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Sirocco lines up buyers for R-R-powered Tu-204
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International, the subsidiary of Egypt's Kato Aromatic set up to market the Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, has signed deals with two launch customers involving 15 aircraft. The agreements will be formally announced at the MAKS '97 air show being held in Moscow during 19-24 ...
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Taiwan's carriers close on widebody orders
Paul Lewis/TAIPEI Taiwan's two rival national carriers China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways are showing renewed interest in new ultra-long-haul aircraft, in response to the recent provisional launch of the Airbus Industrie A340-500/600 and a proposed open-skies agreement with the USA. Competition between Boeing and Airbus ...
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Cost overruns hit Merlin
UK Government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), is raising concerns that the GKN Westland/ Agusta EH101 Merlin military helicopter faces further delays and additional price hikes. Its Major Projects Report 1996 reveals that the Merlin programme is "-likely to cost over £650 million [$1 billion] more ...
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Aerospatiale leads the way in composite wingboxes
Aerospatiale's Saint-Martin-du-Touch design bureau expects to complete a research programme by the end of this year into next-generation composite design for commercial aircraft. The French company claims to be leading the world with its composite-wingbox development, while it concedes that the USA's Boeing is leading in developing composite ...
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USA taps automotive composites research
A composites manufacturing process developed for the automotive industry is to be adapted for aerospace use under a two-year, $7.2 million, US Air Force contract awarded to the National Center for Composite Systems Technology (NCCST). Based in Kettering, Ohio, the NCCST will lead the pilot project to adapt ...
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Delta takes lead
Delta Air Lines has started to retrofit fire suppressors and smoke detectors in the cargo holds of its Boeing 737s, and plans to fit its entire narrowbody fleet with the safety devices. The US Federal Aviation Administration has given notice of proposed rulemaking indicating that such installations will be required ...
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Europeans unite on ozone layer
Herman De Wulf/Brussels The European Commission (EC), Airbus Industrie and five European airlines have restarted the MOSAIC scientific programme, initially launched in 1995 to measure ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere. It is estimated that air transportation is responsible for 2-3% of all air pollution and, ...
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Thrust computer approved on Citation Ultra
Safe Flight has received US approval for its N1 computer in the Cessna Citation Ultra and Raytheon Beechjet 400A business jets. The panel-mounted computer displays target thrust-setting (percentage low-pressure-spool RPM) for take-off, climb, cruise and go-around. The system continuously monitors ram-air temperature, pressure altitude, environmental-control-system configuration and anti-ice ...
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Europeans seem to have blocked cabin-safety meaures
Sir - Some while ago (Flight International, 5-11 March) John Rickard of the Air Safety Group called for the UK Civil Aviation Authority to take unilateral action on certain cabin-safety proposals emanating from the Boeing 737 crash at Manchester Airport some 12 years ago. This action was apparently ...
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Studying off-design performance
Sir - As is evident from the article "DC-8 training faulted" (Flight International, 23-29 July, P15), it took an accident [that of an Airborne Express McDonnell Douglas DC-8 in December 1996 in Virginia] to get the aviation community to notice an area about which simulator engineers have been crying for ...
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FAA
Jane Garvey has been confirmed as the fourteenth administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration, replacing David Hinson. Garvey, the first woman to head the aviation agency, is the first administrator to serve in a five-year term. Previous administrators served at the pleasure of the US President. Before ...
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Northrop
Wayne Snodgrass has become vice-president of the Norwalk, Connecticut-based Norden Systems unit of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems division. He was formerly vice- president of anti-submarine-warfare and ship systems. Succeeding him in this position is Francis Holian, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Source: Flight International
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Flying Colours
New UK leisure carrier Flying Colours Airlines has appointed Northern Airline Services (NAS) as its cargo general-sales agent (GSA), which is also GSA for Air New Zealand, Air Transat and Delta Air Lines. Traffic manager for the new Manchester-based airline, Mark McDougall, (second from right) shakes hands with NASUK general ...
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MVA
Brian Sheriff has joined UK-based transport planning consultant MVA as group director of finance and administration. A former consultant with British Aerospace, his previous projects include Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok. He will boost MVA's plans to increase its international portfolio. Source: Flight International
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USairline deals boost CAE's leading position
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC CAE ELECTRONICS has announced contracts for nine full-flight simulators and eight flight-training devices in three key deals. The Canadian company now has an overwhelming share of the commercial flight-simulation orders placed so far this year. American Airlines has selected CAE as its preferred ...
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Cessna unveils new training programme
CESSNA HAS UNVEILED a computer-based instruction (CBI) programme to train pilots in fewer hours at its Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs). The initial private-pilot course is to be introduced by US-based CPCs in the second quarter of 1998. Beginning in 1999, courses will be developed for other ratings and for international ...
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Bidders on UK MoD's Hawk school narrowed to three
THREE COMPANIES are believed to have been shortlisted by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a contract to build and operate a simulator school for students undergoing advanced training on the Royal Air Force's British Aerospace Hawks. Canada's CAE Electronics has been eliminated from the competition, leaving ...
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Training for AH-64D
Boeing has begun training US rmy AH-64DLongbow Apache combat-helicopter pilots and maintainers at a new centre near the former McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems plant in Mesa, Arizona. Boeing is providing academic and simulator training, while the US Army handles flight training in the upgraded AH-64D. Source: Flight International
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OSC wins US Air Force Orbimage OrbView images contract
Orbital Science's (OSC) Orbimage division has won a $40 million contract from the US Air Force to supply high-resolution hyperspectral images from its OrbView 3 satellite. This brings to $125 million the value of contracts for imagery from the Orbview 1 and 2 (right) satellites in orbit and the OrbView ...
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Mars Pathfinder's primary 30-day mission is now completed
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's MARS PATHFINDER spacecraft, which landed in the Ares Vallis on 4 July, has concluded its milestone 30-day primary mission, having fulfilled all of its objectives and provided a "new portrait of the Martian environment", says the space agency. The Sagan Memorial Station lander ...