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Prospects for German engine co-operation founder
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ATTEMPTS TO PULL together a co-operation agreement between German engine maker MTU Munchen and local rival BMW Rolls-Royce have collapsed. The Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) subsidiary says that it is looking once again to Pratt & Whitney as the long-term strategic partner for MTU. The ...
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Lockheed Martin chief reticent on job losses
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEED MARTIN chief executive Norman Augustine has played down the extent of likely job cuts following the $9.1 billion acquisition of Loral's defence business. Augustine admits that the acquisition, which was completed on 23 April, may mean some job losses in the short term, but ...
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600 US aircraft to be updated
US DEFENCE SECRETARY William Perry's order to equip VIP aircraft with cockpit-voice recorders, flight-data recorders and global-positioning-system hardware could affect nearly 600 aircraft which are now operated by the US military services. A tally provided by the Department of Defense shows that the US Air Force is looking ...
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Price is right for Boeing ATM organisation
FORMER HUGHES AIR-traffic supremo Nancy Price is joining Boeing to head its new Aviation Systems organisation. Aviation Systems is being created to help Boeing focus its systems-integration expertise on the growing air-traffic-management (ATM) market and will be part of the company's Defense and Space Group in Kent, Washington. ...
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New carriers boost Rome traffic
TRAFFIC BETWEEN Rome and Milan Linate Airport has risen by 22% in the first quarter of 1996 compared with the same period in 1995, with two new entrants, Air One and Noman, providing tough competition for Italian flag carrier Alitalia. Passenger traffic rose by 563,000 in the ...
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TRW keeps EOS work despite joint protest
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office, has over-ruled a protest by Hughes and Lockheed Martin, over the award of a $398 million NASA contract to TRW, to build two of a series of Earth-Observing System (EOS) satellites, using a common spacecraft bus, which can be used for two possible future craft, ...
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Loral wins more PanAmSats
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL has been selected to build two additional satellites for PanAmSat. The PanAmSats (PAS) 7 and 8 will be launched into geostationary-transfer orbit en route to positions in geostationary orbit over the Indian and Pacific oceans by an Ariane and an ILS International Launch Services Proton in 1997-8. ...
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Ariane Launch
Ariane flight V85, using a 42P model of the booster series, was launched on 21 April, from Kourou, French Guiana, placing the 2,855kg MSAT-1 satellite into orbit. From its position at 106.5°W in geostationary orbit, the Hughes HS-601 space craft, equipped with two light-weight 5.1 x 5.7m oval springback antennae, ...
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Regionals will challenge Dusseldorf ban in court
Gunter Endres/LONDON A DECISION BY Dusseldorf Airport to ban all turboprop flights, irrespective of size, has caused a furore among the dozen regional airlines affected by the decision, announced on 16 April. Some airlines, have applied for an injunction and are expected to be heard by ...
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Simera and Atlas merged by Denel
SOUTH AFRICAN manufacturer Denel has merged its Simera and Atlas Aviation operations to form one aerospace division, to be called Denel Aviation. Kobus Eksteen, Denel's director of Aerospace Strategy and Alliances, says that the restructure follows the "dramatic shifts in the world's power balance and the international aviation ...
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Gulfstream in final stages of setting up service base
US corporate-aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream is in the final stages of discussions with South African industrial giant Anglo American to establish a maintenance and service centre, open to all Gulfstream operators in the region. The base would form part of, Anglo American's aviation division, at Johannesburg International Airport. ...
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South Africa maintains grip on competition
SOUTH AFRICAN transport minister Mac Maharaj, has confirmed the Government's commitment to the competitive development, of aviation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, but has warned that some restrictions, must remain for the foreseeable future. In a speech prepared by Maharaj, but delivered by deputy director of the ...
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SAA 777 engine choice delays expansion
Forbes Mutch/JOHANNESBURG DELAYS BY South African Airways (SAA) in confirming its engine selection for seven Boeing 777s ordered in December 1995 have set back the airline's expansion plans and could increase the cost of the order by 20% Boeing says that reluctance by the airline ...
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Russian air force SLAR revealed
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE, is believed to be testing a large side-looking airborne radar (SLAR), at its Ahktubinsk operational research centre in southern Russia. A heavily modified Antonov An-72 Coaler is being flown from the centre, with at least the rear-fuselage section reconfigured ...
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BA shelves its $1 billion regional-jet purchase
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has postponed a proposed $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets. The airline says that it has not finished restructuring its regional operations in time for the purchase to go ahead. BA had invited five manufacturers to tender for ...
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Eurocopter starts on modified BK117
EUROCOPTER GERMANY has started assembly of a highly modified BK117, to meet the time-scale requirements at one of the bidders for the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) £400 million ($610 million) tri-service Defence Helicopter Flying School (DFHS) competition. The winner is to be announced in June, with the ...
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Potential buyers gather for Dornier
ELEVEN POTENTIAL buyers, including Fairchild Aircraft and three other unidentified regional-aircraft majors, are talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) about taking a majority stake in Dornier Luftfahrt. According to Gunter Pfeiffer, deputy head of the works council at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen site, negotiations could lead to an 80% take-over ...
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Quite Improper
DUSSELDORF AIRPORT'S attempt to ban all flights by turboprop airliners is embodiment of the worst fears of the world's regional airlines. The airlines immediately affected by the ban will, rightly, do everything to have it overturned. They should be, supported by all their regional allies around the world, but they ...
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Investigators probe DarkStar accident
THE LOCKHEED Martin/Boeing team is hurriedly revising plans for its second DarkStar unpiloted surveillance aircraft, following the destruction of the first aircraft in a crash at Edwards AFB, California, on 22 April. The accident compounds already-serious delays to the Tier III Minus DarkStar programme, which is being developed ...