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Russia and USA extend Tu-144 test programme
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The international supersonic transport flight-test programme, involving a Tupolev Tu-144 as a flying laboratory, is set to be extended following a new agreement by the Russian and US programme partners. Tupolev, NASA and a group of US aerospace companies led by Boeing have agreed to undertake ...
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Japan moves away from YSX
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has announced a fundamental shift in its aerospace policy, away from subsidising the long running YSX regional aircraft study towards supporting new component and subsystem technology. MITI's aerospace industry funding request for fiscal year 1999/ 2000 includes some ´800 million ($5.5 ...
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Libya holds talks with BAe over aviation update
Carol Reed/LONDON A potential multi-billion-dollar business deal involving reconstruction of Libya's aviation infrastructure is being put on the table by the state's leader, Col Muammer Gadaffi, as a bargaining chip for Western states to lift their close to a decade-long sanctions against the North African country. British Aerospace ...
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Pratt & Whitney will appeal against Chromalloy ruling
Pratt & Whitney says it will appeal against a US court ruling that clears the way for engine repair supplier Chromalloy Gas Turbine to provide airlines with P&W-approved repairs of components of PW2000, PW4000 and International Aero Engines V2500 turbofans. "We don't agree with the judgement and we will ...
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AlliedSignal tunes in to datalinks
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A full high-frequency datalink (HFDL) service for the North Atlantic is expected to begin operating this month, leading its designer AlliedSignal to predict significant new business in its battle with dominant supplier Rockwell Collins. The company's confidence stems from the certification of its XK516 HFDL ...
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A3XX model tested
British Aerospace Airbus is testing a 1/28-scale model of the proposed 480/660-seat Airbus A3XX in the pressurised 5m windtunnel at the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency's Farnborough site. BAe, part of the integrated wing team with Aerospatiale and Daimler-Benz Aerospace, is testing slat and flap deployment angles to investigate ...
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Howmet capacity up
Howmet has opened a new $5.6 million casting operation at its Wichita Falls, Texas, USA, plant. Dedicated to the production of solid aerofoils, the facility has a capacity of more than 200 moulds a day for customers which include Pratt & Whitney. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon prepares to produce Horizon fuselage
Raytheon Aircraft is preparing to produce the first composite fuselage sections for its Hawker Horizon mid-size business jet. The Horizon fuselage will be the biggest pressurised structure yet produced using automated fibre placement, the company says. Raytheon selected fibre placement to produce the fuselage of its Premier I light ...
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Hughes clears HS-601 satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes has cleared the Galaxy X and Astra 2A satellites for launch after completing investigations into the failure of space control processors aboard three HS-601 model communications satellites. The failure resulted in the total loss of Galaxy IV and the loss of the primary processor systems on ...
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Japan calls off new attempt to dock orbiting spacecraft
Failure to dock the Japanese Orihime and Hikoboshi spacecraft in orbit on 13-14 August was the result of attitude control difficulties. The cause was either a jammed thruster, software or electronic errors, say officials in Tokyo. The two spacecraft had successfully undertaken rendezvous and station-keeping manoeuvres as part of ...
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Mir docking
The Soyuz TM28 docked manually with the Russian Mir 1 space station on 15 August. Commander Gennadi Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev will stay on Mir until next year, while cosmonaut researcher Yuri Baturin will return to earth on 25 August with the TM27 crew Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai ...
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USAF plans further manoeuvre vehicle tests
Further drop tests in the US Air Force Space Manoeuvre Vehicle (SMV) programme are planned, including a suborbital rocket engine boosted test flight in 2001, following the successful first drop-test of a 6.7m-long flight test vehicle on 11 August (Flight International, 19-25 August). A fully developed operational SMV would provide ...
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Hong Kong move
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals has completed the move back to the airport at Chek Lap Kok of all freight handling operations, after overcoming computer problems. The resumption of full services at the new SuperTerminal One facility ends the emergency use of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, which is now ...
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GV simulator
FlightSafety International's Gulfstream V full-flight simulator has been upgraded to Level D, after the release of high-fidelity flight data which allowed re-certification of the Savannah, Georgia-based device to the highest recognised training standard. Source: Flight International
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Allied Certification
US-based Elliot Aviation has become the first service centre to certificate Allied-Signal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system in the Raytheon Beech King Air 200 and 300 series and Beech 1900. Approvals in the Beech jet 400 series are pending. Source: Flight International
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Rocket rights
SpaceDev, the commercial space exploration company planning to launch the Near Earth Asteroid Prospector spacecraft, has acquired the exclusive rights and intellectual property of American Rocket (Amroc). If SpaceDev is successful in developing a commercial market, it will purchase the technology from Amroc. Source: Flight International
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Spare module
Russia's Khrunichev company has revealed that it has built a back-up Control Module for the International Space Station (ISS) in case the prime module is lost in a launch failure when the ISS programme kicks off with a Proton flight on 20 November. The backup module could be used later ...
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Space link
GE Americom and Lockheed Martin Global Communications have formed a joint venture to deploy a new satellite system to serve the Asia Pacific region. The GE-1A craft - based on the Lockheed A2100 spacecraft bus - will be launched in July 1999. Source: Flight International
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Aero Vodochody flies initial combat version of L-159
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Czech jet trainer manufacturer Aero Vodochody has flown the first single-seat L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft, which is earmarked to become the mainstay of the Czech air force's combat fleet. The aircraft is the second L-159 prototype, but the first in Czech air force configuration, with a full ...