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Bombardier regroups
BOMBARDIER IS TO reorganise, following the resignation of president Raymond Royer. The Canadian company is to split into five operating groups, each headed by a president. Robert Brown, president of Bombardier Aerospace, North America, (Canadair, de Havilland and Learjet) will be president of Bombardier Aerospace Group, which will now include ...
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Reconnaissance Office may get new Darkstar
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Congress may subsidise the cost of building a replacement for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III Minus Darkstar unmanned air vehicle destroyed on its second flight on 22 April, says US Air Force Gen Kenneth Israel, who heads the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO). ...
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Loral books five Ariane launches in $400 million deal
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL has booked a total of five satellite launches with Arianespace in a deal which could be worth over $400 million by the year 2000. It is the first block booking by a satellite manufacturer with the European launcher organisation. The first launch is scheduled for ...
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Doubts rock KLM and Northwest alliance
THE FUTURE of the transatlantic alliance between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines has again been thrown into doubt, following the apparent failure of the two airlines to agree on whether the tie-up should be expanded. The latest wrangle has reportedly prompted KLM to consider dissolving the ...
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IPTN founds German subsidiary for N-250
INDONESIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer IPTN is to establish a new marketing subsidiary in Lower Saxony, Germany, to promote its N-250 turboprop in Europe.The company is to be founded in co-operation with former Deutsche Aerospace maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL). Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed ...
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Unique Internationalism
THE UK'S OLDEST flying-training school is to close. Air Service Training (AST) blames not the now-ended airline recession, but its own regulator for allowing overseas schools with lower costs to train ab initio pilots for the full UK commercial pilot's licence, and its Government for giving UK students tax incentives ...
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DASA ready to finalise sale of Dornier unit to Fairchild
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) hopes to complete the sale of of its Dornier Lufthahrt regional-aircraft manufacturing unit to US manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft before the end of the month, according to Manfred Bischoff, DASA's president and chief executive. Speaking in Washington on 30 April, ...
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Boeing concedes defeat over China AirExpress
Paul Lewis/Singapore BOEING IS SEEKING alternative partners to develop a 100-seat aircraft, having conceded defeat in its bid to join with China in the development of the AirExpress AE-100 regional jet. The US manufacturer threw in the towel after Commercial-Airplane president Ron Woodard admitted that ...
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FiatAvio sells off its shareholding in IAE
FIATAVIO has sold its holding in International Aero Engines (IAE) to its four partners. The deal maintains the Italian engine manufacturer's place on the programme, but as a subcontractor rather than as a shareholder. The Italian company, which is in the throes of merger talks with local rival ...
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Powering into the future
Germany's two engine manufacturersstill have one programme in common. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace problem-child MTU Munchen and its upstart rival BMW Rolls-Royce, along with the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), are participating in a Government-sponsored research programme to develop technology for the next generation of ...
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Australia to make TCAS compulsory for transports
AUSTRALIA's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plans to order the use of the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS) for transport aircraft. CASA has circulated an industry discussion paper following a 1995 Bureau of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) report recommending that TCAS be compulsory for all public-transport Australian ...
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VIP Puma
Denel Aviation of South Africa has launched a retrofit VIP conversion for the SA330C Puma Helicopter. The six-seat luxury configuration incorporates additional soundproofing and carpeting. A range of technical upgrades is also available, including improved avionics, long-range fuel tanks and uprated engines. Source: Flight International
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Carbon customers
Three more airlines have selected Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for their Airbus aircraft. Vietnam Airlines has ordered new-generation Sepcarb III brakes for ten A320s. Belgian national carrier Sabena will use carbon brakes on its four A340s, while Turkey's Onur Air has ordered them for three A321s. The brakes for the A321 ...
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Regional return
US regional Mesa Air Group is to terminate its leases on two Fokker 70s, and has begun negotiations to acquire up to eight alternative regional jets within the next nine months. The New Mexico-based company blames the decision to return the aircraft on the "limited production and uncertainty as to ...
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3D keeps engines on-wing
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AEA Technology, of Didcot, UK, has patented a three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic television system for use with standard rigid boroscopes, which it believes could have wide-ranging applications as an aerospace maintenance inspection tool. The TV3 system is designed to enable engineers to carry out ...
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New Sabena chief warns that costs must be reduced
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA'S NEW president, Paul Reutlinger, has warned staff that the ailing carrier needs to shave billions of Belgian francs from its cost base. Reutlinger, who joined Sabena from Swissair after Pierre Godfroid's resignation, says that the carrier needs to make annual savings of ...
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China loses a further Echostar launch deal
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA HAS LOST another important satellite launch contract with the decision by US communications company Echostar to switch its Echostar 3 communications satellite from the Long March (LM) 3B booster to an ILS International Launch Services Atlas 2AS vehicle. A new launch date, ...
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Tunnel tests prove Premier performance
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT HAS COMPLETED windtunnel testing of its Premier I light business-jet. Stability and control tests of the one-eighth-scale model shown here were conducted in Boeing's transonic tunnel in Seattle. Low-speed tests were performed at Boeing in Philadelphia and at Wichita State University. Source: Flight International
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Two-seat Gripen has first flight
SAAB'S TWO-SEAT VARIANT OF THE JAS39 GRIPEN was flown for the first time on 29 April. A total of 14 two-seat Gripens are on order for the Swedish air force as part of its second-batch purchase of 110 aircraft. The first of the new variant is due for delivery in ...
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Cold comfort
The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee - Aviation Register has certificated Airbus Industrie's A300-600 and-600R, and has cleared the Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A310 for extreme-cold-weather operations. The cold-weather trials, carried out in January at Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia, cleared the aircraft down to a ground-temperature of -54°C, as opposed to the ...