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Ikonos satellite imagery knocks security for a loop
Tim Ripley Singapore would opt to purchase a ground station to allow greater access to digital imagery from the Ikonos satellite for "targeting purposes". The commercially-funded satellite was launched last September by Lockheed Martin and the Space Imaging consortium, which involves US giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, Japan's ...
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Scout helmet to aid police
Police forces may soon have a new weapon in their airborne fight against crime thanks to a state-of-the-art aircrew helmet being developed for the civil market. The Scout helmet will give helicopter pilots the ability to locate fugitives or find survivors in day or at night and is undergoing ...
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Bombardier CRJs sold to Shanghai Airlines
Shanghai Airlines has ordered three Bombardier Aerospace CRJ200 regional jets. The sale, valued at approximately $68 million, constitutes the third new airline customer for Bombardier in China in less than a year. "We look forward to the addition of Bombardier's CRJ200 Series to our fleet," says Shanghai Airlines president ...
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Sunny days are here again
Hugh McAtear The media often resorts to meteorological analogies to describe the state of the airshow industry, turning to phrases like "clear skies above" in good times, and "dark clouds on the horizon" in anticipation of tougher times to come. So an appropriate question to Jimmy Lau, managing ...
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SIA leads regional recovery
Mike Martin Singapore Airlines is in the market for up to 19 widebody and narrowbody aircraft plus 22 options. The launch of the long-awaited W-aircraft requirement, as reported in today's Flight International, is to replace the Airbus Industrie A310. SIA has issued a formal request for proposals ...
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New Sikorsky deliveries to USN imminent
Sikorsky says the first production CH-60S helicopter will be handed over within weeks for the completion of US Navy development and operational testing. The manufacturer tied up the first of a potentially lucrative series of contracts with the USN before Christmas by completing the sale of the first two ...
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A worldwide web of difference
STEVE NICHOLS Asian Aerospace is fast becoming a "dot-com" show - at least three companies are featuring new e-commerce products and many others are highlighting a WWW presence. SITA and AAR (Stand A720) are launching aerospan.com at the show, a site that will "initially feature spare parts inventory ...
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Chinese commander outlines offensive strategy
The commander of China's People's Liberation Army Air Force, Lt Gen Liu Shunyao, yesterday foreshadowed a more offensive role for his service. Speaking in Singapore at the Millennium Air Power Conference, held as part of Asian Aerospace 2000, Lt Gen Liu told an extraordinarily high-powered collection of senior officers and ...
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China to send men into space
Tim Furniss China is ready to become the world's third nation to put a man into space. The second launch of a Long March 2F booster with the Chinese Shen Zhou spacecraft from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert is expected this year to test the craft before a ...
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Snecma Moteurs and Pratt & Whitney to collaborate on engine
Pratt & Whitney's space propulsion operations and Snecma Moteurs' rocket engine division have agreed to joint development of a new, high-technology, upper-stage rocket engine. Designated the SPW2000, it is a liquid oxygen and hydrogen 45,000 to 60,000lb (200-266kN) thrust-class engine with potential application for the Ariane 5, Delta and ...
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P&W addresses 'green' concerns with PW6000
As the search to improve the impact of aviation on the Earth's environment goes on, Pratt & Whitney is talking up the advantages of its PW6000 engine, the only engine designed specifically for 100-passenger aircraft. The PW6000's balanced approach to low emissions produces the lowest overall emissions while satisfying ...
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Raytheon wins major US contracts
Raytheon has announced two major contracts that could be worth more than $500 million over six years. The first, worth $55.1 million, is a tri-services agreement with the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to provide total logistics support for McDonnell Douglas C-9 aircraft. If the six one-year ...
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Battle royale looming over radio frequencies
The aerospace industry could face a fight with "voracious" commercial telecoms interests at an international conference to re-allocate radio frequencies, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The World Radio Conference of the International Telecommunications Union, which is being held in Istanbul in May, has the power to re-allocate ...
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Technology solution to training troubles
The burgeoning power of computer technology and how it could help the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) was address by Maj Gen Raymund Ng, Chief of the Air Force. "The RSAF is a microcosm of the city-state. Faced with the same lack of resources, we have to constantly ...
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Regionals crack important China and Japan markets
Nicholas Ionides/ATI The world's top regional jet (RJ) makers have cracked two important markets over the past six months - China and Japan - leading to hopes that the sales success of RJs in the USA and Europe may now be spreading to Asia. Fairchild was the first, ...
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Cambodia growth to mimic Dubai
Dr lain Gray doesn't mince words. "We 're going to do what Dubai did 15 years ago," he says, 'we' in this case being the new Kampong Chhnang Global Air Cargo Hub in Cambodia. The project, under development in southern Cambodia, aims to break into the air transport arena ...
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Supply may frustrate freighter conversions
The market for freighter conversions is estimated at some 2,300 aircraft in the next 20 years, but availability of appropriate aircraft for conversion may be an issue. Speaking at Air Freight Asia, Bharat Bhise, president and chief executive officer of C-S Aviation Services, sees continued strong growth in the ...
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Malaysian Prime Minister gives nod to limited open skies
Chuck Grieve Malaysia is prepared to grant reciprocal open skies rights as part of the government's efforts to support its growing air transport industry, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad told an aviation conference in Kuala Lumpur. Delivering the keynote address at the opening of Air Freight Asia 2000 ...
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Nodong base 'threat' revealed as basic camp site
Tim Furniss Imagery from Ikonos, the first commercial spy-satellite-class remote sensing satellite launched last year has revealed that the much-feared Nodong missile launch base in North Korea is nothing but a very basic test site with a few buildings. Nodong has apparently worried USA security chiefs for years ...
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Italians take delivery of first ACJ
The Italian love of stylish living now reaches into the heart of government following the delivery of the world's first Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner (A319 CJ). Following the handover in Hamburg last week, the ACJ is now deployed to carry members of the Italian government in a modified interior ...