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Gulfstream 'close to break-even' with GV orderbook
GULFSTREAM chairman Ted Forstmann says that orders for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet "...will reach break-even by the end of the year". Gulfstream's break-even point is believed to be around 60 aircraft, although the company will admit only to having a GV order backlog "in excess of $2 billion". ...
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Premier I leads planned Raytheon light-jet family
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S Premier I, launched at the NBAA, is the first in a family of light business-jets. Company president Roy Norris says that a Premier II "...is already on the drawing board" and will be followed by a Premier III. The $3.9 million, six-passenger, Premier I is ...
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AlliedSignal predicts business-jet market boom predicted
AROUND 3,500 NEW business jets worth $42 billion will be sold between 1995 and 2005, according to AlliedSignal's annual executive-aircraft outlook, which notes that 25 new or derivative business jets are in development. Between 1,300 and 1,600 new turbofan-powered business aircraft are forecast to be delivered over ...
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Variable nozzle tests planned for PW306
CALCOR AERO Systems, the developer of novel variable-exhaust-nozzle (VEN) and thrust-reverser (TR) designs, has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to demonstrate a combined TR/VEN on the PW306 which will power the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy. The California-based company claims that the combination TR/VEN is ...
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Star Kraft prepares team for launch
STAR KRAFT IS confident of launching full-development of its eight-seat twin-engine aircraft with a team of investors and aerospace companies which is now being formed. Company president Roger Kraft says: "We will know within 90 days whether we will have that team pulled together." The involvement of ...
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Cessna upgrade produces Magnum Edition
CESSNA HAS unveiled a package of avionics, systems and amenities for the basic Citation VII. The upgraded version will be called the Magnum Edition. The concept follows the successful launch of the similar Citation Bravo and Citation Ultra aircraft, and is designed to help stimulate sales of the ...
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Cessna aims Citation X at Hawker 800 market
CESSNA HAS SET ITS Citation X sales sights firmly on the Raytheon Hawker 800 and other similar types in the mid-sized business-jet-replacement market. Cessna says that the larger aircraft's direct operating costs per kilometre are "...guaranteed not to exceed those of the much smaller Raytheon Hawker 800". Cessna ...
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Ryanair plans to raise Prestwick profile with Stansted schedule
IRISH LOW-COST operator Ryanair is linking its successful Dublin-Glasgow Prestwick flights into a new schedule from Prestwick to London Stansted, to be flown four times daily from 26 October. The move brings to three the number of scheduled destinations served from Prestwick - in its heyday Scotland's premier ...
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India and Russia haggle over Su-30MK cash
INDIA IS NEGOTIATING to licence-manufacture the Sukhoi Su-30MK at the Nasik plant of Hindustan Aeronautics, which already produces Mikoyan MiG-29 Floggers. Indian officials have visited the Irkutsk Su-30MK production plant in Russia recently. The Indian air force is satisfied with the aircraft from a technical viewpoint, although negotiations ...
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Concorde faces up to old age
David Learmount/LONDON UK AND FRENCH authorities will decide in 1996 on the modifications required to keep the Concorde flying beyond 2000. The UK Civil Aviation Authority, has been conducting research in association with its French counterpart, the DGAC, the manufacturers and British Airways on the ...
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Big three airframe builders demand IFE standard
THE WORLD'S three largest airframe builders have joined together to warn the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry that it has to standardise hardware or face serious consequences. Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) executives shared a stage at the recent World Airline Entertainment Association conference in Amsterdam to give ...
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Air France recovery derailed by problems
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS A NEW SERIES OF strikes, trouble with Algeria, and a 1.5% drop in traffic during the first five months of its current financial year to 31 March, 1966, are combing to derail Air France's three-year recovery plan. The twin aims of chairman Christian Blanc -to raise ...
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IAI stars in Galaxy production reshuffle
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI), is to build four prototype Astra Galaxy's in Israel, in a bid to maintain the momentum of the business jet project. The programme is around nine months behind schedule, with the first flight of the Galaxy now planned for the fourth quarter of ...
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PC-12 part-shares available
A US COMPANY has launched a fractional-ownership programme offering part shares in the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-12. Massachusetts-based Alpha Flying has ordered five PC-12s for delivery by the end of 1996, and the fractional-ownership company has received its first aircraft, which is being used by Pilatus as a demonstrator. ...
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Soloy delays Dual Pac gearbox certification
CERTIFICATION OF Soloy's Dual Pac combining gearbox, which drives a single propeller, though two Pratt & Whitney PT6D-114D engines, has been delayed to May 1996, while the Washington based company improves the durability of the unit. The Dual Pac was due to be certificated in June 1995, but ...
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Birdstrike is suspected in AWACS crash
A US AIR FORCE BOARD of inquiry is trying to determine why a Boeing-built E-3B Advanced Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance aircraft crashed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, on 22 September. The militarised four-engine Boeing 707 was attempting to take off for a training mission. All 24 aboard, ...
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F-14 Lantirn buy
The US Navy has purchased 75 Lockheed Martin Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) systems for installation on Northrop Grumman F-14 tactical aircraft. The device gives the F-14 a ground attack capability. Including options, the contract is worth as much as $270 million. The initial installment totaled ...
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JAST contract awards
McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin have been awarded US Air Force contracts, worth $65 million and $48 million, respectively, for research leading to integration of advanced power-generation, distribution and utilisation hardware for an integrated ground- and flight-test programme supporting the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) project. Separately, the US Navy ...
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USAir for Madrid
USAir is seeking US Department of Transportation permission to provide non-stop links to Madrid from Philadelphia and Boston. Source: Flight International
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S Korea to field spy aircraft by 2000
AN INTERNATIONAL multi-million dollar competition is under way to supply South Korea with an indigenous airborne intelligence-gathering capability, beginning in three years. The classified project, known in US military circles as Peace Pioneer, will reach a climax this month when South Korea is due to pick the ...