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Dusseldorf is re-opened to regionals as ban is lifted
EUROPE'S REGIONAL airlines have forced Germany's Dusseldorf Airport to drop a ban on all turboprop flights after the airport authority conceded in court that it would have more capacity available within a month (Flight International, 1-7 May). The court directed that all turboprop aircraft must be allowed back ...
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MD900 Explorer faces IFR delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Ajoint McDONNELL Douglas (MDC)/AlliedSignal effort to develop an instrument flight-rules (IFR) package for the MD900 Explorer has been delayed because of "greater-than-expected complexity". The IFR package, announced at Heli-Expo in February, was due to be certificated by the end of April. MDC ...
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Harness hitch adds three-month delay to F-16 test programme
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE OPERATIONAL TEST and evaluation of three Lockheed Martin F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU) aircraft has been put back by around three months while the manufacturer reworks wire harnesses which are "below specification." The wiring problem, which is related to uneven solder used ...
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Boeing schedules September delivery for first F-22 wing
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS ON schedule to deliver large sub-assemblies for the first pre-production F-22 air-superiority fighter to its partner Lockheed Martin in September, amid rising confidence that the first flight will take place on time in late May 1997. Boeing's two biggest sections of ...
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BFGoodrich strikes with new Stormscope thunderstorm detector
BFGOODRICH Aerospace has introduced the WX-950 Stormscope thunderstorm-detection system, billed as the only lighting detector with two modes of operation. In cell mode, the WX-950 uses a ranging algorithm to map thunderstorms. In strike mode, the system records and displays individual lightning strikes. While cell mode was developed ...
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Transasia Delays Float
Taiwan's third largest carrier TransAsia Airways has postponed until early 1997 its planned public listing, after a 88% plunge in its net profit for the last financial year. Its net profit fell to NT$55 million ($2 million), mainly as a result of large capital expenditures. Source: Flight International
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GPS Certification
Rockwell-Collins' GPS-4000 global-positioning-system (GPS) sensor, has been certificated on the Learjet 60 business jet. The 12-channel GPS receiver is also approved on the Canadair Challenger 604 and Raytheon Beechjet 400A. Source: Flight International
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Leisure International selects Airbus A321
UK CHARTER CARRIER Leisure International Airways (formerly Air UK Leisure) has selected the Airbus A321-200 rather than the Boeing 737-800 for its future fleet needs. LIA declines to comment on the selection, although it confirms that an announcement "is imminent". The airline has replaced its fleet ...
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Lockheed Martin streamlines procurement
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S aeronautics sector has implemented procurement changes, which are projected to reduce operating costs by $410 million by 1999. The company has consolidated procurement for its Fort Worth, Texas, and Marietta, Georgia, aircraft plants at the Aeronautics Material Management Center in Fort Worth. The centre was established ...
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ANZ plans twice-weekly Australia-Shanghai flights
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), plans to use up its remaining Australian fifth-freedom rights, by flying twice weekly between Australia and Shanghai. The carrier says that it will "probably" operate the services from Sydney, but has not ruled out using its Brisbane hub. General manager sales and marketing international ...
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NASA will use OSC Pegasus booster for Trace craft satellite
NASA HAS EXERCISED an option to use an Orbital Sciences (OSC) Pegasus XL booster under the Small Expendable Launch Vehicle Services (SELVS) contract to launch the Transitional Region and Coronal Explorer (Trace) satellite in 1997. The deal is worth $12 million. This is the fifth launch to be ...
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Uprated Proton is postponed
PLANS TO DEVELOP THE up-rated Proton M geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellite-launch vehicle have been delayed to at least the year 2000 by budget cuts. The Proton M was to have entered the commercial market in 1997, capable of placing 4,500kg into GEO, equipped with improved first-stage engines and the KVD-1 cryogenic ...
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SPY Data Pact
The USA has agreed to provide Israel with missile early-warning data, primarily from its TRW-built Defence Support Programme spacecraft, to provide instant, real-time, early warning of incoming missile launches. Previous data have been available on a selective basis. Source: Flight International
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Aviall continues disposals in quest for core profits
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AVIALL IS TO sell its aerospace-fastener operation, in another step towards its ambition of stripping the group back to its profitable aircraft-parts distribution business. An agreement was signed at the end of April to sell the fasteners-distribution unit to a new company formed ...
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BWIA drops EMB-145 plans, renegotiates A340 order
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BWIA HAS ABANDONED its intentions to operate up to ten Embraer EMB-145s and is rethinking its plans for an Airbus long-haul fleet. The airline, however, discounts rumours that it is talking to Boeing again. The Caribbean-based carrier, which signed a letter of intent ...
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El Al profits boost
EL AL TURNED IN net profits of $15 million in 1995 and expects to improve on the performance this year, helped by rising traffic between the USA and Israel. The Israeli flag carrier says that it expects to make gains from its improved access to US gateways and ...
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Leaving on a high
Allan Winn/LONDON SIR CHRISTOPHER Chataway retires from the chairmanship of the UK Civil Aviation Authority at the end of this month. In his five years as chairman, he has overseen a dramatic improvement in efficiency and productivity in an organisation, which, he acknowledges, may in the past have ...
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Regional and utility aircraft directory
Fokker's demise is the most dramatic in a series of upheavals taking place throughout the regional-aircraft industry Compiled by Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FOKKER IS DOWN, the count almost over, but the winner is far from clear: not the customers left with unfulfilled orders for ...
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Ilyushin sells first production Il-103
ILYUSHIN HAS SOLD the first production version of the five-seat Il-103 to an undisclosed customer. The aircraft, is believed to have been sold to a South African client who undertook demonstration flights in April. The Il-103 is produced at the Lukhovitsy plant near Moscow, which is a member of MAPO ...