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Malaysia closes on Avro stake
Paul Lewis/LANGKAWI British Aerospace has signed a potentially wide-ranging agreement with the Malaysian state-owned investment house Kazanah Nasional Berhad. It could lead to Kazanah taking up to a 50% stake in the UK company's Avro International aerospace division and producing locally parts for the Avro RJ regional-jet range. ...
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Dornier signs new deal to supply Airbus parts
The Dornier division of Fairchild Dornier has signed a five-year contract with Airbus covering parts manufacture for the consortium's entire product line. Fairchild Dornier says that the contract is worth some DM500 million ($285 million) to the company, and covers the delivery of parts for 1,400 aircraft up to ...
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RB.211 in Seattle
Rolls-Royce has completed certification flight testing of the latest variant of the RB.211, the RB.211-524G/ H-T. R-R expects that the Federal Aviation Administration will certificate the engine on the Boeing 747-400 during January 1998. The G/H-T uses the high-pressure module from the Trent 700. This provides a 2% fuel-consumption improvement, ...
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SEP is interested in space-propulsion link with Dasa
Julian Moxon/PARIS French rocket-engine maker SEP is talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) about a space-propulsion alliance as part of a move by the Snecma division to restructurethe business. According to SEP director-general Jaques Rossignol, who headed CFM International in its formative years, "-we need to assemble space-engine companies ...
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Domination fears stir Eurofighter
Award of contracts to begin designing training devices for the Eurofighter EF2000 has been delayed by concerns that the European "superteam" assembled by Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) will dominate the competition. TTS confirms that Eurofighter is trying to force the break-up of its team in a bid to ...
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Currency crisis delays Saeaga's launch plans and A320 purchase
Malaysia's Saeaga Airlines is postponing plans to order new Airbus Industrie A320s, and the launch of its first scheduled international services, in the face of the recent Asian currency crisis and economic downturn. "We're looking to buy five A320s, but this has now been deferred," says Ting Pek Khiing, ...
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Outrider autopilot
The Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle recently completed its first autopilot flight, a critical landmark in turning around the trouble-plagued drone project. In the flight test at Hondo, Texas, the autopilot was engaged after take-off, demonstrating "-excellent navigation accuracy as it flew to four pre-programmed waypoints", says the ...
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One-Eleven Stage 3 hushkit will be tested soon
Flight testing of the Quiet Technology (QT)-developed Stage 3 hushkit for the BAC One-Eleven will begin early in 1998. The project's co-ordinator, European Aviation, is confident that UK Civil Aviation Authority certification will be in place by the end of 1998. Components for the prototype kit are in manufacture at ...
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FAA orders changes to 747 tanks
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued two airworthiness directives (ADs) aimed at removing potential ignition sources in or near the centre-wing fuel tank of older Boeing 747s. It says that it is best to eliminate ignition sources because it is not possible to purge ...
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AB Airlines will acquire up to 13 737s for network expansion
AB Airlines will introduce the first of up to 13 Boeing 737s in April 1998, as it expands its operations from its London Stansted and Gatwick bases. The UK airline, which introduced services from Gatwick to Berlin Schönefeld in early December, will add three seven-year-old 737-300s in April 1998, ...
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Asiana defers 777-200/300 deliveries
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is to defer delivery of its first Boeing 777 on order because of South Korea's worsening economic difficulties, and will instead acquire additional 767-300ERs and 747-400 freighters. The airline is planning to push back deliveries of its first 777-200/300s by up to two years, ...
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New freighter carrier eyes Mahalo licence
A freight airline start-up has put in an offer to buy the operating licences of failed Hawaiian regional airline Mahalo Air. English Worldwide Aviation (EWA), which has been set up by Gemini Air Cargo's former senior vice-president sales and marketing, Michael English, has submitted an offer for the Hawaiian ...
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Bombardier enters the frame to replace Horizon Air's F28s
Ramon Lopez/TORONTO Horizon Air has revealed that it is evaluating the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) family, as well as the de Havilland Dash 8-400, as possible long-term replacements for its fleet of Fokker F28s. The airline is already a major customer for the 37-seat Dash 8-100/200, with ...
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Routes
++ United Parcel Service (UPS) has launched a service to Penang six times a week as an en route extension to its existing operation from the carrier's Taipei hub to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. ++ New Zealand has signed an open-skies agreement with Malaysia, permitting each national carrier the right ...
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Shugrue is eased out as Pan Am chief
Pan American World Airways has eased out its co-founder and chief executive, Martin Shugrue, to be replaced by airline veteran David Banmiller, who is charged with turning around the start-up's heavy losses and seeing through the merger of operations with Carnival Air Lines. Pan Am confirms that Shugrue has ...
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Frontier bids for WestPac
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A US bankruptcy-court judge will make a decision on 3 December between rival bids for Western Pacific Airlines. Frontier Airlines, which called off plans to merge with WestPac earlier this year, has switched tack and is bidding to take over its bankrupt would-be partner. WestPac ...
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Hughes on target for F/A-18 FLIR
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Hughes Aircraft has won the competition, worth nearly $1 billion, to provide a next-generation navigation-attack pod, the advanced-targeting forward-looking infra-red system (ATFLIR), for the Boeing F/A-18C/D/E/F Hornet family. The Hughes Aircraft Terminator II third-generation FLIR sensor and laser-designator pod will replace a navigation pod made ...
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Asia's economic haze
Brent Hannon/KUALA LUMPUR Concerns over the state of the once-unstoppable Asia-Pacific airline market were underlined again as the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) met in Kuala Lumpur in mid-November for the 41st assembly of presidents. The latest figures show a 25% drop in collective operating profits over ...
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Beriev restarts flight testing of Be-103
Beriev has resumed flight tests of its Be-103 utility amphibian, three months after the first prototype was destroyed in a crash at the Moscow air show. The second, six-seat, prototype had its maiden flight on 17 November from the Russian design company's airfield in Taganrog. The aircraft is is ...
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Boeing slows 777-200X/300X product-development work
Boeing has switched the emphasis of product-development work on the proposed 777-200X/300X ultra-long-haul and stretch derivatives for at least three months. The 300 staff working on the two planned variants are understood to have been switched from new-product development to focusing on reducing programme costs. Sources in Seattle say ...