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Air Liberte takes over Euralair routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has made the first move towards consolidating France's privately owned airlines with an agreement to take over the scheduled routes of Euralair. Euralair president Alexander Couvelaire calls the deal with Air Liberte "the opening shot in the regrouping of private-airline forces in ...
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UK questions RAF CASOM contenders on potential commonality advantages
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) has asked all seven contenders for the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) requirement what advantages would accrue from commonality if a second nation procured a similar system. A letter to all bidders for Staff Requirement ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...
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JAA may reduce safety margins
David Learmount/LONDON A CRUCIAL European decision on airliner-cabin emergency-exit design, is expected to be announced on 12 December, is set to derail the US/European regulatory-harmonisation process. The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) conclusion, by exploiting a regulatory loophole, may lead to a reduction of safety margins for ...
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GEC-Marconi denies radar cancellation
GEC-MARCONI IS denying reports from Manila that the Philippine Government has cancelled a recently signed contract for four surveillance radars. The Philippine press has reported that President Ramos has ordered that the radar deal be revoked and new tenders requested, after Senator Sergio Osmena alleged that the 3.5 ...
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DAT delivery
Sabena has taken delivery of the first two of 23 Avro RJ85s ordered earlier this year in a $500 million deal with the British Aerospace subsidiary. The aircraft will be used by Sabena commuter subsidiary Delta Air Transport (DAT) in Europe. Deliveries to Sabena will continue until 1998. Avro has ...
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Northwest crew is punished for Brussels miscue
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has taken stern action against the flight deck crew of a Frankfurt-bound McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, which landed at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. Northwest has completed its internal probe of the incident, which has resulted in the captain "taking early retirement" the first officer ...
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Canadian agrees on further cost cuts
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has reached a 38-month agreement with its 3,100 ticket agents, airport agents and crew schedulers to reduce costs by more than C$17 million ($13 million) a year. The carrier's pilots, dispatchers and simulator technicians have all signed agreements, which are expected to save the airline ...
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Boeing strike talks resume
BOEING AND ITS striking workers resumed stalled talks on 6 December, as the impact of the two-month-old stoppage mounted on customers and suppliers. Major Boeing subcontractor Northrop Grumman has announced that it will extend its scheduled holiday plant shutdowns by four to nine days, idling more than 6,000 employees, "...to ...
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JPATS rejection
Rockwell International's protest against selection of the Raytheon Aircraft Beech MkII for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) has been rejected by the US General Accounting Office. A ruling on Cessna Aircraft's JPATS, protest is expected to be made, by February 1996. Source: Flight ...
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GE/Allison wins JAST backing
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)/Allison team has received a $7 million contract to begin work on an alternative engine for the four-service strike-fighter to be developed under the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. Initial funding covers feasibility studies into derivatives of GE's current F110 and advanced ...
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Hunter cleared for new tests
THE TRW/ISRAEL Aircraft Industries (IAI), Hunter Joint Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), has been cleared to resume flight-testing. The beleaguered $4.2 billion US Army/Navy project is threatened with cancellation after three crashes caused the UAV to be grounded in August. Project officials say that the accidents were caused ...
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Satellite States
LAST WEEK'S Franco-German deal over observation satellites is significant for the European space industry and, it is to be hoped, for the missiles industry as well. Its deeper significance, however, is that the deal finally ends a damaging stalemate between France and Germany, which was threatening to block progress on ...
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Eurofighter partners finalise re-orientation
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMANY, ITALY, Spain and the UK have signed the long-overdue re-oriented development contract for the Eurofighter 2000 programme. The new contract formalises changes in the programme structure introduced with the downgrading and extension of the programme in 1992. Eurofighter says that the ...
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Helios link boosts Franco/ German restructuring
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE AND Germany have agreed to co-operate on the development of military-observation satellites, unblocking the path for a wide-ranging alliance covering satellites and missiles between Daimler-Benz Aero-space (DASA) and Aerospatiale. The deal, signed at the Franco-German summit between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and ...
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Missile venture
Aerospatiale is negotiating to establish a local joint venture to support its MM38 and MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles in service with the Royal Malaysian Navy and other countries in the region. Support equipment has already been transferred to Malaysia's Lumut naval dockyard. Source: Flight International
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Jet Aviation's success in outfitting
Sir - The main reason for Jet Aviation's success in outfitting and customising aircraft interiors is missed in Julian Moxon's article "An inside story" (Flight International, 22-28 November). In the 1970s and 1980s, as chief pilot of a presidential flight of five business jets, I had experience of ...
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English speakers must learn anew
Sir - In reply to Eric Mowrey's letter (Flight International, 29 November-5 December, P51), I am an aviation professional and native English speaker, resident and employed abroad. English has become the lingua franca of international aviation, but this does not excuse the attitude that non-native English speakers in ...
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People come before economic theories
Sir - Your Comment "Striking a balance"(Flight International, 18-24 October) mentions the "job exporting" consequences of pro-European/pro-global theories about which we read so regularly. The conclusion that "...a job is only a job as long as there is an economic case for that job to be done" is ...
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The dangers of down-wind turns
Sir - Although not always accepted by the flying establishment, the danger of the "down-wind-turn" phenomenon is accepted by pilots of light aircraft and gliders. The effect may be seen, as birds circle in windy conditions, when the rapid loss of height as the bird turns down-wind, becomes obvious. ...