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JAL to entertain with Total system
Japan Airlines (JAL) has put into passenger service its first Boeing 747-400 equipped with the Rockwell Collins Total Entertainment System (TES). It will have to wait until the third quarter of the year to activate audio-and video-on-demand (A/VOD) services, however. The aircraft, which has the TES fitted to every ...
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Television to go live on JetBlue
JetBlue Airways will launch Sextant In-Flight Systems/Harris' LiveTV service on its first two Airbus A320s this month. The New York Kennedy-based airline will be the first carrier to introduce the joint venture's live broadcast satellite service and the first to offer live broadcast television service across its fleet. The ...
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Bluetooth potential
Bluetooth wireless technology has been identified as having potential applications for in-flight entertainment. Bluetooth comprises a small transceiver allowing two-way communications between similarly equipped devices within a 10m (33ft) range. IFE applications could include wireless headsets, handsets and telephone devices, with possibilities including linking a passenger's notebook computer to a ...
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SAS closes on interactive IFE
Emma Kelly/LONDON Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is to decide before the end of this month on the interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for its new Airbus A330-300s and A340-300s. IFE manager Hermine Wachmeister says SAS has completed its evaluations of the final two candidates - Matsushita's new System 3000 ...
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Southwest and Transbrasil 737 Classics overrun landings
Boeing 737 classics operated by Southwest Airlines and Transbrasil have been substantially damaged in landing overruns in the USA and Brazil. The Southwest 737-300 (N668SW) was operating on a flight on 5 March from Las Vegas to Burbank, near Los Angeles, with 142 people on board. The US National Transportation ...
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TRW equips Aqua for observation mission
TRW has completed the integration of the six science experiments to fly on the Aqua satellite, formerly the Earth Observing System (EOS) PM. The satellite, being built with a sister spacecraft, EOS Chemistry, for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will fly in December. The Aqua, which will complement ...
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Beal booster progresses with test firing of BA-810 engine
Tim Furniss/LONDON Beal Aerospace has conducted a test firing of its 810,000lb-thrust (3,605kN), hydrogen-peroxide JET-A kerosene BA-810 engine at McGregor, Texas, as part of the development programme for its BA-2 heavy-lift launch vehicle. The three-stage BA-810-powered BA-2 is due to fly in 2002. Beal says the BA-810 is ...
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Discovery craft gathers star dust
NASA's Discovery programme spacecraft, the Stardust, launched on 7 February last year, has deployed its interstellar dust collector. The Stardust, due to rendezvous with the comet Wild 2 in 2004 where it will collect cometary particles, will spend the next three months collecting interstellar dust particles in the solar ...
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ESA selects flexi-mission candidates
The European Space Agency's (ESA) science advisers have proposed six new space science missions to be considered for ESA's "flexi-mission" series, due to be launched between 2005 and 2009. The flexi-missions were introduced in 1997 to allow two missions to be funded for the price of one former medium-class ...
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Soyuz TM cosmonauts to bring Mir out of mothballs
Tim Furniss/LONDON The launch of a Soyuz TM spacecraft from Baikonur, with the first cosmonaut crew to man the Mir space station since it was mothballed last year, will take place on 3 April. The pressurised environment on the Mir has been checked automatically and the launch given the ...
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Taurus launch cancelled after Tahiti protest
The launch of an Orbital Sciences Taurus booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, carrying the Department of Energy's Office of Nonproliferation and National Security Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite, has been cancelled after a protest by Tahiti. The South Pacific island's government was concerned that the booster's third stage could ...
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Maintenance purchase
Pratt & Whitney has purchased Braathens ASA's engine maintenance facility at Stavenger, Norway, giving P&W Engine Services its first presence in Europe. Source: Flight International
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First Canadian EH101
The first Cormorant search and rescue variant of the EH Industries EH101 helicopter for the Canadian Forces has flown at Agusta's Vergiate factory. Canada has ordered 15 Cormorants to replace ageing Boeing Labradors. Source: Flight International
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Impulse boost
Australian regional Impulse Airlines is on track to launch operations out of its Newcastle hub following finance giant AMP's assumption of a "significant strategic equity position". Impulse's planned Boeing 717-based expansion was due to be funded from Hong Kong, but cash dried up after Virgin Atlantic unveiled Australian plans, Air ...
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Jet Aviation GV
Jet Aviation has added a sixth Gulfstream V to its management fleet, taking its total to 140. The new GV will be based in Europe. Source: Flight International
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Missouri Skyhawks
Cessna has completed delivery of 16 Cessna172R Skyhawks to Central Missouri State University for aviation technology courses. The aircraft replace ageing Cessna 150s and 152s. Source: Flight International
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NEAR monitors asteroid rotation
The NASA Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft has entered a lower, 200km (125 miles), orbit around the asteroid Eros after two orbit correction manoeuvres.Next month NASA hopes to conduct a third short engine burn, moving the spacecraft into a 100km orbit. By May, the NEAR will be moved as ...
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Flightlease and GATX strike SAA deal
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH SAirGroup leasing subsidiary Flightlease and GATX of the USA are to supply the bulk of the 21 Boeing 737-800s being acquired by South African Airways (SAA) to replace its Airbus A320s, A300s and Boeing 767s on medium-haul routes. The decision by SAA in favour of the ...
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Last Classics leave Boeing's 737 plant
Boeing has completed the production of the 737 Classic family at its Renton, Washington plant, with the handing over of two 737-400s to CSA Czech Airlines at the end of February. Boeing introduced the 737 Classic series with the 737-300, which entered service in 1984, and a total of 1,988 ...
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Cargo conversion market grows with US-Israeli tie-up
Cargo Conversions, a San Francisco-based Boeing 747 conversion specialist, has teamed with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to market 747-100/200 freighter conversions, using a TRW-built kit and a supplemental type certificate (STC) held by the Israeli company. "We will take kits from TRW, built in accordance with the IAI design, ...