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Boeing firms up the flightdeck design of stretched 767-400
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has completed the firm design configuration of the stretched 767-400ER, revealing an upgraded flightdeck and a new-look cabin based on the 777 interior design. The bulk of the design was fixed by September 1997, but airline pressure drove Boeing to conduct trade studies on the additional ...
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Boeing and Elbit join to rescue Polish Huzar project
In a deal brokered in Warsaw in the first week of January, the rival bidders for Poland's $600 million PZL-Swidnik Huzar helicopter, Boeing and Elbit, have agreed to participate jointly in the programme, a move aimed at breeching a political impasse. Sources in Israel and Poland confirm that Elbit ...
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Hughes teams with NASA for ATC programme
Hughes Training is to install new control-tower simulation software at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, to help determine the potential of new equipment and processes on air-traffic control (ATC) at some of the USA's busiest airports. Software provided by Hughes Training will be integrated with NASA simulation ...
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Boeing picks Meggitt as sole supplier of standby displays
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Meggitt Avionics has been selected by Boeing as the sole supplier of solid-state electronic standby instrument systems for the US manufacturer's range of -7 series aircraft, including the Next Generation 737 and the 777. The deal is worth around $15 million a year to the UK company. The ...
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VR parachute
Systems Technology of Hawthorne, California, has received an order from the US Air Force for its virtual-reality (VR) parachute system, pioneered for training US Forest Service "smokejumpers". Source: Flight International
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Kelly Space completes Eclipse tow-launcher demonstration
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Kelly Space & Technology (KST) has completed the first large-scale demonstration of its "Eclipse" tow-launch technique at Edwards AFB, California using a US Air Force-supplied Lockheed C-141A and QF-106A. KST is developing a family of low-cost re-usable space launchers which will use the Eclipse technique ...
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India confirms remote-sensing satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has finalised its plans for a sequence of five remote-sensing satellite launches up to 2002. The satellites, to be launched on Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles from Sriharikota, near Madras, will provide commercial oceanographic, cartographic and agricultural data to customers worldwide. The first ...
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TRW abandons Odyssey to join ICO
Tim Furniss/LONDON TRW has taken a 7% stake in the international ICO mobile hand-held-telephone communications-satellite project, after deciding that it will not proceed with its own proposed Odyssey satellite system. The Redondo Beach, California-based company had found it difficult to find investors for its system and tried to ...
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First Mars soil samples to be collected
NASA's plans for the Mars Surveyor Orbiter 2 and Lander 2 missions, to be launched in 2001, include the collection of the first samples of Martian soil to be brought back to Earth on a later mission. The Orbiter 2 and Lander 2 missions will follow the Mars Surveyor Orbiter ...
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NASA report warns communicators
A joint NASA-National Science Foundation study of global trends in satellite-telecommunications systems and technology warns that "unless the industry carefully plans some of its more specialised offerings, there may be a costly shake-out due to overcapacity". More than 20 new satellite ventures offering specialised services, particularly the Ku-band, very-high-data-rate ...
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Air Madagascar aims to replace 747
Air Madagascar will phase out its Boeing 747 in April, and replace it on international routes with a Boeing 767. The national carrier has been operating the 747, a -200 Combi configured in an all-passenger layout, on routes to Europe since 1979. Fortis Aviation has been contracted to remarket the ...
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Rotary Revolution
Russian helicopter design bureaux Kamov and Mil are attempting to pull together their respective associated manufacturing plants. Mil, and the Ulan-Ude, Rostov, and Kazan production sites are planning to form Mil Helicopters. Kamov, meanwhile, is in discussions with the Arseneyev and Kumer-Tau factories to establish a joint enterprise. Source: ...
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Plasmatron opened
The von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics in Belgium has opened a new $4 million plasmatron windtunnel for testing high-temperature materials for atmospheric re-entry. The plasmatron consists of a quartz tube to heat the airflow until it becomes dissociated (ionised) at around 10,000K, using a 400kHz electric field. ...
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CASA press
Airbus partner CASA of Spain has ordered a 750t superplastic-forming press from GEC Alsthom ACB of the UK for the fabrication of tailplane leading-edges. Source: Flight International
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A300 brakes
C-S Aviation Services has selected Messier-Bugatti to provide the carbon brakes for its Airbus A300B4 freighter-conversion programme undertaken by British Aero- space Aviation Services. Source: Flight International
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Measured solution
UK National Air Traffic Services has developed a height-monitoring unit which allows the altitude of aircraft flying North Atlantic routes, and subject to reduced vertical-separation minima rules, to be measured to within 9m (30ft) accuracy. Source: Flight International
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AIDC MD-95 empennage
Taiwan's Aero Industry Development (AIDC) has completed the empennage for the first production Boeing MD-95, ready for delivery to Boeing's Long Beach, California, assembly plant in mid-January. Source: Flight International
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Lancair books 150TH
Lancair says that orders for its Columbia 300 piston-single have passed 150. US certification of the four-seat aircraft is scheduled for April, with first deliveries beginning in the second half of 1998. Source: Flight International
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Signature expands
Signature Flight Support has purchased Anchorage Air Center, at Alaska's Anchorage International Airport, to expand its chain of fixed-base operations, already the largest in the USA. Source: Flight International
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Air Methods flies flag
Air Methods has signed a three-year contract to provide helicopter medical-transport services for Arizona's Flagstaff Medical Center. Services will begin in February with a Bell 206L-3, until replaced by a 407, with a second helicopter available when needed. Source: Flight International