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BBJ simulator arrives
FlightSafety Boeing Training International plans to provide "comprehensive" flight training for Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) customers from July, after delivery of a Level D next-generation Boeing 737 simulator to its Atlanta base next April. The company has begun building a 3,065m² (33,000ft²) flight training centre at London Luton Airport, where ...
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Jet opens Love
Jet Aviation has officially inaugurated its new business aircraft service base in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas. The new facility, which was acquired from Jet East in October, includes 5,760m² (62,000ft²) of hangar space and 9,570m² of ramp area. Jet Aviation Dallas, an authorised Cessna Citation service centre will offer ...
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Cirrus orders
Cirrus Design has recorded a 300% increase in sales of its single-engined SR20 since receiving US certification less than a year ago. "Since January, we have sold an average of 20 aircraft a month," says the Duluth, Minnesota-based company, which has chalked up more than 420 orders for the all-composite ...
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Cessna landmark
Cessna has delivered its 2,000th piston single aircraft since production was resumed in 1996. The Wichita, Kansas-based company handed over a T206 Turbo Stationair to a private customer last month. Source: Flight International
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BBJ hangar
The north-east USA's first new hangar designed specifically to accommodate the Boeing Business Jet and Airbus Corporate Jetliner is set for completion in the first quarter of next year, according to design and engineering company Bascon. The hangar, occupying 10,870m² (117,000ft²) is at Rifton Aviation's fixed-base operation near New York. ...
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777 check up
Boeing 777-200 and -300 operators have been ordered by the US Federal Aviation Administration to inspect back-up generators and replace any found with sheared shafts within 14 days. The AD follows two in-flight engine shut downs caused by variable frequency constant speed system problems. Source: Flight International
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Europe to define GalileoSat
The European Space Agency and the European Commission (EC) have signed a contract to launch the €20 million ($20.2 million) GalileoSat definition phase for the proposed Galileo satellite navigation system. By mid-December, the EC was also expected to sign four major contracts with industry on Galileo system definition. The ...
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Matra Marconi wins climate monitor deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has received a €791 million ($798 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) to build three polar-orbiting Metop satellites. Metop is the first European polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology and climate monitoring. ...
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Quality regulations push back Eaglet certification schedule
Euro-ENAER has pushed back certification of its Eaglet single-engined utility aircraft until the first quarter of 2000 because of the unforeseen demands of new European quality assurance regulations for general aviation aircraft. The fully composite two-seat Eaglet, originally set for approval in March, may become the first aircraft to ...
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Sweden wins contract to develop Smart for ESA
The Swedish Space Corporation and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a €33 million ($32.9 million) contract to develop the Small Advanced Research and Technology 1 (Smart 1) science and technology demonstration spacecraft. Smart 1 will be launched to the moon in about 2003. The Smart series of small ...
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Ibis plans Ae270 sales offensive
Ibis Aerospace, the joint venture between Czech company Aero Vodochody and Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), plans to launch a sales and marketing campaign for the single-turboprop Ae270 utility aircraft following its first flight in February. "We want to establish a certification and delivery timetable before we start ...
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Qantas discusses BA 767 lease
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas is finalising a deal to take up to seven surplus Boeing 767-300ERs from its oneworld partner and shareholder British Airways, to help it boost capacity ahead of next year's Sydney Olympics. The airline is also moving to counter a successful initiative by competitor Air New Zealand ...
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Continental lowers sights on capacity growth plans
Continental Airlines is to rein in capacity growth next year, to 4.6% from the planned 6% through the early disposal of six of its 31 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 widebodies. Chairman and chief executive Gordon Bethune says the move, in line with industry trends, will help the airline and its Continental ...
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Contracts
Saab has won a SKr1.2 billion ($142 million) Swedish Defence Material Administration contract to produce defensive aids systems, including radar warning receivers and electronic countermeasures, for the JAS39 Gripen. Messier Dowty has been selected to provide the landing gear for the Korean Aerospace Industries KTX-2. Canada's Magellan Aerospace has ...
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Russia reaches co-operation deals at LIMA
Russian industry's strong presence at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 99) was marked by industrial co-operation agreements and the expectation of aircraft orders. The Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant has partnered the Malaysian industry as expected (Flight International, 24-30 November), but the Malaysian partner is SME Aviation rather ...
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CALCM penetrator warhead selected
Boeing has chosen the Lockheed Martin Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP-3)warhead over the BAE Systems Broach warhead for the AGM-86C Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM). Industry sources say the decision was a "funding decision" with AUP-3 being cheaper than Broach. BAE will offer Broach for a number of other ...
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Row delays overhaul of Irish armed services
Disagreement between Ireland's Department of Finance and its armed forces minister is holding up completion of a White Paper on the future of the equipment-starved Irish Air Corps and the Irish Naval Service. The paper could result in the creation of an Irish coastguard service through the merger of the ...
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USAF settles with Northrop Grumman
The US Air Force has reached an $80 million out-of-court settlement with Northrop Grumman. The move comes after the company was forced to meet $100 million, higher than anticipated, costs to refurbish initial Boeing 707-300s for conversion to Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. Under the original ...
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Joint simulation
Lockheed Martin and the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency are developing a Joint Maritime Simulation Facility. It will be used to define future requirements for maritime airborne platforms and assess the potential of systems of today. The Farnborough, Hampshire-based centre builds on Lockheed Martin's work as prime contractor for ...
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Experimental pod eyes Timor
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA The Royal Australian Air Force has been using its prototype long-range sensor pod in General Dynamics RF-111s since mid-August to monitor Indonesian Defence Force (TNI) and pro-Indonesian militia activities in East and West Timor. The system was initially deployed to monitor the security situation in East ...