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Psychiatrists have too big a say in the selection of pilots
What is the best way to decide who should sit in the flightd Sir - I greatly agree with Mr Julian Ticehurst's letter (Flight International, 26 November -2 December) about "Fliers who lose their way" (Flight International, 5-11 November), but have something to add. The scenario depicted by the US ...
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Arianespace makes claim for independence
Tim Furniss/LONDON Arianespace, the European commercial-launcher organisation, says that moves to integrate it further with European aerospace companies could result in a conflict of commercial interest with some potential customers. The company, which is likely to become fully privatised in 1998, says that stronger links with European satellite ...
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Spanish victory
Aerospatiale and HISPASAT of Spain have concluded a deal to build the HISPASAT1-C telecommunications satellite intended to provide digital-television broadcast. The satellite is expected to be launched in the final quarter of 1999. Source: Flight International
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European manned space hopes dashed
European manned space hopes dashed France has effectively killed off the European Space Agency's (ESA) plans to create an independent manned-spaceflight capability. The French Government says that it will pull out of ESA's proposed Ariane 5-launched Crew Transfer Vehicle project to support the International Space Station (ISS), for ...
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ESA will build nodes for space station
The European Space Agency (ESA) has assigned to Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) the management of a project to build two new nodes for the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS). ASI replaces Boeing, which is building the first ISS Node. The Nodes 2 and 3, which connect modules of the ...
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BA pioneers global monitoring
Ian Sheppard/LONDON British Airways is using an aircraft visual-tracking system which allows it to monitor the position of aircraft and immediately react to unforeseen events which cause flights to be diverted. Previously a diversion decision by a flightcrew would require "a call to tech-dispatch and manual calculation of ...
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Diamonds forever
Thorn Microwave Devices of the UK has developed a new electrical insulation material for microwave tubes in devices such as radars. Chemical-vapour deposited diamond has up to ten times the thermal conductivity of traditional materials and is safer, claims Thorn. Source: Flight International
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Rockwell steady
Rockwell-Collins claims that its new AHS-3000 attitude-heading reference system is the first application of digital-quartz-gyro technology developed by Dystron Donner, which promises ten times the life of fibre-optic gyroscopes. Source: Flight International
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Courtauld centre
Courtaulds Aerospace has opened a new 24h quick-response service centre for surface treatment near Durham, in the UK, allowing European airlines to make rapid unscheduled maintenance and livery changes. Source: Flight International
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Varig defibrillator
Physio-Control of Seattle has won an order from Varig of Brazil for 45 on-board LIFEPAK 500 defibrillators and Biolog 3000 monitors. Micromedical of Australia, which produces the Biolog 3000s, is worldwide distributor for both systems. Source: Flight International
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Space Shuttle Mir mission is delayed
The launch of the penultimate Space Shuttle Mir mission, the STS89/Endeavour, will now be delayed by about a week from 15 January as the result of a the request from Russia. Two cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station, with US astronaut David Wolf, need to complete three spacewalks and ...
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Thiokol go-ahead
Thiokol has been given US State Department approval to supply Castor IV solid-rocket boosters to Japan and Spain. Castor IVA-XL boosters will be used as strap-on motors for the Japanese H2A satellite launcher, while Castor IVB motors will act as the first stage of the Spanish Capricornio three-stage satellite launcher, ...
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Fastrac test
The low-cost ($1 million) Fastrac liquid-oxygen/ kerosene-burning, 265kN (60,000lb)-thrust engine which will power the Orbital Sciences X-34 re-usable launch vehicle technology demonstrator air-launched spaceplane has undergone critical-component tests at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, says NASA. The X-34 is to begin a series of 25 flights, reaching Mach 8 ...
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Seventh Proton blast-off Khrunichev figures
Tim Furniss/LONDON Khrunichev's Proton K/DM booster had its seventh commercial launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 3 December. The Russian company says that it hopes to earn $850 million from its Proton satellite launcher business, covering 22 flights in the five years between 1996 and 2000. The launch mirrors ...
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Closure threatens to isolate Munich
Munich could become the only major city in Europe inaccessible to light aircraft if local politicians carry through plans to close Neubiberg airfield by the end of this year, says the Munich Flying Club (FCM). Although the regional government has promised to provide an alternative site for the FCM, ...
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Pathfinder 21 flight tests to begin
Soloy's Pathfinder 21 modification to the Cessna Caravan 208B is set to begin flight- testing in January following US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification of the 1,000kW (1,330shp) Soloy Dual Pac, which combines two Pratt & Whitney PT6-114As driving a single-propeller shaft (Flight International, 3-9 December). Flight-testing will ...
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Reims nears decision on single-engine Cessna assembly
Reims Aviation has still not decided whether it will restart licence-manufacture of Cessna singles for the French market. The company, which has exclusive rights to sell Cessna turboprops in France, says that it is now close to making a final decision, but it "-depends on whether it is better for ...
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Lynton snaps up GEC's Magec
GEC has sold Magec Aviation to UK corporate- aircraft charter and management company Lynton Group, ending more than five months of speculation over the fixed-based operator's future. Completion is expected within 30 days. The UK defence-electronics and power-engineering company began looking for buyers for Magec in July, following its ...
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Passenger boom
UK airport owner Regional Airports (RAL) plans to quintuple passenger throughput at London Biggin Hill Airport by 2000, following the opening of its new £500,000 ($850,000) terminal in November. Passenger numbers are expected to increase from 20,000 to 100,000 a year. RAL is holding discussions with several undisclosed airlines over ...
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Columbia for SJ30
Columbia Aircraft Sales of Groton, Connecticut, has been appointed as the distributor for the Sino Swearingen Aircraft SJ30-2 business jet for the north-eastern USA. Columbia has ordered nine SJ30-2s, with deliveries running from the fourth quarter of 1999 to the end of 2001. Source: Flight International