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Bombardier joins awards sponsors
Bombardier has become the latest company to become a sponsor for the 1998 Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards scheduled to take place at Asian Aerospace 98 in Singapore. The agreement was signed at the recent National Business Aviation Association convention in Dallas by the Canadian firm's vice-president communications, Catherine Chase, ...
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US military starts Huey re-engine project
The US Army National Guard has initiated the long-awaited programme to re-engine 131 ageing Bell Helicopter UH-1 light utility helicopters with Light Helicopter Turbine Engine (LHTEC) T800 turboshafts. The initial engine certification work, which covers the installation of LHTEC CTS800-54 engines in two UH-1s, will be paid for ...
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Taiwan chooses quiet-testing 'hush house'
Industrial Acoustics is to supply two engine/aircraft test centres with noise suppressors to the Taiwan air force. The deal coincided with the acceptance of a "hush house" built by the New York-based company at the air force's Chiayi air base. A second hush house for the Hualien air base is ...
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Westland supermodel
Westland Helicopters is the first European company to install MacNeal-Schwendler's MSC/SuperModel software package for automated structural analysis, its first aerospace-specific product. Westland previously used software developed in-house. Source: Flight International
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PATS unveils lightweight rotary-engine APU for corporate jets
PATS, The US supplier of auxiliary-power-unit (APU) installation kits, has revealed a lightweight rotary-engine APU for corporate jets which the company claims will lead to significant cost savings compared with conventional turbine APUs. The "non-turbine heavy-fuel engine" is based on the Wankel engine design originally used in motor ...
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'Intelligent seat' maximises comfort for the passenger
Aerospatiale subsidiary Sogerma has revealed an "intelligent" seat for first-class passengers, which adapts automatically to body shape for maximum comfort. Maintaining a comfortable seating position for a long time can be difficult, so the Intelligent Seat provides active support, distributing pressure at the interfaces between the seat and ...
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More questions than answers
The French Government has finally put the aerospace industry out of its misery by naming a partner for Thomson-CSF, but what signals doesthe decision send out for the future of European restructuring? It was billed as the deal which would finally kick-start restructuring in the French aerospace industry, not to ...
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Chris Broad...
Chris Broad nHUNT & PALMER Chris Broad and Neill Huston have joined Hunt & Palmer's commercial division as air-charter executives. Broad was formerly with Goldcrest Aviation, while Huston was commercial planning executive with Cale-donian Airways. Darren Tilley, formerly marketing manager of hotel group Ramada, has been appointed UK sales ...
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Brazil prepares its first satellite launcher
Brazil's First satellite launcher, the Veiculo Lancador de Satelites, is due for launch from Alcantara at the end of this month, carrying a small science satellite, the SCD 2. The South American country says that it will launch ten new satellites by 2000. The NASA/ Japanese Tropical Rainfall ...
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India uses thrusters to raise IRS 1D
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has raised the perigee of the orbit of the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, IRS 1D, to about 700km, using the spacecraft's thrusters. The satellite was placed in a 300km perigee after the partial failure of the fourth stage of its Polar Satellite ...
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Germans despatch inspector to examine Mir components
A German camera-equipped spacecraft called the Inspektor, has been delivered to the Russian Mir 1 space station aboard the Progress M36 tanker. It will fly, remotely controlled by a cosmonaut inside the Mir, to conduct close inspection of various components using a camera. The 70kg Inspektor, ...
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SST wins contract to support NASA project
The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology (SST) is the only non-US company to have been awarded initial contracts to provide rapidly developed satellite core-systems to support NASA's science programme. In total, seven companies have secured contracts The US firms involved are Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences, Spectrum Astro, ...
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Chek Lap Kok Airport. David...
Chek Lap Kok Airport. David Solloway becomes general manager for India, replacing Richard Snyder, who is to retire. Solloway was formerly divisional manager of marketing and sales for Pacific South, based in Hong Kong. Bruce Kerr, formerly controller for Pacific South, is named divisional manager of marketing and sales for ...
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Signature stays
Signature Flight Support has defeated other bidders to win a 15-year extention to its fixed-base-operation concession at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC . Source: Flight International
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Flap-Drive on SJ30
Sino Swearingen Aircraft has awarded Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems a $2.4 million contract to supply flap-drive systems for the SJ30-2 light business jet. Source: Flight International
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Hughes approved
General Motors (GM) has approved the final terms for the merger of its Hughes Aircraft defence-electronics unit into Raytheon. The share deal is now valued at $10.1 billion, because of a rise in Raytheon's stock price since the merger was announced in January. GM shareholders will have a 30% stake ...
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Weather business sold
United Industrial has sold its AAI Systems Management (SMI) subsidiary to All Weather, a company formed by the SMI management team and investors, for almost $21 million. Source: Flight International
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Aviation Sales buys
Surplus-parts supplier Aviation Sales has agreed to acquire Cincinatti-based engine-component manufacturer Kratz-Wilde Machine for $42.5 million. Source: Flight International
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Innotech acquires
Montreal-based Innotech Aviation is to acquire Pacific Avionics and Instruments of Vancouver, which installs and supports commercial and military avionics. Source: Flight International
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Finnish hornet
Boeing has received $468 million to convert the advanced acquisition contract for 18 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet strike aircraft destined for the Finnish air force to a firm fixed-price contract. It also was awarded $210 million to convert the production contract for four F/A-18Cs and four F/A-18Ds purchased by the Royal ...