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AirCentre News  November 2001
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Week One

 USA's Future Fighter - OZ Heavy Operator Withdraws

Home-Bake Muffins Fly High - Concorde Back in Business
Aircraft Owners to Pay Mega-Bucks to Fly

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Aircraft Owners to Pay $ $ $

October 22: 
ACCC Logo From the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission:
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"Removing price controls on airports would undoubtedly lead to very significant price rises in all Australian airports"

"Australia should learn from the New Zealand example and also take note that other airport services in the western world are generally either subject to economic regulation or are provided by government-owned airports"

Media Source:- ACCC - News Release HERE
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Heavies Withdraw from OZ

October 25: 
Click to Enlarge Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has announced that it will close its Australian operations, including the offices in both Brisbane and Sydney, on November 30

ANA flights between Australia and Japan commenced in 1987 and up to recently they had a code-sharing agreement with the now collapsed Ansett International airline

Media Source:- Air Wise - Airline ANA
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Fighter of the Future

October 28: 
Click to enlarge The USA's Pentagon has chosen Lockheed Martin Corporation to build its next generation of fighter jets in a $400b plus contract

Click to enlarge The contract is for 3,000 X-35's including a short take-off and vertical landing version, carrier operation and standard fighter model which will replace the ageing F-14 Tomcat, F-16 Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet in the USA military arsenal

Media Source:- Lockheed-Martin
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Return to Service November 7

The newly refurbished Concorde, redesigned to help prevent a repeat of the one-and-only accident, now includes Kevlar lined fuel tanks, reinforced hydraulic lines and new design tyres

  
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Home-Bake Muffins Fly High

Coffee'n Muffin Home made blueberry, chocolate, banana and apple muffins are being baked by airline staff and served to passengers on some of Kendell Airlines flights

Flight Crew Pilots and flight attendants have been offering the delicious muffins as in-flight refreshments on the Albury-Wodonga flight to Sydney after the professional caterers were scrapped recently by the "bean counting" Kendell company administrators (administrators appointed)

Media Source:- Air Wise  -  Kendall Airlines
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Scramjet Theory Tested

October 30: 
Click to enlarge The QLD University has finally launched their HyShot rocket from Woomera in SA where the British launched their Blue Streak and Black Knight rockets back in the '60's

Shortly after launch project boss, Dr Allan Paull, is recorded in the media as saying the data on the flight was inconclusive and later on as an unsuccessful experiment

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Media Source:- HERE - British Rockets HERE


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