles
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CITING THE proliferation threat from low-cost cruise missiles, the US Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals to develop a cost-effective way of countering such weapons. Potential bidders were briefed on the Low-Cost Cruise-Missile Defence (LCCMD) programme at the end of July. ...