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Lufthansa introduces the A319
LUFTHANSA HAS PUT THE FIRST of 20 Airbus A319-100s on to its European network, making it the third operator of all three Airbus single-aisle models. The 126-seat aircraft is mainly being operated on scheduled services from Frankfurt to Vienna and Istanbul, and on domestic routes. The new type, which will ...
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Boeing settles baseline for 747-500X/600X designs-
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING HAS INCREASED the range of its 747-600X and reduced the size of the -500X following consultations with its airline working group. The revised configurations are now being offered as the baseline aircraft to potential customers. The move follows the US manufacturer's recent ...
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MDC/IAI team to sharpen Talon
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE US AIR Force's Northrop T-38 Talon upgrade is to be undertaken by a McDonnell Douglas (MDC)/Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) team. The US Department of Defense favoured the Israeli company's F-5 Plus package over submissions received from six teams, including a Northrop ...
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Security alert
The TWA Flight 800 crash has caused the USA to look hard at its security measures. Some of the answers could lie in Europe. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER THE 17 JULY TRANS World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 crash has forced the USA to review the level of security afforded ...
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Merpati leases A310s for use on services to Australia
MERPATI NUSANTARA Airlines is to introduce its first widebodied aircraft, on services to Australia. The Jakarta-based airline is adding three Airbus A310-300s on lease, as part of its network expansion to new destinations in Asia and Australia. The first A310, believed to be an ex-Kuwait Airways aircraft, is ...
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Turkish air force receives locally built Block 50 F-16s
TURKISH AEROSPACE Industries (TAI) delivered the first Lockheed Martin Block 50 F-16 to the Turkish air force on 29 July under the Peace Onyx II programme. TAI has been producing F-16s at Akinci-Ankara since 1987, under an earlier agreement. To date, the company has delivered 152 aircraft locally and 46 ...
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US industry shapes up for new merger raids
Kevin O'Toole/London US INDUSTRY is shaping up for yet another round of consolidation in the wake of Boeing's announcement that it is to take over the bulk of Rockwell's aerospace interest. Speculation is mounting that McDonnell Douglas (MDC), which abandoned its own talks with Boeing ...
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easyJet threatens KLM
UK LOW-COST AIRLINE easyJet is threatening to take KLM to court over what it alleges are the Dutch flag carrier's "-unlawful attempts to drive easyJet from the Dutch market". easyJet claims that KLM's decision to cut its lowest fare on the Amsterdam-London route to Dfl95 ($57), below easyJet's ...
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Aviastar Asia opens up for Tu-204 business
AVIASTAR ASIA (AAC), a new joint venture involving Russian aircraft-production company Aviastar and several South-East Asian financial institutions, opened its office in Taipei on 24 July. The consortium will provide leasing, financial and technical support for the Tupolev Tu-204, which is assembled in Ulyanovsk. AAC is planning to ...
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DASA Airbus spares threatened jobs
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has reduced the number of job cuts being planned at its Airbus subsidiary, citing the success of its "Dolores" efficiency plan and an influx of aircraft orders. DASA Airbus has agreed with unions to make an overall workforce reduction of 3,300, bringing the total down ...
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Romania advances towards Cobra production
THE ROMANIAN defence ministry has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with Bell Helicopter Textron, bringing licensed production of Cobra attack helicopters a step closer. The MoA, signed on 30 July, stipulates that the Romanian army favours the Cobra and supports its production in the country. ...
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Ruhe scrapes the barrel for Eurofighter funding sources
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Ruhe is hoping to find alternative ways to fund the Eurofighter EF2000 programme during 1997, to avoid further delays after Germany's latest defence cuts. Project sources say that the EF2000 is included in budget planning for 1997, although no ...
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Costly contests
THE UK'S RECENT AWARD of a clutch of key defence contracts has raised many questions. Not least of those is whether the present system of competitive tendering has had its day. The political realities and mounting development costs in today's defence market suggests that it has. Competitive tedering may have ...
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GATX investment partnership orders 737s and 757s
AN INVESTMENT partnership formed by GATX Capital has placed $1.2 billion-worth of orders and options for up to 23 Boeing 737-800s and 757-200s. GATX Capital's Air Group will manage the partnership, which includes Heller Financial and Kanematsu. Additional partners will be named at a later date, says ...
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-and expands with Rockwell
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING IS TO ACQUIRE Rockwell International's aerospace and defence businesses in a deal valued at $3.2 billion. The acquisition will boost the size of Boeing's defence and space business by more than one-third, taking annual sales to around $9 billion. Overall, the acquisition will ...
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Westpac order
Western Pacific Airlines (WestPAC) has ordered 12 Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops, with options for 12 more, for its new commuter unit, Mountain Air Express. Source: Flight International
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Clipper flight ends in disaster
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE FUTURE OF THE NASA/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) experimental vertical-take-off-and-landing rocket programme is in doubt after the crash-landing of the Clipper Graham vehicle at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 31 July. The investigation will focus on the actuation system for the ...
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Helicopter delay
New Zealand is postponing announcement of a contractor to supply six naval helicopters until Australia has completed its own evaluation of the rival Kaman SH-2G Super SeaSprite and LHTEC CTS800-powered Westland Super Lynx later in the year. The Royal Australian Navy has a similar requirement for a shipboard helicopter, but ...
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PanAm merger off
Recently revived Pan Am and Carnival Airlines of the USA have called off merger talks after their failure to agree terms for the proposed deal. Source: Flight International