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Finland pools defence around F-18 assembly
FINLAND PLANS TO bring together its national defence industry into a new state-owned company, whose activities will include assembly of the country's McDonnell Douglas F-18s. The F-18 work had been handled by the aviation division of Valmet, a broad-based industrial group, which has decided to refocus on core ...
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Falcon battles with Phantom in Turkey
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV LOCKHEED MARTIN is offering several F-16 options to Turkey in an attempt to derail Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom upgrade programme, which has run into political and financial difficulties. It is understood that ...
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Pilot fatigue caused Coventry crash
PILOT FATIGUE, combined with a disregard for a published minimum decision height, caused the fatal 21 December, 1994, Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 freighter crash on the approach to Coventry Airport in the UK, according to the official report. The aircraft had been on a surveillance-radar approach (SRA), ...
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World first
NASA has completed testing on the world's first lightweight, high-strength, graphite-epoxy composite cryogenic tank designed for flight. It will be installed aboard the McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper Experimental Advanced (DC-XA) single-stage-to-orbit technology-demonstration vehicle, which will have its first test flight from White Sands, New Mexico, in about June. The tank ...
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Milstar first
The US Joint Chiefs of Staff opened a new age in satellite communications, sending a message halfway across the world via the cross-link antennae on the Milstar Block 1 Development Flight Satellites 1 and 2, without relying on ground-relay stations. Source: Flight International
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AIROD props UP C-130H
Airod of Malaysia has signed an accord with Turbo-power and Zetro Services, to establish an Allison T56 and 501 turbo-prop engine-repair and overhaul centre. The joint venture will be geared primarily to supporting the Malaysian air force's 14 Lockheed Martin C-130H/-30s. Source: Flight International
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Second F-18E/F
McDonnell Douglas flew the second F-18E/F on 3 January. The single-seat aircraft, E2, will be used for propulsion testing. The first aircraft E1 (flown on 29 November 1995) is being used for envelope expansion. The E1 and E2 will be flown to the Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, in ...
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Firm Falcon
Lockheed Martin says that it opened 1996 with a firm backlog of 412 F-16s for delivery by the year 2000. The 3,500th F-16 was delivered in 1995. The backlog does not include six F-16s included in the disputed 1996 US defence budget, which were to be the first of up ...
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Nosing forward
BFGoodrich Aerospace has received a $15 million contract to produce nose landing-gear for McDonnell Douglas C-17s number 41 to 120, with deliveries beginning in 1997. Source: Flight International
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KLM completes on Kenya
KLM has finalised the acquisition of its 26% share in Kenya Airways for an investment of $26 million. KLM managing director Rob Abrahamsen and vice-president of passenger sales Dries van Luyk will join the Kenya Airways board. Source: Flight International
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Fokker share falls
Italian aerospace group Finmeccanica has seen the value of its stake in Fokker, once seen as the precursor to a strategic alliance, virtually cut in half. Finmeccanica paid L52 billion ($33 million) for a 6% holding in 1991, but, after the take-over of the troubled Dutch manufacturer by the Daimler-Benz ...
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BAA enters Italy
UK airport operator the BAA, has signed a deal, which could give it control of Italy's fourth-largest airport, at Naples. Under a preliminary agreement signed on 8 January, BAA will be able to take a majority stake in airport operator Gesac. Source: Flight International
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RAF winner
Sgt Andy Whittle has won the Flight International-sponsored category of the Royal Air Force's 1995 photographic competition with a picture entitled "Cutting edge" (above). The category, for the best aircraft or equipment image, was taken at RAF Lyneham. Source: Flight International
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Aviall
Robert Lambert, chairman of Aviall's board, has been named president and chief executive of Aviall of Dallas, Texas. Lambert replaces Marshall Taylor, who has resigned. Lambert led Dallas-based Aviall and its predecessor companies from 1973 until his retirement in 1992, when he became a consultant to Ryder System's worldwide aviation ...
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AAR
AAR Oklahoma of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has announced that James Whaylen has been promoted to director of business-aviation maintenance services. Whaylen was manager of business-aviation service sales. David Chapman is promoted to Whaylen's former position. Source: Flight International
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Shuttle launch seen from U-2
UNIQUE high-resolution bird's-eye views of a Space Shuttle launch were taken from a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft circling over the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at an altitude of 20,000ft (6,100m), 8km (4nm) clear of the Shuttle's flight path. NASA commissioned the recently released photographs of the STS30/Atlantis launch on 4 ...
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Russia follows international statistics line
Russia will need to amend its statistical base to bring it into line with international norms. Traditionally, with no private or business aviation in Soviet times, the accident statistics included all civil aviation aero clubs; aircraft carrying personnel or cargo for industry and operated by that industry, helicopters and aircraft ...
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Final m-55 nears completion
RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT builder Myasischev is trying to complete assembly of a final M-55 high-altitude aircraft, in part to replace the aircraft which was lost at Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in June 1995. The aircraft pictured is in the final stages of assembly, although company officials admit that funding shortages are hampering ...
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Kenya buys VIP Fokker
FOKKER HAS DELIVERED a corporate version of the Fokker 70 regional jet to the Kenyan Government for VIP transportation. The aircraft, modified with the addition of extra fuels tanks to extend its range to 6,300km (3,400nm) is the third Executive Jet 70 delivered by the Dutch manufacturer. The Dutch Government ...
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Lufthansa
The Lufthansa supervisory board has appointed Friedel Rodig as the group's authorised co-operation coordinator. Rodig, who has been with Lufthansa since 1966, will become responsible for the co-ordination of alliances and co-operation agreements. His successor as marketing coordinator will be Frederick Reid, hitherto area manager for North and South America. ...