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Vebeg finds buyer for Grob Egrett
GERMAN Government-owned marketing firm Vebeg has sold one Grob G520 Egrett high-altitude observation aircraft and is looking for customers for a tandem G 520T variant. According to Vebeg, the aircraft has been sold to Hamburg-based electronics specialist FTN Atlas. Both sales are being made on behalf of the ...
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Dutch air force spends $14m on Israeli ACE
THE DUTCH air force is to equip its Lockheed Martin F-16s with the Israeli-developed autonomous combat manoeuvres evaluation (ACE) system. The $14 million contract is for 138 systems and was signed in Israel on 5 September. The Rada-developed ACE has already been selected by the Israeli and Chilean air forces. ...
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Two-way trade
Lufthansa and South African Airways are doubling their joint cargo services between Frankfurt, Nairobi and Johannesburg from two to four flights a week, operating Boeing 747 freighters. The additional services are the first active steps taken, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding, between the two carriers for strategic ...
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UK regional airports fill GA gap
UK REGIONAL AIRPORTS are emerging as viable alternatives to large international hubs for general aviation and business aircraft operators as big airports continue to restrict access to their runways to operators. Ian Fraser, business development manager at Liverpool Airport says, "Large airports are condescending towards general aviation users ...
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Ilyushin sets prices for stretch Il-76
PRICES HAVE been revealed for the Ilyushin Il-114 64-seat twin turboprop and the Il-76MF stretched four-jet cargo aircraft. Speaking at the Moscow air show in August, Genrikhh Novozhilov, head of the Ilyushin design bureaux, and Vasili Zhuravlev, general director of the Tashkent aircraft factory, revealed that the Il-114 ...
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AAR wins cargo-system work on 747s and DC-10s
Conversion specialist AAR Advanced Structures has received contracts for cargo-system modifications to convert both Boeing 747s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to full-freighter configuration. GATX/Airlog has contracted the Livonia, Michigan based company to supply kits to convert two Boeing 747-200s, from combi to full-freighter configuration. The aircraft will be ...
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VASP expands its fleet
BRAZILIAN AIRLINE VASP is to acquire ten Boeing 737-300s and a third new McDonnell Douglas MD-11 in a bid to become a major international airline. The Sao Paulo-based carrier will take delivery of two MD-11s later this year and the third, which it will lease from KLM, early next year. ...
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'Nothing new' about F-22 overspending
REPORTS OF COST and weight overruns on the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 are "nothing new", the manufacturing team says. An US Air Force review, estimates that the $10.5 billion engineering and manufacturing development programme, will come in $572 million over budget, when it is completed in 2002. Lockheed Martin ...
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Lockheed answers arms-sales queries
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN says that it is responding to "...three unrelated federal subpoenas seeking information...on its use of consultants on foreign sales". Documents requested concern the sales of F-16s to South Korea and at least five other countries since 1990, plus the sale of ...
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Feel-good factor remains elusive
ALTHOUGH 60% of UK corporate and general aviation operators admit to a growth in business optimism over the last six months, this figure is only 5% higher than two years ago. According to the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA), this suggests that economic conditions in the industry are ...
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NBAA urges Euro action
EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT manufacturers and operators have been urged by US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) president Jack Olcott to launch an advocacy campaign in support of corporate aviation. He has suggested that it be run along the same lines as the NBAA's own "No Plane, No Gain" programme in the ...
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UK schools angry at US training plan
FLYING SCHOOLS based in the UK have reacted angrily to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's decision to allow two flight centres in the USA to run CAA-approved courses for commercial pilot training (Flight International, 2-8 August, P20). Acting on the UK schools' behalf, the General Aviation Manufacturers ...
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USAir heads for profit
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC USAIR HAS surprised analysts with an upbeat forecast that it will end the year with its first profits since 1988. Over the past six years, the carrier has built up losses of more than $3 billion USAir ended the first half of this ...
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RAF signs Chinook deal
BOEING HELICOPTERS and the UK Ministry of Defence have completed contract negotiations for buying 14 HC Mk II CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for the Royal Air Force. The $365 million contract calls for deliveries to begin in 1997 and be completed by early 1999. The RAF will eventually ...
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US Navy plans to modify Osprey V-22 radar design
THE US NAVY has directed the development of specific terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar-design changes and related modifications needed to create the CV-22 special-operations variant of the Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. A contract to be awarded in 1996 will pay for the conversion of one engineering and manufacturing development ...
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ANZ posts record year and promises more to come
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) has turned in record profits for its latest financial year, despite the effects of Japan's Kobe earthquake and the grounding of ten Boeing 737-200s in February because of fan-blade failures (for which the carrier is seeking compensation). ANZ raised net profits by more than ...
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Air France and BA aim to please passengers
TWO OF EUROPE'S largest airlines have committed huge sums of money to woo the high-yield passengers with new concepts in first-class cabins. Air France launched its new L'Espace service on long-haul routes to the Americas and Asia on 11 September, while British Airways is expected to reveal its ...
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BMA extends its Euro network as Paris competition intensifies
BRITISH MIDLAND IS TO expand its European network in October, continuing its strategy of joining battle on Europe's busiest routes. The UK's second-largest scheduled carrier will serve Zurich and Prague from London Heathrow from 29 October, and reveals that passenger traffic grew by 13% during the first half of the ...
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Japan plans thrust-vectoring engine trials
JAPAN'S TECHNICAL Research and Development Institute (TRDI) plans to equip its future fighter demonstrator engine with a thrust vectoring nozzle and has already begun ordering long lead components for the power plant. The TRDI is evaluating either equipping the XF3-400 engine with two-directional thrust deflection paddles or the ...
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Japan's MITI raises request for state aerospace funding
JAPAN'S POWERFUL Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is asking for a rise of nearly 8.6% in state aerospace funding for 1996 to help support the country's collaborative programmes. MITI's request asks for nearly '12 billion ($120 million), against '10.8 billion allocated for the current year. Much ...