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Air UK Leisure signs for Airbus
AIR UK LEISURE has signed a contract with GE Capital Aviation Services for the lease of three Airbus A320-200s, replacing its Boeing 737-400 fleet from April (Flight International, 14-21 February). Three of the seven Boeing aircraft have already gone to ModiLuft in India, with the remaining four due to ...
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Wiring hitch hits F-16 MLU plans
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA WORKMANSHIP problems with wire harnesses in five F-16A/B Mid-Life Update (MLU) flight-test aircraft modified by Lockheed Martin are seriously threatening plans to begin operational test and evaluation in Europe in May. Fort Worth, Texas-based Lockheed Martin says that below-specification solder joints on some ...
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Alpi Eagles ready for domestic service
ITALIAN CORPORATE-aircraft operator Alpi Eagles is undergoing a major transformation into a domestic airline. Owned by some of the biggest industrialists in northern Italy, including Diesel, Marzotto, Sopaf, Stefanel, Zanussi and Zucchini, the company is planning to begin scheduled operations at the end of April. The Veneto region ...
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Canadian airlines seek upswing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON CANADA'S TWO MAIN airlines struggled to deliver their promised profit improvements in 1995, but the heads of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines believe that recovery will come this year as the effects of capacity expansion and cost-cutting show through. Canadian Airlines International saw ...
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NASA tests synthetic-vision landing system
NASA has completed flight tests of a synthetic-vision landing system planned for the next-generation supersonic transport (SST). Landings were conducted using video and infra-red (IR) sensor images for guidance. Pilot feedback from the tests is "very encouraging", says Mike Lewis, manager of flightdeck systems for NASA's High-Speed Research (HSR) programme. ...
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MD-11 overhaul
Swissair Technical Services is performing its first McDonnell Douglas MD-11 major over haul at its Zurich base. The work includes increasing the aircraft's maximum take-off weight to 286,000kg, aerodynamic modifications, installation of lightweight, composite, cabin/ cargo-hold floor panels and replacement of wing engine-pylon upper-spar caps. Source: Flight International
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Condor the favourite as launch customer for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESKevin O'Toole/LONDON GERMAN CHARTER airline Condor is expected to sign up as the launch customer for Boeing's proposed 757-300X, the long-anticipated stretched version of the 200-seat twinjet. Boeing and Condor are in negotiations over the terms of the launch, which could come as early as ...
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Faucett 737: engine emergency ruled out
THE PRESIDENT OF Peruvian carrier Faucett Airlines, which lost a Boeing 737-200 on approach to Lima Arequipa Airport, has denied engine failure and airborne-explosion reports, saying that investigators have determined that both engines were operating at impact. The aircraft crashed about 2km (1nm) from the runway threshold ...
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USAF invites offers for new bomb-dispenser
PLANNING FOR A NEW dispenser-weapon programme is under way within the US Air Force. The service has issued a request for information on captive-dispenser technology and plans to award competitive advanced-development contracts in the fourth quarter of 1997. The captive dispenser is intended to be carried internally in ...
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Battle of the giants is predicted by Boeing
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING'S GROWING family of large wide-bodies will be in competition with the Airbus A3XX in a market, which could be worth as much as $254 billion over the next 20 years, according to the US manufacturer's latest long-term forecasts. Boeing's 1996 Current ...
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Boeing assists Taiwan with leasing company
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOEING IS HELPING Taiwan Aerospace (TAC) with plans to establish a major new international aircraft-leasing company, specialising in placing narrow-body airliners into the Far East market. The US manufacturer is understood to have dispatched consultant and former GPA head James King to Taiwan ...
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Cessna flies widebody Excel
CESSNA FLEW ITS PROTOTYPE Citation Excel "wide-body" light business jet for the first time on 29 February, two weeks ahead of schedule. Certification and first deliveries are planned for the first quarter of 1998. Cessna says that it has sold 88 Excels and is increasing production in 1999 and 2000 ...
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S-92 may be powered by RTM322
SIKORSKY'S S-92 Helibus may be powered by the Turbomeca-Rolls-Royce RTM322 turbo shaft engine, according to officials of the US and UK companies. Although the S-92 is being offered with the General Electric CT7-6D and CT7-8 power plants, provisions are being made for the RTM322, should a customer desire ...
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Win some, lose some
The US DoD's 1997 budget request represents a 6% decline in defence spending. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US Department of Defense (DoD) has sent to Capitol Hill a fiscal year 1997 budget request which represents a 6% decline in Pentagon spending from the previous year's ...
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Asian destinations
Japan Airlines and Vietnam Airlines will launch four joint code-sharing flights a week between Kansai and Ho Chi Minh from 1 April. The two flag carriers each already operate three independent flights a week on the same route. Cathay Pacific Airways in the meantime has launched a code-sharing flight with ...
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United attacks 777 reliability
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has unleashed a fierce attack on the reliability of its newly acquired Boeing 777s. A letter from a senior United executive to Boeing, dated 13 February, called the aircraft's reliability and performance a "major disappointment". Within 24h of ...
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Schweizer delays delivery of Twin Condor spy craft to US Coast Guard
DELIVERY OF Schweizer Aircraft's RU-38A Twin Condor surveillance aircraft to the US Coast Guard (USCG) has been delayed by between six and eight months because of design flaws discovered during flight-testing of the twin-boom aircraft, says Paul Schweizer, the firm's president. The first of three low-cost, long-range ...
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Transaero on market for 737s and 767s
TRANSAERO, THE Russian independent airline, has invited leasing companies to tender for the supply of "three or four" Boeing 767s plus additional Boeing 737s to operate on additional routes to be served by the airline. Arrangements to lease three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s have been completed with American Airlines ...
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'Major disappointment': what O'Gorman wrote
Dear Ron United's 777 reliability and performance has been a major disappointment during the past few months. I am very concerned, and would like to ensure that Boeing and United are taking any and all actions necessary to fix these significant problems as soon as possible. The ...
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GKN Westland picks US Army Apache as testbed for RTM322
GKN WESTLAND intends to use a US Army McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) AH-64D Longbow Apache as the engine-integration test-bed for the Rolls-Royce/Turbom,ca RTM322 rather than the first UK Army Air Corps WAH-64D to be built. The decision was one of the last substantive issues holding up the ...