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Sea Launch gets ready to kick off ICO satellite programme
The Boeing-led international Sea Launch consortium will launch ICO Global Communications' first satellite, the ICO F1, aboard its Zenit 3SL booster from the Odyssey offshore launch platform on 12 March. It will be the third Sea Launch flight and its second fully commercial mission from the platform, which is ...
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The good life
If there is one thing which citydwellers in the USA are thanking e-commerce for, it's the opportunity to take their businesses with them back to the countryside. The Internet, after all, will allow individuals to operate a business and create wealth wherever they choose. Aviation will, however, be the ultimate ...
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US Air Force begs for Airborne Laser funds
At the request of US lawmakers, the USAir Force has listed weapons programmes that could benefit from extra funding in the fiscal year 2001 US military budget request. Principal among the projects is the Airborne Laser - a directed energy weapon mounted in a converted Boeing 747 - which ...
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RFP limits R-R options in C-5 competition
The Rolls-Royce RB211-535-E4D powerplant has been dropped from the competition to re-engine 126 Lockheed Martin C-5A/B transports after the release of a request for proposals (RFP). Lockheed Martin, armed with a preliminary $15 million contract, has been tasked with selecting a new powerplant for the C-5. Its RFP gives ...
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Netherlands hunts for Apache training site
Stewart Penney/GILZE RIJEN AB The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has begun a search for European training sites for its Boeing NAH-64D Apache attack helicopters as the first operational flight concludes training. The RNLAF ordered 30 Apaches in 1995 and received the first example last year. Four senior staff from ...
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Delta voices
Delta Air Lines has selected L-3 Communications to supply more than 400 solid-state, 120min cockpit voice recorders for retrofit to its Boeing 737, 757, 767, MD-11 and MD-88 fleets this year, to meet pending US regulations. Source: Flight International
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Russian ATM update is key to polar flights
The preliminary results of a joint Canadian-Russian feasibility study into the use of the new transpolar routes has identified potential traffic of up to 5,000 flights a year between North America and Asia. Their future depends, however, on funds to modernise Russia's air traffic management (ATM) system being secured. ...
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CAT detector ready for tests
Flight tests of the first predictive warning system for clear air turbulence (CAT) are set to begin by the middle of this year on a Honeywell-owned Boeing 720 testbed. The tests, if successful, will pave the way for eventual series production of a hybrid weather radar/infra-red (IR) laser radar warning ...
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Swissair to hand over most Geneva flights to Crossair
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Swissair is transferring the bulk of its Geneva-based services to regional subsidiary Crossair in a bid to cut costs and allow frequencies to be boosted on a large number of routes through the use of smaller aircraft. From the start of this year's summer timetable, Crossair ...
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Taiwan-Philippines dispute re-erupts
The air dispute between Taiwan and the Philippines has flared again. The Philippines has forced China Airlines (CAL) to withdraw from the Kaohsiung-Manila route, and Taiwan has retaliated by reducing Philippine Airlines Manila-Taipei flights from seven a week to four. Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) and CAL have accused ...
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Tupolev revives Tu-234 work and aims for mid-year flight
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Development of Tupolev's short-fuselage version of the Tu-204 has been resurrected, with the much-delayed first flight expected to take place by the middle of this year. The 160-seat twinjet - designated the Tu-234 (or Tu-204-300) - has been under development since the early 1990s and is ...
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Workshop
General Electric Engine Services and South Korea's Asiana Airlines have launched an engine support joint venture - GE On Wing Support-Korea - based at Seoul's Kimpo Airport. The company will support all engines in Asiana's widebody fleet and is expected to save the airline $20 million annually. Northwest Airlines has ...
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Longer range Yak-42 prepared
Yakovlev hopes to certificate its extended range Yak-42D-90 modification programme by the end of this year. The modification reduces seating from 120 to 90, allowing the aircraft to operate with higher fuel loads, which boosts range to around 4,000km (2,160nm). The development was initiated after several Russian Yak-42 ...
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Malev signs with Lufthansa Technik
Malev Hungarian Airlines has rejected a bid from Aviation Sales of the USA for its Aeroplex of Central Europe (ACE) maintenance subsidiary, and will pursue instead a previously announced joint venture with Lufthansa Technik (LHT). Malev chief financial officer Erzsebet Antal says a definitive agreement on the venture, LHTBudapest, ...
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Dasa operating profit increases
Operating profit rose by 17% at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa), to €730 million ($735 million) in 1999 compared with the previous year, with a strong performance from its Airbus division. The German company is to merge with Aerospatiale Matra and CASA this year to form European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS). ...
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R-R on the up
UK aero-engine giant Rolls-Royce saw aerospace sales climb nearly 9% last year to £3.77 billion ($6 billion), producing a trading profit of £555 million, up 29%. Group sales from continuing operations rose 10% to £4.74 billion, and pre-tax profits rose 11% to £360 million. Civil sector sales were strongest, up ...
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'Technical challenges' delay Boeing JSF demonstrator
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC First flight of Boeing's X-32B short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstrator has been delayed by "technical challenges" in the integration of the propulsion system with the flight-control software. The first flight, due in the third quarter, has slipped to later in the ...
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Displaying progress
Human factors considerations areproviding flightdeck designers with opportunities and challenges Graham Warwick/CEDAR RAPIDS Exploiting the opportunities of the future while avoiding the mistakes of the past is the name of the game in flightdeck design. Excitement generated by the graphics power of the latest displays is tempered with caution engendered ...
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Eclipse poised for market entry
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC US Engine manufacturer Williams International is developing a personal jet for new company Eclipse Aviation. Williams is under contract to develop and certificate the Eclipse 500 twinjet and its EJ22 engine, and to turn over to Eclipse a certificated factory ready to produce the aircraft. A team ...
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Gulfstream Five
Gulfstream has delivered its fifth GIV-MPA multipurpose version of the GIV-SP to the Japanese Air Self Defence Force. The aircraft, designated the U-4, is equipped with a multimission, rapid-change interior. Source: Flight International