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Frontier lease
Frontier Airlines, the new Denver-based low-fare US entrant, is to lease two Boeing 737-300s from GE Capital Aviation Services. Frontier recently closed a public offering, which yielded sufficient financing to lease up to four Boeing 737-300s. The aircraft, which will go into service in November will join Frontier's present fleet ...
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Export Credit
The UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department has completed its first loan securitisation to help finance the sale of an Airbus A330 to Malaysia Airlines. The use of securitisation deals, which opens new low-cost sources of financing from capital markets, is expected to grow, says ECGD. The £51 million loan for ...
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Lockheed Martin
Thomas Salvaggio has joined Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems as director of business ethics. For the past three years he has served as resident manager at the Lockheed Air Terminal in Honolulu, Hawaii. Salvaggio's responsibilities will include establishing an effective business ethics programme and monitoring the company's ethics help line. ...
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MHI takes major share in Dash 8-400 programme
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE has signed up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as a major risk-sharing partner in its recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop programme. The Japanese company will be responsible for the design and manufacture of the aircraft's forward-, mid- and aft-fuselage sections, wing-to-body fairing, and vertical ...
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Europeans in split over Asian regional plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DAIMLER-BENZ (DASA) has withdrawn from the European team competing to develop a new 100-seat regional aircraft with China and South Korea, after failing to solve major differences with its partners. The German manufacturer could not agree on a common proposal with Aerospatiale and ...
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Aer Lingus withdraws its last 747
AER LINGUS WITHDREW ITS last Boeing 747 from revenue service on a Boston-Shannon-Dublin flight on 1 October. The 747 entered service with the Irish carrier in December 1970 and, since then, the three aircraft in the fleet have carried 8 million passengers. All three aircraft are now in storage. Aer ...
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Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS considering launching a family of stretched 747 derivatives in 1996 if market conditions are right. The possible introduction of the 700-seat aircraft emerged in evidence given by British Airways to a public inquiry on the expansion of London Heathrow Airport. ...
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ValuJet goes back to MDC and Boeing as Airbus waits
VALUJET HAS re-opened negotiations with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing after failing to reach agreement with Airbus over the seemingly imminent sale of up to 25 A319s. The negotiations with Airbus, were expected to be sealed by the beginning of October, but appear to have foundered, primarily ...
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Shuttles mean business
CORPORATE SHUTTLES are becoming more commonplace, with the NBAA debut of a corporate version of the Saab 2000 high-speed regional turboprop. The aircraft was one of three ordered by General Motors to replace its aging Convair 580 shuttles. Inside, the aircraft is outfitted with 36 passenger seats instead of the ...
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The four contenders
I-CO I-CO Global Communication's system will cost about $2.6 billion for both the space and ground network, and it is expected to begin service in 1999/2000. It will use ten operational satellites, weighing 1,925kg, with 6.3kW power, in 10,400km circular orbits in two planes, providing about 160 beams ...
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Stevens Atlanta
Maintainer Stevens Aviation, of Greenville, South Carolina, has created "one of the strongest technical services teams" at its Atlanta, Georgia-based centre. It consists of (left to right) Larry Baker, vice-president of operations, recruited earlier this year from Page Avjet; Bob Landy, director of sales, who joined recently from Gulfstream Aerospace; ...
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Ageing-airliner census
Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...
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Joining the FANS club
Qantas has been proving FANS equipment and refining procedures. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES AIRLINE PLANNERS AND civil-aviation authorities understand the long-term benefits of future-air-navigation-systems (FANS) technology. Early unease among pilot unions over reduced separation standards and other aspects, however, suggests that some line crews may have been kept ...
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Edgley Aeronautics takes the floor to build prototype glider
Andrew Doyle/LONDON EDGLEY AERONAUTICS has developed a "revolutionary" method for fabricating light aircraft, using Fibrelam structural sandwich panels, the standard material for commercial-aircraft flooring made by Ciba Composites. The UK company has employed the technique to build its prototype mid-performance glider - the EA9, backed ...
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Rockwell signs up for uncooled-IR deal
ROCKWELL'S ELECTRO-Optical Center has signed a licence agreement with Honeywell, involving the transfer of Honeywell's uncooled microbolometer infra red (IR) technology for production by Rockwell. Rockwell, Inframetics, Honeywell and the New Jersey institute of Technology plan to demonstrate uncooled focal-plane arrays (FPAs) in Inframetics' commercial systems. The two-dimensional ...
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SIA expands 777 options
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has widened its "Y aircraft" evaluation of the Boeing 777 to include the longer range -200 B-market and -300 stretch variants. The 777 is competing against the Airbus Industrie A330/340 for an SIA order for up to 17 aircraft. A final selection was due ...
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FANS doubters 'risk being left behind'
AIRLINES WHICH DO not subscribe to the future air-navigation system (FANS) risk being left behind as others reap the financial benefits resulting from the more efficient route structure and reduced delays the system will make possible. The warning came as the industry met for the Flight International ...
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Eastern expansion
Vietnam is on the brink of major air-transport growth. Paul Lewis/HANOI THE INDOCHINA region of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) is emerging from more than four decades of conflict and economic isolation and today represents the last real undeveloped air-transport market in the area. ...
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Malaysia Airlines wants more widebodies to meet growth
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) plans to order 25 new wide body aircraft for delivery between 1998 and the year 2000, including an undisclosed number of additional Boeing 747-400s, says company chairman Tajudin Ramli. The aircraft are needed to meet growth in air traffic beyond ...
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Variable nozzle tests planned for PW306
CALCOR AERO Systems, the developer of novel variable-exhaust-nozzle (VEN) and thrust-reverser (TR) designs, has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to demonstrate a combined TR/VEN on the PW306 which will power the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy. The California-based company claims that the combination TR/VEN is ...