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German air force ready to cover Bosnian withdrawal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN air force is ready to add its strength to an operation to cover the withdrawal of UN Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) from war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina if necessary, according to the Federal Ministry of Defence. The defence ministry says that, while a final go-ahead ...
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RAF to test civil training methods
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE is to train its multi-engine crew in the civil sector in a trial to establish whether such a route will provide an adequate level of tuition for military-transport pilots. Some RAF pilots are now undergoing multi-engine training in the civil sector in Canada. ...
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BAe offers Westland Tiger work
Douglas Barrie/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE is attempting to head off possible political pressure to select the Westland bid for the UK attack-helicopter programme by offering it a significant work package on the BAe-led Eurocopter Tiger contender, should it win. The move, which will be highlighted in ...
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Eurowings shifts focus to international routes
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROWINGS, the German regional carrier, has shifted its focus onto developing international routes, because of intensifying domestic competition from Germany's rail and road networks. According to Eurowings marketing and sales chief, Karl-Friedrich Muller, Germany's ICE high-speed trains and improved road links with eastern ...
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Airbus warns Japan over indecision
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has warned that it is becoming increasingly impatient with Japan's indecision about joining its proposed A3XX ultra-high-capacity aircraft. Instead, it is turning its attention to other potential Asia-Pacific partners. The European consortium approached Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries three-and- a-half years ago about the project, ...
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Belgium holds key to Swissair deal
The Belgian Government is considering a renewed Swissair offer to buy 49.5% of Sabena. Preliminary agreement could be reached in the next few days. Swissair is understood to have cut its original BFr12 billion ($380 million) to BFr8 billion following the collapse of a Sabena plan to form ...
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Fokker prepares for new round of cuts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER IS CLOSE TO announcing a new wave of restructuring, with further workforce cuts expected to be on the agenda as the Dutch manufacturer attempts to match cutbacks made by its major competitors. A decision on the scope of the rationalisation is due ...
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Northrop Grumman plans to shed 1,000 more jobs
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is to shed another 1,000 jobs, following the Pentagon's decision to abandon the Tri-Service Stand-off Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme. The group says that the cancellation of the troubled stealth-missile programme should have little impact on this year's financial results, however. The latest cuts ...
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Denver braces for airport switch-over after delays
Ramon Lopez/DENVER DENVER International Airport officials say that they are ready for 27 February, when Stapleton International will be shut down and the much-delayed new airport will take over. The opening of the airport has been delayed four times because of technical problems with the ...
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Forced landing ruins S African ACE
ATLAS AVIATION'S ACE trainer has been damaged, probably beyond repair, during a forced landing at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport on 14 February. The accident rules out the South African-built all-composite trainer's participation at several international shows this year, and places a question mark over the future of the ...
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Alenia rebuffs Airbus to chase MDC stake
EFFORTS BY THE AIRBUS consortium, to woo Alenia away from its proposed airliner alliance with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), have been given a clear rebuff during a hearing by the Italian Senate, into the future of its aerospace industry. In evidence to the Italian upper house, Alenia's state-owned parent ...
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Costly Business
The Japanese, it seems, are having problems sorting out how to justify investment in a new small airliner. So are the Koreans and the Chinese, and others, much to the bemusement of at least one potential Western partner for some or all of them. At the same time, the Indonesians ...
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P&W 4098 launch heralds heavyweight 777 move
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRATT & WHITNEY is to launch a 436kN (98,000lb)-thrust derivative of its PW4000-series engine to power heavier versions of the Boeing 777, as well as the planned stretch model. The two companies have formed a team to "...exchange information and work with airlines ...
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Piaggio fights to keep R-R contract
EMBATTLED Italian aerospace manufacturer Piaggio is in last-ditch talks with Rolls-Royce in an attempt to try and retain its licence to maintain the latter's Viper engines for the Italian air force. Piaggio is effectively bankrupt, operating under the Italian equivalent of the US Chapter 11 legislation. R-R says ...
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Turbine failures ground ANZ's hushkitted 737s
AIR NEW ZEALAND, suddenly grounded ten of the 13 Boeing 737-200s, in its domestic fleet on 17 February. Managing director Jim McCrea says that the decision followed the fourth turbine failure on a Nordam hushkitted Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engine in six months. The CAA says ...
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Vympel continues Archer studies
RUSSIAN MISSILE design house Vympel is continuing to work on a rearward-firing variant of its R-73 (AA-11 Archer), although it has yet to be integrated with a rearward-facing radar, according to Gennady Sokolovsky, Vympel's chief designer. Sokolovsky, speaking at a conference in London on 16 February, confirmed that ...
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USA refutes UK export appeal
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE US DEFENCE Secretary William Perry has rebuffed concerns from his UK counterpart Malcolm Rifkind that the "two-way street" in defence procurement between the two countries heavily favours the USA. Rifkind raised the issue in a letter to Perry in the wake of ...
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C-17 team wins Collier Trophy
THE US Air Force, McDonnell Douglas and industrial subcontractor team, which developed the C-17 transport, has won the 1994 Collier Trophy, the most prestigious US award for aeronautical achievement. The US National Aeronautic Association, which has presented the trophy since 1911, says that the award was bestowed "...for ...
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Snecma seeks European FLA co-operation
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE PRESIDENT of French engine manufacturer Snecma, Bernard Dufour, says that he is "promoting the idea" of Rolls-Royce, Fiat and MTU joining in a 190kN (43,000lb)-thrust turbofan for the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) and the growth version of the Airbus A340. "Nothing should prevent us opening ...
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Flight duty times: 'harmonisation' not the main aim
Sir - My first impression from R P Holubowicz's letter (Flight International, 11-17 and 25-31 January) was that the general secretary of the International Air Carriers Association expects pilots to act like robots. More interesting is the statement by K Koplin (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 February), the new ...