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GosNIIAS signs up to produce Collins TCAS modules
Rockwell Avionics & Communications has signed a co-production agreement with the Russian State Research Institute for Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS), for the production and testing in Moscow of components for the Collins traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). Under the agreement, GosNIIAS will produce key modules of the Collins TPR-900 ...
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NPO completes Yakhont anti-ship missile flight tests
Russian missile design house NPO Mashinostroyenia says that it has successfully completed flight-testing of its Yakhont rocket/ramjet-powered anti-ship missile, although there are no orders for it yet from the Russian defence ministry. The Yakhont, which may carry the Russian navy designation Onix, has been in design and development ...
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Shuttle lands after deployment mission
The Space Shuttle Discovery/STS 85 landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 19 August after an 11-day science, technology and Earth observation mission, which included the deployment and retrieval of the German-built Crista-Spas free-flying satellite (pictured). The Daimler-Benz Aerospace spacecraft carried instruments to study the atmosphere. Source: ...
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Japan's Comets satellite launch is delayed
The launch of the Japanese National Space Development Agency's Comets communications and broadcasting engineering satellite aboard an H2 booster has been delayed by six months to January-February 1998. This will allow more time to assess the cause of the failure in June of the Adeos Earth observation satellite ...
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ESA astronaut qualifies as Soyuz TM commander
Tim Furniss/LONDON Thomas Reiter, the European Space Agency's German air-force astronaut, has become the first foreigner to qualify to command a flight of the Russian three-crew Soyuz TM. Reiter, a veteran of a 179-day shift aboard the Mir 1 space station in 1996, which included two ...
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Fastrac test
The 27,200kg-thrust liquid oxygen-kerosene Fastrac rocket engine for NASA's X-34 technology demonstrator has been tested at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. A series of up to 25 flight tests will begin in 1998, with the X-34 eventually reaching Mach 15, to demonstrate technologies including composite structures, re-usable propellant ...
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What about Russian military aircraft?
Sir - I agree with the conclusions drawn in the article "Is the worst over?" (Flight International, 6-12 August, P30) relating to consolidation and collaboration in Russian aviation. These actions are in line with Western practice and are essential for commercial success. The point not made, ...
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Ratioflug moves into widebody market
Ratioflug has introduced its first widebodied aircraft, an ex-Air France Airbus A300B2. The Frankfurt, Germany-based private charter company is using the A300 in a 323-seat layout on holiday charter flights to Mediterranean resorts from Düsseldorf. The airline, which also operates Fokker F27s and Learjets, says that it plans to add ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of speciÌcation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will be required to enable ...
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GATX Airlog close to returning reworked cargo 747s to use
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Two airlines have started work to return to service two Boeing 747 freighters grounded in mid-1996, when the US Federal Aviation Administration imposed load restrictions on the GATX Airlog cargo conversion. Airlog says that work to recertificate the conversion is "about 80% complete" ...
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Tests complete on first 'Block 4' GE90
Boeing has completed flight and performance tests of the first 777-200IGW (increased gross weight) powered by the "Block 4" variant of the General Electric GE90-90B turbofan. The aircraft is being refurbished at the company's Everett site in Washington before delivery to Lauda Air in late September. ...
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Guam probe reveals US MSAW problems
Software errors have been found and corrected on the minimum-safe-altitude warning (MSAW) systems at three US airports, the US Federal Aviation Administration has revealed. The MSAW alerts air-traffic controllers when an aircraft equipped with a Mode C transponder descends below minimum safe altitude during a landing approach. The ...
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Marketplace
++ Virgin has confirmed that it will add two new Airbus A340-300s in 1998 (Flight International, 13-19 August ) but that one of the aircraft will be acquired on a four-year operating lease from International Lease Finance (ILFC). The aircraft will be delivered in March 1998, and will be joined ...
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Mesa Air regional-jet operation experiences a sluggish start
Mesa Air Group says that its Texas-based regional-jet operation, started in May with two Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), is growing more slowly than anticipated. Marketing of the initial Fort Worth-Houston service is being intensified, and Fort Worth-San Antonio flights will be added in September, with a San Antonio-Colorado Springs ...
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NavCanada softens user-fee proposal
Canada's privatised air-traffic-services provider NavCanada has modified and deferred planned user fees after consultation with aircraft operators. The changes will delay the transition from an air-transportation tax to full cost-recovery by user fees to 1 November, 1998. NavCanada says that the revised proposal will give airlines more time ...
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Japanese consortium prepares plans to launch regional airline
An Okinawa-based Japanese business consortium is drawing up plans to launch an airline within three years, to operate domestic routes and, possibly, international services in the longer term. A group of 32 island investors led by Okinawa Electric Power has established a new company called Southern Cross to ...
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Canada's Royal takes over CanAir cargo
Montreal-based Royal Aviation has acquired the assets of CanAir Cargo, and added the Ontario-based overnight-freight carrier's six leased Boeing 737-200 freighters to its fleet. Royal plans to maintain CanAir's coast-to-coast cargo network, which produced revenues of C$49 million in 1996, and will convert at least three additional 737s ...
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Pan Am progress
Pan Am, which expects to close its acquisition of Carnival Air Lines in September, has posted a a net loss of $17 million during the second quarter of 1997, blaming unexpectedly weak traffic. In the deal announced in March, Pan Am will acquire Carnival's underutilised fleet of 21 aircraft, including ...
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Qantas steps up battle to cut costs and raise yields
Kevin O'Toole/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas chairman Gary Pemberton, unveiling a modest increase in profits for 1996/7, has warned that the carrier will have to step up its drive to cut costs and improve yields if it is to have a chance of further improvements over the coming financial year. ...
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B-2 stealth bomber suffers housing problems
The Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber has been declared fit to fight, but forward deployments are not possible because of problems in maintaining the stealth aircraft. The US Air Force announced in April that the B-2 had achieved its initial operational capability with delivery of the thirteenth aircraft to ...