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Boeing hopes repairs will occupy Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is resorting to introducing repair and modification work to keep its Long Beach plant in California busy, following the reversal of plans to set up a Next Generation 737 assembly line at the former Douglas factory. Boeing 737 operators face the prospect of their ...
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P&W confirms major delay for Korean Air Lines 777-300
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney is being forced to recertificate its PW4098 engine for the heavyweight Boeing 777-300, adding several months to the already delayed programme and making first deliveries to Korean Air Lines almost a year late. The latest problems with the PW4098 emerged during flight ...
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SIA eyes Ansett as it aims for Australian foothold
After months of speculation, Singapore Airlines (SIA) has confirmed interest in taking an equity stake in Ansett Australia. The airline released a speech made at the University of Melbourne by SIA deputy chairman and chief executive Cheong Choong Kong, in which he tacitly refers to an interest, while stopping ...
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The Rollo Freelunchprize quiz extra
Identify the types, fill in the form below and post or fax your answers to Uncle Roger, Flight International, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS, UK. Fax +44 181 652 3840. Closing date is 15 January, 1999. The first four entries drawn from the hat will win a ...
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Learjet 45 simulator gets approval
The first full flight simulator for the Bombardier Learjet 45 business jet has received US Federal Aviation Administration training approval. Installed at FlightSafety International's Tucson, Arizona, training centre, the simulator is equipped with FlightSafety's ChromaView visual system. Level D certification is planned when more aircraft data is available. Source: ...
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Simuflite updates
SimuFlite Training International has upgraded the avionics in its Dassault Falcon 50 simulator, to be representative of the majority of the fleet now in use. Source: Flight International
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Pan Am to set up two centres
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has won contracts to establish simulator centres for Atlantic Coast Airlines and DHL Airways. PAIFA, which operates a simulator centre in Miami, won a contract earlier this year to build and operate a training centre for FedEx. Under the 10-year agreement with Atlantic ...
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Thomson to provide RAF Tornado training
Thomson Training &Simulation (TTS) is planning to build and operate two mission simulators under a UK Ministry of Defence contract to provide the Royal Air Force's Panavia Tornado GR4 synthetic training service. TTS was selected in November as the preferred bidder to provide Tornado training under the UK's Private ...
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USAF updates aircrew systems
The US Air Force is preparing to award contracts to operate and update some of its aircrew training systems. Competitions are under way to provide training services and systems for the Boeing B-1B and C-17, as well as Lockheed Martin C-5 and C-130 programmes. The C-5 competition is to ...
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More Mir missions planned after June
Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev, who will command the 27th resident crew to fly to the Mir space station in February, says that his mission will not be the final one to the space station, as planned originally. The mission will have a duration of just three months. A further ...
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Hughes technology transfer error helped China's missile programme
The US Department of Defense has confirmed that Hughes Space and Communications inadvertently aided China's missile and satellite programmes during an investigation into the failure of a Long March 2E launcher attempting to orbit the Hughes built ApStar 2 satellite in 1995. The Pentagon says that Hughes gave China ...
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Space Imaging will supply US agency
Space Imaging, which is due to launch its first Ikonos satellite in 1999, has been selected to provide images to the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and to provide the infrastructure to permit distribution of high resolution images within 22h of downlink, under a $4.4 million contract. ...
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Mars Climate Observer lifts off
Tim Furniss/LONDON A Boeing Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 11 December, carrying the first of two NASA spacecraft that will be used to conduct the next round of investigations into Mars. The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) is scheduled to culminate in an orbital insertion in ...
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Hessi plans
Spectrum Astro has completed the preliminary design review of the next primary mission satellite in NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) programme. The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) will be launched in July 2000. Orbital Sciences will launch HESSI aboard a Pegasus in 2000. NASA has launched four SMEX craft. ...
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British Aerospace Royal Ordance's BROACH warhead
British Aerospace Royal Ordance's BROACH multi-warhead system has been selected by Raytheon as the main alternative payload for the AGM-154C unitary-warhead variant of its Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW), under development for the US Navy. A second successful test has been conducted, meanwhile, of the BROACH warhead for the US Air ...
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French resolve missiles/satellites dispute
Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Ministry of Defence has brokered a deal ending the dispute between the country's two major electronics and aerospace/defence groupings over their respective missiles and satellites businesses. Under the agreement, Aerospatiale's stake in Sextant Avionique will be sold to Thomson-CSF. The two groups - Thomson-CSF/Alcatel/Dassault Industries and ...
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Ikonos delayed
Space Imaging says the launch of the first commercial 1m-resolution remote sensing satellite, Ikonos 1, will be delayed again, to at least June, because of problems with a spacecraft "subsystem". The spacecraft will be at least a year late in flying. Source: Flight International
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Rotary action
Rotary Rocket has successfully tested its "whirl tower" during the first rotor ground trials to qualify the unit for the landing system of the piloted Roton satellite delivery vehicle. More tests will be required before a maiden flight planned for late 1999. Source: Flight International
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Pegasus launch
NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) was launched at 00.58 GMT on 6 December by an air-launched Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL booster. The $64 million SWAS will investigate the process involved in the creation of stars, when gravity collapses interstellar clouds of gas. Source: Flight International
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Orbital transfer
Intelsat has transferred five operational satellites, plus a sixth under construction, to New Skies Satellites, an independent company created by the international communications satellite organisation's 143 members, in its road towards full privatisation. The operational satellites are: 513 (183E), 703 (57E), 803 (338.5E), 806 (319.5E), Intelsat K (338.5E) and the ...