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Military Aircraft Directory: Airbus Military Company
AIRBUS MILITARY AIRCRAFT Manufacturer PWR MTD WS FL Max Kts/Mach H Max OC Max Pay. C P Future Large Aircraft (FLA) Tactical transport 41.4 ...
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Military Aircraft Directory: Fuji Heavy Industries
FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES Manufacturer PWR WS FL Max RF Max Kts/Mach Max OC C T-5 Trainer turboprop-powered 312kW 10.0 8.4 945 193kt 25,000 ...
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Military Aircraft Directory: AIDC
AERO INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (AIDC) Manufacturer PWR Max TD Max TR WS FL Max RF Max Kts/Mach H Max OC Max Pay. C ...
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Military Aircraft Directory: Aerostar
AEROSTAR Manufacturer PWR W/S F/L Max RF Max Op. C C E Yak-52 Training 268kW 9.3 7.8 550 13,114 2 5hrs 1 x VMKB M-14P Piston ...
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Military Aircraft Directory: Panavia Aircraft
PANAVIA AIRCRAFT Manufacturer PWR Max TD Max TR WS FL Max RF Max Kts /Mach H Max OC C Max WLE CR Max PNR Tornado Air Defence ...
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Lighting the way
Diversified Aviation Services has secured Federal Aviation Administration approval for the SAF-T-GLO-developed Pathfinder escape path marking system for use on Boeing 727-100/200 airliners. The non-powered system is already approved for the 737-200 and further aircraft types should be added to the list soon. Source: Flight International
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Avcorp on tiltrotor
Aerostructures of Nashville, Tennessee, has signed a $6 million contract with Laval, Quebec-based Avcorp for work on the Bell 609 tiltrotor. The contract will include tooling design and fuselage subassemblies. Source: Flight International
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EDS at BA Engineering
EDS has won a 10-year contract for information technology support for British Airways Engineering's global operations. It will initially focus on Year 2000 compliance issues. EDS will also establish a laboratory for developing computer systems intended for the maintenance industry. Source: Flight International
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Meggitt first
Meggitt Avionics of the UK has won a contract to supply its standby flight display to Boeing for the upgraded export version of the Chinook - the first application of the flight display to a helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Military Aircraft Directory: Northrop Grumman
NORTHROP GRUMMAN Manufacturer PWR Max TD Max TR WS FL Max RF Max Kts /M H Max OC Max Pay. C P Max WLE E ...
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Satellite suspended
The US Government has suspended a licence to export a Hughes-built communications satellite to China for launch pending an investigation into the activities of a Hughes employee, computer scientist Shen Jun. He is the son of Lt Gen Shen Rongjun, who oversees the high technology military development programme in China. ...
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Space lease
Nordic Satellite's 15-Ku band Sirius 3 communications satellite, operating at 28° in geostationary orbit, will be leased for one year by Société Européenne des Satellites, Luxembourg, as a back-up for the Astra 2A, which is due be launched by Arianespace next month. Source: Flight International
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Failure report
NASA's TRW-built Lewis remote-sensing technology demonstration satellite, which failed in orbit on 26 August 1997, two days after launch, did so because of a "combination of a technically flawed attitude control system design and inadequate monitoring of the spacecraft during its early operations phase", says NASA. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream orders
Gulfstream Aerospace says it has booked orders for 42 GIVs and GVs in the first six months of 1998, compared with 27 in the first half of 1997, taking its backlog to 102 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Military Aircraft Directory: Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing
NANCHANG AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING (NAMC) Manufacturer Power Max TD Max TR WS FL Max RF Max Kts/Mach Max OC C Max WLE E CR Max PNR ...
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Standard maintenance
Winnipeg, Canada-based Standard Aero has become the first authorised maintenance centre with a certified test cell for all models of the Allison 250 turboshaft/ turboprop family. Source: Flight International
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Military Aircraft Directory: Aeronautical Development Agency
AERONAUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY/HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS (HAL) Aeronautical Development Agency, Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, PB 1718,Vimanapura Post, 560 017 Bangalore,India; Tel:+91 80 523 7294 Fax:+91 80 523 8493 Manufacturer MTD M.T.R W/span F/Lgth M/Speed Kts/Mach H Op ...
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Signature FBO
Signature Flight Support has opened a revamped fixed-base operation at Milwaukee International Airport in Wisconsin. The new terminal replaces a 1940s building. Source: Flight International
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Litton Acquisition
Litton Industries has merged The Weather Department and The Computer Department, which it recently acquired for an undisclosed sum, to form Litton Weather Services International. Litton is now the world's largest independent supplier of weather services, according to the company. Source: Flight International
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Bell 609 supplier
Canada's Avcorp Industries is to supply subassemblies for the Bell 609 civil tiltrotor to Aerostructures, which is taking over responsibility for the fuselage from Boeing as a risk-sharing partner on the aircraft programme. Avcorp's $6 million contract covers production deliveries from 2001 to 2006. Source: Flight International