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Panel trouble hits Global Surveyor
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter may be restricted in its $250 million mapping mission of the red planet by a problem on one of the spacecraft's twin solar panels, which were to be used to control the orbit. The MGS was demonstrating the ...
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Russian cash
Money allocated to the Russian space programme in 1998 is "so inadequate" that it could discontinue space activities. The cash is "not enough" to honour Russia's commitment to the International Space Station claims Vladimir Gusev, chairman of the Russian parliamentary industry and transport committee. The allocations are 60% less than ...
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Cosmonauts reconnect cables from Mir solar panels
Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradev made a second foray into the damaged, unpressurised, Spektr module of the Mir space station on 20 October. The crew connected cables from two of the three undamaged solar panels to the space station's central control unit. The connection of the ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus history
When the seeds which were to spawn today's Airbus Industrie were first being sown in the mid-1960s, the term "air bus" was a generic expression adopted by the industry to describe a short- to medium-range airliner proposed to meet increasing demand on busy European air routes such as London to ...
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Airbus supplement: A319 flighttest
Peter Henley/HAMBURG The 124-seat A319 is the smallest of the Airbus Industrie family of airliners, featuring the same basic flightdeck and similar handling characteristics to all the other Airbus fly-by-wire (FBW)aircraft. A "shrink" derivative of the 150-seat A320, the A319 is offered with the same engines ...
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Growing future
Dubai looks forward to an increasingly significant show Douglas Barrie/Max Kingsley-Jones/Kate Sarsfield/LONDON In the last few years, the Dubai air show has established itself as probably the fourth most significant international event (and second in regional terms after Singapore's Asian Aerospace) in the regular two-year air show calendar. ...
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RSAF purchases additional F-16C/Ds
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to expand its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters with an order for another 12 Block 52 standard aircraft. Singapore's follow-on purchase will allow it to deploy at least two squadrons of F-16C/Ds locally. The additional aircraft are likely to ...
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ARIA concludes deal to lease II-96M/Ts
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has reached agreement to acquire its Pratt & Whitney PW2337-powered 20 Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts through lease financing rather than direct purchase. ARIA's order includes 17 passenger Il-96Ms and three Il-96T freighters, to be purchased by a joint-venture leasing company established by the National Reserve ...
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Vega photon release
Photon Research Associates of Texas, USA, has released two new real-time software modules for Paradigm Simulation's Vega embedded software-development environment. While RadarWorks simulates synthetic aperture radar displays and will soon include Doppler beam-sharpening, SensorWorks produces displays of simulated environments based on user-defined virtual sensor characteristics. Source: ...
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New missions
NASA has selected two new science missions in its low-cost, 250kg-class Small Explorer programme, to investigate solar flares and the evolution of galaxies. The $67 million High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager will be launched by a Pegasus XL booster in 2000, while the $65 million Galaxy Evolution Explorer ultra-violet telescope ...
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China's first VIP CRJ
Bombardier has delivered the first of five Canadair Corporate JetLiners to China under a $116 million deal signed in January. Three aircraft will be delivered this year and two next, replacing VIPChallenger 600s. The 25- to 32-seat variants of the Canadair Regional Jet will be operated by China ...
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Flexjet passes 150
Bombardier Business JetSolutions' FlexJet fractional-ownership programme, launched in May 1995, has passed the 150-owner mark. The FlexJet fleet of Bombardier Learjet 31As, Learjet 60s and Canadair Challenger 604s, now totalling 34 aircraft, is expected to approach 40 by year-end. Source: Flight International
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Innovative FBO
Mercury Air Centers is to build a $5 million, art deco, "Hollywood-themed" fixed-base operation (FBO), complete with screening room, at Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport in California. The FBO, which is Mercury's fifteenth, is to open in late 1998. Source: Flight International
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Jet manages GV
Jet Aviation has become the first business-aircraft management company to take on a long-range Gulfstream V, which will be operated on behalf of its owner. The aircraft is the second delivered to a customer. Source: Flight International
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Explorer costs
Boeing says that direct operating costs for new-production MD Explorer helicopters have been reduced to $394/h, from $430/h originally, through longer-life parts and a 22% cut in spares costs. Source: Flight International
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Austin grows
Texas-based Austin Jet International is to expand its maintenance capability to handle larger corporate aircraft when it relocates from Austin to nearby Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport in mid-1998, with the closure of Austin's Robert Mueller Airport in favour of the former Bergstrom AFB. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon supports DEA
Raytheon Aerospace is to maintain and support the US Drug Enforcement Agency's fleet of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, based at FortWorth, Texas, under a contract potentially worth almost $85 million over five years. Source: Flight International
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Winglets progress
Seattle, Washington-based Aviation Partners has so far sold 55 blended-winglet performance-enhancement kits for the Gulfstream II and plans to retrofit the remainder of the GII fleet over the next two years. The $457,000 modification increases range by 7%. Source: Flight International
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Crash recorders found
The crashed Garuda Airbus A300's flight recorders have been found buried at the Sumatra accident site, airline officials have reported. Evidence indicates that the 26 September accident was not caused by technical problems but to the crew's failure to initiate a turn ordered by air-traffic control to intercept the instrument-landing ...
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Avpro rescue pod
Hunting Engineering and Avpro have completed a feasibility study on a manned EXINT pod for the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, which can be carried on a hardpoint under the wing of a British Aerospace Harrier GR7 for rapid rescue missions, or for insertion of special forces. ...