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USAir boost: BA doubts
The winding down of Continental Lite has helped USAir increase yields and bounce back into profitability, and the airline now has agreements with three out of its four unions. However, the proposed employee board representation has thrown up a potential conflict with partner British Airways. Investors in USAir, ...
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Euro pilots strike out
Continuing management efforts to cut the European majors' operating costs are resulting in clashes with pilots at KLM, SAS and Alitalia. If pilots do not concede the need to reduce costs, carriers may seek alternatives. KLM is insisting on a longterm programme to cut its aircrew costs, which ...
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Saudi picks US
Saudia has defined its $6 billion order for US jets - 22 Boeing 777s, five B747-400s, 29 MD-90s and four MD-11 freighters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Source: Airline Business
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The great plunge
NASA's Galileo space probe will shortly be released into a 170,000km/h plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere. Tim Furniss/LONDON On 13 July, an 340kg instrumented probe, will be released from NASA's $1.4 billion Galileo spacecraft, 80 million kilometres away, from the planet Jupiter. The 1.25 x 0.86m ...
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American Leases
American Eagle has clarified reports of its latest order for Saab 340B Plus turboprop aircraft, saying that the transaction was a lease, not a purchase. It also plans to exercise an existing option to return to Saab 26 of its older 340s, including 16 340As. Source: Flight International
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Africa's Alliance prepares to launch scheduled services
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ALLIANCE, THE NEW African long-haul venture led by South African Airways (SAA), is gearing up for the launch of scheduled services in July, and says that new routes and aircraft are likely to follow. The venture has its origins in protracted talks between ...
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Fairey progresses with S-70B Decklock
FAIREY HYDRAULICS has completed initial testing of its new Decklock landing system for the Sikorsky S-70B family of naval helicopters. The one-year development programme should culminate in the production of a unit suitable for aircraft trials. The Decklock consists of a pair of steel jaws attached ...
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NASA tests Pathfinder airbag
NASA LEWIS RESEARCH Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, is conducting tests of an airbag landing-gear system which will provide the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft with a soft, upright landing when it lands on the rugged terrain of Mars in 1997. The Mars Pathfinder is the first ...
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China United Deal
China United Airlines has become the third Chinese customer for Israeli avionics manufacturer Rada Electronic Industries, which has sold the airline automatic-test equipment worth $1.2 million. The SMART commercial-avionics test station has been developed to test an aircraft's electrical systems and electronic equipment. Source: Flight International
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Stretch revives Il-76 prospects
Ilyushin has rolled out a stretched, re-engine, version of its successful Il-76 Candid freighter. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW It is almost a quarter of a century since the Ilyushin Il-76 freighter (NATO codename Candid) made its first appearance in the West at the 1971 Paris air show. Although a ...
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EC135 Wins New Friends
Eurocopter has won eight new orders for its new EC135 light helicopter in standard and emergency-medical-services (EMS) configurations. Two EMS helicopters are to go to the Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht (German air rescue), three to Petroleum Helicopters in the USA, and one to the Pittsburgh-based Centre for Emergency Medicine, for operations in ...
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Impact of high-speed competition: the real threat
Sir - Andrew Chuter is right to warn the airlines of the impact of high-speed rail services (Flight International, 7-13 June, P94). The real danger threatening domestic and short-haul European services, does not come from the TGV high speed train, however, but from the willingness of governments to sink ...
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BA poised for Gatwick relaunch
David Learmount/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO base an additional eight wide bodied aircraft at London Gatwick Airport, to fly routes transferred from the carrier's premier international hub, Heathrow. Robert Ayling, BA's managing director, says that, with a growth rate of 6% a year and severe ...
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Merger mania
Europe still has a long way to go to match the strategic power of big US alliances. Julian Moxon/PARIS Only an optimistic visionary would have come out of the Paris air show maintaining that the European aerospace industry had begun seriously to re-organise itself. After all, ...
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Confidence confirmed
Reassurance that business aviation is bubbling again was provided at Paris. Graham Warwick/PARIS If confirmation was needed of the recent resurgence in business aviation, then Paris provided it. The industry is experiencing its biggest backlogs since 1977, and most manufacturers reported production-rate increases to cope ...
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Global ambitions
Lockheed Martin's ambitions will force Europeans to look to their laurels. Douglas Barrie/PARIS Talk of "mission statements" is normally enough to induce something akin to nausea among cynical European industrialists. In the case of US giant Lockheed Martin, however, they have to sit up and ...
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Aerovac uses nitrogen in autoclave
AEROVAC Systems is using nitrogen as the pressurising and inerting medium in its new autoclave, creating a non-oxidising atmosphere for component curing, and reducing the risk of fire. The autoclave will be used for the manufacture of advanced composites for the aerospace and electronics industries. It is heated electrically and ...
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Rotary researches
Eurocopter believes that helicopter technology could develop dramatically over the next decade. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Although ancient toys and drawings show that the basic principle of rotary-wing aircraft dates back centuries, the history of the helicopter as a useful flying machine is generally thought to have ...
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BAe strengthens Eurocopter link
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE Defence is deepening its involvement with Eurocopter on military helicopters, announcing a tie-up to bid for a UK tri-service training contract using Eurocopter products, and confirming its intention to collaborate on an NH90 support-helicopter bid to meet UK requirements. BAe believes ...
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French premier backs key military projects
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS NEW FRENCH PRIME minister Alain Jupp, has pledged his support for the Dassault Rafale multi-role combat aircraft and the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter. His position on the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military transport is somewhat more reserved. In his first public statement on the ...