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Air France leaps into profit
Air France has posted its first profits since 1989, although the upbeat results from the mainline airline were tainted by deepening losses at its strike-hit sister company, domestic carrier Air France Europe. The profits at Air France mark a successful end to the three-year restructuring programme which was ...
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Deutsche BA losses leaked in report
A secret auditors' report detailing Deutsche BA's debts and losses has revealed that the company would have gone bankrupt last year, but for a cash bail-out from British Airways. The report, compiled by Ernst & Young, was leaked to the German press. It states that the five-year-old company's ...
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Frankfurt proposes German airports alliance
Frankfurt Airport is pushing to set up a national alliance of German airports to compete with other major European hubs such as Amsterdam, London and Paris. The move follows on the heels of a proposal from Amsterdam Schiphol and Aer Rianta of Ireland to run airports at Amsterdam, ...
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Rolls-Royce poised to complete Lucas deal
ROLLS-ROYCE IS set to complete its acquisition of Lucas Western Geared Systems (GSD). The company is being merged into Rolls-Royce subsidiary Allison. The sale, for an undisclosed sum, was announced on 18 March. Terry Graham, Allison executive vice-president, business operations, says that the purchase of the accessory-gearbox manufacturer ...
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Dasa and Lagardere stand firm
The deal between Lagardère and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) to form a major space and missiles alliance is "irreversible" and will stand regardless of the outcome of the bidding for Thomson-CSF, says Noel Forgeard, Lagardère director-general. Announcement of the Dasa deal on 7 May was clearly timed to strengthen ...
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Maintenance warning
Lufthansa Technik chairman Wolfgang Mayrhuber has repeated warnings over plans by Boeing to enter the maintenance market, criticising airframe and engine manufacturers who become "both the supplier and competitor of its customers". Technik's 1996 sales rose by 16%, to more than DM3 billion ($1.8 billion), and pre-tax profits totalled DM62 ...
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End of an era
The demise of the BAe/AI(R) Jetstream 41 commuter airliner represents another step in the (often involuntary) rationalisation of the regional-turboprop market. It also, however, raises serious questions about the future of the lower end of regional-airline operations. There can be little surprise in British Aerospace's decision to cease ...
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Northrop Grumman bids for A-10 work
A NORTHROP Grumman-led team has formally joined the competition to provide long-term contractor support of the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt, to be used as a close-air-support/forward-air-control aircraft by the US Air Force until at least 2028. In late April, Lockheed Martin announced its bid for the A-10 work, with ...
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B-1B upgrade is accelerated
The US Air Force is pulling forward critical elements of its conventional-mission upgrade for the Rockwell B-1B bomber, to allow it to deploy the aircraft in the role earlier than originally anticipated. The fast-track plan involves the inegration of the Raytheon-made ALE-50 towed-decoy system (TDS) and the McDonnell ...
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UK launches new Strategic Defence Review
The UK Government has launched a Strategic Defence Review (SDR), expected to run for about six months, to re-examine the role, structure and equipment programme of the country's armed forces. The Government says that, with the exception of the Trident ballistic-missile submarine force, all programmes will be examined. ...
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US Air Force awards dual-range work
A McDONNELL Douglas/ Hughes team is poised to receive a $25 million US Air Force contract to test advanced flight controls for a dual-range air-to-air missile under the Air Superiority Missile Technology (ASMT) programme. Raytheon, meanwhile, has received a $600,000 contract to study even more advanced concepts under ...
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Cuts threaten Japanese air force procurement projects
Japanese military-aircraft procurement plans face chaos because of pending cutbacks in defence expenditure within the next five-year mid-term plan. The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is faced with having to make critical decisions on future acquisition priorities before the end of the current five-year plan in 2000. Included in ...
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USAoffers to switch two USAF JSTARS to NATO operations
NATO OFFICIALS have been briefed on the USA's "Fast Track" offer to provide two Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft off the US Air Force production line for the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. The two E-8s would be paid for by the USA. ...
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ABL team holds missile-tracking talks with USN
The Boeing-led Airborne Laser (ABL) team is in talks with the US Navy over the collection of missile-tracking data using Northrop Grumman F-14Ds equipped with infra-red search and track (IRST) systems. The YA-1A laser platform, a converted Boeing 747-400F, will be fitted with six Lockheed Martin IRST sensors ...
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Elbit wins Dracula
Elbit Systems will supply the avionics for the Romanian air force Dracula attack helicopter, a version of the Bell AH-1W SuperCobra to be built in Romania. The avionics will be made in Romania by subsidiary AE Electronics, formed recently by Elbit and Romania's Aerostar. The Dracula will be assembled by ...
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Air drop fatalities
Indonesia's IPTN lost its chief test pilot, Erwin Danoewinata, in a crash of a company CN-235 military transport aircraft. Erwin and five other crew died when the aircraft stalled on 22 May during a trial low-altitude cargo parachute drop. The company blames the crash on a failed parachute. Source: ...
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USN poised for supersonic-target contest
THE US NAVY is expected to initiate a competition in 1998 for a new supersonic sea-skimming target (SSST), needed to test shipboard defences against the Russian Raduga 3M-80 (SS-N-22 Sunburn) anti-ship missile. The USN now uses the AlliedSignal Aerospace Vandal extended-extended range (EER) target, remanufactured from Talos surface-to-air ...
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Service centred
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS-aviation service companies are facing increased competition from the producers of the aircraft they support, as those manufacturers push for a larger share of the after-sales market for maintenance, modification and refurbishment of their products. The major independents are thriving, nonetheless, thanks to strong demand for their services in ...
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Time to stop dreaming
The general-aviation industry in the USA is putting its money where its mouth has been for a long time. It is sponsoring a television-advertising campaign in an effort to revitalise the US pilot population and to reverse a decade-long decline in the number of people learning to fly for pleasure. ...
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MAKing aviation work in the CIS
The CREATION OF THE MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee) in December 1991, as the first intergovernmental body to be formed by the then-new CIS, was an acknowledgement of the need to present a common approach to major questions of aviation among the countries of the former Soviet Union. While most aviation ...