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Consolidate to accumulate
The maintenance, repair and overhaul market is expected to swell to around $35.9 billion by 2004, according to Doug Birch/LONDON Think of consolidation within the aviation industry and the frenzied merger activity gripping the aerospace manufacturing sector immediately springs to mind. Yet consolidation is also beginning to change the ...
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NetJets forum
Executive Jet is to conduct a forum at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in October to brief fixed-base operators, charter operators, repair stations and other support service suppliers. Meanwhile, the first phase of the company's new $25 million US operational headquarters at Port Columbus International Airport, ...
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NASA ready to detail transporter plans
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NASA will brief the US Administration by the end of September on its proposal to spend $1.2 billion over five years to prepare for a "low risk" competition to select a next-generation space transporter by 2005. The agency is to present its plans to the US Office ...
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India/France plan weather satellite
India and France are to build and launch in 2005 a climate monitoring satellite called Megha Tropiques. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and French space agency CNES will use the satellite to study climate patterns to help develop a scientific model for weather forecasting that could benefit farmers, ...
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Second test flight for Roton
Rotary Rocket's Roton Atmospheric Test Vehicle (ATV) made its second test flight on 16 September. The ATV rose to 6m (20ft) altitude and hovered virtually stationary for two and a half minutes during the 4min 30s flight, powered by small thrusters on the tips of its helicopter-like rotating blades. ...
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Communications sale
Lockheed Martin is to offer excess Ka-band capacity on NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) to commercial customers under its Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC). Deployed in September 1993 from the Space Shuttle Discovery with a five-man crew, the multiple spot-beam ACTS is expected to remain operational beyond June next ...
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Safety team to probe Shuttle maintenance
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has appointed an independent industry team to review the overall safety of the Space Shuttle and its maintenance and refurbishment practices. The team will be led by Dr Henry McDonald, director of NASA's Ames Research Center. The move follows the discovery of maintenance-related damage to ...
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Arianespace moves to reduce launch backlog
Arianespace plans to launch six boosters before the end of the year in an effort to reduce the backlog of launches caused by delays to deliveries of several communications satellites earlier this year. The next mission is due on 24 September, involving the launch of a Telstar 7 satellite ...
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H-II delay
The delayed launch of the Japanese H-II booster with the Loral-built MTSAT has been put back to November to give Japanese space agency NASDA time to conduct a review of technical problems that have delayed a planned August launch. The problems have included a deformed electrode on a battery on ...
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Il Avia loses licence after using time-expired engines
Russia's Federal Service of Air Transport has withdrawn the operating licence of a leading air cargo operator for maintenance violations involving the alleged use of time-expired engines on an Ilyushin Il-76TD. Il Avia, 10%-owned by the Ilyushin Aviation Complex and 90% by Vozrozhdenniya, a foundation set up to support ...
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TNT's first A300F ready
British Aerospace Aviation Services has completed the conversion of the first of up to 14 Airbus A300B4 freighters for TNT. The express parcels specialist will operate the 45t freighters on its European network from its Liège, Belgium, hub and is restructuring into a single group with its own operating certificate. ...
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IATA calls for industry action to fight threat to radio spectrum
Emma Kelly/AMSTERDAM The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is urging the aviation industry to increase efforts to protect its radio frequency spectrum in preparation for next year's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). The aviation industry's vital radio spectrum was threatened by mobile satellite communication operators at ...
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Eurocontrol sets date for rule-making decision
Eurocontrol is to present "a concrete proposal" for a European rule-making and enforcement body to its council on 13 October, according to Jan van den Assem, the agency's head of stakeholder relations. The European air navigation organisation's council was originally due to consider the proposal of granting Eurocontrol regulatory ...
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South Pacific Forum sets decision date
A working group of the South Pacific Forum is due to complete its studies on the proposed unified upper airspace management of the region in June next year, allowing ministers to decide next September on whether to implement the plan. The 16-member South Pacific Forum - Australia, Cook Islands, ...
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USN gives Tomcat more bite
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe US Navy is upgrading its Northrop Grumman F-14s with an improved LANTIRN targeting pod and new global positioning system (GPS)-guided weapons as part of a continuing series of incremental extensions to the fighter's strike capabilities. Following the LANTIRN-equipped F-14's combat debut in Kosovo, the navy will raise ...
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RAAF launches stand-off weapon competition
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA The Australian Department of Defence has issued tenders for its Follow On Stand-Off Weapons (FOSOW) project with a planned Lockheed Martin bid based on the JASSM, expected to become a key test for US policy on technology release to Australia. The project, Air 5418, will be ...
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US Army refutes GAO Comanche criticism
The US Army has dismissed claims by the General Accounting Office (GAO) that the Boeing-Sikorsky AH-66 Comanche helicopter will enter development with significant risks. The service has also refuted claims in a new GAO report that it will not be able to complete development of the scout/attack helicopter within ...
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X-32B wings in
Boeing fitted the single piece wing for its X-32B Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator at Palmdale, California on 20 September. The assembly of the X32B wing took one third less time than its predecessor, the X-32A, says Boeing which attributes the increased speed to "lean concepts" and an innovative management ...
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USA gives approval for South American attack helicopter buy
Chile and Colombia are set to become the first Latin American nations to deploy attack helicopters following recent US Government approval to supply both countries with pricing and availability data for the Bell MH-1W SuperCobra. The US Navy foreign military sales office has responded after price and availability requests were ...
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Michot backs Airbus bilaterals
Julian Moxon/PARIS Chris Jasper/LONDONAerospatiale Matra president Yves Michot has endorsed the British Aerospace view that the restructuring of Airbus Industrie can now best be achieved through bilateral mergers of the consortium's interests. This consigns to the scrap heap two years of negotiations which had sought to transform the consortium into ...