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Spysat agreement
Japan and the USA have reached a basic agreement on the provision of parts and technology by the USA for the development of four reconnaissance satellites which Japan plans to launch in 2002. The satellites will carry optical instruments and radars. A control centre and up to three tracking stations ...
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Pizza Proton
The Pizza Hut company will place a 10m (30ft)-wide logo on the side of the Proton booster that will launch the Zvezda module to the International Space Station (ISS), providing the Russian space programme with much needed funds. The Russian Space Agency, which has sold experiment time on its segment ...
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The cockpit
The L-159A's primary flight instrument and weapon aiming system is a Flight Visions FV-3000 head-up display (HUD). The 25° field of view HUD computer controls the integrated operation of navigation and fire control functions. Either side of and below the HUD are two AlliedSignal colour liquid crystal display multifunction displays ...
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Business first
Booming Western economies and increased prosperity has brought a leap in sales of business turbine aircraft Kate Sarsfield/LONDONThe world's business turbine fleet, notably in North America and Europe, has swelled to record levels during the past 12 months. Several factors have contributed to this, not least the burgeoning economies ...
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A league of its own
Raytheon Aircraft believes the Premier I sets a new standard for comfort and performance in entry-level business jets Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBusiness aviation is famously conservative, and buyers of Beech-branded products notoriously so. Not surprisingly, Raytheon's 1995 announcement that it was developing a composite-fuselage business aircraft was greeted with cries of ...
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Fractional surgery
Can the fractional ownership industry head off moves by traditionalists to impose stricter rules on its operation? Kate Sarsfield/LONDONThese are anxious times for the US fractional ownership community. Flourishing aircraft manufacturers and suppliers herald it as the saviour of the business aircraft industry, yet it has attracted the wrath of ...
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Millennium fever
Visitors to the NBAA's last convention of the millennium will see its biggest show yet and industry optimism to match Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) celebrates its final convention of the century (12-14 October) amid a climate of growing optimism. As business aircraft sales continue to escalate, ...
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Mitsubishi wins full MH2000 certification
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) MH2000 twin-turboshaft helicopter was granted full type certification by the Japanese Ministry of Transport's Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) on 24 September. Deliveries of the country's first indigenously produced helicopter have begun. The certificate upgrades the 650kW (875hp) Mitsubishi MG5-110 twin turboshaft-powered MH2000 from the limitations ...
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US company snaps up Zlin manufacturer
A majority interest in Czech manufacturer Moravan, producer of the Zlin aerobatic, agricultural and training aircraft, has been sold to US company SDC International. SDC has agreed to pay $16 million for 55% of Ostrokovice-based Moravan as the first step in its strategy to acquire manufacturers of industrial and ...
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Sky Station integration contract awarded
Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications has signed a contract to provide system integration for Sky Station International's stratospheric telecommunications-relay airships. Sky Station's concept is to place unmanned airships in geostationary positions 70,000ft (21,350m) above major cities, to provide high-speed Internet services. The solar-powered airships, up to 160m long, would remain aloft ...
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Bombardier offers to stretch Canadair jet to 90 seats
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier is offering airlines a stretched 90-seat derivative of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ). A decision on whether to launch the new model, dubbed CRJ-900, is planned for year-end. Deliveries of the aircraft, which would be derived from the 70-seat CRJ-700, could begin in 2002, ...
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Europe seeks views on Galileo navigation system
Emma Kelly/AMSTERDAM The European Commission (EC) has set up transportation groups to start gathering views from potential users of the Galileo satellite navigation system. Although forums have been established for the maritime, road and rail industries, no such group has been set up for aeronautical users. "We don't want ...
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Workshop
Aeronavali has subcontracted Boeing Airplane Services to convert a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 from passenger to freighter configuration for Brussels-based Skyjet Airways. Boeing was contracted by Aeronavali as Skyjet required the aircraft sooner than the Italian company could undertake the work. The aircraft is due to arrive in early November at ...
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Thais omit Airbus from probe
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie has been excluded from the "nearly complete" investigation into the December 1998 crash of a Thai Airways International Airbus A310, amid Thai press reports that a mechanical failure was the main cause of the accident. Airbus says that if there were a mechanical failure, the ...
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British Airways receives its first of up to 188 A320 models
British Airways is this month introducing its first Airbus A319 - one of 59 International Aero Engines V2500-powered A320 family aircraft on firm order. The 126-seater will be used initially operate from BA's Birmingham base on services to Glasgow, Hanover and Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Paris Charles de Gaulle. BA's Airbus ...
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NTSB warns airlines on media briefings
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is to issue carriers with new rules for post-accident briefings to the media, after a strongly worded exchange with American Airlines over the handling of the recent Little Rock crash. Following a meeting with the Air Transportation Association (ATA), the NTSB will ...
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Marketplace
Air Foyle has confirmed that its outsized cargo joint venture with Antonov is being expanded, with the design bureau's operating division, renamed Antonov Airlines, taking two additional An-124s (Flight International, 22-28 September). These ex-Rossiya operated aircraft bring the An-124 fleet to eight aircraft, and a ninth, ex-Titan, aircraft is to ...
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LanChile eyes converted 767Fs
Paul Lewis/MIAMI LanChile is interested in Boeing 767 freighter conversions as replacements for its McDonnell Douglas DC-8s. The Chilean national carrier operates 13 767-300ER passenger aircraft, but will begin to replace these twinjets with seven new Airbus A340-300s, the first of which is to be delivered next September. ...
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Airlines cut millennium flights
David Learmount/LONDON Airlines are cutting flights 24h either side of midnight 31 December in response to lower than normal passenger bookings. Overall passenger demand is following a "seasonal pattern", according to scheduled and charter carriers, people are travelling earlier for a longer New Year holiday and want to be at ...
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Regulators meet Airbus on A3XX
Airworthiness authorities have met Airbus Industrie to discuss certification issues for the A3XX, as the consortium prepares to bring the airliner to market. The meeting, the third in a series of multidisciplinary gatherings designed to thrash out a timetable for type certification for the proposed 550-seater, was the first ...