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Thai DGPS ordered
Thailand has ordered an Airport Systems International Model 8000 differential global-positioning system (DGPS) ground station for installation at Mae Hong Son Airport in 1998. Source: Flight International
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Fairchild orders CAE simulator for 328JET
Fairchild Dornier has ordered a full-flight simulator for its 328Jet, marking another in a series of regional-aircraft orders for CAE Electronics. The 328Jet simulator is to be ready for customer training in February 1999, a year after the planned First flight of the prototype. American Airlines, ...
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American Airlines visuals order boosts market leadership
American Airlines has selected Evans & Sutherland (E&S) to supply visual systems for five full-flight simulators recently ordered from CAE Electronics. The deal follows the announcement at the end of September that E&S had won a United Airlines contract for six systems. The two large orders boost E&S' ...
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Harmony rules for Europe and USA
US and European standards for commercial air transport flightcrew simulator training are to be standardised under an accord to be signed in London on 5 December . This will unify training standards, reduce airline-training costs and regulatory bureaucracy, and give simulator manufacturers minimum criteria to work to in ...
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FlightSafety builds business-jet simulator fleet
FlightSafety International (FSI) is responding to a buoyant business-jet market by building and installing additional full-flight simulators under agreements with aircraft manufacturers to provide customer training. A Gulfstream IV-SP/EP simulator has been scheduled for "fast-track" delivery within a year. The Level D machine will join three GIV simulators ...
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Hughes wins Russian groundstation deal
Hughes Space and Communications has received a contract from Russia to build, launch and provide the ground-station equipment for the Bonum 1 satellite. The Bonum 1 will be operated by Media Most, a major private Russian media group which is developing satellite-television services. The craft will be an ...
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Mir will come down to Earth in 1999
The Russian Space Agency (RSA) plans to begin bringing down its long-serving Mir 1 space station in 1999, provided that the new International Space Station is operating on schedule by then, with a resident crew. Yuri Koptev, RSA director-general, says that it would be possible to operate both ...
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Athena delays Prospector again
NASA has again been forced to delay the launch of its Discovery programme's Lunar Prospector, because of the need for additional checks to the Lockheed Martin Athena 2 booster. The flight, now to take place on 5 January, 1998, had already been rescheduled from September and was due ...
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Space stakes
Loral Space and Communications and Mexico's Telefonica Autrey have won a 75% stake in Satelites Mexicanos, operator of the Morelos 2 and Solidaridad 1 and 2 communications satellites. Space Systems Loral has purchased Orion Network Systems, operator of the Orion 1 satellite which offers primarily business services. Source: ...
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Timeout in Asia
The AE31X programme is beginning to face its first real challenges, six months after China, Europe and Singapore inked a framework agreement to co-develop a new 100-seater family of jet airliners. Negotiators at the tripartite talks are wrestling with a series of critical issues which must be resolved shortly for ...
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Spanair flies to USA
Spanner inaugurates its first scheduled North American passenger service with nonstop flights between Washington Dulles International and Madrid Barajas Airport on 20 November. Operating Boeing 767-300ERs, Spanair will offer four flights a week. Source: Flight International
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Clark maintenance
Boeing has signed an agreement to study developing a military-aircraft maintenance base at Clark Airport in the Philippines to support a possible air force purchase of F-18C/D fighters. A joint 90-day study will be conducted with the Clark Special Economic Zone authorities, tasked with re-developing the former US Air Force ...
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Ta Ta Torrejon
All US military forces and civilian personnel have vacated Spain's Torrejon AB, and the base will be returned to the Spanish Government before the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Singaporean cannon
Singapore's next planned batch of 12 lease/purchase Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters will be used for pilot training, based at the US Air Force's Cannon AFB, New Mexico. The aircraft are in addition to 12 F-16C/Ds to be acquired from Lockheed Martin under a similar deal concluded earlier and which will ...
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Sundstrand power
Sundstrand is to develop an auxiliary-power system for the Saab JAS39 fighter. Flight testing will begin in 1999, with deliveries to the Swedish air force starting in 2000. In-service aircraft will be retrofitted with the system Source: Flight International
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Space engine buyers
British Aerospace Defence is understood to be talking to potential US buyers for the satellite liquid-engine business of its Royal Ordnance subsidiary. RO supplies about half of the world's spacecraft liquid-apogeé engines and thrusters, and has attracted interest from Allied Signal, Marquardt and Primex. Source: Flight International
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Meridian buoys Piper
New Piper Aircraft has booked 80 orders so far for its Malibu Meridian single-turboprop business aircraft, unveiled in September. Several buyers will take delivery of piston-single Malibu Mirages until Meridian shipments begin in 2000. Source: Flight International
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Micco prepares SP20
Florida-based Micco Aircraft, formerly New Meyers Aircraft, is awaiting US Federal Aviation Administration approval to begin certification flight-testing of its SP20 two-seat light aircraft. Micco says that it has 17 orders for the aircraft, an upgrade of the Meyers 145. Source: Flight International
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Socata speeds up TB9
Socata will introduce a higher-speed version of its TB9 piston single in early 1998. The TB9 Sprint will cruise 10kt (19km/h) faster and will have a new trailing-link landing gear as well as new wheel fairings. Source: Flight International
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Hartzell AD relief
Operators of 1950s-vintage aircraft affected by an airworthiness directive (AD) requiring inspection of Hartzell propeller hubs will be offered a replacement blade-retention system which the manufacturer plans to certificate by mid-1998. Reduced prices will be available until August 1999. Source: Flight International