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Swedish SH37 Viggen crashes photographing...
Swedish SH37 Viggen crashes photographing new Russian cruiser IN AN EPISODE reminiscent of the Cold War, a Swedish air force reconnaissance aircraft crashed on 16 October while on a low-level pass over a new Russian cruiser at sea for the first time. The Saab SH37 Viggen ...
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. . . as newcomers target local Japan market
TWO PRIVATE Japanese companies have announced plans to launch new domestic airlines. This move follows recent initiatives by the transport ministry to liberalise parts of the country's over-regulated airline industry, which carries 75 million passengers annually, and is the second-largest domestic market in the world. Cut-rate Japanese ...
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Deutsche BA undergoes major revamp
DEUTSCHE BA HAS announced a major restructuring, which will see the fast- growing, but loss-making, British Airways subsidiary withdraw from unprofitable international routes and expand its domestic network. The move follows the carrier's decision to sell its turboprop operation to France's Regional Airlines, dispose of its five Fokker ...
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Kiwi International forced to suspend operations
KIWI International suspended flight operations on 15 October after failing to gain a cash infusion from investors. The US airline had filed for bankruptcy protection two weeks before, and cut services, blaming high debts and the fall-out on other low-cost start-ups from the ValuJet crash. Kiwi has struggled ...
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NTSB urges 737 rudder changes
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is urging the US Federal Aviation Administration to require that Boeing make various changes to the design of 737 rudder-control and system components. Three of 14 NTSB recommendations would require Boeing 737 design changes, and ...
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From Many to Few
IT IS, AS WINSTON Churchill might have put it, not so much the beginning of the end, as the end of the beginning. Aerospatiale is to merge with Dassault, and now Thomson is to be sold to Lagardere. The French Government has made the two biggest decisions in privatising its ...
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Untangling Thomson
There is all to play for as the privatisation of Thomson-CSF begins. Kevin O'toole/LONDON ON 16 OCTOBER, the Lagadere group was named by the French Government as its favoured bidder in the privatisation of Thomson. In doing so, it started the dice rolling in what promises to ...
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Ruhe plays roulette with EF2000 funds
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE FOUR EUROFIGHTER partner nations face a minimum additional DM500 million ($325 million) bill and a further year's delay, as well as serious political recriminations, unless Germany can resolve its budgetary crisis by the end of the year. Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and the ...
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Government delays TAP Air Portugal aircraft order
THE PORTUGUESE Government has postponed at the last minute its decision on whether Airbus or Boeing will supply 22 new medium-haul aircraft for state-owned TAP Air Portugal. An announcement had been due on 18 October, but this has been delayed by a week. TAP will not reveal ...
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America West A320 order is revamped
AMERICA WEST Airlines has concluded an agreement with Airbus Industrie to revise its A320 order, which will see it taking ten additional aircraft, as A319s or A321s under "better financial terms and conditions". According to the agreement, the carrier's existing order backlog for 24 A320s has been reconfirmed, ...
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Ban lifted
The Russian Government has issued a five-year waiver for customs fees for the Boeing 757s operated by Baikal Air of Irkutsk and McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s flown by Kras Air of Krasnoyarsk. Baikal leased its 757 in 1994 from US company IRLC, and since then, local customs authorities arrested the aircraft ...
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Hamilton
High-technology company Hamilton Standard, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, has appointed Michael Ratchford vice-president for quality and environmental health and safety He was previously director of commercial-customer service. Gregory DeSantis has become vice-president and general manager for worldwide customer support. He was formerly vice-president of operations and has been with Hamilton ...
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Upgrade components
THE CORE OF THE INTEGRATED vehicle and mission management system (IVMMS) is made up of two commercial systems processors (SPs), with "militarised" software. The SP's hardware is based on that of the Lockheed Martin C-130J, with 85% software commonality. The SPs dual-redundant Mil-Std - 1553B data buses ...
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Inchon incoming
Seoul is struggling to meet targets for its new airport. Paul Lewis/SEOUL THE GROWING IMPORTANCE of Asia as a world economic powerhouse is best illustrated by the fact there are no less than four major new international airports, either being planned or built in the ...
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Debonair expansion
New UK low-cost carrier Debonair will introduce flights from London/Luton to Rome's Ciampino Airport on 21 November. Source: Flight International
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Noisy phase out
The US Federal Aviation Administration reports that US air carriers are ahead of schedule in phasing out noisier Stage 2 aircraft such as the Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The number of Stage 2 aircraft in service declined in 1995, from 2,250 to 2,048. By 31 December, 1996, airlines ...
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...