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Challenger charger
Securaplane, the Arizona-based emergency battery and aircraft security specialist, has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its BC-1301 battery charger for Bombardier's Canadair Challenger 604 and Regional Jet. Source: Flight International
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Inviction explores
Invision Technologies has won a $1 million grant from the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop its quadrupole resonance technology, used to detect explosives and illicit drugs. Source: Flight International
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Cade supports Trent
Cade Industries has received an $8 million order from Rolls-Royce to supply engine stands and adaptors for development of its Trent 500, the powerplant for the Airbus A340-500/600. Source: Flight International
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Northrop warning
Northrop Grumman has warned shareholders that it stands to lose $200 million in sales revenues next year due to the cut-back in Boeing's production of the 747-400, for which the company is the largest outside supplier, building the fuselage. Sales are expected to remain at the $9.2 billion this year ...
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AmWest share sale
Continental Airlines has sold its last tranche of preference shares in America West for $8.9 million, but still holds a 14.4% voting stake in the Phoenix-based carrier. Source: Flight International
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Qantas profit rise
Qantas expects a small rise in profits above the A$263 million ($146 million) it posted for the year to June 1997, much of which came from a A$563 million cost-cutting programme. Managing director James Strong said at the end June that the carrier had secured a further A$500 million in ...
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E&S adds to graphics
USsimulator visuals company Evans & Sutherland has completed its $52 million acquisition of AccelGraphics, a provider of higher performance graphics technology for computers. Source: Flight International
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Sky Chefs in New York
Sky Chefs International, Lufthansa's US catering partner, has completed its acquisition of Ogden Aviation Food Services, which operates at New York's three international airports, as well as hubs at Los Angeles, Honolulu, San Francisco and Washington. Source: Flight International
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A rivetting buy
TransTechnology has completed its $27 million acquisition of Aerospace Rivet Manufacturers (ARM) in Santa Fe Springs, California. ARM provides an entry into the aerospace market for TransTechnology, which has interests in helicopter rescue hoists and cargo hooks, and industrial speciality fasteners. Source: Flight International
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Aerospatiale systems
Aerospatiale has acquired French software systems company Sycomore to strengthen its ISTI information business, which handles major architecture of civil and military information. Sycomore posted sales of Fr68 million ($11 million) last year and has a team of 47 engineers providing consultancy and implementation of open systems architecture. Source: ...
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World record
Dassault Falcon Jet has filed for the world speed record between Sao Paulo, Brazil, and New York, USA, following a non-stop flight between the two cities by a Falcon 900EX business jet. The aircraft covered a distance of 8,460km (4,575nm) in just over 11h, says the French manufacturer. Source: ...
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Goodrich conversion
A Boeing 727-200Adv owned by a private offshore operator is to be re-engined to BFGoodrich Aerospace's Super 27 configuration, to meet Stage 3 noise limits while providing transatlantic range. The conversion will be performed in the UK in December, says BFGoodrich. Source: Flight International
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Hornet milestone
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet flight test programme has passed the 3,000h mark, with more than 2,000 flights completed. Clearance flights have begun on all 26 weapon configurations to be tested, Boeing says. Live fire testing begins this month. Source: Flight International
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MPA option
Raytheon Systems has won an $11 million contract option to install advanced navigation kits in 16 Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) operated by the German navy over the next two years. In 1995, the US defence firm's Greenville, Texas, unit was picked to develop the navigation kit, which includes ...
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Target upgrade
Northrop Grumman is upgrading its BQM-74E aerial target with a modern integrated avionics unit (IAU). The US Navy approved the engineering change following flight testing at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Magu, California, and after environmental qualification testing which was conducted by IAU subcontractor Lear Astronautics. Source: Flight ...
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KC-10 Support
The US Air Force has awarded Boeing a $1.5 billion contract to support its 59-strong fleet of KC-10A Extender tankers after a fiercely contested battle with incumbent contractor Lockheed Martin. The work will be managed and performed at the newly opened Boeing Aerospace Support Center at Kelly AFB, San Antonio, ...
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Boeing bomb rack
A new pneumatic bomb rack, developed by Boeing's Phantom Works in St Louis, Missouri, is to be demonstrated on the F-15E after being tried out successfully in ground tests and in prototype form on an F/A-18. Unlike current racks, which use hot explosive gases produced by cartridges, the new rack ...
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Higher power
American Mobile Radio has exercised a $52 million option with Hughes Space and Communications to upgrade its two HS-702 spacecraft buses to "max power" models, in preparation for launch in 2000. Source: Flight International
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Submarine launch
Tubsat N, a German microsatellite built by Berlin Technical University, will be launched from a submarine in the Barants Sea this month aboard a converted SSN-23 Shtil missile in a demonstration launch of a potential commercial low-Earth orbit launch service. Source: Flight International
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Zenit delays
The first launch of 12 Globalstar mobile communications satellites on a Zenit booster from Baikonur has been delayed by more than a month, to late August, because of the delayed launch of another Zenit carrying a Russian Resurs remote-sensing satellite and six international microsatellites, now scheduled for around July 8. ...