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Malaysia staged its biennial Defence...
Malaysia staged its biennial Defence Services Asia show in Kuala Lumpur from 23-26 April. With the nation due to unveil its next five-year defence plan for 1996-2000, DSA 96 attracted 623 companies from 40 countries. Traditionally large national contingents from France, the Netherlands and the UK were joined by a ...
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Embraer wins savings from new labour deal
EMBRAER'S EMPLOYEES have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new labour contract, which the Brazilian manufacturer says will improve manufacturing costs on the EMB-120 and the new EMB-145 50-seat regional jet. The agreement involves the loss of 350 administrative and support jobs, while production workers will take a ...
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MDC fights for F-18E/F as GAO calls for cancellation
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has defended the F-18E/F Super Hornet after the leak of a US General Accounting Office (GAO) draft report, which has recommended that the aircraft programme be cancelled. Reports suggest that the Congressional watchdog, recommends buying upgraded F-18C/Ds, citing only "marginal ...
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Boeing advances weapons carriage
BOEING WILL ground-test an advanced weapons-carriage concept under a $2.5 million US Air Force technology-demonstration contract. The Weapons Carriage Technology programme "...will deliver advanced, multiple-purpose, weapon-suspension and release equipment", the USAF says. The technology is aimed at "...future multi-mission aircraft...that will carry a variety of current and advanced ...
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Thomson in Japan
Thomson-CSF's Ocean Master maritime-patrol radar has been selected by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force for its upgrade of the Shinmeywa US-1 search-and-rescue amphibian. Developed with Deutsche Aerospace, it is the first non-US radar purchased by the Japanese armed forces, says Thomson. Source: Flight International
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'Tailless' F-15 will feed Joint Strike Fighter programme
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES PLANS ARE being drawn up to develop a "tailless" McDonnell Douglas F-15 supersonic research aircraft fitted with a thrust-vectoring system to provide data to the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter effort, other future combat-aircraft programmes and, possibly, the high-speed civil transport. Plans for ...
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FAA admits its mistake on funding for AGATE
Karen Walker/LAS VEGAS THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration says that its decision to drop funding from a programme aimed at rejuvenating general aviation (GA) was "a mistake", and that the money will be found after all. FAA administrator David Hinson told attendees at the US ...
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ValuJet purchase
ValuJet Airlines, has purchased four ex-Swissair McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80s, scheduled for delivery by the end of 1997. The US low-cost carrier, meanwhile, has refused to accept delivery of an MDC DC-9-31, which has failed inspection standards for condition and records. The airline plans to sell or sub-lease its four ...
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Federal Expansion
FedEx is planning to expand its presence at Paris/Charles de Gaulle Airport following agreement with the French Government on new traffic rights. The package carrier will now invest more than Fr1 billion ($250 million) over the next ten years to create a hub similar to others at Dubai and the ...
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Puel moves on from AI(R)
AFTER 15 YEARS at the head of Franco-Italian regional-aircraft consortium ATR - now Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) - Henri-Paul Puel is leaving the post to direct Aerospatiale maintenance subsidiary Sogerma. He will be replaced, by Patrick Gavin formerly Aerospatiale's director of industrial and technology strategy. Puel was central ...
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Air Canada to sell Continental stake
AIR CANADA IS selling its stake in Continental Airlines, for a huge profit, saying that it no longer needs its investment in the carrier now that the US-Canada open-skies agreement is in place. The Canadian airline purchased an 18% stake in Continental in April 1993 for $55 million, ...
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USAir lags in profit stakes
DESPITE THE RECORD profits flowing elsewhere in the US airline industry, USAir slipped back into losses during the first quarter, again highlighting the carrier's need to cut back its high-cost base. Although USAir's $32 million net loss is markedly down on the heavy losses which the group was ...
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Prospects for German engine co-operation founder
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ATTEMPTS TO PULL together a co-operation agreement between German engine maker MTU Munchen and local rival BMW Rolls-Royce have collapsed. The Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) subsidiary says that it is looking once again to Pratt & Whitney as the long-term strategic partner for MTU. The ...
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Lockheed Martin chief reticent on job losses
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEED MARTIN chief executive Norman Augustine has played down the extent of likely job cuts following the $9.1 billion acquisition of Loral's defence business. Augustine admits that the acquisition, which was completed on 23 April, may mean some job losses in the short term, but ...
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600 US aircraft to be updated
US DEFENCE SECRETARY William Perry's order to equip VIP aircraft with cockpit-voice recorders, flight-data recorders and global-positioning-system hardware could affect nearly 600 aircraft which are now operated by the US military services. A tally provided by the Department of Defense shows that the US Air Force is looking ...
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Price is right for Boeing ATM organisation
FORMER HUGHES AIR-traffic supremo Nancy Price is joining Boeing to head its new Aviation Systems organisation. Aviation Systems is being created to help Boeing focus its systems-integration expertise on the growing air-traffic-management (ATM) market and will be part of the company's Defense and Space Group in Kent, Washington. ...
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New carriers boost Rome traffic
TRAFFIC BETWEEN Rome and Milan Linate Airport has risen by 22% in the first quarter of 1996 compared with the same period in 1995, with two new entrants, Air One and Noman, providing tough competition for Italian flag carrier Alitalia. Passenger traffic rose by 563,000 in the ...
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TRW keeps EOS work despite joint protest
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office, has over-ruled a protest by Hughes and Lockheed Martin, over the award of a $398 million NASA contract to TRW, to build two of a series of Earth-Observing System (EOS) satellites, using a common spacecraft bus, which can be used for two possible future craft, ...
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Loral wins more PanAmSats
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL has been selected to build two additional satellites for PanAmSat. The PanAmSats (PAS) 7 and 8 will be launched into geostationary-transfer orbit en route to positions in geostationary orbit over the Indian and Pacific oceans by an Ariane and an ILS International Launch Services Proton in 1997-8. ...
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Ariane Launch
Ariane flight V85, using a 42P model of the booster series, was launched on 21 April, from Kourou, French Guiana, placing the 2,855kg MSAT-1 satellite into orbit. From its position at 106.5°W in geostationary orbit, the Hughes HS-601 space craft, equipped with two light-weight 5.1 x 5.7m oval springback antennae, ...