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Boeing offers UK 200% offset
BOEING IS offering the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) a 200% offset deal if it purchases the CH-47 Chinook to meet the Royal Air Force's £1 billion support-helicopter requirement. The company hopes that the offset offer will counter what it perceives to be a growing political lobby in ...
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Emergency landing mars 777 test success
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES JUBILATION OVER THE "flawless" first flight of a General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 on 2 February was overshadowed by an incident on another 777 test aircraft which was forced into an emergency landing at Boeing Field later the same day. Boeing launched ...
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GE wins stretched Regional Jet vote
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOMBARDIER HAS selected a new variant of the General Electric CF34 turbofan to power the yet-to-be-launched CRJX, a stretched version of the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. The choice of the CF34-8C was revealed to Canadair's CRJX airline advisory group at a meeting in ...
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Delta/Virgin code-share approved
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) has approved Delta Airlines' space/code-sharing deal with Virgin Atlantic Airways, for which Delta first applied in April 1994. The agreement will give Atlanta, Georgia-based Delta its first access to London Heathrow through seat blocks purchased on Virgin ...
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Order cuts spark Boeing job losses
BOEING IS TO CUT 737 and 767 production rates and has forecast around 7,000 job losses for 1995, only six weeks after company chairman and chief executive Frank Schrontz predicted that the employment forecast would be "level or slightly down". Admitting the dramatic effect of some recent ...
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Hand-Me-Down Hokum
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is doing, on the surface, what any responsible government department anywhere would do. It has thousands of helicopters (and parts for them) which have been paid for once by the taxpayer and are now surplus to requirements. Rather than scrapping or mothballing them, the ...
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Air Inter springs profit surprise
FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Inter unexpectedly recorded a profit during 1994, the first positive result for four years. On a turnover of Fr11.74 billion ($2.24 billion), the airline made a Fr21 million profit, when a loss of around Fr100 million had been predicted. The improved figures were because ...
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Moonlighting can cause problems
Sir - The letter from the director-general of the International Air Carrier Association (Flight International. 11-17 January, P45) struck a chord with me. A few years ago, a newspaper article reported that an airline captain had fallen asleep while taxiing in after night duty. What was ...
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Taiwan Bilaterals
Taiwan has concluded a bilateral air-service agreement with Switzerland, under which Swiss Air Asia will operate three flights a week between Zurich and Taipei from 7 April. It has also signed an agreement with Italy to start twice-weekly flights. China Airlines and privately owned EVA Air are competing for the ...
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Murders baffle Russian industry
THE RUSSIAN aerospace industry has been hit by a spate of murders and an apparent suicide, which claimed the lives of three senior executives over a six-day period. Promexport director Oleg Borisov was found dead in his Moscow apartment on 15 January, having apparently shot himself. ...
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines has confirmed that it is to acquire four 79-seat Fokker 70s, with options on a further four. Deliveries of the first two Rolls-Royce Tay-powered aircraft are due in September and October 1995, with the second pair to arrive in March 1996. The type has now attracted 44 orders ...
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MDHS to offer EH101 to US Navy
McDONNELL DOUGLAS plans to offer the EH Industries EH101 to meet a US Navy requirement for a fleet-support helicopter. Other likely competitors include Sikorsky, with a cargo version of the Navy's SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter, and possibly Kaman, with a military derivative of the K-MAX external-lift helicopter. McDonnell ...
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Ariane Delay
The Ariane V71 launch has been delayed from late this month to 14 March because it will take longer than expected to modify the third-stage engine following the failure of the V70 on 1 December, 1994 (Flight International, 4-10 January). The V71 will carry Brasilsat B2 and Eutelsat 2F6. ...
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Safety must be paramount
Sir - I refer to your editorial "Difference of opinion" and the article "ATR tests rival types to challenge FAA actions" (Flight International, 21 December, 1994-3 January, 1995). It is my view that the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGAC's) primary focus is the support of French products, with ...
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Funded Japanese spacecraft
NASDA GMS 5 Latest in a series of operational geo-stationary orbiting meteorological satellites, to be launched by the H2F3 on 22 February; Hyflex Hypersonic space plane demonstrator, to be launched by the J1F1 in February 1996; ADEOS Advanced Earth-observation satellite to carry multi-spectral scanners, ...
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Kazakhstan DC-10 will be first to be operated in CIS
THIS McDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-10-30CF is seen at Stansted Airport in the UK, before delivery to Avcom in Kazakhstan. The ex-World Airways freighter is thought to be the first of the type to be operated in the CIS. A Source: Flight International
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Loral UK MPA Team
Loral Asic has teamed with E-Systems, Marshall Aerospace and Computing Devices to bid for the Royal Air Force's British Aero-space Nimrod MR.2 maritime-patrol-aircraft replacement programme. Loral intends to offer upgraded Lockheed P-3 airframes. Source: Flight International
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Rolls-Royce
John Sandford has returned to head up Rolls-Royce's US operation as president and chief executive. He left the USA two years ago to become managing director of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group at Derby, UK. He succeeds George Davis, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Corporate Tay 727
Dee Howard is re-engineing an Australian-based executive Boeing 727-100 with Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans to meet Stage 3 noise limits. It is the US firm's first conversion for a passenger 727 and is based on the 727 Quiet Freighter developed for United Parcel Service. The US-registered aircraft is being re-engined under ...