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Hawaiian Airlines has purchased
two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s
from the Italian airline Meridiana,
for delivery in February. The airline
already operates 13 DC-9-51s on
its inter-island route network, and
is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-
out noise legislation that takes full
effect at the end of 1999, because
Hawaii is not part of the contiguous
USA. ++ Air New Zealand is
leasing a new General Electric CF6-
80C2B6F-powered Boeing 767-
300ER from International Lease
Finance (ILFC), for delivery in
March 2000 on an initial five-year
term. ++ Singapore Airlines
(SIA) has taken delivery of its first
two Boeing 777-300s, with two
more due for delivery in January.
SIA has orders for seven Rolls-
Royce Trent 800-powered 777-
300s, placed as part of its firm
orderfor 30 777s in 1995. The air-
line already has 10 smaller-200s
in service and a further 13 on
order. ++ Thai Airways Inter-
national has taken delivery of its
first of six 777-300s, which are
equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent
800 engines. ++ US leasing com-
pany AeroCentury has pur-
chased a Fokker 50 operated by
VLM from an affiliate of Lazard
Freres. ++ Fortis Aviation has
delivered the first two of 10 ex-
CCAir British Aerospace J31s to
Transportation Locators of
Tulsa, and are all being remarket-
ed by Washington DC-based de
Havilland Aircraft. ++ Boeing has
delivered the last six of a batch of
737s to Garuda Indonesia, after
the manufacturer provided bridge
financing to the cash-strapped air-
line. The delivery includes three
737-300s and three -500s.
Garuda originallyordered 17 737s
in 1996, but six were recently
placed with other carriers after the
Indonesian carrier found it could
no longer afford them. ++ Korean
Air has taken delivery of three
Boeing 747-400s, including one
freighter, and a 777-200 (all-Pratt
& Whitney PW4000-powered). The
777-200 has been secured via a
sale and lease-back agreement
with Singapore Aircraft Leasing
Enterprise.
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Boeing agrees SAA's swap of
777 orders for 747 whitetails
HILKA BIRNS/CAPE TOWN
S OUTH AFRICAN Airways
(SAA) has agreed with Boeing
to swap its outstanding orders and
options for up to seven 777s for two
whitetail 747-400s originally built
for Philippines Airlines.
Two General Electric CF6-
80C2-powered 747-400s were
delivered at the end of 1998 after
nearly three years of negotiations.
SAA originally ordered four 777s
plus three options, and two 747-
400s in November 1995 and
lodged a $60 million deposit.
The second of these 747-400s
(both Rolls-Royce RB211 -pow-
ered) was delivered to SAA in mid-
December, and the two more
Software problems delay WAAS implementation
T HE US FEDERAL Aviation
Administration (FAA) has
delayed initial fielding of the
Raytheon Wide Area Augment-
ation System (WAAS) by at least 14
months because of software devel-
opment problems.
The WAAS was to have entered
service in July 1999, but the FAA
says this has been pushed back to
September 2000 because it needs
more time to complete develop-
ment of a software safety package.
The system comprises a network
of 35 ground reference stations
that receive, analyse and refine nav-
igation signals from Global Posit-
recent deliveries bring the airline's the 777s. As part of its campaign,
747-400 fleet to eight.The carrier the UK engine builder placed a
also operates 13 747 Classics.
A management change in early
1996 saw the 777 deal put on ice.
contract with Denel for RB211-
535 accessory gearboxes in return
for a risk share on the Trent pro-
Although this was formally put gramme. It also earmarked the
down to indecision over engine Eastern Cape as a location for sub-
selection, it was later acknowl- stantial industrial investment.
edged that the new executive A DTI source recently said
wanted to review SAA's fleet Rolls-Royce could probably use its
requirement. It also transpired that proposed offset against govern-
the deal had stalled because the ment selection of the Adour engine
Department of Trade & Industry, for the 24 Hawk Lead-in Fighter
which was still formulating an Trainers it intends to order from
industrial participation policy, was British Aerospace.
unhappy with the offset package. The new 747s will initially be
Rolls-Royce, which ousted Pratt deployed on routes to London
& Whitney as SAAs engine suppli- because frequencies between
er on its 747-400s, had hoped to South Africa and the UK are being
secure Trent orders from SAA for increased. •
ioning System (GPS) satellites and
transmit the corrections to aircraft,
providing GPS signals integrity
effects of the ionosphere on the
GPS signal, and the integrity of the
WAAS messages.
and enabling Category 1 precision "We met all milestones on or
approaches. Establishment of the ahead of schedule, except for the
satellite system is intended to correction and verification system
enable the FAA to phase out much algorithms," says Raytheon. "We
of its costly network of ground- do not anticipate any obstacles to
based navigation aids.
delivery of WAAS."
The FAA has completed work The Johns Hopkins Applied
on the hardware for thefirstphase, Physics Laboratory is conducting
including 2 5 ground stations. It has an independent risk assessment of
also completed work on all basic the use of GPS for civil aviation.
software, but not yet the critical The study, due out this month, will
correction and verification soft- help determine whether WAAS
ware that validates the precise can be used as the sole means of
satellite positions, determines the navigation for civil aircraft. •
ATRs replace Arkia's Dash 7s
ARKIA ISRAELI Airlines has put into ser-
vice thefirstofthree ATR 72-500s ordered
last July. The private carrier will use the
72-seat aircraft to increase capacity on its
high-frequency operations between Dov
Hoz Tel Aviv Airport and Eilat, replacing
ageing SO-seat de Havilland Dash 7s. The
second and third ATR 72 s will be delivered
in February and March, and Arkia will con-
sider options on four more this year.
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 13 - 19 January 1999