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Executive Jet sells all 1995 Ultra shares
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) says that it has sold full shareholdings in 16 Citation Ultra business-jets due for delivery in 1995 for its NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The aircraft are part of a $150 million order for 25 Citation Ultras announced in July 1994. First delivery is due in ...
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Thais seek funding for fighters
THE THAI AIR force is pushing for funding in the next defence budget for an additional 18-20 fighter aircraft to equip its third frontline squadron. The air force has been receiving informal preliminary briefings from competing manufacturers and is expected to make an official request for more information ...
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BAe studies TIALD for Harriers
BRITISH AEROSPACE is carrying out a project-definition study into equipping the Royal Air Force's BAe Harrier GR.7s with the GEC-Marconi Thermal Imaging and Laser Designation (TIALD) pod. The TIALD pod is already in service with the RAF on its Panavia Tornado GR.1 strike aircraft. The air force has ...
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Lockheed executives retire before merger
KENNETH CANNESTRA, who heads Lockheed's aeronautics unit, has become the latest senior executive to announce early retirement ahead of the US aerospace group's merger with Martin Marietta. Cannestra was to have been in charge of the combined aeronautics division until the end of this year, when he would ...
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Multi-national bid scuppers CorpsSAM
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA HAS finally dumped its CorpsSAM medium-range air-defence system in favour of an international programme to replace the Raytheon Patriot air-defence missile. The USA, Germany, France and Italy have agreed in principle to jointly develop and produce a next-generation medium-range air-defence ...
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An-70 investigators face FDR problems accident
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE INVESTIGATION of the fatal crash of the first and only Antonov An-70 prototype may be hampered by a lack of useable information from the flight-data recorder (FDR). Sources close to the Antonov flight-test operation allege that pressure on staff to accelerate the ...
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Date set for critical Ariane launch
ARIANESPACE HAS set 14 March as the date of the launch of an Ariane 44LP on flight V71, from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying Eutelsat's first direct TV broadcast satellite, the Hot Bird 1, and the Brasilsat B2 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The company has invested $8 million ...
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Four to bid for Nilesat
FOUR INTERNATIONAL consortia have been invited to bid for a contract from Egypt to build a turnkey satellite system, called the Nilesat. The consortia, are led by Aerospatiale, whose team includes, Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Alcatel, Alenia and Space Systems/Loral, Hughes Space and Communications, Martin Marietta Astro Space and Matra ...
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Mir enters tenth year in orbit
THE CORE MODULE of the Russian Mir 1 space station entered its tenth year in orbit on 20 February, three days after the routine docking of a tanker ship, the Progress M26. The Mir, which now consists of a Kvant 1 astrophysics module, and the Kvant 2 and ...
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Ground-to-air control
The need to put many more aeroplanes safely in any given airspace sector implies smaller separations and much greater flying accuracy in all four dimensions, including time. That can be achieved only by pre-programming air-traffic-control computers with the aircraft's flight plan, and having the aircraft's flight-management system (FMS) continually feed ...
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Lufthansa decides on A319 as successor to 737-200
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS to order 20 Airbus A319 short- to medium-range airliners to replace its remaining Boeing 737-200s. The airline says that it chose the latest and smallest product of the Airbus stable on "grounds of fleet policy and economics". The decision still requires the ...
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Russian An-124 offer fuels FLA fears
A RUSSIAN OFFER to supply Antonov An-124 heavy-lift aircraft as settlement for the country's debt to Germany is raising fears that the Federal finance ministry could use it to undermine procurement funding of the Future Large Aircraft (FLA). According to the German defence ministry, the offer is to ...
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US Coast Guard ups Schweizer order
THE FIRST OF three Schweizer special-reconnaissance aircraft for the US Coast Guard (USCG) will undergo flight tests this month, six months later than previously planned, according to company officials. Unofficially known as the SA 2-38/RG-8A Twin, the aircraft is a heavily modified version of Schweizer's SA 2-37A/RG-8A single-piston, ...
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Belgian scandal embroils NATO chief
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS BELGIUM'S helicopter corruption scandal has claimed more victims. Three leading figures in the country's Socialist party have been arrested and NATO Secretary General Willy Claes and European Commissioner Karel van Miert have become involved in investigations into the 1988 deal between the Belgian Government ...
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Job shake-up heralds more change at Alenia
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A FURTHER ROUND of restructuring is expected at Alenia following a shake-up of the top jobs at the Italian aerospace group by its parent Finmeccanica. Giorgi Zappa has been appointed to head Alenia, while joint presidents Fausto Cereti and Enrico Gimelli will move ...
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ERA claims charges were fatal for Euro Direct
THE EUROPEAN Regional Airlines Association (ERA) is holding up the demise of UK regional Euro Direct as an example of how airport charges are threatening smaller carriers. Euro Direct was to have ceased operations by 26 February in a controlled fashion - promising to pay staff and creditors ...
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MoD budget windfall may offset savings shortfall
THE UK MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) has received an unexpected £600 million cash windfall in this year's military budget, and may use it to offset savings shortfalls in the Defence Cost Studies (DCS). UK Treasury figures released last week, reveal an under-spending in the 1994-5 defence budget, with ...
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Northwest is to spread out its Boeing deliveries
NORTHWEST will take delivery of 15 Boeing 757s earlier than scheduled, but will delay 25 more and possibly defer delivery of four 747-400s under an agreement with Boeing. Under the pact, Northwest, which now operates 33 757-200s, will take delivery of the 15 additional 757s this year and ...
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Westland woos Canada on EH101
Jim Bagnall/OTTAWA WESTLAND is again attempting to persuade Canada to purchase the EH Industries EH101 as the helicopter programme is believed to be about to receive a considerable fillip with an UK Ministry of Defence order for around 25 aircraft. A procurement to meet the ...
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Expansionist Air Canada swings back to profitability
AIR CANADA HAS posted its first profit in five years, and chairman Hollis Harris plans to keep the momentum rolling in 1995 with a further double-digit capacity expansion. Group net profits of C$129 million ($92 million) in 1994 mark a dramatic turnaround from the C$326 million loss ...