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Turkey aims to step up fighter training
THE TURKISH air force intends to expand its biannual weapons and tactics course run at its Konya air base, beginning this year, as the basis for a fighter weapons-and-tactics school. The twice-yearly, weapons and tactics course is run by the 132 Filo (Sqn), but the air force wants ...
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Japan rolls out OH-X prototype
KAWASAKI HEAVY Industries (KHI) has rolled out the lead flight prototype of the OH-X - Japan's first indigenously designed military helicopter. The twin-engined scout helicopter is scheduled to have its first flight at KHI's Gifu plant in July, before delivery to the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) in ...
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GE's cost-cutting pays off
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON GENERAL ELECTRIC'S Aircraft Engines business pushed operating profits back above the $1 billion mark in 1995, confirming its place not only as the most profitable of the big three engine makers, but also as one of GE's star performers. In an upbeat annual ...
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STAe picks up a profit
As widely expected, Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) managed to take the edge off its record first-half losses with a modest profit in the second half of the year. The group lost nearly S$49 million ($35 million) in the first six months of 1995, but avoided further damage ...
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Comair acquires low-fare Spirit
COMAIR HOLDINGS, parent company of US regional Comair, has agreed to buy low-fare carrier Spirit Airlines. Eastpointe, Michigan-based Spirit flies ten McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and will be operated separately from Comair, which is a Delta Connection carrier. Spirit is a charter airline, which is expanding into low-fare scheduled ...
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Dassault tackles cabin noise with seat system
Andrew Doyle/PARIS AN INDIVIDUAL SEAT-based active noise-cancellation system for airliners, which eliminates the need for complex acoustic modeling of the cabin, is now under development by French companies Dassault Electronique and Technofirst. The active-noise controller for aircraft seat (ANCAS) system consists of an electronic controller ...
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ESA conducts Envisat tests
MATRA Marconi Space has completed the structural test model of the Envisat Earth-observation polar platform for the European Space Agency (ESA). The model, designed to prove the structural integrity of the spacecraft under launch conditions, is built to full flight standards, complete with dummy units representing the Envisat's ...
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Gulf Air boss calls for action
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE NEW HEAD of Gulf Air, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif al-Nahyan, has reacted swiftly to the severity of the airline's $159 million loss in 1995 by convening an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to seek agreement on measures designed to bring the multi-national carrier back to profitability. ...
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Philippines sets June date for Clark re-opening
THE PHILIPPINES PLANS to re-open the former US Air Force Clark AB to 24h commercial traffic in June, following completion of restoration work and the installation of new approach aids. Clark is being upgraded for Category I operations, with the installation of a new instrument-landing system (ILS) and ...
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USA and Poland expand air-services agreement
THE USA AND POLAND have amended their air-services agreement, to expand route rights and clear the way, for limited codesharing, between Polish and US air carriers. Announcing the new pact, US Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena said that he hopes to "...continue to liberalise our aviation relations with ...
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Safety target
Helping to raise the low levels of airline safety achieved in developing countries should be a principal objective for the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, it was agreed at its annual conference in Dublin, Ireland. The Federation says that 20 major airlines own half of the world's fleet, yet ...
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World Airways offers stake to workers
AIRLINE EMPLOYEES may be offered a stake in World Airways as the parent WorldCorp group looks for options to sell its stake in the US carrier. WorldCorp is looking, at options for spinning off, at least part of its 59.3% stake in the airline. President Charles Pollard confirms ...
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Wilcox fights back after WAAS criticism
WILCOX ELECTRIC "...remains confident of its ability to deliver a Wide Area Augmentation System [WAAS] that meets all of the US Federal Aviation Administration's requirements", says the US-based Thomson-CSF subsidiary In its first public statement since the FAA sent Wilcox a letter threatening cancellation of the troubled air-navigation ...
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Sultan of Brunei adds to fleet with first A340-8000
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI has ordered the first ultra-long-range Airbus A340-8000 to add to his growing VIP fleet of personal jet-powered airliners. It is understood that the aircraft is scheduled for delivery in 1997 and that it will be the first long-haul -8000 ...
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Continental Express order heralds ATR US fightback
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS has ordered eight Aero International (Regional) ATR 42-500s and taken options on a further 12 aircraft, at an estimated cost of $260 million. The order follows a barren spell for ATR in its most lucrative market since the highly publicised crash of an American Eagle ...
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NASA invests in X-34 rescue programme
NASA WILL INVEST $60 million and solicit new proposals from industry and Government in a restructured X-34 technology-demonstration launcher programme. The agency is aiming for a first test flight in 1998. The move follows the collapse of the original Rockwell-Orbital Sciences design-concept study, because the companies said that ...
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AMX grounding lifted as R-R/Fiat check engines
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Rolls-Royce and Fiat Avio have instituted a Spey engine compressor-blade inspection and replacement programme on the Italian air force's AMX combat aircraft, in the wake of an accident which left the aircraft idle from January until 22 March. The crash was attributed to ...
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India finds additional funding for GSLV
THE INDIAN Government has allocated an extra $12 million to finance the purchase of seven flight and two mock-up cryogenic engines and technical equipment from Russia for the upper stage of the planned Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). Russia demanded the originally agreed $21 million payment in dollars ...
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Ukraine cosmonaut to fly on Space Shuttle
UKRAINIAN cosmonauts Leonid Kadenyuk and Vyacheslav Meytrachan have been selected to train in October 1997 for a US Space Shuttle mission, which will carry several national experiments. One - probably Kadenyuk, a former Russian Buran space shuttle trained mission specialist - will make the 16-day mission. The World ...
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Otam? Oh, that Otam...
It is hard not to view the recently signed US-Germany open skies agreement as an example of high German engineering. Like all good designs, it is the details that reveal the craftsmanship. In this case, where most see an agreement between two countries, German air transport officials have designed a ...