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Eutelsat insures for Russian risk
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $60 million repayment guarantee to European communications-satellite operator Eutelsat, following its award of a contract to the Russian company NPO-PM to build and launch the Sesat spacecraft in 1998. Under the terms of the guarantee, non-performance of ...
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Ariane 5 launch slips
The maiden launch of the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 booster, with its payload of Cluster science satellites, from launch pad ELA 3 at Kourou, French Guiana, has been put back to at least 30 May (Flight International, 15-21 May). The launch-readiness review ends on 25 May, when the final ...
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Gulfstream takes EVS lead with GIV
GULFSTREAM PLANS to demonstrate an enhanced-vision system (EVS) on a Gulfstream IV business jet later this year, to meet customer demand for a reduced-visibility landing capability. Flights will involve a GIV-SP demonstrator equipped with a Mitsubishi infra-red (IR) sensor, imagery from which will be projected on to a Honeywell/GEC head-up ...
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AZZURRAair wants RJ85 fleet
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AZZURRAAIR, THE Italian start-up regional airline (Flight International, 1-7 May), in which Air Malta holds a 49% stake, is in advanced negotiations for three new Avro RJ85s. The airline claims that funding has been secured. The carrier is being formed to operate regional ...
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World Airlines launches London City services
WORLD AIRLINES initiated scheduled services between London City Airport (LCY) and Amsterdam on 13 May, using a British Aerospace 146-200 leased from USAir. The new UK carrier, which has been formed by music entrepreneur Nick Stolberg, is operating some 44 flights a week between the two cities, ...
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Location decision for third Paris airport delayed
THE PLAN FOR a third international airport in the Paris region has run into further trouble following another bout of political infighting over its location. President Chirac's Government has previously said that the decision on the location of the airport is a priority, to prepare for the expected ...
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Lithuanian/Finnair agree codeshare
FINNAIR AND Lithuanian Airlines have agreed to co-operate in the joint development of passenger services between Helsinki and Vilnius, as well as beyond their respective home bases. Marketing and ground-handling activities will be covered, but there are denials that equity stakes will be taken by either airline. ...
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Dassault aims Atlantic at European MPA tenders
DASSAULT AVIATION is to offer its Atlantic Third Generation (ATL3G) maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA) to the German, Italian and French navies. The three forces, which already operate earlier versions of the Atlantic, require a total of around 50 aircraft between 2005 and 2010. The aircraft, offered as an ...
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Embraer begins East European sales drive
EMBRAER HAS received letters of intent from potential customers in Russia for two of its EMB-145 50-seat regional jets as part of a marketing campaign in Eastern Europe. The Brazilian company warns, however, that Russian certification is "...subject to how many aircraft are ordered and financed". ...
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Northrop Grumman teams with DASA
Northrop Grumman and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) have formed a team to produce the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) should the US system be selected by NATO for its Airborne Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. NATO is expected to decide by the end of this year ...
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BA near to active-noise-control headset decision
BRITISH AIRWAYS is expected to place an order for 3,400 active-noise-control headsets for its pilots by the end of this month. Germany's Sennheiser and Bose of the USA are bidding for the contract, which could be worth over £1 million ($1.6 million). The UK airline decided to opt ...
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Northwest UK
Northwest Airlines and Air UK have announced a significant expansion of code share flights between the USA and UK. From 1 June, the Northwest code will appear on Air UK services between Amsterdam and Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Leeds/ Brad- ford, London/Stansted and Teesside, linking with US ...
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Space twins
US Navy Lts Mark and Scott Kelly have become the first twins to be selected as NASA astronauts. They are among ten pilots, who, with 25 mission-specialist candidates, will undergo a one-year period of evaluation and training before being for a mission. The astronaut candidates are the sixteenth group to ...
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Seat installation
Pilots of aircraft with nine or fewer seats can now remove and re-install seats in cabins, in the absence of a mechanic, under new US rules long sought by the National Air Transportation Association. Source: Flight International
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HUD okay
Flight Visions expects certification of its FV-2000 head-up display in a Canadair Challenger 601-3A in June. FV-2000s have been installed in Cessna Citation IIs, Gulfstream IVs and Learjet 55s, with installation in the Citation III, Dassault Falcon 20, 50 and 900, Gulfstream II and III and Raytheon Hawker 800 under ...
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SAS Recovery
The profits recovery at SAS, continued through the first quarter, largely because of the end of exchange-rate losses which ravaged the 1994 results. Although overall passenger traffic was up by 7%, cost also rose and yields remained flat, with much of the growth coming from the back of the cabin. ...
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Austrian Airlines
The Austrian Airlines group returned to profit in 1995, although losses continued from the core airline operation. The pre-tax profit for the group was ASch65 million ($6 million), turning around a loss of ASch192 million in 1994. The airline made losses of nearly ASch121 million, however, before income from subsidiaries, ...
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Finnair on target
Finnair says that its financial performance, to be released on 14 June, "met expectations", but adds that the improvement is not expected to continue as economic growth slows in Finland and across Europe. The group's sales rose to FIM7 billion ($1.5 billion) in its financial year to March as passenger ...
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UNC
Overhauler and maintainer UNC Airwork, of Millville, New Jersey, has named Benjamin Johnson director of aviation programmes. With the company since 1987, Johnson was formerly director of military and Government programmes and vice-president of customer support. Michael McCauley becomes national sales director for domestic business aviation. He ...