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Yemen buys L-39C
Aero Vodochody has sold 12 L-39C jet trainers to Yemen. The aircraft will be delivered by the end of this year. The deal covers spares, pilot and ground crew training, and in-service support. Source: Flight International
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On the offensive
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH Boeing's campaign to secure the future of the 717 is going into overdrive Boeing's efforts to establish the 717-200 in the marketplace were boosted on 24 February with the first flight of the premier production example, P-1, at its Long Beach division in California. Even ...
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Aiming high
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Aero Vodochody is upgrading its trainers and light attack aircraft to attract Eastern and Western customers With a 35% shareholding by Boeing, the world's biggest aerospace company, Aero Vodochody is no longer a poor cousin in the trainer/light attack aircraft market. Today, all of its products are ...
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Comrades in arms
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin has provided Japan and South Korea with a technology boost by partnering on key aircraft programmes Japan and South Korea, two of the most significant aerospace industrial nations in the Asia-Pacific region, are pressing ahead with combat aircraft programmes that bring in new US technology ...
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Partners in production
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Eurofighter production is getting under way with the help of advanced manufacturing technologies Four separate final assembly lines in four different countries, while politically expedient, is not the most efficient means of producing 620 Eurofighters for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. But the partner companies ...
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NASA may make emergency flight to fix Hubble
An emergency servicing mission may be flown to the Hubble Space Telescope in October because the telescope's gyro system could be on the brink of total failure. The third of its six gyros has now failed and NASA is considering whether to replace them earlier than the third servicing ...
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Mir crew lands
Cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and Slovak guest cosmonaut Ivan Bella returned to earth on Soyuz TM28 on 28 February. Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev began their shift aboard the Mir last August. Avdeyev is still aboard with Frenchman Jean-Pierre Haignere and new commander Viktor Afanasyev, who arrived with Bella on ...
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Rotary's Roton test vehicle aims for orbital flights late next year
Guy Norris/MOJAVE Rotary Rocket plans to begin test flights of the Roton atmospheric test vehicle (ATV) by the end of next month, with first orbital flights scheduled for the final quarter of 2000. Details of the test schedule were revealed at the roll-out of the Roton ATV from the ...
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Ariane launches the UK's military Skynet 4E with Arabsat 3A
The UK's Skynet 4E military communications satellite and the Arabsat 3A satellite were launched on board Ariane V116/44L from Kourou, French Guyana, on 26 February. Matra Marconi Space built the Skynet 4E, and the first of the new generation Arabsat 3A communications spacecraft was built by Aerospatiale's satellite division, ...
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Eutelsat First
The US-based Teleglobe international telecommunications carrier will become the first North American user of capacity from European satellite communications organisation Eutelsat. Teleglobe will use a Eutelsat satellite positioned at 12.4¼W in geostationary orbit. Source: Flight International
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More Satellites
Columbia Communications has received US Federal Communication Commission approval to launch and operate two new satellites at 172¼E and 47¼W in geostationary orbit. Source: Flight International
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Execujet Order
ExecuJet Aviation has signed a letter of intent with Bombardier to purchase an ultra-long-range Global Express and a mid-size Learjet 60 business jet. The deal, valued at R300 million ($50 million) "will befinalised in the coming weeks." Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg-based, Execujet is the sole sales agent and service centre for ...
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Mcalpine Delivers
McAlpine Helicopters has delivered its second Eurocopter EC-135 twin to the North Wales Police. The 'advanced police helicopter' will be used for police and emergency medical service operations. The Oxford Airport, UK-based Eurocopter distributor is scheduled to deliver two more EC-135's by the end of April to the North East ...
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Training Centre
Simulator maker Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) is to set up a training centre next to Eurocopter's factory at Marignane, France. The centre, due to open in 2001, will have two TTS-built full-flight simulators, for the AS332 Super Puma Mk1 and Mk2 and the AS365 and EC155 Dauphin. The devices ...
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Galaxy Transfers
Galaxy Aerospace has transferred its factory service centre at Alliance Airport to "brand new" site at the same location. The new hangar will take delivery of the first Galaxy, serial number 006, in March, and can accommodate 16 aircraft, four times as many as the temporary centre. Source: Flight ...
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Hartzell Stc
Hartzell has received two supplemental type certificates for its three-bladed propeller system to be fitted to the Teledyne Continental IO-550-powered Cessna A36 and the turbocharged Beech B36TC Bonanza. The systems are priced at $7.195. Source: Flight International
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Space Radar
The Pentagon has selected teams led by Lockheed Martin, TRW and Spectrum Astro to begin development of the Discover II space-based radar that would offer dramatic improvements in the detection and tracking of moving targets on the earth's surface. Source: Flight International
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Terprom
Eurofighter has chosen British Aerospace Systems and Equipment TERPROM ground proximity warning system for the EF2000. The system will consist of a line-replaceable unit, associated test equipment and map preparation software, and will use the hardware module in production for the RAF's upgraded Tornado GR4. TERPROM provides terrain referenced navigation, ...
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Aerial Photography
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems and El Op have signed an MoU which allows F-16 operators to equip their aircraft with the Israeli company's advanced aerial photography systems. The two firms are already offering the Greek air force what industry sources say is a version of the El Op electro-optic ...
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Laser Win
A team comprised of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW has won a $125 million contract for the Space Based Laser integrated flight experiment. The award is the first for a programme potentially worth $3 billion. The work includes developing a high energy laser architecture and studying cost-effective ballistic missile defence. ...