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USAir goes to court to break up BA plans
USAir goes to court to break up BA plans Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAIR HAS finally declared its position on the pending alliance between British Airways and American Airlines in dramatic fashion, by filing a lawsuit against its UK partner for breach of contract. ...
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ValuJet puts fleet on sale
VALUJET AIRLINES is trying to sell or lease the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and MD-80s. The low-cost carrier was operating 51 aircraft when it was grounded on 17 June, but plans to resume service by mid-August with a maximum of 15 DC-9-32s. The airline plans ...
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Military helicopters
PROSPECTS for civil sales are improving, but the military-helicopter market remains oversubscribed. India's Hindustan Aeronautics, with its Advanced Light Helicopter, and Kawasaki, with its OH-X armed scout now in development, are two of the more recent entrants. Kawasaki is also considering offering the OH-X to meet the Japan Air Self-Defence ...
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Thai massage
Thai Airways International is taking steps to smooth its wrinkled image. Paul Lewis/BANGKOK AFTER 36 YEARS of operation, Thai Airways International is facing a massive mid-life shake-up in a bid to rejuvenate an operation which has been showing its age. For many years, Thai was ...
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Saudi Arabians to buy SAR
THE ROYAL SAUDI Arabian Air Force (RSAF) is to purchase 12 Eurocopter Cougar MkII helicopters configured for combat search and rescue (SAR) in a deal worth Fr3 billion ($600 million). It is the first time that France has sold military equipment to the RSAF, and the first export ...
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Macau has recorded 400,000
Sir - I refer to the article about Macau International Airport, "Slow start" (Flight International, 5-11 June, P26). Macau InternationalAirport was officially opened on 8 December, 1995, and one could not expect to see a lot of aircraft on the runway - especially when a ceremony for about ...
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Seeking Titan's secrets
The Huygens probe to Saturn's moon, Titan, could reveal evidence of how terrestrial life began. Julian Moxon/PARIS FIVE MONTHS AFTER the Cassini orbiter arrives at Saturn after a seven-year, 1.5 billion kilometre journey, a small, cone-shaped craft will be despatched to that planet's largest moon, Titan, on ...
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Malaysia seeks EGPWS change
Brent Hannon/HONG KONG MALAYSIA AIRLINES is seeking to be launch customer for AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) on the Boeing 777. There may not be time, however, to incorporate the system into aircraft in production. Malaysia has requested a change to its 777 ...
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Grimbergen airfield will be re-opened
BELGIUM'S MAJOR general-aviation airfield at Grimbergen, near Brussels, is to be re-opened after a defeat of the environmental movement which succeeded in having the field closed in 1992 by its then-owner, Belgium's Flemish regional government. A local referendum found that the majority of the Grimbergen population wanted the ...
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Turnaround in Mexico
Mexicana is 75 years old this year Geoffrey Jones/MEXICO CITY MEXICANA, THE OLDEST airline in North America, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Under the new leadership of chief executive Fernando Flores, Mexicana has an optimistic vision for the future as it consolidates its market strengths, both ...
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Precision to supply Cessna with electrical control for singles
PRECISION AIRMOTIVE is to supply Cessna with a new type of electrical control for its general-aviation aircraft following its acquisition of PFT. Cessna has selected PFT's master control unit (MCU) for its Model 172, 192 and 206 piston-singles, now re-entering production. PFT manufactures electrical components, including generator control-units for turbine-powered ...
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Indian Airlines subsidiary to acquire 50-seat turboprops
ALLIANCE AIR, the new low-cost regional subsidiary of Indian Airlines, is planning to acquire a fleet of 50-seat turboprops for domestic feeder routes. Alliance Air, previously dubbed Airline Allied Services, had an April launch with the first of 12 Boeing 737-200s to be transferred from its parent ...
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Shorts hands over composite rudder
SHORTS HAS DELIVERED the first all-composite rudder for the Boeing 737-600/700/800 family. The component is around 1m longer than the 737-300/400/500 composite rudder, contains fewer structural components and requires fewer man hours to manufacture. Belfast, UK-based Shorts supplies parts for all of Boeing's commercial aircraft programmes, including undercarriage doors for ...
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EC135 certification
Eurocopter has received US certification for the EC135 light twin-turbine helicopter, powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206Bs or Turbomeca Arrius 2Bs. Source: Flight International
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Castparts acquires
Precision Castparts has acquired AE Turbine Components (AETC) from the UK's T&N group for $63.6 million. AETC produces investment castings for gas-turbine blades and vanes and will be part of the US company's Airfoils division. Source: Flight International
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Air-defence team
Raytheon, Hughes and Kongsberg have all teamed formally to offer the Hawk-AMRAAM medium air-defence system, which combines Raytheon's Hawk surface-to-air-missile system with Hughes' MPQ-64 radar, Kongsberg's Norwegian advanced surface- to-air missile-system fire-direction centre and the Hughes/Raytheon surface-launched advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles. Source: Flight International
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Learjey handling
Avcon Industries, of Newton, Kansas, has installed the first production set of Avcon Fins on a Learjet 35A owned by the US National Collegiate Athletic Association. The delta-shaped fins, fitted to the rear fuselage, improve low-speed handling. Source: Flight International
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Italian waterbombing
Bombardier has delivered two more Canadair CL-415s to Italy's Department of Civil Protection, taking its fleet of firefighting amphibians to six CL-415s and five CL-215s. The company says that Italy needs six more CL-415s. Source: Flight International
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Phase one
Japan's National Space Development Agency completed the third and final Phase 1 flight in its Automatic Landing Flight Experiment programme at Woomera, in South Australia, on 24 July. The scale-model prototype of the unmanned Hope spaceplane was dropped from a helicopter and it landed automatically. Source: ...
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Low cost boost
NASA has selected 15 proposals for contract negotiation in its Low Cost Boost Technology project, to develop innovative, off-the-shelf, launch-system technologies which could reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit. The proposals include propellant-delivery systems. Source: Flight International