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Failed again
Proposed Australian start-up carrier Aussie Air failed to meet a deadline on 10 October by which it was required to deposit A$10.5 million ($7.6 million) with Qantas to secure tenure sub-leases on terminal space at the key airports of Coolangatta, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Qantas has advised the Australian Stock ...
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Mesa rejects buy-out
US regional Mesa Air Group has rejected a $50 million offer to buy its United Express operations from investor group Barlow Partners II, which has a stake in US Airways Express regional carrier CCAir. Source: Flight International
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JSF demonstrators enter manufacturing stage
Boeing and Lockheed Martin are close to "cutting metal" for their respective Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator aircraft. So far, Boeing has produced trial sections of thermoplastic-composite wing skin, while Lockheed Martin has received a composite inlet-duct test article produced by subcontractor Alliant Techsystems. The wing lay-up mandrel ...
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Siemens tests new parking system
Siemens is testing a new precision-parking system at Munich Airport, Germany, which recognises an aircraft approaching a stand and then gives the pilot parking guidance. Testing of the video-based Siemens Docking Guidance System (SIDOGS) should be completed by the end of the year, says the German company, which ...
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GAMECO poised to build engine-test centre
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has been given preliminary board approval to build a $108 million engine-test centre, as part of wider investment in expanded overhaul and repair centres for southern China. The company hopes to have the new factory operational by 2000, provided that it is given ...
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China tackles issue of ATC integration
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is expected to issue a request for proposals (RFP) by the end of the year for the first of three planned area-control centres (ACCs) to provide integrated coverage of the eastern half of the country. Under a national plan drawn up ...
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Atlas 2AS prepared for launch
The first version of the ILS International Launch Services Atlas 2 fleet is being prepared at the refurbished SLC-3E pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. The Atlas 2AS, designated AC-141, will undergo extensive testing to validate all ground systems, leading to the launch in June 1998 of NASA's Earth Observation System, ...
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India abandons Insat 2D after power loss
India's indigenous Insat 2D geostationary-orbiting communications satellite was abandoned on 5 October, three days after suffering a power loss, thought to have been caused by a short circuit which reduced power levels to 30%, making systems inoperable. Another of the country's spacecraft, the Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS ...
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German cabinet approves Eurofighter procurement
The German cabinet has finally cleared procurement documentation for the Eurofighter EF2000, confirming its intention to buy a total of 180 aircraft for the air force. The decision, repeatedly delayed since late 1996, finally came on 8 October. The matter has now been passed on to the parliamentary ...
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Fire destroys Boeing European spares centre
Fire has destroyed the Boeing European Spare Parts Center at Brussels Airport. The 3 October fire is estimated to have destroyed about BFr4 billion ($144 million)-worth of spare parts. The depot, operated under contract by Sabena Technic, stocked parts for all Boeing types except the 777 for airlines ...
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Prestwick incentive
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport in Scotland is trying to encourage carriers to launch transatlantic services from the airport by offering to pay them some £1 million ($1.6 million) a year if they make a five-year commitment. Source: Flight International
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Royal's fleet plans
Canadian charter airline Royal Airlines has sold its last five Boeing 727-200s for C$31.5 million ($22.6 million) to CLA Canada of Miami, USA, a company set up for the transaction. Royal will use the proceeds to help renew its fleet, and says that it is considering "a minimum of three" ...
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MAS Virgin freighter
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Virgin Atlantic launched a twice-weekly joint freighter service on 1 October. Source: Flight International
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Fast forward
Singapore Airlines (SIA) claims to have introduced the world's first video-and-audio-on-demand system, developed by Matsushita. The WISEMAN system allows passengers to rewind, fast forward and pause video programmes, as well as select and skip compact-disc audio tracks. SIA plans to fit the WISEMAN system to all of its Boeing 747-400s, ...
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Southwest quiets 737s
Southwest Airlines has increased its order for AvAero Stage 3 hushkits for the Boeing 737-200, from 20 shipsets to 33. Installation will be completed over the next two years, says Safety Harbor, Florida-based AvAero. Source: Flight International
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ISS modules
NASA has informally included Spacehab single and double modules on Space Shuttle International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, the STS95 and STS96 in October and December 1998, raising the company's hopes that it will be used widely on Shuttle ISS missions after the end of the Shuttle Mir Mission programme ...
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Lewis plunge
NASA's $64 million, TRW-built Lewis remote-sensing satellite plunged into the Earth's atmosphere on 28 September. The satellite went into an uncontrolled spin four days after its launch on 22 August aboard a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (Flight International, 3-9 September). Source: Flight International
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Launch date
The NASA/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite will be launched aboard an H2 booster from Tanegashima on 18 November, following delays to the launch caused by problems with the Engineering Test Satellite 7 companion payload (Flight International, 24-30 September). Source: Flight International
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Wallops contract
H&H Consolidated, Alabama, has been awarded a $25 million contract from NASA to operate and maintain the agency's Wallops Island flight and launch centre in Virginia. Source: Flight International
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Space damage
The Intelsat 605 satellite located at 24.5íW over the Atlantic Ocean has experienced a "telemetry deficiency" and will be replaced by the 603, moved from 34.5íW. The 603 will be replaced in turn by the 601, which moves from 27.5í, where it will be replaced by a newer Intelsat 7 ...