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Dubai-based VIP 747 prepares for launch
Chess International Aviation says that it is close to completing the setting up of a VIP 747 charter company. According to Alistair Cristinni, the Dubai-based airline's chairman, the new company expects to complete the acquisition of its first aircraft soon, a 747SP, and aims for a launch in ...
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Embraer focuses on Asian market for Brasilia business
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer is exploring risk-sharing and licence-production deals with companies in several Asian countries as part of a push to improve sales in the region of the 30-seat EMB-120 Brasilia regional turboprop aircraft. Ex-Fokker salesman Peter Obeysekere, Embraer's new vice-president for Asia, the Far East and South ...
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GV improvements increase efficiency
Engine and airframe aerodynamic improvements are allowing Gulfstream to claim significant efficiency gains for its GV ultra-long-range business jet. Chief customer engineer Ed Flinn says that the improvements (including a specific-fuel-consumption reduction of "one and a half percentage points") are compensating for the excess weight from which the aircraft still ...
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IPTN looks at options for RAAF
IPTN is in advanced negotiations with Pratt & Whitney Canada to offer a variant of the PW119 engine as an alternative powerplant on the IPTN CN.235-330 which it is to propose to meet the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Air 5190 Light Tactical Airlift Capability (LTAC) requirement. ...
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RAAF seeks initial funding for 707 tanker upgrade
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is hoping to secure initial funding in financial year 1998/9 to replace or upgrade its fleet of Boeing 707-300 tankers. According to local defence sources, Australia wants to advance its tanker replacement into the next five-year procurement cycle, because of rising concern ...
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Greenwich absorbs UNC to create overhaul giant
Greenwich Air Services is poised to make its biggest acquisition to date with agreement to take over UNC. The combined group will become the world's largest independent engine-services operation, with annual sales of around $1.8 billion and more than 10,000 employees. Greenwich chairman Eugene Conese says that the ...
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EVA profits again
EVA Air reports a second consecutive year of profits, after being launched six years ago by the Evergreen shipping group as Taiwan's second international carrier. After posting its first $7.2 million in profits ahead of plan in 1995, EVA has followed with a $17 million return in 1996. Sales continued ...
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Saab Aircraft counters 'merger' speculation
Saab Group president Bengt Halse has moved to quash speculation that the Swedish group may dispose of its civil-aircraft business, although it has taken a heavy charge to pay for market "repositioning" of the Saab 2000. Presenting Saab Aircraft's financial results, Halse said that the turboprop business is ...
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Mergers mould shape of US industry
The frenetic pace of merger and acquisition activity has again reshaped the league of US manufacturers for 1996 and more is expected this year, as the spate of big deals causes reverberations among the second tier of aerospace and defence companies. As expected, Lockheed Martin emerges as the ...
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BAe buys balance of USA's Reflectone
BRITISH AEROSPACE IS to acquire the balance of US simulator manufacturer Reflectone. The UK firm already owns 48% of the Tampa, Florida-based company, and has agreed to pay roughly $86 million for the outstanding stock. Reflectone president Richard Snyder says that the company's management is "strongly in favour" ...
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BFG brakes 737-700
Maersk Air has chosen BFGoodrich to supply wheels and brakes for six recently ordered Boeing 737-700s. The Danish carrier is scheduled to receive the first aircraft in October. Source: Flight International
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Litton smartens UH-60
Litton's Guidance and Control Systems division is to retrofit an initial four US National Guard Sikorsky UH-60A helicopters with cockpit smart multi-function displays (SMFDs). Woodland Hills, California-based Litton says that the SMFDs could be fitted to up to 83 more aircraft, with the aircraft reconfigured as UH-60Qs for battlefield medical- ...
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Boeing signs BAe deal
Boeing has signed a $639 million contract with British Aerospace, under which the US manufacturer will supply mission hardware and software for the Nimrod 2000's tactical-command system. BAe is prime contractor on the UK's $3 billion programme to upgrade the Royal Air Force's Nimrod maritime-patrol aircraft. ...
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Emery DC-8s get FMS
Emery Worldwide Airlines is to retrofit 22 McDonnell Douglas DC-8s with Universal Avionics Systems UNS-1D global-positioning-system-based flight management systems. Source: Flight International
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New skids from Dart
Canada-based Dart Aerospace has developed a new helicopter-skid design which is up to seven times stronger than the conventional unit, according to the company. The Round-I-Beam skidtube is strengthened with a central web which runs through the centre of the tube. The skidtube has been designed to fit several Bell ...
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HUMS accelerometers
Sikorsky has selected California-based Endevco to supply vibration accelerometers for the health-and-usage monitoring system and active vibration-control system on the S-92, as well as appointing it as the recommended supplier on the S-76. Endevco is a subsidiary of UK-based Meggitt. Source: Flight International
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Falcon 20-B retrofit
Garrett Aviation and AlliedSignal have formed an exclusive partnership under which the latter will continue to market the TFE731 engine retrofit to CF700-powered Falcon 20 operators. Garrett will put its own Falcon 20s into the programme, retrofit and refurbish them, and offer the re-engined -20Bs for sale to non-Falcon 20 ...
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CTA satellite milestone
CTA Space and Telecommunications has shipped its first geostationary communications satellite, the Indostar 1, to the David Florida Laboratories in Canada for environmental testing in preparation for its launch aboard an Ariane 4 in July (Flight International, 5-11 February). The Indostar is being built for PT MediaCitra Indonesia to provide ...
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Northrop sale
Northrop Grumman has elected to sell its Astrotech subsidiary to SPACEHAB, which develops, owns and operates habitable modules for the Space Shuttle. Astrotech provides payload-processing services for commercial spacecraft. It employs only 18 people, who earned $8 million for Northrop Grumman in 1996. The terms of the sale, which is ...
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Lockheed sells units
Lockheed Martin has outlined its plans to spin off ten "non-core" communications and instruments businesses into a newly created standalone company which will have sales of $650 million and a workforce of nearly 5,000. The move comes as part of announced plans to tidy up its portfolio following the Loral ...