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Messier-Dowty
Messier-Dowty International, the landing-gear joint venture of TI Group of the UK and Snecma of France, has appointed Jean-Luc Engerand engineering and quality director. He replaces Jacques Veau, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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American West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Ron Cole vice-president of sales. He was formerly vice-president of marketing sales at Reno Air and, before that, served for 21 years with American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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JcAIR
Steve Wilson has been appointed president and general manager of BFGoodrich Aerospace's test-equipment supplier, JcAIR Test Systems division of New Century, Kansas. He was vice-president of sales and marketing at BFGoodrich Aerospace Avionics Systems in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Source: Flight International
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P&W
Engine manufacturer United Technologies Pratt & Whitney, of East Hartford, Connecticut, has named James Taiclet vice-president for military after-sales service. Taiclet, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and a former Lockheed C-141 flight-examiner pilot, will be based in San Antonio, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Nepal invite
The Nepalese Government has invited the country's fast-growing domestic-airline industry to submit proposals for new international flights. Source: Flight International
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Delta tie-up
Delta Air Lines, Austrian and Malev Hungarian Airlines have begun code-share/blocked-space service on Delta's daily Boeing 767 flights between Atlanta, Vienna and Budapest. Source: Flight International
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Codeshare deal
Continental Airlines and World Airways plan to begin code sharing from early June on World's flights from New York Newark to Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Dublin and Shannon. Source: Flight International
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Vietnam AMAL gamates
Vietnam has merged 20 aviation companies, including state-owned national carrier Vietnam Airlines, into a single corporation. Vietnam Airlines chief executive Le Duc Tu will head the organisation as general director. The new corporation includes air-taxi operator VASCO and three airport-management agencies. Vietnam anticipates annual passenger-traffic growth of 35-40% by 2000 ...
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Sextant signs up for PZL
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has signed a contract with Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec to provide an avionics package for the Iryda jet trainer (Flight International, 24-30 April). The contract, to upgrade 11 aircraft and equip six new ones, was signed on 26 April, and will be completed by the end ...
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On Target
The first launch of a Rockwell AGM-130 stand-off weapon with both global-positioning/inertial-navigation mid-course guidance and an improved focal-plane-array infra-red seeker resulted in a direct hit. The April launch from a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E demonstrated an offset-heading release in reduced visibility. . Source: Flight ...
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UPS may package passengers
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UPS Airlines is considering operating weekend passenger-charter services using otherwise-idle cargo aircraft. As a first move, quick-change conversion kits for five Boeing 727-100 freighters are being considered as a way to increase aircraft utilisation. The results of a study into the feasibility of offering passenger-charter services to tour ...
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Indonesia wants F-16 offsets
US GOVERNMENT efforts to find buyers for 28 embargoed Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs have taken a further twist, with Indonesia demanding industrial offsets in return for buying nine of the aircraft. Research and technology minister B J Habibie wants the USA to buy components worth 30% of the value of ...
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Su-27M prototype suffers flight-control failure
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A SUKHOI SU-27M development prototype, flown from the Ahktubinsk flight-test centre, suffered a near-catastrophic failure of its fly-by-wire system in April, but was recovered by the pilot. The incident involved what is described as a "double malfunction" of the flight-control system (FCS). The Su-27M (Su-35)was being used in ...
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Sabena crew deal paves way to cost cutting
SABENA HAS TIED UP a deal with its pilots over the crewing of the group's incoming fleet of Avro RJ85 regional jets and says that it has had "very constructive" negotiations with its unions over the broader cost-cutting measures. Although the RJ85 fleet will be operated within regional subsidiary Delta ...
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Aerospatiale to lead Proteus project
AEROSPATIALE HAS BEEN selected by French Space Agency CNES to lead the programme to develop the new Proteus small-satellite platform. The state-owned company beat competition from its traditional rival, Matra. The Proteus platform will form the basis of a new generation of small satellites weighing around 500kg, which would be ...
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DASA prepares 328 cryoplane
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is to go ahead with a programme to convert a Dornier 328 turboprop to a hydrogen-fuelled testbed late this year. "The aim is to use the knowhow gained with the Dornier 328...for Airbus applications at a later date," says DASA. The project, now in ...