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Greenwich will acquire Aviall engine businesses
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GREENWICH AIR Services plans to emerge as the world's largest engine-maintenance group, having signed a letter of intent to acquire Aviall's airline-engine repair and overhaul business. News of the deal, which is being priced at around $260-280 million, came just days after Aviall put ...
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Dark Star first flight delayed
THE FIRST FLIGHT OF the Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III Minus Dark Star stealthy unmanned air-vehicle (UAV), originally scheduled for late 1995, has been delayed by software- and hardware-integration problems. Taxi tests are now expected to begin before the end of the month. Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical's Tier II Plus ...
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Lufthansa/United begin push for anti-trust protection
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA SAYS that it will apply "immediately" for anti-trust immunity for its alliance with United Airlines, following the signature of a preliminary open-skies agreement between the USA and Germany. German transport minister Matthias Wissman and his US counterpart Federico Pe¤a reached an accord after ...
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Singapore pushes West to support AE-100
SINGAPORE WANTS prospective Western partners to commit to taking a greater stake in the development, production and marketing of China's planned AE-100 regional jet. Singapore Technologies (ST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to take a 10% share in the programme. ...
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Technology challenge
Making it easy is not part of the latest Branson challenge. Andrew Doyle/LONDON WHEN VIRGIN AIRWAYS chairman Richard Branson and balloon manufacturer Per Lind- strand launch their attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, it will be more than a test of human endurance. The performance of ...
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Hungary plans to sell further Malev stake
HUNGARY'S privatisation agency plans to sell a further stake in flag carrier Malev this year, although the move could be delayed by uncertainties over the financial future of Alitalia, which already holds a one-third stake in the airline. Alitalia acquired a 30% stake in Malev in 1992 in ...
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Virgin closes on low-cost European airline start-up deal
VIRGIN IS NEGOTIATING to buy a controlling stake in Brussels-based Euro Belgian Airlines (EBA), which could form the backbone of long-standing ambitions by Virgin's owner, Richard Branson, to set up a low-cost European operation. Virgin has completed a detailed study into launching a start-up carrier at Brussels, probably ...
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Ansett fleet plans defined
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT AUSTRALIA has detailed interim plans to increase its widebody fleet to provide a 10% capacity increase on key business routes. The carrier also wants to reduce its fleet from eight to five types, and to retire its Stage 3 Boeing 727s and Fokker ...
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Alliant to build pivot shafts for F-22
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS has been awarded a $13 million contract to produce composite horizontal-stabiliser pivot shafts for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter aircraft. The order follows a development effort under which Alliant (formerly Hercules Aerospace) demonstrated that it could produce the complex shaft using automated fibre-placement technology, for a ...
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Airbus might sue Boeing over A340
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS threatening to sue Boeing unless the US manufacturer ceases stating that the Airbus A340 cruises at Mach 0.78, which is slower than either the Boeing 747 or 777. According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, consortium chief executive Jean Pierson is writing to Boeing chairman ...
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Russians sign avionics deal
AVIACOR, THE SAMARA-based manufacturer of the Tupolev Tu-154M, has formed a strategic alliance with Honeywell, covering the use of the US avionics-maker's equipment on the Russian manufacturer's aircraft. The agreement, which was signed at Asian Aerospace '96, specifies potential programmes for the installation of Honeywell's integrated avionics, flight-management ...
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IAE steps up V2500 campaign
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) is engaged in around 30 active sales campaigns and, in 1996, it hopes to equal or exceed 1995's record sales effort when V2500 orders worth more than $1.6 billion were taken. "We are active right around the Pacific rim in 1996 and we see ...
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Embraer confident about its future
EMBRAER EXPECTS to have launched a finance and leasing operation to support sales of the EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop and EMB-145 regional jet by the time of the first delivery of the latter aircraft late this year. The Brazilian manufacturer is already starting to establish the structure of the ...
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Air UK Leisure set to replace Boeing 737-400 fleet
AIR UK LEISURE is set to order four narrowbody airliners to replace its fleet of seven Boeing 737-400s, which will be withdrawn from service by 30 April. The UK charter carrier says that it has short-listed the 737-800 and Airbus A320/321. Meanwhile, the airline will operate three leased ...
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DoD close to releasing proposals for JAST
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) will release the formal request for proposals (RFPs) for its Joint Affordable Strike Technology (JAST) project at the end of February, kicking off a competition to produce an estimated 5,000 fighter aircraft. Three responses to the RFP are expected, from Lockheed-Martin, Boeing ...
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Airbus closes on A330-200 sale
AIRBUS CLAIMS to be in final negotiations with Korean Air (KAL) and two other unidentified international carriers to place the first orders for the recently launched A330-200 "shrink". According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, KAL is looking for between 12 and 15 A330-200s, and up to six ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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Aerospace faces up to threat of cadmium ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE THREAT OF a European ban on cadmium being extended to aerospace is forcing manufacturers to search for alternative anti-corrosion coatings. Aerospace is exempt from an existing ban on cadmium, but this is likely to be revoked if studies into possible alternatives prove fruitful. ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...