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Iranian test
Iran's air defence commander Hussein Qaliki says an exercise by the country's Revolutionary Guards this month would be used to complete testing of the Sayyad-1a surface-to-air missile. Source: Flight International
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Partner profit
Commercial aircraft broker Air Partner has announced that pre-tax profits in the financial year ending 31 July fell to £2.8 million ($4.5 million) on a turnover of £63.5 million. The result was better than expected at the start of the year, when the group issued a profits warning due to ...
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Special production
Wyoming-based Aviat Aircraft has begun initial production of its 110 Special, which is a revised version of a 1932 Monocoupe racer. Deliveries of the first $160,000 aircraft are scheduled to begin, following certification at the end of this year. Source: Flight International
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Embry converts
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) plans to replace its 54-strong fleet of Cessna 172R Skyhawks with the more powerful 172S Skyhawk SP models. The move follows engine performance problems which forced the organisation, based in Daytona Beach, to ground its 160hp (120kW) 172R Skyhawk aircraft less than a year ago. Source: ...
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Prop stop
Hartzell Propeller has ended its production of two designs of its propeller, blades and hubs. This cessation will affect tens of thousands of older-design Beech, Cessna, Piper and Twin Commander aircraft. Production has ceased of other related parts for the series-1 and series-8 designs. A number of so-called X- and ...
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KOMPSAT arrives
The Republic of Korea's Korean Multipurpose Satellite (KOMPSAT), has arrived at Vandenberg AFB, California, for its launch on an Orbital Sciences Taurus booster later this year. The KOMPSAT, built by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute and TRW, carries space physics experiments. Source: Flight International
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Picosats launch
The US Air Force plans to launch the first DARPA Picosats this month, using an Orbital Sciences-developed derivative of the Minuteman military missile with an OSC upper stage. The Picosats will validate micro-electromechanical systems. Source: Flight International
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Alaska Spaceport
The development of the Alaska Spaceport's commercial launch pad on Kodiak Island, has stepped forward with the installation of operations software and computer systems. It hopes to host polar orbiting missions. Source: Flight International
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Andean satellite
The Andesat consortium, comprising Venezuela, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Alcatel Spacecom, will launch the first of a series of Alcatel Espace-built Simon Bolivar communications satellites in 2001. The project will cost $500 million. Source: Flight International
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New plant
Mitsubishi Electric has entered the world league in full-scale satellite manufacturing and testing with the completion of a new six-floor 23m (75ft)-high, 2,483m² (26,700ft²) plant at Kamakura. Incorporating full scale design, manufacturing and testing facilities under one roof, it includes a space vacuum chamber. Source: Flight International
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Connecting East Africa
Kenya Airways has shown how to succeed, but its East African regional rivals are struggling Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA A shareholders' meeting on 26 November could pose ominous implications for the East African air industry. The stockholders control African Joint Air Services Agreement (AJAS), the holding company behind SA Alliance, the ...
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Star target
NATO is well on the way to having its own version of the USA's Joint STARS Paul Lewis/MELBOURNE, FLORIDA After years of deliberation, NATO has embarked on a programme that could see the alliance field its own version of the US Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) by ...
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FlightSafety Boeing picks Luton for first European training unit
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) has rethought its European strategy, deciding to set up small training centres across Europe rather than one major hub near London Heathrow. The change of plan comes as the company initiates the development of a £44 million ($73.5 million) training centre, which ...
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Lufthansa boosts Berlin centre
Lufthansa is expanding its Berlin flight training centre by buying two full-flight simulators with visual systems from Canada's CAE Electronics. CityLine Simulator and Training Berlin will take delivery of Europe's first Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet simulator by the end of next year, while Lufthansa Simulator Centre is acquiring a ...
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Pan Am starts career training
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has entered the ab initio pilot training market by buying Westwind Aviation Academy. Following its acquisition of Phoenix, Arizona-based Westwind, PAIFA has launched a career pilot training programme, under which it will work with airlines to select and train students all the way ...
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ESA tests weightlessness in A300 flights
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the latest in a series of microgravity parabolic flights using an adapted Airbus A300 in late October. The flights, which involve experiments in weightlessness, test instruments and equipment before they undergo a real spaceflight. The latest series of flights involve nine human respiration system ...
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Rupture caused Delta III failure
A rupture of the combustion chamber in the second-stage RL-10B-2 engine caused the failure of the second Delta III launcher in May, according to an interim report by Boeing. The engine, which was being used for the first time, suffered "a 67in² [43,225mm²] diamond-shaped breach of its combustion chamber" ...
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ESA issues warning on space debris
The European Space Agency (ESA) is calling for the introduction of measures to prevent further space debris accumulating in orbit. ESA warns that there is a 1 in 25 chance of the Hubble Space Telescope being seriously damaged by space debris during its 17-year life. There are 8,000 pieces ...
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Leo One chooses satellite partners
Leo One Worldwide has selected Dasa's Dornier Satellitensysteme, Eurokot and Lockheed Martin Space Electronics to construct and launch its proposed 48 low-earth-orbiting satellites that will provide near real-time store and forward data services. The agreements, valued at more than $400 million each, will involve Dornier Satellitensysteme, Eurokot and Lockheed ...
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FAME and Swift head search for planets
The search for extra-solar planetary systems has begun with the selection by NASA of the Full Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) and the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer as new missions in the space agency's Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) programme. FAME, to be launched in 2004, will obtain precise position ...