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Snecma declines Trent 900 partnership offer
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat has rejected a Rolls-Royce offer to join in development of its Trent 900 engine for the forthcoming ultra-large capacity aircraft. "Our natural loyalties rest with General Electric," he says, adding that R-R is already a competitor on small, medium and large power plants ."It ...
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SATENA orders three Fairchild Dornier 328s
State-owned Columbian domestic airline Servicio de Aereonavegacion a Territorios Nacionales (Satena) has placed an order for three Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops as part of a fleet modernisation programme. The company has ordered the 328-120 version, with improved hot-and-high performance, to allow services to small fields at remote ...
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CAAC refusal on Airbus forces Xinjiang to turn to Boeing fleet
Paul Lewis/BEIJING China's Xinjiang Airlines is waiting for central Government approval to order up to 15 new Boeing 737s and 757s after being refused permission to purchase Airbus A320/A321s. The Urumqi-based carrier urgently needs new aircraft to revamp its fleet and to phase out older Russian-built ...
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ATP offers electronic logbook
Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) has introduced an electronic logbook system that will enable repair stations to schedule, track and record aircraft maintenance activities. The ATP Maintenance Director is designed to run on networked personal computers, replaces paperwork with single-entry updates and supports proposed electronic record-keeping requirements. "The ATP ...
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Garuda to float shares in 1998
Delivery of A330s has been pushed back as Garuda prepares to float Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The long-delayed privatisation of flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is now planned for December 1998, according to the country's finance minister Marie Muhammad. The size of the initial public offering remains ...
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Surgeon's cut helps heal ailing Kiwi
The resurrection of Kiwi International Airlines now appears assured, but the saviour who eventually stepped forward to rescue the bankrupt low-cost US carrier came from an unexpected direction. On 26 November, with Newark-based Kiwi facing imminent liquidation, Wasatach International, the investment group and cruise-line owner, re-entered the ...
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September profit as Lufthansa ends poor year
Lufthansa recovered some of its poise in the September quarter with a steady profits performance, but doubts that its full-year results will be able to match the record earnings of 1995. The group suffered an unexpected tumble in profits during the first half of 1996 as the anticipated ...
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Meridiana fights for profit with cost cutting and employee share scheme
Meridiana Is Cutting Its DC-9 Fleet But Adding MD-82 Italy's second-largest airline, Meridiana, is fighting to stay in profit as high operating costs and declining domestic traffic threaten major losses in 1997. The carrier made a L25 billion ($16.5 million) pre-tax profit in 1995, but expects ...
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UNC grows again
UNC has completed the acquisition of the Stearns Company, a components supplier to Boeing in Seattle Washington. Stearns will be integrated into UNC's existing aero-structures unit which is also located in Seattle. Both companies have long-term manufacturing contracts with Boeing for the 777 and for the latest-generation 737. UNC expects ...
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Sextant Avionique pins hopes on its ATM business
Julian Moxon/Paris Sextant Avionique expects its fast-growing air-traffic-management (ATM)-systems business to net more than a one-third share of the market and add nearly Fr500 million ($100 million) in sales by the end of the century. Sextant and its parent, Thomson-CSF, launched a major initiative at ...
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Viasa plans await employee approval
Julia Hayley/MADRID Iberia's plan for restructuring loss-making Venezuelan airline Viasa, which includes cuts to jobs and routes, has been approved by the other major shareholders, but must now be cleared by the employees by 15 January. Iberia put forward the plan in a bid to recover ...
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Virgin Express plans 25-aircraft order
Virgin Express has opened talks with manufacturers over its fleet-renewal plans, which could see the European low-fares airline take up to 25 new aircraft over the next five years. The Brussels-based airline is looking at options to acquire Boeing 737-700s, Airbus A319/ 320s or McDonnell Douglas MD-80/95s, says ...
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Raising the singles bar
Cirrus, with its SR20, sets the style for revitalisation of the USGA industry- -while Cessna delivers on its promise to put piston singles back in production New-production piston-singles are being taken off the endangered-species list as designs old and new become available. Graham ...
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Near enough?
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has investigated the reliability of the global- positioning system (GPS), and found it wanting. GPS, it says, is not reliable enough, in its current form, to be used as a sole means of navigation. In this, the CAA is at odds with the single most ...
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757 prepared for F-22 testbed
Boeing has flown its flight-test 757 to Wichita, Kansas, for modification into an avionics development testbed for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 air-superiority fighter. The 757 will be fitted with an F-22 forward fuselage, under construction at Lockheed Martin's Marietta site in Georgia. The aft section of the same fuselage will ...
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Safety fears put back UAV's first flight tests
The first flight of the Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV) has been delayed by a month because of safety concerns. The US Department of Defense's UAV Joint Programme Office says: "The delay is primarily to allow additional risk-mitigation efforts to ensure a safe first flight." ...
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Sikorsky supports BD-10 unmanned target for USN
Sikorsky has agreed to provide financial support to Monitor Jet, which plans to produce the Bede BD-10 jet-powered kitplane in Canada as a low-cost trainer and unmanned target drone. The agreement, to provide manufacturing and marketing support, is part of Sikorsky's bid to win the Canadian Search-and-rescue Helicopter programme. ...
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Israel/Ukraine work on Ethiopian upgrade
Israel and Ukraine are proposing jointly to upgrade Ethiopian air force Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighters. The service wants to upgrade 18 of its MiG-21MFs. It is not known whether all the aircraft are airworthy. The talks came to light when four Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) managers involved in ...
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P&W low-observable nozzle tested on F-16
Lockheed Martin has ground-tested a Pratt & Whitney low-observable axisymmetric nozzle (LOAN) on an F-16 and is planning flight tests. The LOAN, developed for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office, features shaping, cooling and coatings to reduce radar and infra-red signature. Improved cooling also promises to more than double ...
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Bayern-Chemie studies double-pulse rocket motor
Rocket motor specialist Bayern-Chemie, a joint venture of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and Thomson-CSF, is investigating a double-pulse rocket motor for the German HFK hypersonic missile programme. HFK, led jointly by DASA and Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik (BGT), aims to create a weapons system which has the firepower of a main ...