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Boeing will step up 777 output
Boeing will boost 777 production to seven a month in July 1997. The 777 line is rising to three and a half a month by October, and will rise to five a month for the first half of 1997. The company has also announced plans to employ 5,000 ...
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Delta MD-11 flies Olympic torch
DELTA AIR LINES, OFFICIAL AIRLINE of the 1996 Olympic Games, has begun international flights with a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 painted in the Olympic colour scheme. A Boeing 767 is already in service on domestic flights decorated in the same scheme, which incorporates the official "torch" logo of the Games, to ...
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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywell's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is scheduled to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/inertial-reference system in December. It will then be ...
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Smiths HUMS
Smiths Industries Aerospace is to lead a consortium of UK companies in a three-year research and technology demonstrator project examining integrated health and usage monitoring systems. The Government-supported project is particularly looking at the integration issues surrounding several emerging technologies. Source: Flight International
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Ryanair stake
Ryanair has sold a 20% stake to Irish Air, an investment group headed by David Bondiman, US entrepreneur and Continental Airlines chairman. The low-cost Irish airline has been rumoured to be looking for outside investment to fund expansion. Source: Flight International
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VLM sell out
Belgian commuter airline VLM has been acquired by Frevag, an Antwerp-based leasing group which already holds a one-third share in the carrier, but has now increased its stake to 95%. VLM was founded in 1993 by the Van Gaever family. Source: Flight International
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Appleton amphibious
Tom Appleton has moved from his post of vice-president of Bombardier Regional Aircraft division (BRAD) to president of the company's Amphibious Aircraft division. A former test and development pilot at de Havilland Canada, Appleton joined Bombardier as executive vice-president of the Canadair Regional Jet programme in 1991, and took up ...
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Express postpones
Virgin Express has been forced to postpone the introduction of its new scheduled service between Brussels and Geneva (Switzerland) that was to begin on 2 September as the Swiss authorities have objected to the company's low fare policy. The authorities had suggested Virgin Express would link its low fare, which ...
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Brake out
China Southern Airlines, Airtours of the UK and Denmark's Premiair have selected Messier-Bugatti Sepcarb III third-generation carbon brakes worth $20 million for their Airbus A320 fleets. China Southern will take delivery of ten aircraft in 1997, while Airtours and its subsidiary Premiair will retrofit their fleets. Air China, meanwhile, has ...
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Kiwi fleet
Kiwi International is now allowed to operate all 15 of its aircraft. Four Boeing 727s had been taken out of service because of US Federal Aviation Administration concerns over the new airline entrant's pilot training. Two of the four aircraft were returned to service in late July and the other ...
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USA/Colombia accord
The USA and Colombia have hammered out a new aviation bilateral deal which gives US and Colombian carriers new rights, and cancels threatened sanctions. The accord remains in effect for two years. American Airlines will be allowed to operate three weekly New York-Bogota round-trip frequencies. It may also shift up ...
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Space nine
A team of nine astronauts from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Sweden have joined NASA's 1996 candidate group for training at Houston, Texas, primarily for space-station missions. Three have already been flown on the Space Shuttle as payload specialists. Source: ...
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Space links
Loral Space and Communications will introduce a space-based navigation and positioning service in 1998. The Loral Integrated Navigation and Communications Satellite Services (LINCSS) will use the company's 48-satellite Globalstar mobile telecommunications service and the global-positioning system (GPS) satellite network to provide an accuracy of a few millimetres, says the company, ...
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Launch contract
Arianespace has won its fifteenth contract this year, to launch the MMS-built ST-1 communications satellite for Singapore Telecom and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, in 1998. Arianespace has 41 satellites in its outstanding orderbook and will launch the V91/Ariane 42P on 10 September with the Loral-built Echostar 2 satellite. Source: ...
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Panther leaps
Delivery of the first of five Eurocopter AS565 Panther helicopters to the Israeli navy began in August. The Panthers will replace the navy's AS366 Dauphin. Source: Flight International
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Boeing's £6 billion bonanza
Boeing Commercial Airplane set the show alight yesterday with the announcement of 68 jetliner orders worth $6.3 billion. The company also revealed it is to launch a new version of the 757 twinjet - the 757-300 which will seat 20 per cent more passengers than the 757-200. Launch ...
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Blown away
Hurricane Edouard, diminishing in intensity, is now headed for Nova Scotia after pounding Cape Cod. The eastern part of the Cape and Nantucket island were hardest hit, with widespread power cuts and coastal flooding. Source: Flight Daily News
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What a winner
Flight Daily News reporter Karen Walker scooped the competition when she became a double winner in the Royal Aeronautical Society's aviation journalist of the year awards. Source: Flight Daily News
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Flying display
Today's flying display (current at time of going to press) 14.00-16.30: A340; Kamov KA50; Embraer 145; Firefly; Tornado; Super Tucano Hawk 100; Eurofighter 2000; Tornado GR1; Gripen; Harrier GR7; Aero L59; Grob 115TA; F18 Hornet; Yak 52; Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; Dassault Falcon 900; F16; ZLIN 242; MiG ...
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Traffic control...the road to a breakdown?
It might be on the roads rather than in the air, but traffic control at Farnborough ‘96 is a complex business. For TNT Showfreight, the official freight and logistics agent, the week of the show is the culmination of months of careful planning. Handling the estimated 100,000 cars ...