All news – Page 6844
-
News
Modernising US airspace
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC WAAS, GPS, NAS, F2K, Y2K - a host of acronyms is buzzing around the head of fledgling FAA Administrator Jane Garvey as she wrestles with the issue of modernising the US airspace system. Five months into her five-year term, a plan is beginning to emerge involving ...
-
News
India will launch Belgian satellite for ESA
Verhaert Design and Development of Antwerp, Belgium has received an 8.5 million ECU ($9.5 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the 100kg Proba autonomous technology satellite and launch it into polar orbit in July 2000, flying as a piggyback payload aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch ...
-
News
NASA may ask Russia to delay ISS Control Module launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA is considering asking Russia to delay the launch of the first component of the International Space Station (ISS) from June to August, to even out the 1998 Space Shuttle launch schedule. The US space agency has also admitted that the launch of the US developed Laboratory ...
-
News
Voyager record
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, became the most distant man-made object on 15 February, exceeding the 10.5 billion kilometre record held by the Pioneer 10. Both these craft and the Pioneer 11 and Voyager 2 have left the Solar System. Voyager 1 signals ...
-
News
NASA delays X-34 first flight
The first flight of the Orbital Sciences X-34 air-launched re-usable spaceplane technology demonstrator has been delayed from December 1998 to March 1999. NASA has also ordered a second X-34 to reduce risk and increase project flexibility. The test objectives of the $67 million programme are also being expanded. The ...
-
News
Future fighter needs
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Fighter pilots have long jested that Singapore measures only four minutes by four minutes in terms of flying time. The island's diminutive size, however, belies its strategic importance. Situated at the tip of the Malaysian peninsular Singapore occupies an economic and geographic crossroads between the Eastern and Western ...
-
News
Ryanair closes on narrowbody fleet decision
Ryanair is in final negotiations with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for up to 50 narrowbodied aircraft, and expects to finalise an order by the end of March. The Irish low fare airline, which operates its main hub from London Stansted, revealed last October that it was examining various options to ...
-
News
Workshop
-Air Jamaica has hired Pemco World Air Services to maintain its fleet of six Airbus A310-300s until the end of the year. The work will be carried out at Pemco's Dothan, Alabama, centre and will include D check heavy maintenance. -Field Aviation has received a contract from Air Ontario for ...
-
News
Garuda DC-10 pilot faces criminal charges after crash
The Japanese police have recommended that criminal charges be brought against the captain of a Garuda Indonesia McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 that crashed at Fukuoka Airport in June 1996, killing three passengers and injuring 170 people. Prosecutors are being asked to charge Ronald Londong with "professional negligence leading to death ...
-
News
Boeing to sell civil helicopters
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has taken a strategic decision to leave the commercial helicopter market, which will lead to the disposal of the business it acquired through its merger with McDonnell Douglas, along with the transfer of its 49% stake in the Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt rotor to ...
-
News
$423 million GOES contract awarded to Hughes
Hughes is to build two Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The craft will be launched aboard Boeing Delta III boosters in 2001 and 2003 under a $423 million contract agreed with NASA. Options on two further satellites are also included in the deal, at a price of $375 million. ...
-
News
ROTHR support
The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Electronic Systems a $5 million contract for continuing engineering and maintenance support for its Relocatable-Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) systems. The contract includes options which, if exercised, will bring the value of the work to nearly $20 million. The work will be performed in Chesapeake, Virginia, ...
-
News
Flight Data
Flight Data of West Drayton, UK, has linked with Airborne Data Technologies of Canada to offer Flight Data Animator software for replay and analysis of flight data for training or flight-operations quality-assurance purposes. Source: Flight International
-
News
Pelorus flies
Honeywell has received supplementary type approval for the airborne segment of the Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite landing system on its Cessna Citation, while approval is imminent on a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of Continental Airlines, which expects operational approval to be granted by mid-1998. Source: Flight International
-
News
Display success
BFGoodrich Avionics Systems' GH-3000 flat-panel electronic standby-instrument system has been certificated in the Gulfstream IV and V, Raytheon Hawker 800XP, and the Eurocopter AS365N2. Source: Flight International
-
News
4098 fan spacers
Dow-United Technologies has delivered the first composite fan spacers for Pratt & Whitney's PW4098 turbofan. Manufactured using resin-transfer moulding, the spacers are "substantially more complex" than those supplied for the PW4090. The one-piece fan spacers are lighter than aluminium components. Source: Flight International
-
News
Launching services
The Russian Space Agency and national company STC Komplex have established Launching Services, a company which is dedicated to providing transportation services for small satellites to low-Earth orbit, using Cosmos and Start boosters from the Plesetsk and Svobodny cosmodromes. Source: Flight International
-
News
ILS wins Hispasat
ILS International Launch Services of San Diego, California, will launch Spain's Hispasat 1C communications satellite into orbit aboard an Atlas 2AS from Cape Canaveral in late 1999. The satellite is being built by Aerospatiale. Two Matra Marconi Space-built Hispasats were launched aboard Ariane boosters. The ILS Atlas fleet has 24 ...
-
News
Lydd extends
UK regional airport Lydd has been granted planning permission to extend its main runway from 1,500m (5,000ft) to 1,800m. Work at the Kent-based site is expected to begin in 1999. Source: Flight International
-
News
K-Max crashes
A Kaman K-MAX was written off in a crash landing on 27 January at the manufacturer's Bloomfield, Connecticut, plant when the external-lift helicopter, flown by a US Federal Aviation Administration pilot, overturned after the left mainwheel struck the ground during an apparent landing attempt. The pilot emerged unscathed. Source: Flight ...