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Ball wins Boeing camera deal for 777-300 stretch
BALL AEROSPACE and Technologies has won a ten-year contract with Boeing to supply the 777-300 stretch with a ground-manoeuvring camera system. The 74m-long 777-300 will be the longest commercial airliner to date, with a turning radius greater than that of the 747, which is 3m shorter. ...
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France drops out of MEADS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTAGilbert Sedbon/PARIS GERMANY, ITALY AND the USA are expected to proceed with the Medium Extended Air-Defence-System (MEADS) programme without France, which is provisionally suspending participation in the project. The three countries are expected to sign an statement of intent (SoI) to develop the MEADS, ...
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USA extends ban on airline gambling
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...
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Thomson hands back its Credit Lyonnais stake to Government
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH ELECTRONICS giant Thomson SA is selling back to the Government its stake in loss-making state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais, as a first step towards privatisation. The sale will be completed no later than 20 December, or earlier if the privatisation is pushed through this ...
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Assembly begins of Huygens probe
ASSEMBLY OF THE Huygens interplanetary probe has begun at the Aerospatiale plant in Cannes, in southern France, following a critical design review by the European Space Agency and NASA. The probe will study Titan, the largest of Saturn's satellites. The Huygens probe represents the first time that Europe ...
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Pentagon orders VIP aircraft update
US DEFENCE SECRETARY William Perry, has ordered that all US military transports dedicated to passenger flights, be equipped with cockpit-voice recorders (CVRs), flight data recorders (FDRs) and global-positioning-system (GPS) hardware. In a letter to armed forces chiefs, Perry says: "Military flight crews must have the most capable and ...
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AMR may spin-off Sabre
AMERICAN AIRLINES parent AMR is considering a spin-off of its highly profitable Sabre computer reservation system (CRS), raising speculation that cash from any deal could put the carrier back on the acquisition trail in the US airline market. AMR chairman Robert Crandall, who once joked that the ...
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Indonesia acts to solve Garuda cash problems
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government has announced a major corporate and financial shake-up of Garuda Indonesia, in an effort to turn around the financially struggling national carrier in readiness for privatisation later in the year. As part of the airline's restructuring, three senior executives have ...
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France and Israel win contracts to update Indian MiG-21s
FRENCH AND ISRAELI companies have revealed contracts to supply equipment for the MAPO-MiG upgrade of Indian air force MiG-21s. Sextant Avionique has secured a deal to supply its Totem inertial-navigation system (INS), to equip five prototypes and a further 125 Mig-21s. The French avionics supplier is also to ...
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US Navy starts search for P-3 Orion replacement
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN IS hoping that a US Navy large land-based aircraft (LLBA) study, due to begin in late 1997, will lead to an order for its upgraded P-3 Orion 2000, with deliveries starting in 2002-3. The study will re-examine plans to extend the service life ...
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Rush of orders forces Airbus to raise production record
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS TO raise production rates to record levels in 1997 to keep pace with a rapidly expanding firm order book. The revised production schedule calls for 185 aircraft to be built in 1997, compared with 135 deliveries scheduled for this year. The consortium's busiest year to date was ...
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Flying Colours launched with Boeing order
FLYING COLOURS Leisure Group has placed a $200 million order for four new Boeing 757-200ERs for its new in-house carrier, Flying Colours Airlines. The four 757s, three leased from International Lease Finance and one from GATX, will be powered by Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4s. Three aircraft will be based at ...
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Polish air force revives troubled Iryda
The grounded PZL-Mielec Iryda programme has been given a new, two-year lease of life with a fresh Polish air force order, and an upgrade programme for aircraft already delivered. As part of the programme, PZL-Mielec is to sign a contract with Sextant Avionique of France, to provide ...
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IATA chief proposes culture/ safety relationship study
David Learmount/LONDON THE EFFECT OF culture on airline safety should be studied, to determine whether it has any significance, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) director-general Pierre Jeanniot. He says that improved incident-data collection and sharing by airlines is essential if aircraft hull-loss accident rates are to ...
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AI(R) woos China with regional-jet proposal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIR INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) is proposing the development of a family of regional jets ranging from 95 to 140 seats as part of its bid to join China's Air Express AE-100 programme. The European consortium is now moving into detailed negotiations with Aviation ...
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Refuelling error
The front-cover picture of the MAPO MiG-29E refuelling and a similar picture used in an accompanying defence feature (Flight International, 10-16 April) were incorrectly attributed. Both pictures were taken, by MAPO MiG photographer Artur Sarkisyan. Source: Flight International
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Forbidden Factor
THE INTERNATIONAL AIR Transport Association's Pierre Jeanniot has dared to link, in public, the two subjects of safety and culture. The inference is that, beyond straight human error as a factor in some accidents, there may be culturally induced human error. He is right to raise the question, because the ...
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Swissair shows renewed grit over cost-cutting
Kevin O'Toole/GENEVA SWISSAIR PRESIDENT-elect Phillippe Bruggisser has put some steel behind a new campaign to drive down costs at the airline group, including plans to shed at least another 1,600 jobs. He also expresses determination, echoed throughout the management team, to press ahead with the ...
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JPATS win helps build optimism at Smiths
JPATS wins helps build optimism at Smiths SMITHS INDUSTRIES, revealing another set of healthy half-year results, underlined its growing confidence in the gathering pace of recovery in its aerospace business with the announcement of an avionics order potentially worth $100 million for the US Army and Navy ...
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LLNL performs scramjet tests
A MINIATURE supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine was fired at Mach 8 from a 120m (400ft)-long gas gun on 18 April, as part of a US Air Force hypersonic-research programme. The hydrocarbon engine, was fired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) gas gun and flew for less than ...