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Indestructably smooth
The UK's National Physical Laboratory has successfully tested Indestructable Paint's new inorganic-diffusion coating, which has withstood 2,000h of cyclic salt-spraying following heating to 750íC - significantly better performance and yielding a smoother finish than that of pack aluminised coatings says Indestructable. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia flies FARAWAY
Daimler-Benz Aerospace company NFS of Ulm, Germany, has flown its NFS-5000 flight-management- system demonstrator on an Alitalia Boeing MD-80. It will be tested for six months as part of the European Union-supported fusion of radar and automatic-dependent-surveillance data through the two-way-data- link (FARAWAY) programme. Source: Flight ...
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Early warning
A Russian Proton K booster carried a Prognoz early-warning satellite into orbit on 15 August, after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Source: Flight International
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CTV test
The European Space Agency has conducted the first automatically guided descent and landing of a parafoil test vehicle to support the Crew Transfer Vehicle programme for the International Space Station. The vehicle, carrying a 1,700kg payload and a global-positioning system, was dropped from an aircraft at 1,800m altitude. ...
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Korea rocket
The Korea Sounding Rocket 2 has been launched on a 6min 27s sub-orbital flight to 128km altitude, carrying a 150kg science payload , as part of the country's quest to build a national satellite launcher capable of placing 700kg payloads into low-Earth orbit. Source: Flight International
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Overberg launches
The Houwteq division of South Africa's Denelis negotiating with several foreign countries to provide low-Earth-orbit satellite-launcher services at Overberg, near Bredasdorp, 160km (100 miles) south-east of Cape Town. Houwteq would provide satellite and launcher-preparation services, and manage the launches. Source: Flight International
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Luscombe rebirth?
Monkton, Maryland-based Renaissance Aircraft is studying the market for new-build, updated, versions of the classic Luscombe 8 light aircraft. The "EuroLuscombe" would be powered by a Czech LOM or Textron Lycoming engine. LOMs are marketed by Moravia, of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Source: Flight International
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Mercury expands FBOs
Mercury Air Group has acquired Stevens Aviation's Nashville International Airport, Tennessee, fixed-base operation (FBO) for $4.2 million. The Los Angeles-based company now operates 13 USFBOs, with a fourteenth due to open in April 1998 at Charleston International Airport, South Carolina. Source: Flight International
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Pentastar RVSM work
Chrysler Pentastar Aviation of Detroit, Michigan, has won approval to upgrade Gulfstream business jets to meet reduced vertical-separation minimum requirements. It says that it is the only independent service centre authorised by the maker to install the avionics. Source: Flight International
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Jetcruzer orders
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures says that it has a backlog of 53 confirmed orders for its $1.29 million Jetcruzer 500 single-turboprop business aircraft, having added 22 confirmed orders since early July. Source: Flight International
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US Airways redeems
US Airways has exercised its right to redeem all of its remaining interest-bearing preference shares, in a move designed to shave around $19 million off annual financing costs. With repurchases earlier this year, the US air carrier expects to save $46 million in savings on annual dividends. ...
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ValuJet cash
ValuJet Airlines has completed a private placement of debt with institutional investors, which will raise $80 million to help refinance secured debt and aid the purchase of hush- kits for its McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s. Source: Flight International
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GE acquires Greenwich
General Electric plans to complete its acquisition of Greenwich Air Services on 2 September after gaining approval from the US competition authorities. The final part of the take-over is due to fall into place later next month when shareholders of UNC vote on whether to accept the prior offer from ...
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EF2000 logistics
EDS has delivered the first phase of the Royal Air Force's Logistics Support System (LSS), an integrated, secure information network intended to minimise life-cycle costs and help procurement. The LSS will be used initially to support the introduction of the Eurofighter EF2000. Source: Flight International
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Allison goes hunting
Hunting Airmotive of the UK has beaten international competition to extend for a further five years its UK Ministry of Defence contract under which it maintains the Allison T56 engines, which power the RAF's Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport fleet. Source: Flight International
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easyJet's complaint
The European Commission has opened an enquiry into allegations by UK low-cost airline easyJet of anti-competitive practices by KLM. The action follows a complaint made by easyJet in October 1996 that KLM was lowering its fares artificially on the Amsterdam-London route in order to compete with easyJet's tariffs. ...
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Airborne's GPS
Airborne Express has selected IIMorrow's Apollo 2101 global-positioning-system (GPS) navigation management system to replace Omega/VLF systems installed on its McDonnell Douglas DC-8s. The value of the contract is not disclosed. Initial installations are under way. Source: Flight International
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MAS/GE engine deal
Malaysia Airlines (MAS)and General Electric have finalised an agreement to form the joint venture, Aircraft Engine Repair & Overhaul (1997) (AERO '97). The new company, which is 70% owned by GE and 30% by MAS, will focus on developing the airline's existing CFM56 and Pratt & Whitney PW4000 capabilities. Similar ...
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Load shift?
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators are focusing on a possible rearward load-shift of untethered cargo as a cause of the 7 August accident to a Fine Air McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F at Miami, Florida. Controllers reported that the aircraft pitched up to an angle of some 60¼ almost immediately after ...
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Angola accident
A 31-year-old Angolan Air Charter Boeing 727-100F (D2-TJC) crash-landed at Lukapa, Angola inbound from the country's capital, Luanda, on 15 August. There are no confirmed reports about the circumstances, but no-one on board the cargo flight is believed to have been seriously injured. Source: Flight International