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Dash 8 stretch launched
BOMBARDIER HAS launched the stretched de Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprop, following an order for 12 aircraft from Great China Airlines of Taiwan. A formal announcement is expected at the show. The Taiwanese domestic carrier is understood to be one of several launch customers for the 70-seat ...
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Competition hots up for Air Macau deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE COMPETITION between Airbus Industrie and Boeing to place aircraft with start-up carrier Air Macau has intensified, with a final decision expected shortly from the airline's board of directors. Air Macau has an immediate requirement for four leased aircraft and wants to put the ...
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Chinese airlines sign MDC deal
CHINA EASTERN and China Northern Airlines have signed a $700 million provisional agreement with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), increasing the number of Long Beach-built MD-90-30 TrunkLiners ordered to 20. Under a revised deal signed in 1994, China had intended ordering 14 MD-90s and six MD-82s from McDonnell Douglas' Long ...
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Russian consortium proposal approved
RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturers and airlines are to go ahead with their plans to form a joint financial and industrial group, following president Boris Yeltsin's approval of their proposals. The group, called the Russian Aviation Consortium, is intended to play a major role in financing the development of the ...
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Eastern Europe agrees
UKRAINE AND Hungary have signed a new air-services agreement to replace the defunct convention signed with the former Soviet Union. The agreement designates Malev of Hungary and Air Ukraine as the sole carriers on scheduled routes between the two countries. Source: Flight International
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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No definition
The European Commission (EC) does not want member nations of the European Union (EU) to negotiate bilateral air-transport agreements with foreign countries - especially with the USA. It has long wanted to take on that duty itself, on behalf of the EU as a whole. The trouble is that the ...
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GE90 test delay could hold up 777
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING AND General Electric are believed to be making contingency plans, for a possible delay in the certification and delivery of the first GE90-powered 777 following a fan-balance problem experienced during ground tests. Test flying of the two GE90-powered Boeing 777 test ...
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CAE Profits Rise
Canada's CAE reports that profits were up by one-third for its financial year to the end of March, helped by military-simulator sales which offset flat commercial markets. Profits grew to C$47 million ($33 million) as revenues climbed by 11% to the C$658 million mark. The CAE Aviation unit benefited from ...
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Tongan Lease Share
Royal Tongan Airlines, has entered a lease-sharing deal with Air Pacific of Fiji, to operate a Boeing 737-300 on its Pacific routes. It has also won Australian Government approval to carry revenue passengers on its Sydney-Auckland-Tonga route. Source: Flight International
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Nose to nose
The Paris show is the first major event for over a decade to feature aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus Industrie Kieran Daly/LONDON The significance of symbolic moments should not be exaggerated, but Paris '95 serves as well as any event to mark the start of ...
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...
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Bite of the underdog
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will be competing in some vital sales contests in the near future Kieran Daly/LONDON The next few months will see the outcomes of some of the most significant aircraft sales contests in the history of the aviation business. Purchase decisions to ...
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Exhausting issues
Aviation is coming under fresh attack from environmental lobbyists. Andrzej Jeziorski/Berlin There was an air of apologetic embarrassment about environmentalist Karl Schallabock as he gave his presentation on air transport and the environment at the Berlin Climate Summit in March. The audience at ...
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X-31 crash pilot 'badly briefed'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FAILURE TO TELL the pilot of critical changes to the aircraft led to the loss of a Rockwell/Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) X-31 in a crash on 19 January, say sources close to the project. Test pilot Karl Lang, is believed to have been insufficiently ...
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Power play
Civil-engine discussion at Le Bourget will be overshadowed by the big-twin power struggle. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Big engines, mergers and the first hints of new orders will dominate the chalet gossip at Paris this year. The top end of the power battle will be represented ...
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Back onparade
Exhibitors are returning to the air show scene after years of cost cutting. Forbes Mutch/LONDON It has been an up-hill struggle for air shows in recent years, with recession-hit manufacturers demonstrating a reluctance to exhibit in the numbers and opulent style familiar during the 1980s. Air-show exhibitors ...
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BMW R-R to carry out emission research
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BMW ROLLS-ROYCE has launched a research programme to demonstrate new engine technology which the company says could offer a dramatic reduction in nitrogen oxide (Nox) emissions. The project, which concentrates on the development of a new "staged" combustion chamber, is being undertaken in conjunction ...
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Aerospatiale wins Nilesat contract
AEROSPATIALE HAS been selected by Egypt to undertake a $200 million deal to build the national Nilesat communications-satellite system. An announcement is expected at the Paris air show. Aerospatiale leads a consortium of Alenia, Alcatel, Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Space Systems/ Loral, which has been competing with Matra Marconi ...
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Polished performance
The North American version of a Polish trainer is likely to find favour in the USA. John Wiley/Atlanta Polish manufacturer PZL of Warsaw and US company Cadmus, of Northfield, Illinois, have teamed up to build, certificate and market the Koliber II light-trainer aircraft. On the ...