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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Australians buy Honeywell/Pelorus DGPS
HONEYWELL AND Pelorus Navigation Systems have sold an SLS-1000 satellite landing-system for installation at Armidale Regional Airport in New South Wales, Australia. With certification planned for the second quarter of 1996, this will be the first local-area differential global-positioning-system (DGPS) in Australia, says purchaser Dumaresq Shire Council. ...
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Atlanta plans to try out Olympic heli-route network a year early
A JOINT US government/ industry project to develop a low-level airspace system for Atlanta, Georgia, is expected to be demonstrated by July, one year before the city hosts the centennial Olympic Games. The aim is to have a network of helicopter routes over Atlanta's freeway system by July ...
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Asia-Pacific firms cautioned on markets
AIRBUS HAS WARNED that emerging Asia-Pacific aerospace industries may be attacking the wrong market with their emphasis on regional jets. The warning is based on the latest Airbus long-range forecast, which shows that airlines in Asia-Pacific will account for only 10% of airliner deliveries in the 100-seat class. ...
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Air Inter strikes threaten Blanc restructuring plan
CONTINUING STRIKES at French domestic carrier Air Inter are threatening the restructuring plan for the entire Air France Group. The trouble centres on the loss of up to 660 jobs, as part of the restructuring plan under which in 1997 will be merged Air Inter's European operations, with ...
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Europe and USA fail to avert showdown over landing aids
DEEP DIVISIONS, between US and European authorities, seem unavoidable at the key international meeting, to decide the future of precision-landing systems, now under way in Montreal. A US Federal Aviation Administration team has been visiting European authorities in a search for areas of agreement, but papers presented at ...
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French firefighters reject upgraded Canadair CL-415
BOMBARDIER IS to modify its Canadair CL-415 water-bomber, following the refusal of French fire-fighting pilots to accept the first of 12 due for delivery. French Ministry of the Interior crews are refusing to fly the aircraft and it is effectively grounded. The official delivery ceremony has been cancelled. ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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Ozone watcher
The European Space Agency's latest satellite will monitor the Earth's ozone layer. Tim Furniss/ LONDON Europe's most complex environmental-monitoring satellite yet is scheduled for an Ariane 4 launch in April. The ERS 2 is the second of the European Space Agency's (ESA) remote-sensing satellites and, in ...
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Keeping in touch
Air-to-ground telephones for airline passengers are becoming more commonplace. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Passengers on certain British Airways flights are the first in the UK to enjoy something US air travelers have come to expect - air-to-ground telephones on aircraft. BA is the first airline to put ...
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EU ministers pave way for Swissair
THE 15 EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers of transport have ruled that Sabena will remain an EU airline, even if Swissair takes a majority share in Belgium's national airline. The ministers concluded at a 14 March meeting that the deal would come under an EU law saying that an ...
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Paradise found by Navcom Aviation
NAVCOM AVIATION is attempting to launch a scheduled airline called Paradise Air, using the assets and certificate of the former UltrAir. Scheduled and charter services are due to begin soon using one Boeing 727, possibly flown by ex-UltrAir pilots, linking Washington Dulles and New York Kennedy airports. Houston-based ...
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Air France opens talks on fleet restructuring
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR FRANCE has opened talks with Boeing and Airbus over its fleet restructuring, says chairman Christian Blanc, warning the European consortium that its place is not guaranteed. Air France is committed to carrying out a heavy rationalisation of its fleet under the three-year restructuring ...
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1,000-seat design winner
The 1,000-seat airliner might still be just the stuff of a feasibility study, but students at the Coventry University School of Art & Design in the UK have been visualising what its cabin interior may look like. The winner of a recent design competition for the students, sponsored by Ogle ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...
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Starkraft ditches kitplane plans
STARKRAFT HAS dropped plans to market its Model 700 piston-twin as a kitplane and is arranging financing to certificate the eight-place, all-composite aircraft. A prototype was flown for the first time in December 1994, powered by two 260kW (350hp), liquid-cooled Teledyne Continental TSIOL-550s mounted in the nose and ...
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Diamond ships its first Katana to Missouri
DIAMOND AIRCRAFT has delivered its first DA20 Katana trainer to Central Missouri State University. The London, Ontario-based manufacturer says that it has firm orders for 121 of the all-composite two-seaters, the majority from US flight schools. Diamond has so far delivered 11 Canadian-built DA20s and operates a demonstrator ...
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French Land Contract
French landing-gear manufacturer and maintenance company Messier-Bugatti has won a contract from Korean Airlines for the general overhaul of landing gear on five Airbus Industrie A300-600 aircraft, representing work on 15 landing-gear legs. The work will be carried out at Messier-Bugatti's Molsheim plant in eastern France, and is expected to ...
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EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...