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Cargo upgrade
Luxair opened a cargo centre at Luxembourg Findel Airport on 26 April. It will handle up to 500,000t of cargo annually. The 90,000m2 (2.5 million ft2) apron can accom- modate eight Boeing 747s, of which four can be loaded or unloaded simultaneously. Source: Flight ...
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The X-Prize
US President Bill Clinton has been urged by Congressional space-supporters - led by Republican Richard Gephardt - to encourage the work of the X-Prize Foundation. The Foundation has been established to find private benefactors to fund a $10 million award to the first private team to build a re-useable spacecraft ...
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USAF flies Starlifter with electric controls
THE US AIR FORCE has flown the first Lockheed NC-141A Starlifter fitted with Lucas Aerospace electric-aileron actuators, replacing the aircraft's traditional electro-mechanical devices (Flight International, 3-9 April). The USAF says tests of the Electric Starlifter could lead to the technology being introduced on its entire fleet of C-141s and C-5 ...
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Eurofighter
The German-built prototype of the Eurofighter EF2000 is scheduled to have its first public flying display at ILA '96. The pilot of the first development aircraft, DA1, is scheduled to perform a restricted 5min flight routine at the Berlin-based show. The routine will be straightforward and strictly limited, ...
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Checking on CIS registrations
The captions on two of the illustrations to Paul Duffy's article "Safety measures" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P58) may be misleading. The ORBI Georgian Airlines and Air Ukraine Boeing 737s shown carrying Brazilian and Irish registrations, respectively (pointed out in the caption), may give the impression that ...
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Varig emerges from cutbacks
VARIG dipped into the red during 1995 after shouldering the cost of widespread redundancies, but the Brazilian carrier has outlined plans to expand again this year. After making a profit of around $209 million in 1994, the airline slipped to a deficit of just under $7 million ...
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Low-fare Europe?
Kevin O'Toole/BRUSSELS IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before the US "no-frills" experiment began to take root in Europe's rapidly deregulating market. Pioneers have already emerged, offering the kind of no-frills point-to-point services which shot Southwest Airlines, ValuJet and others to fame in the USA. ...
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Winglet gives Gulfstream GII 'hot-and-high' benefit
AVIATION PARTNERS, a Seattle-based company producing a blended-winglet conversion for the Gulfstream II, hopes to attract new sales for the aircraft in 1996 on the back of better-than-expected hot-and-high performance from the modified wing. The company says that "hidden advantages" of the drag-reducing winglet modification are emerging ...
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Lockheed Martin building F-16 IRST
LOCKHEED MARTIN is building an infra-red search-and-track (IRST) sensor pod for flight demonstration on its F-16 in April-May 1997. The company sees a substantial export market for the sensor, a podded version of the AAS-42 IRST in service since 1994 on US Navy Grumman F-14Ds. It has been ...
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Thailand gears up for second military-satellite system
THAILAND'S military is drawing up requirements for a second satellite system for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, to add to its Star of Siam communications-satellite programme. The Thai armed forces are understood to be looking for a low-Earth-orbiting imaging satellite, providing a resolution of 1m (3ft) or less. ...
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Airbus Industrie
Airbus Industrie has appointed Jurgen Thomas, the former executive vice-president of preliminary design and technology at Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus, to the post of senior vice-president of its new Large Aircraft division. Thomas has worked in the aerospace industry since 1962, moving via VFW to Airbus activities, where he started as ...
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BAUA is not in a "sorry business"
Sir - Your Comment column "Sorry business" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P3) correctly reports that business aviation has had plenty of representation. Were it not for this, business aviation would almost certainly by now have lost its access to the principal European airports and would have been ...
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Eurowings boosts charter business with A319 order
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN REGIONAL carrier Eurowings is planning to expand its charter operation to account for around one-third of its turnover by early in the next century, based around its acquisition of Airbus Industrie A319s. With its recent order for three A319-100s and three options ...
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Results reflect increased optimism of US industry
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE EFFECTS OF Boeing's ten-week strike fed through into a weak first-quarter performance, but the group remains confident that sales will rebound sharply this year, echoing growing optimism throughout the US aerospace industry. With production picking up slowly, following the October strike, airliner ...
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AlliedSignal books $1 billion in orders
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has announced new business totalling $1.1 billion, including a contract potentially worth $700 million to supply lessor GE Capital Aviation Services with auxiliary power-units, avionics, wheels and brakes for up to 254 Boeing 737s. Additionally, AlliedSignal has won a $250 million deal to provide Singapore Airlines ...
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The road beyond Damascus
Israel's industry faces a period of unheralded change. Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV Most countries with a population of 5 million would have neither the money nor the motivation to develop a national ballistic-missile-defence system, but then Israel is unlike most nations. It has developed the Israel ...
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Testing complete on de-icing boots for Twin Commander
Twin Commander Aircraft (TCAC) has completed flight-testing of Aerazur Permaflex de-icing boots for Model 690 and 695 Twin Commanders. According to Arlington, Washington-based TCAC, the new boots have superior de-icing performance and improved electrical bonding which eliminates the need for conductive sealing around the boot edges and ...
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BAe/Orbital win RAF Jaguar missions deal
BRITISH AEROSPACE and Orbital Sciences have received a $4.5 million contract to provide mission-planning services for the UK Royal Air Force's Sepecat Jaguar fleet. Orbital's Fairchild division is teamed with British Aerospace (Systems and Equipment) (BASE) for the programme, part of an overall Jaguar upgrade. Dulles, Virginia-based ...
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On with the show
DASA hopes that its stringent cutbacks will lead the way to "renewed economic success". Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH TWO YEARS AGO, THE FORMER Deutsche Aerospace, now Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), caused a scandal by staying away from the 1994 Berlin International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA). Amid debate ...
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Financial analysts are divided on Delta Air Lines figures
FIRST-QUARTER results from Delta Air Lines, which included a massive write-down to cover the last major chunk of its cost-cutting drive, have raised a mixed response from financial analysts. The carrier reported its best-ever operating results for the first quarter, but the net profit came in below ...