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Seat certification
Negotiation on whether cabin seats in the Astra SPX should meet new 16g crashworthiness standards is delaying US certification of Israel Aircraft Industries' upgraded business jet, and holding up delivery of the first aircraft to a US customer. Israel has already certificated the Astra SPX using seat rules applied to ...
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Five operators compete for 1996 Atlanta Olympics service
Karen Walker/ATLANTA FIVE US HELICOPTER operators have submitted bids to provide a short-haul transport service in the Atlanta, Georgia, area when the city hosts the 1996 Olympic Games. Organisers are not revealing the names of bidders for the project, known as the Atlanta Short-Haul Transportation ...
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Golf lease
Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services has sold a new Boeing 737-300, specially configured by Zurich, Switzerland-based Jet Aviation, to Malaysian golf resort Country Heights. The company has also announced the lease of a new 737-300 to Yunnan Airlines of China from early 1996, increasing its fleet to nine aircraft. Silk Air ...
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BAe courts Australia over missile order
BRITISH AEROSPACE IS offering Australia local assembly of the Sea Skua helicopter-launched anti-ship missile (ASM), as part of its bid to secure a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) order. The RAN is looking for a new missile as part of its larger requirement for 14 shipboard helicopters. The Sea ...
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Lufthansa and BAe set up joint-venture company
Andrzej Jeziorski/BERLIN LUFTHANSA AND British Aerospace have established a new joint-venture company to run Avro RJ85 regional-jet simulator and classroom training at Lufthansa's Flight Training Centre at Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. The company, established on 12 December as City Line Avro Simulator and Training, will offer training for ...
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Galileo probe transmits data from Jupiter's atmosphere
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE 340kg GALILEO probe plunged into the atmosphere of Jupiter on 7 December at a latitude of about 6¡N, and at an initial speed of 170,000km/h. It was the first man-made contact with the planet. The main spacecraft became the first to enter Jovian orbit. ...
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Irish connection
AIR BRISTOL SUBSIDIARY AB Shannon inaugurated a twice-daily service between London Gatwick and Shannon on 7 December, responding to demand for additional capacity between London and the mid-west of Ireland. The new service, flown with a BAC One-Eleven leased from Bournemouth-based European Aviation, is receiving the full start-up support of ...
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ISO images transmitted back to Earth
THE FIRST IMAGES from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Infra-red Space Observatory (ISO), launched on 17 November, have been received successfully from the spacecraft's four sensitive instruments. The first infra-red image of the M51 spiral galaxy, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, show the spiral structure and other ...
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Air Macau expected to add Airbuses
Brett Hannan/MACAU START-UP CARRIER Air Macau expects to add two narrow body aircraft a year to its fleet for the next five years. The new aircraft will almost certainly be additional Airbus A320s and A321s, says airline marketing executive Dominic Ching. Air Macau, which now operates ...
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Hughes signs official ICO launch deal
ICO GLOBAL Communications, an affiliate company of Inmarsat, has officially signed a $925 million contract with Hughes Space Communications International to supply and manage launch services for 12 ICO satellites to provide worldwide, hand-held telephone, mobile-communications services. Hughes is ICO's first strategic partner and owns a $94 million investment share. ...
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Andean satellite
Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela have signed an agreement to invest in the creation of the Simon Bolivar Telecommunications Multinational Enterprise to develop a $300 million Andean communications satellite. Source: Flight International
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High development costs take the shine out of GEC profits
UNEXPECTEDLY HIGH development costs again left GEC's defence and electronics division showing flat profits over the first half of its financial year. The division, most of which falls within GEC-Marconi, held pre-tax profits at £80 million ($120 million) for the six months to the end of September, while ...
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BA boardroom shuffle focuses on alliances
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS chief executive designate Bob Ayling has unveiled his keenly anticipated boardroom reshuffle, apparently putting the emphasis on managing the carrier's alliance strategy. The number of senior executives reporting directly to the chief executive has been slimmed down, from 25 to only 11 ...
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Europe agrees on ground-handling
Julian Moxon/PARIS IN A LANDMARK decision, European transport ministers have agreed to a full liberalisation of the region's airport ground-handling from 1 January 2003. Germany and Austria have refused to sign the agreement, but will still be bound by the decision, which is expected to ...
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Pilots pave way for Delta low-cost plan
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots' union, which would enable it to establish a low-cost, short-haul, operation to compete with carriers such as ValuJet Airlines. The accord is contingent on the pilots signing a wider agreement designed to reduce Delta's overall costs, ...
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Westinghouse defence unit is up for auction
AEROSPACE ANALYSTS expect a short, sharp, bidding war for Westinghouse Electric's defence-electronics business, due to go on the auction block to help fund the group's recent expansion into television broadcasting. The defence unit, which makes military radar and air-traffic-control equipment, could go for more than $2 billion, believe ...
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Bombardier expands in Montreal
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL BOMBARDIER HAS opened a training centre in Montreal as part of a strategy to double its annual aerospace sales to C$6 billion ($4 billion) by 2000. Canadian simulator manufacturer CAE Electronics provided two-thirds of the financing for the C$108 million Bombardier Aerospace Training Centre, ...
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US aerospace industry sees an upturn ahead
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US AEROSPACE industry is on course for an upturn in 1996, after four consecutive years of falling sales, according to year-end predictions from the US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). AIA president Don Fuqua forecasts that the industry will re-emerge leaner and ...
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Video-recorder failures hurt F-18 operators
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FINLAND HAS BOUGHT several TEAC cockpit video-recorders to allow training to begin on the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18, after its first aircraft were delivered without recorders because of numerous failures experienced with the planned Precision Echo (PE) equipment. Failure rates of 75-90% have ...
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Aster a hit
Eurosam's Aster 30 short-range surface-to-air missile has scored a direct hit on a simulated low-flying supersonic missile at a range of less than 3.5km (2nm) from the firing unit. The test took place in December at the French national test centre in the Centre d'Essais des Landes, near Bordeaux. The ...