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Challenger sale
Bombardier has sold a Canadair Challenger 601-3R business jet to Sociedada de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau. The aircraft is being equipped by Canada's Innotech Aviation with a nine-passenger interior and will be based at the new Macau International Airport from its opening on 8 December. Source: Flight ...
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Canada nears SAR choice
THE CANADIAN Cabinet is expected shortly to approve a C$600 million programme to acquire 15 new search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters. Agusta/Westland, Boeing Helicopters, Eurocopter and Sikorsky have indicated their intentions to bid for replacing the Canadian Forces' Boeing CH-113 Labradors between 1998 and 2001. Alongside the ...
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Bell pushes US Government on Romanian AH-1 Cobras
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ROMANIA HAS issued a technical specification for the AH-1F Cobras it requires, as Bell Helicopter Textron pushes for clearance to extend the country's industrial participation in the programme. Bell says that it is campaigning for approval from the US State Department to allow more ...
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Czech minister fights for a MiG-21 upgrade
CZECH DEFENCE minister Wilem Holan is at loggerheads with the parliamentary Defence and Security Committee over whether to push forward with an upgrade for the air force's obsolescent Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighters. Despite the committee's "emphatic" recommendation that the proposed upgrade project be dropped, Holan is wed to ...
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UK quietly approves some noisy aircraft
THE UK HAS GRANTED waivers from European noise restrictions to 24 (mostly freight) airlines operating Stage 2 aircraft to the UK. A further three applications have been refused. The waiver is effective from 12 August-31 March 1996, and will be reviewed annually until the final ban of all such aircraft ...
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UK unit sent to Croatia
THE UK HAS DEPLOYED elements of 24 Airmobile Brigade to Croatia with the arrival of Army Air Corps (AAC) and Royal Air Force helicopters at the port of Ploce. The unit is being deployed to support the United Nations Protection Force. The first helicopters to arrive were nine AAC Westland ...
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SAM test successful
AN AEROSPATIALE/ALENIA Aster 30 surface-to-air missile (SAM) has successfully been tested in a simulated interception of a combat aircraft flying at 46,000ft (14,000m) and at a range of 30km (16nm). The test was the first in which the missile was in the so-called "controlled configuration" with target data been provided ...
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GEC-Marconi may re-engine Phoenix
GEC-MARCONI IS once again examining re-engineing its troubled Phoenix unmanned air vehicle (UAV), as it struggles to bring the much-delayed target acquisition and surveillance system into service with the British Army. The company is believed to be looking at replacing the TTL WAEL 342 two-stroke engine with a ...
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1.42 details revealed
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL has obtained what is believed to be the first released image of actual hardware related to Mikoyan's Article 1.42 fifth-generation fighter programme. The image shows the front-fuselage section of an unidentified large fighter aircraft at the Faustovo Flight Aviation Systems Research Institute near Moscow. ...
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Estonian may take Finnish partner
FINNAIR IS BEING tipped the most likely among the three contenders to become the chosen partner for Estonian Air, the privatisation of which is scheduled for 1996. The others are Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). An equity-based alliance with Finnair would provide the airline with access to long-haul markets. ...
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AeroMexico bonds
AeroMexico has finally completed its financial restructuring through the issue of $137 million in new European bonds and a $530 million recapitalisation by its shareholders and creditors. Chairman Ernesto Martens praises the support of the Mexican banks since the restructuring began at the end of 1994. Source: Flight ...
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Improved CFM56 for heavier A321
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM International is offering an upgraded version of its CFM-56-5B, as a power plant contender for the Airbus A321-200, a heavier 89t growth version of the Airbus A321. The 142kN (32,000lb)-thrust engine, dubbed the CFM-56-5B3/P, incorporates the CFM56-5B/P core on which ground ...
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DASA prepares emergency plan
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is to reveal a drastic cost-cutting programme in October, which could include thousands more job cuts. The "Dolores" programme is a reaction to the collapse of the US dollar, which has left DASA facing another year of heavy losses. The plan, aimed at savings of ...
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IPTN wins approval as N-250 flies
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG IPTN SAYS that it has been given approval by Indonesian President Suharto to begin design of its proposed 100-seat N-2130 regional twinjet, further fuelling IPTN's ambitions for a family of regional aircraft. Suharto has warned of the risks that, "other countries may pass ...
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UK auditors attack Eurofighter costs
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The four-nation Eurofighter 2000 project has come under fire from the UK's financial watchdog, the National Audit Office, which has heavily criticised political and industrial management of the programme. The EF-2000 programme is three years late, and the UK's costs are £2.2 billion ...
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Regional Realities
A REGIONAL JET used to be defined as one for regional services: now it seems that a regional jet is best defined as one that every region in the world wants to build. It is a want that not every region, (nor the world), can afford. The line-up ...
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Measuring safety
Measuring safety by comparison is difficult. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF's) MacKinnon explains: "The problem with measuring performance with other nations is that there are a number of definitions as to what constitutes an accident." For example, what the Royal Air Force calls a Category 4 accident is close ...
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Astra Jet
Walter Kraujalis, has been named director for, the Galaxy Business Jet programme by Astra Jet, the marketing arm of manufacturer Israel Aircraft Industries. Kraujalis, who is to establish a Galaxy operators' advisory board, has experience as a chief pilot on a variety of Galaxy-class business aircraft. Source: Flight ...
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Zeppelin stages comeback
ZEPPELIN Luftschifftechnik is to start assembly of its prototype Zeppelin LZ N07 in October. According to project manager Klaus Hagenlocher, all major components of the airship are now under construction or test. The 7,200m3 68m-long prototype, which will carry two pilots and 12 passengers, or the equivalent cargo, are expected ...
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RAF strip
UK surface-finishing specialist AST Group has won a contract to supply the Royal Air Force with plastic stripping media for paint removal from airframes and aircraft components. AST, the UK distribution agent for US abrasives manufacturer Solidstrip, will supply aerospace grade Type V acrylic media in two mesh sizes. ...