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Iraq reveals capability to manufacture Scud engine
Allan George/LONDON IRAQ HAS ADMITTED to United Nations officials that it had manufactured its own Scud rocket engines, throwing into question Baghdad's present missile-engineering capabilities. The Iraqis claim that they acquired the capability to build the engines by reverse engineering. It had been known that ...
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Singapore and Taiwan agree $200 million satellite deal
SINGAPORE AND Taiwan have agreed to develop jointly a $200 million commercial television, telephony and data-communications satellite system, to be inaugurated in 1998. Singapore had earlier planned to develop its own system, with six geostationary orbital slots reserved. The country's technological university has also signed a $7.7 million ...
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Flying firefighters
The London fire service has been conducting an extensive trial in the use of helicopter air support. Brian Walters/LONDON EVERY WORKING DAY, about 2.5 million motor vehicles enter London, resulting in acute traffic jams at peak hours. In those conditions, it is hard for emergency services to ...
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USA orders Ultra Electronics equipment for Harriers
ULTRA ELECTRONICS has received its first major order from the US Government, covering the supply of HiPPAG 320 systems and support equipment for US Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers. The contract is valued at $5.7 million. The HiPPAG 320 is an electronically controlled air-compressor and purification unit which ...
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BAA wins contract to manage Indianapolis airport system
UK AIRPORT OPERATOR BAA has signed a contract with the US Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) for the management of the city's airport system, consisting of Indianapolis International Airport, Downtown Heliport, and the four general-aviation (GA) fields of Mt Comfort, Speedway, Metropolitan and Eagle Creek. The ten-year agreement, to ...
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Gamblingon growth
The US National Business Aircraft Association annual convention and exhibition comes to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the first time on 26-28 September. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA NEWS AT THIS year's National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention will come from an unusual source. Raytheon Aircraft is not accustomed ...
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Rotary ambitions
The European helicopter forum in St Petersburg highlighted the Mil and Kamov design bureaux. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW HIGH-RANKING representatives of major helicopter manufacturers from Europe and the USA attended the European helicopter forum in St Petersburg, Russia, from 2 August-2 September intent on exploring market opportunities ...
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AOM French Airlines makes more Paris connections
AOM FRENCH AIRLINES is expanding its network with new domestic services and a long-haul route to Australia. From 28 October, a service to Montpellier from Paris Orly, will be added to be followed before the end of the year, by a route to Strasbourg. AOM already provides high-frequency services from ...
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EC approves ATR/BAe alliance
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has approved the AIR joint venture between regional-aircraft manufacturers ATR and British Aerospace. The decision clears the way for the consortium to create a joint marketing, sales and after-sales service for its existing range at Toulouse, France, as well as an integrated training centre ...
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Greeks demand improvements
GREEK GENERAL- and corporate-aviation operators have formed an association to lobby for improvements in the conditions under which they operate. The Hellenic Air Operations association now has 11 members, including air taxi, regional-charter, helicopter and business-jet operators. Three of the founding 14 have gone out of business since ...
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BAe turns down Boeing on JAST
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BRITISH AEROSPACE, has rebuffed Boeing attempts to sign it up as a partner, on its Joint Advanced Strike Technology ( JAST) programme. The US contractor says that, "the door is still open" if BAe is prepared to withdraw from its alliance with McDonnell ...
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FS-X Taxi Test
Mitsubishi's prototype FS-X support fighter underwent its first high-speed taxi test on 12 September. During the 20min test at Mitsubishi's Komaki South plant in Nagoya, the Japanese aircraft reached a speed of 30kt (55km/h). The FS-X prototype is expected to have its first flight around 19 September. Source: ...
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Japan budgets for fewer aircraft
THE JAPAN DEFENCE Agency (JDA) is requesting '365 billion ($375 million) in the fiscal-year 1996 defence budget to purchase 65 military aircraft and helicopters - 20 fewer than it had originally planned. Its final budget submission totals '4.86 trillion, an increase of 2.9% over 1995. The request contains ...
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Macau manoeuvres
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has become the second international carrier after Malaysia Airlines to announce plans to fly to Macau's new airport. SIA will launch a twice-weekly service from 1 December. Its regional subsidiary, SilkAir, is to inaugurate a new twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos, from 3 November, ...
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Zaire offers Sabena stake in new airline
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE ZAIRE Government has offered Sabena a 51% stake in a new airline being formed to take over from defunct Air Zaire. The proposal was formulated during a visit by a Sabena delegation to the Zaire capital Kinshasa. The proposal does not ...
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Challengair expands
Belgian wet-lease specialist ChallengAir has added a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 freighter to its fleet of two passenger-DC-10s. The aircraft, formerly operated by Russian carrier Avkom, has been acquired from CIT Leasing. It will be used on cargo charters between Europe and South America. Challengair's two passenger-DC-10-30s are on long-term wet-lease ...
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El Al plans Stansted-Newark service
ISRAELI FLAG CARRIER El Al is replacing its one-way summer flights from London Stansted to Newark, New Jersey, introduced for technical reasons, with three scheduled return flights a week, to be flown with a Boeing 757. An additional weekend service will be operated between Stansted and Tel Aviv. ...
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BMA asks for EC help in Swiss row
BRITISH MIDLAND (BMA) has asked the European Commission (EC) to protest to the Swiss Government over its refusal to allow Swiss passengers to purchase BMA's new low-fare tickets in Switzerland. Because Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), the EC is virtually powerless to ...
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Ansett plans for two-pilot 767s
ANSETT AUSTRALIA plans to re-convert five of its six Boeing 767-200s to standard two-pilot-crew configuration, phasing out flight engineers on the type. The sixth 767, acquired from Monarch in 1994, and another about to enter the fleet, already have standard configuration. The carrier has had to conduct "differences ...
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Justice Department will umpire MDC/Pentagon costs squabble
THE US DEPARTMENT of Justice has taken over a "whistleblower" lawsuit, which alleges that McDonnell Douglas (MDC) routinely mischarged labour costs on US Department of Defense aircraft contracts. MDC says that the charges "...are totally without merit". The suit was filed in 1993 by a sacked MDC employee. ...