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United deal will boost Airbus fleet to 133
United Airlines (UAL) has placed its second major follow-on order this year for Airbus narrowbodies, which will boost its fleet of A319s and A320s to 133. The airline has converted options for 10 A319s and 12 A320s for delivery between 2000 and 2001, and pushes UAL's order tally up ...
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Prospects for N2130 production grow bleaker
Indonesian hopes of producing its first jet airliner, IPTN's N2130 regional jet family, are fading as local shareholders in the $2 billion programme move to liquidate their investment. The Dua Satu Tiga Puluh (DSTP) company, tasked with backing N2130 development, is considering three options following a 29 July extraordinary ...
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Eurofighter Chairman
Eurofighter has named Filippo Bagnato, head of Alenia's Aeronautics division, as chairman for the next two years. Bagnato replaces Daimler-Benz Aerospace military aircraft chief Aloysius Rauen. Bagnato has led the Italian Eurofighter partner company's aerospace division since April 1996, after having worked for two years as senior vice-president of technology ...
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First flight update
The first Boeing 757-300 was due to make its maiden flight from Renton on 2 August as Flight International closed for press. Source: Flight International
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Northrop Grumman sets sights on GTE as shareholders attack
As angry shareholders launched a lawsuit against Northrop Grumman executives in the wake of the failed merger with Lockheed Martin, speculation is growing that the group is preparing to bid for the defence arm of GTE if it comes on the market as part of the US telecommunications giant's own ...
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1900D collides with Cessna in mid-air
A Proteus Airlines Beech 1900D, with 12 passengers and two crew on board, collided in mid-air with a privately owned Cessna 177 Cardinal 10km (5nm) over the sea east of Quiberon, in Brittany, France, on 30 July . There were no survivors. The Proteus aircraft was on a scheduled ...
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Schiphol introduces graded landing charges for Chapter 3 aircraft types
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has imposed a new sliding scale of landing fees for Chapter 3 aircraft from 1 August, as well as a 20% surcharge on night-time operations. The new fees for Chapter 3-compliant types are broken into three categories, varying according to the level ...
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Lockheed Martin drives down costs
Lockheed Martin has completed evaluation of a new production process under its Advanced Affordability Initiative. The process replaces airframe subassemblies with aluminium investment castings, which do not require finishing (sawing, forming, machining or drilling). Although the technique has been developed for the Joint Strike Fighter, it has been demonstrated on ...
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Lucas launches 'power by wire' work
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lucas Aerospace has launched development of an electric actuation system suitable for combat aircraft and large commercial transports, following successful completion of a 1,000h in-service test of "power by wire" on a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter transport. The so-called Electric Starlifter has Lucas-developed integrated ...
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Danes order Rista
Northrop Grumman Electronic Sensors and Systems Division (ESSD) is to supply its reconnaissance, infrared surveillance, target acquisition (RISTA) sensors for Royal Danish Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16s. It is the first sale outside the USA of the wide-area reconnaissance and night vision RISTA system, says ESSD. Source: Flight International
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R-R prepares combustor for low-emissions test
Rolls-Royce is completing certification work on a new low-emissions combustor for the RB211-535E4 engine to be introduced into service on Condor's first Boeing 757-300 in January 1999. The Phase Five combustor is based on the low-emissions design of the larger Trent powerplant, and scaled to fit the -535, says ...
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ICAO and IATA join forces to beat millennium bug
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have outlined plans to merge their efforts to tackle the Year 2000 (Y2K) millennium bug, which threatens to disrupt computer software and could cause computers to crash when the year is effectively reset. The plan focuses ...
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Satellite bug delays launches
Tim Furniss/LONDON The launch of at least two Hughes Space and Communications HS-601-based satellites have been delayed following control processor failures aboard the similar DBS1 and Galaxy 4 and 7 spacecraft in geostationary orbit from May to July (Flight International, 22-28 July). The JC-SAT 6, scheduled for launch on 29 ...
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Eutelsat appeals against GEO orbit decision
Eutelsat, the European communications satellite organisation, has appealed against the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) decision to stop it operating its planned Europesat 1 spacecraft, to be launched in 2000 at 29¼E in geostationary orbit. This is just 1.8¼ west of the position which rival Luxembourg company Société Européenne des ...
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Further failures threaten Iridium start-up date
Seven of the 72 Motorola mobile communications satellites launched into low earth orbit over the past 13 months have now failed, following the recent malfunctions of two additional spacecraft. Failure of a planned launch of a Delta booster carrying five satellites in August would jeopardise the scheduled start-up of the ...
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Kayser-Threde to build Ariane 5 dummy
Arianespace has awarded German company Kayser-Threde a contract to build a dummy satellite payload for the European Space Agency-funded third Ariane 5 development test flight scheduled for 13 October. The payload, designated Maqsat 3, matches the mechanical and dynamic features of the originally planned Eutelsat W1 communications satellite 503 ...
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Global service
Russia's Khrunichev and the Anglo-French-German Matra Marconi Space-Daimler-Benz Aerospace Dornier Satellite System company have proposed to the European Union and Russian Government the provision of a global environmental service, providing maps and planning information on land, sea and the atmosphere, using satellite derived data. Source: Flight International
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Rotary Rocket starts construction of the first Roton parts
Construction of the first parts of Rotary Rocket's Roton commercial space vehicle is under way, kicking off an ambitious development schedule aimed at achieving initial flight tests by the middle of 1999. The first elements of the Roton, an unpiloted, unmanned, re-useable single stage to orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle, are ...
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Location of SOHO raises rescue hopes
Ground-based telescopes have located the European Space Agency (ESA)/ NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) rotating at 1RPM in its nominal "halo orbit" between the sun and the earth, raising hopes that direct communications can be restored so that the tumbling craft's solar panels can be repointed to the sun. ...
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X-38 faces crucial parafoil testing during September
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NASA hopes to restart full scale free-flight drop tests of the X-38 crew return vehicle (CRV) as early as October, pending successful tests of a redesigned parafoil system in September. The X-38 is being developed as a "life boat" for crews of the International Space ...