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NASA
Wilbur Trafton, director of US space organisation NASA's Space Station programme for the past two years, has been named Associate Administrator for the Office Of Space Flight, taking on additional responsibility for the Space Shuttle programme. Trafton, a former US Navy captain, joined NASA in 1994. ...
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American West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed Edward Methot vice-president of flight operations. Before joining the carrier, Methot served for more than 30 years with United Airlines in operations management. Source: Flight International
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No loophole in UN Libyan sanctions
Sir - I refer to the article "UN Libyan sanctions may become tougher" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P6). The United Nations Security Council reviews its resolutions on Libya every four months, and has specifically regulated the operation in Libya of non-Libyan aircraft, which serve the oil industry. In ...
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Kiwi progress
Start-up New Zealand carrier Kiwi Travel International Airlines ended its first ten months of operation to the end of January, with better-than-forecast sales of NZ$13.5 million ($9 million), and profits of NZ$700,000. Kiwi began scheduled international services in August 1995, has carried more than 50,000 passengers between New Zealand and ...
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Volvo cautious
Volvo Aero improved its financial performance in 1995, helped by strong sales growth in its core military-engine business, but warns that it will have to adapt to defence cuts expected from the Swedish Parliament's defence review later this year. Overall, pre-tax profits virtually doubled, to SKr281 million ($41 million). Sales ...
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Spars flotation
Aviation Sales, which claims to be the world's largest aircraft-spares redistributor, has announced that it is to become a public company, with the sales of 3.25 million shares. The public offering is expected to raise nearly $76. The business had sales of $114 million in 1995. ...
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Turkish delight
THY Turkish Airlines has sold three Boeing 727s to private Turkish carrier Top Air Havacilik for $9 million and transferred a 727 to Kibris Turkish Airlines, the flag carrier of Northern Cyprus in which THY, has a 50% stake for $2.1 million. Source: Flight ...
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Code sharing
Aer Lingus and Delta Airlines will begin a code-share/blocked-space service on 1 May on the Irish carrier's daily Airbus A330 flights between New York and Shannon and Dublin. British Airways has agreed a code-sharing deal with America West on points served from Phoenix. The UK carrier starts a new service ...
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Cargo return
Lufthansa Cargo is to return five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F freighters to lessor Deutsche Leasing by the end of 1996, by which time the Lufthansa subsidiary will be operating 12 Boeing 747-200Fs and one 737-300F. Source: Flight International
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Elbit/Kaiser tie-up
Elbit and Kaiser have formed a joint company, Vision Systems International, to market helmet-mounted displays for fixed-wing aircraft. The team is expected to compete for the US Air Force/Navy joint helmet-mounted cuing system (JHMCS) programme in a joint bid with Honeywell and GEC-Marconi Avionics, which teamed in 1995. The JHMCS ...
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Plant arrest
Uzbekistan National Security Service has arrested Vasiliy Zhuravlev, general director of the TAPO Tashkent Chkalov plant, which produces Ilyushin Il-76s. Police are investigating an alleged fraud in which the plant accepted an Il-76 for repair from a Russian operator. It is accused of repairing the aircraft and leasing it unlawfully ...
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Rybinsk cancellation
Rybinsk Motors has withdrawn its appeal to Russia's Supreme Court, in which the engine company disputed the Government's decision to auction 37% of its shares. Rybinsk says that the legal move lost its meaning after the Government issued a new order including Rybinsk as being of strategic importance to national ...
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Air Malta branches out
Consistent profit maker Air Malta plans to set up an airline in Italy, taking a 49% share in the new carrier, which would be called Azzuro Air, according to Air Malta chairman Joseph Tabone. Remaining shares would be held by Italian businesses, he says, and permission to operate has been ...
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Hong Kong urges second runway for Chek Lap Kok
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG HONG KONGS' NEW Airport Authority (AA) is pressing the Government to begin construction of a second parallel runway at Chek Lap Kok, before the airport opens in April 1998. The second runway could be completed as early as the end of 1998, ...
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The enemy within
David Learmount/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Julian Moxon/PARIS Paul Phelan/CAIRNS DESPITE BEING ABLE to report a particularly safe 1995, director of US Army aviation safety Brig Gen Thomas Konitzer sees a need for caution. "The force reduction has increased the workload for Army aviators. Not only have missions ...
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AlliedSignal examines wider engine upgrade plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES ALLIEDSIGNAL ENGINES is studying upgrades to a series of engines used in the corporate-aviation sector, following the success of its TFE731-3C effort for the Cessna Citation III and VI and the recent launch of the -3D upgrade for use on other types of business ...
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Diamond Launch
Diamond Aircraft will launch the Speed Katana light aircraft and Super Dimona TTS motor glider at the ILA show in Berlin, Germany, in mid-May. Both all-composite two-seat aircraft, are powered by the turbocharged Rotax 914 piston, engine. The uprated Speed Katana is aimed at the personal-aircraft market, while the Super ...
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Track deviation was cause of Il-76 crash
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWAlexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE KRASNOYARSK Avialinii Ilyushin Il-76 freighter which crashed on 5 April, killing all 21 people on board while descending to land at an airport in the Siberian Far East, appears to have crashed because it deviated from its approach track to save running out ...
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Embraer forecasts end to losses
EMBRAER BELIEVES THAT it is only a couple of years away from returning to profit after some early signs of recovery in 1995, the Brazilian manufacturer's first year under private ownership. Although losses totalled $232 million for the full year, Embraer says that it made a significant recovery ...
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Denim plans casual look for crew
DUTCH START-UP airline Denim Air plans to dress its cabin crew in jeans and denim shirts and jackets, introducing a casual look to the business of air travel on the route linking Eindhoven and London. The airline hopes that the marketing ploy, together with a quality one-class in-flight ...