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FlightSafety Boeing boosts Next Generation 737 fleet
FlightSafety Boeing Training International has confirmed orders for four Boeing Next Generation 737 full-flight simulators, all to be built by Flight-Safety International. The joint venture already operates two 737-700 simulators supplied by CAE Electronics. "We will be ordering additional devices from additional suppliers in the near future to support our ...
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Simcom inaugurates first simulator for PC-12
Simcom International has begun operating the first simulator to be available for the Pilatus PC-12. The Orlando, Florida-based company is the exclusive provider of simulator training for the single-turboprop aircraft and built the training device in house. The simulator is qualified initially as a Level 5 flight training device, ...
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FAA aims to improve security training
Security screening personnel at 79 US airports are to be selected, trained and evaluated using a computer-based system intended to provide standardised, realistic training combined with performance testing. Improved training for screeners was one of the key recommendations of the 1996 Gore Commission on aviation safety and security. The ...
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China gears up for more Iridiums
China Great Wall Industry is to launch a further eight pairs of Motorola Iridium mobile communications satellites aboard Long March 2C/SD boosters. The move will allow Motorola to maintain a fleet of six in-orbit spares as replacements for operational craft in the 66-satellite operational system. The third launch of ...
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Boeing wins $1.4 billion Ellipso deal
Tim Furniss/LONDON Mobile Communications Holdings has awarded a $1.4 billion contract to Boeing to design, fabricate and launch satellites in the Ellipso system to provide worldwide fixed, mobile and airborne communications from elliptical orbit. Boeing will also provide the ground segment infrastructure for the 16-satellite system in two ...
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Neurolab returns to Kennedy after 16 day flight
Space Shuttle Columbia/ STS90 returned to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 2 May after a 15 day 21h international Spacelab research mission. The Neurolab was dedicated to research the activity of the brain in weightlessness and involved a menagerie of animals and reptiles, many of which died during ...
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India plans launch
India plans to launch its first Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle next year, carrying a 2,500kg Insat communications satellite. This follows successful tests of the booster's solid and liquid propellant engines at the Mahendragiri Centre, Tamil Nadu in southern India. Source: Flight International
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Hair-raising missions
Tim Furniss/LONDON Some people might think it a rather weird way of making money out of space, but business is business. First, people's ashes were sent into orbit; now the Celestis company, based in Houston, Texas, is inviting people to send samples of their hair into the Universe. Celestis ...
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Brazilian work-out
Max Kingsley-Jones/ISLE OF MAN Julian Moxon/NANTES Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Embraer spent a long time bringing its 50-seat RJ-145 to the marketplace. It was almost a full eight years from the original EMB-145 programme launch in June 1989 to service entry with launch customer Continental Express in April 1997, with the ...
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Berlin airlift impasse
Douglas Barrie/LONDONThe sight of an airlifter over Berlin used to be welcome. In the case of the Antonov An-70, making its Western show debut, there will be those among the crowd who wish it had remained in Ukraine. The An-70 is being championed by none other than Volker Rühe,Germany's defence ...
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Light flier
Peter Gray/SINGAPORE With so many other light helicopters on the market, it was going to be interesting to evaluate the five-seat EC120B Colibri, the new multipurpose machine from Eurocopter and its Chinese and Singaporean partners. The aim of my evaluation, which follows Flight International's technical description, was to see if ...
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Messier-Bugatti EHA
Messier-Bugatti has completed initial ground tests of its electrohydraulic actuator (EHA) for future "all-electric" aircraft. Each EHA is a standalone unit and can be replaced in 20min. A miniature pump at its heart has also been selected by Lucas of the UK for the updated Airbus A320 aileron control EHA. ...
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ESDU fatigue data
ESDU has released a data item which describes the standard loading sequence for fatigue assessment of helicopter rotor systems. The Helix is intended for hinged rotor systems, while the Felix is destined for fixed (semi-rigid) systems. Source: Flight International
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CFMI uses BOLD
CFM International (CFMI) claims to be the first engine manufacturer to use the Boeing On Line Data (BOLD) service. The GE/ Snecma joint venture will place on line later this year an engine manual, parts catalogue and service bulletins for the CFM56-7 engine. Source: Flight International
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L-3 on Apache
L-3 Display Systems has been selected to provide cockpit displays for US Army Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters. The $3.8 million contract was awarded to the New York based company by Lockheed Martin, as part of its Target Acquisition Designation System/Pilot Night Vision Sensor programme for the D-model Apache. Source: ...
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Liebherr A340-500/600
Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse has been selected to supply the engine bleed air system for the Airbus A340-500/600, for which Intertechnique of France will supply its bleed management computers. Source: Flight International
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Live TV
Cessna is installing an Airshow live television system in a Citation X business jet for delivery in October. Airshow TV receives the DirectTV service in flight via direct broadcast satellite. Two business jets have been retrofitted with Airshow TV, but Cessna is the first manufacturer to install the system. ...
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Cirrus expands
Cirrus Design has completed a manufacturing expansion to support production of the SR20 all-composite light aircraft. Wings and horizontal stabilisers will be produced at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and shipped to Duluth, Minnesota, for final assembly. Source: Flight International
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NASA upgrade
NASA has upgraded one of its two Lockheed Martin F-16XL research aircraft with a digital flight control system based on that fitted to Block 40 F-16C/Ds. The upgrade replaces the original analogue fly by wire computer . Source: Flight International
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Somchem submission
Missile propellant specialist Somechem has been invited to submit a proposal to Alenia covering the development of engines for the Teseo MK2/S air-launched anti-ship missile which is intended to be carried by the Italian navy's EH Industries EH101 and NH Industries NH90 naval helicopters. Source: Flight International