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Russia applies to join the MTCR
RUSSIA IS NEGOTIATING to join the multi-national Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). It could become a member as early as October. The MTCR is intended to stop the proliferation of ballistic- and cruise missile technologies applicable to what are described as weapons of mass destruction. MTCR ...
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Beleaguered Solitair plans share issue
SOLITAIR, THE SWEDISH-based aircraft leasing company, is planning a new share issue, and refinancing of loans in a bid to resolve a looming financial crisis. Shareholders are due to vote on the refinancing package on 29 May. Failure to approve the deal could result in almost immediate bankruptcy ...
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Boeing wins Chinese/Danish orders for 737s
BOEING HAS REVEALED orders for a total of nine 737s from Chinese and Danish carriers, together worth over $300 million. Shandong Airlines of China has ordered 737-300 passenger aircraft, worth a total of $120 million with spares and training. The Jinan-based carrier will take the first in December ...
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Air Inter strike continues
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH PILOT unions are continuing to obstruct attempts to negotiate an end to the crippling series of strikes at Air Inter, which led, on 12 May, to the resignation of the president, Michel Bernard (Flight International, 15-23 May). Air France president Christian Blanc ...
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Eurofighter 2000 flies again
THE EUROFIGHTER 2000 test-flight programme resumed on 17 May, with a flight of the DA2 development aircraft from British Aerospace Warton. A Paris air show debut in June is in doubt after the programme's management agency raised contractual questions about its appearance. The DA2 took off from Warton ...
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Vietnam Acquires Su-27s
The Vietnamese air force has ordered a limited number of Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker air-superiority fighter aircraft. At least two, are already believed to have been delivered. The total order is thought not to exceed 20 aircraft. Details of the deal remain scant. Source: Flight International
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Cash shortage shackles Mikoyan fighter project
THE FUTURE of Mikoyan's next-generation air-superiority aircraft, Article 1.42, is being questioned as budget problems continue seriously to hamper the project. The first prototype of the aircraft still languishes in a hangar at the Zhukovsky flight-test research centre months after the completion of taxi trials and months ...
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Terminal Illness
"The new terminal will have a profound effect on the environment" Last week, a public inquiry began into the plans of the UK's major airport operator, BAA, to build a fifth passenger terminal at London Heathrow, the country's largest and most important airport. Some 300km (160 miles) ...
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R-R makes last-gasp bid for KAL contract
ROLLS-ROYCE HAS made a last-minute bid to secure a contract from Korean Air (KAL) to supply Trent 800 engines for eight Boeing 777s the airline has on order. KAL had swung toward the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 as the already extended decision deadline of 15 May approached. ...
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Boeing acts to solve 757/767 pylon cracks
Guy Noris/SEATTLE BOEING IS notifying operators of a fleet-wide structural strengthening programme for 757 and 767 engine mounts, following reports of cracking in strut boxes and fuse pins. The programme, which will affect more than 1,200 aircraft in service, will be explained to operators on ...
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GAO questions FAA over its GPS schedule
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO) is raising doubts over the Federal Aviation Administration's ability to meet its global-positioning-system (GPS) implementation schedule. The investigative arm of the US Congress has recommended that Transportation Secretary Federico Pena direct the FAA to come up with a comprehensive plan for augmenting ...
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UK/USA discuss Cobra link
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE UK AND US Governments are discussing a joint procurement programme covering the Bell AH-1 attack helicopter, in the run-up to a decision by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on its attack-helicopter requirement. Flight International has obtained details of a 3 ...
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India Receives Mongols
The Indian air force has taken delivery of ten Russian Mikoyan MiG-21UM Mongol two-seat trainer aircraft. Early- model MiG-21Us and two-seat Hawker Hunters used for training, are expected to be phased out, over the next 18 months. India eventually intends to purchase either the British Aerospace Hawk or the Dassault/Dornier ...
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Orbimage plans substitute for Eyeglass venture
ORBIMAGE, THE Orbital Sciences' (OSC) subsidiary, plans to develop and launch a high-technology remote-sensing satellite, the OrbView, as a low-cost, accelerated-schedule replacement for the collapsed Eyeglass Consortium satellite venture. Eyeglass floundered with the initial withdrawal of Litton Itek Optical Systems, but the OSC venture still has the support ...
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Compmonster sighting
AEROCOMP, OF MERRITT ISLAND Florida, flew its all-composite Compmonster kit-built floatplane for the first time on 3 April. The company says that it expects a price of $34,000 per kit, including an 82kW (110hp) Hirth 95 engine. First deliveries are due in mid-1995. Source: Flight International
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SIGINT Satellite
A Lockheed Martin Titan 4 Centaur booster was used to launch what analysts believe is a signals-intelligence (SIGINT) satellite into a highly elliptical, 63°-inclination orbit, from Cape Canaveral on 14 May. This follows the launch of a similar payload in May 1994. The type of orbit provides regular over-flights of ...
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Aims of GAPAN Benevolent Fund
Sir - The aim of the Guild of Air Pilots Benevolent Fund is to relieve poverty among those who are, or have been, engaged professionally as pilots or navigators in commercial aviation, or who are Livery men or Freemen of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN). All ...
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Inspiration should boost job-hunters
Sir - Gordon Bretag (Flight International, Letters, 10-16 May, P89) has a lack of understanding and sympathy, typical of today's airline industry, towards determined job seekers. As a chief pilot and possible role model for aspiring pilots such as myself, Mr Bretag should be a source of inspiration, ...
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H+S AVIATION/McAlpine
Michel Dubarry, managing director of McAlpine Helicopters (right), and Alan Robinson, managing director of H+S Aviation, have signed a three-year exclusive agreement for H+S to provide repair and overhaul services for McAlpine's Allison 250 engine requirements. McAlpine is UK and Ireland distributor for Eurocopter and H+S is Europe's largest Allison ...
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Westinghouse
Dennis Ganzak has been appointed to the new position of chief financial officer at Westinghouse Electric's electronic-systems business unit, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was previously director of corporate restructuring on the staff of executive vice-president and chief financial officer Fredric Reynolds. ...