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Gulf revives air-defence plan plans
THE GULF Co-operation Council (GCC) states have revived a plan to integrate their respective air-defence ground environments. US defence contractor Hughes has again been contracted to study the requirement. Hughes originally carried out the six-nation GCC-funded study into integrating the countries' stand-alone air-defence networks in 1988. This work, ...
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Turkey to launch hunt for MPA
TURKEY IS ABOUT to release a request for proposals for a maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA), with Fokker, CASA and Dornier among the likely bidders. The requirement looked likely at one point to be satisfied by an ex-US Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion, but this deal appears to have fallen through. ...
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Europe and USA fail to avert showdown over landing aids
DEEP DIVISIONS, between US and European authorities, seem unavoidable at the key international meeting, to decide the future of precision-landing systems, now under way in Montreal. A US Federal Aviation Administration team has been visiting European authorities in a search for areas of agreement, but papers presented at ...
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Marshall Islands order drives Saab to tackle ETOPS
SAAB AIRCRAFT is working to achieve extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) certification for its Saab 2000 turboprop to allow extended flight over water. Executive vice-president Johan Oster says that 90min ETOPS qualification is needed for Air Marshall Islands, which has ordered two aircraft for operations over the Pacific. ...
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Chile software demands halt Phalcon deliveries
THE CHILEAN air force has refused to accept its Phalcon airborne early-warning aircraft from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), demanding that the mission software be completely debugged before delivery. Phalcon test flights were completed earlier this month, but Chilean observers claimed that various problems, mainly software related, had not ...
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UAE decides to buy Eurocopter Panthers
THE UNITED ARAB Emirates is to purchase seven Eurocopter AS.565 Panthers and upgrade seven Eurocopter Super Pumas to meet its anti-submarine-warfare (ASW)/anti-surface-vessel requirement. The $235 million deal, agreed on the last day of the IDEX show, appears to bring to an end a long-running saga, during which a ...
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Cost cuts put Varig backin the black
HARSH COST-CUTTING has begun to pay dividends for Varig, with the Brazilian flag carrier swinging back to a net profit of 170 million reals ($190 million) in 1994. The recovery, which marks a turn-around from losses of 273 million reals, a year ago, came from sales that remained ...
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Starstreak-Avenger test is cancelled
A US ARMY demonstration of the Shorts Starstreak missile on the Boeing Avenger air-defence system has been cancelled, but the weapon may be evaluated on the Army's McDonnell Douglas Helicopter AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. Plans had called for live firings of the Starstreak hypervelocity air-defence weapon from the ...
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FAA endorses de-icing boot change to overcome ATR 42/72 difficulties
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the use of larger de-icing-boots on the ATR 42 and 72 regional turboprops. The modification, developed and tested by the Aerospatiale/Alenia consortium, is aimed at preventing the formation of an ice ridge on the wing by nearly doubling the effective coverage of ...
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Airbus is bullish on 600-seater aircraft
AIRBUS, ITS MEMBER companies and Boeing will decide in June whether or not to abandon their individual studies on an aircraft in the 600-plus-seat category and step up co-operation. Airbus' market forecast predicts delivery by the end of 2014 of more than 860 aircraft in "theoretical size categories ...
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Airbus aims for domination of jet-airliner market by 2000
AIRBUS FORECASTS that, within the next five years, it will be in a straight fight with US manufacturers, winning half of the world's new jet-airliner orders in a market worth around $50 billion a year. The consortium now has around 30% of new orders, but has plans to ...
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US action triggers EC open-skies move scramble
WITH ALMOST unprecedented speed, the European Commission (EC) has rushed through draft proposals for a pan-European open-skies agreement. The action follows US success in tying up individual open-skies deals with European countries. These are seen by the EC as being illegal and threatening to EC airlines as they ...
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Air Inter strikes threaten Blanc restructuring plan
CONTINUING STRIKES at French domestic carrier Air Inter are threatening the restructuring plan for the entire Air France Group. The trouble centres on the loss of up to 660 jobs, as part of the restructuring plan under which in 1997 will be merged Air Inter's European operations, with ...
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US aerospace surplus slips from 1994
THE US AEROSPACE industry posted a positive trade balance of $25 billion in 1994, an 8% slip from the previous year's $27 billion surplus. Despite the decline, the industry remains the USA's leading exporter of manufactured goods, says the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). Total aerospace industry exports dropped ...
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Asia-Pacific firms cautioned on markets
AIRBUS HAS WARNED that emerging Asia-Pacific aerospace industries may be attacking the wrong market with their emphasis on regional jets. The warning is based on the latest Airbus long-range forecast, which shows that airlines in Asia-Pacific will account for only 10% of airliner deliveries in the 100-seat class. ...
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Rolls-Royce completes its acquisition of Allison
ROLLS-ROYCE HAS completed its acquisition of Allison, after clearing the final US regulatory hurdles. Under a deal worked out with the US Government, R-R will be denied access to Allison's work on classified defence programmes. R-R is focusing on the commercial benefits of taking on Allison's existing ...
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KLM to boost airline holdings other carriers
DUTCH FLAG CARRIER KLM is to increase its holdings in Martinair Holland and Air UK. KLM will take its holding in Martinair from 33.82% to 50% at the same time as the other major shareholder, Nedlloyd, increases its stake from 49.19% to a full 50%. The ...
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Firefly sees light of day
DAIMLER-BENZ AEROSPACE (DASA) HAS released the first photographs of what is believed to be the 16m (50ft)-long full-size-scale airframe which MBB constructed for a top-secret stealth-research programme during the mid-1980s (Flight International, 8-14 March). The purpose of the project, known as the Lampyridae (Firefly) or the Medium-Range-Missile Fighter, was to ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Back To Beijing
Qantas Airways was due to resume flying to Beijing on 28 March, after an absence of eight years. The resumption of services to the Chinese capital ends a long-running battle over rights to the route, between Qantas and one-time challenger Australia Air International and, later, Ansett Australia. Source: ...