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Spacehab aims for ISS cargo work
Tim Furniss/LONDON Spacehab, which supplies the pressurised equipment-carrying module for the Space Shuttle, is working on a lightweight, unpressurised Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) unit designed to provide a commercial cargo service to the International Space Station (ISS). The ICC will carry up to 5,400kg of cargo ...
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Pegasus XL launches commercial OrbView 2 remote-sensing satellite
Orbital Sciences (OSC) air-launched the OrbView 2 commercial remote-sensing satellite aboard a Pegasus XL booster on 1 August. Images from the satellite will contribute towards a better understanding of the Earth's carbon cycle processes and their effect on global-warming trends. The 146kg OrbView 2 carries a Hughes Electronics ...
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Single-engined flight correction
Sir - I was angered by the addition of something which I would not have written in my letter headed "UK CAA and single-engined flights" (Flight International, 23-29 July, P40). I did not, and would never have, written that Mr Crowe "-asked to operate under Joint Aviation Requirements ...
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TRW
Robert Strickler has been named vice-president and general manager at Cleveland, Ohio-based electronics company TRW's intercontinental ballistic-missile prime- integration programme. He is now president and general manager of the TRW Environmental Safety Systems unit. Source: Flight International
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Hamilton
United Technologies systems-manufacturing company Hamilton Standard, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, has appointed Richard Burrell president of Dynamic Controls and vice-president of Flight Systems. Arthur Lucas is named vice-president of engineering. Mohammed Sattar becomes vice-president of propulsion systems and Joseph Triompo is appointed vice-president of engine controls and accessories. ...
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Sabreliner
Patrick Quinn has been named programme manager of the Eagle programme (which is a subcontract to Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems) at St Louis, Missouri-based maintainer and modifier Sabreliner. Source: Flight International
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Telephonics
Communications-systems supplier Telephonics of Farmingdale, New York, has appointed Charles (Chuck) Campbell director of business development, communication-systems division. He was formerly manager of business development for the company's Digital Airborne Communications Systems. Source: Flight International
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Signature
Bruce Van Allen has been promoted to executive vice-president and chief operating ofÌcer, with responsibility for overseeing operations, marketing and human resources at Signature Flight Support, of Orlando, Florida. He was formerly senior vice-president of operations. Blake Fish and Chuck Bobbitt have been appointed vice-presidents of operations, reporting to Van ...
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Japanese engine spares
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) is constructing a ´10 billion ($87 million) jet-engine parts plant at Soma, Japan. IHI expects the plant, due to open in October 1998, to generate annual sales of around $300 million. Source: Flight International
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Test equipment
Sabena Technics is to design and produce test equipment for International Aero Engines V2500 engines for Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL). The Belgian company has also signed similar contracts with Air France and Iberia for test equipment for CFM56-5Cs and CFM56-7s. Source: Flight International
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Aydin on JSF team
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has awarded AYDIN Telemetry a $6 million contract to supply the flight-test instrumentation equipment for its two Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) demonstrator aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Space weather
The US Los Alamos laboratory has obtained its first accurate readings of the polar wind which flows off the Earth. Its POLAR satellite's plasma-source instrument emits xenon ions to neutralise the plasma flowing past the spacecraft. Monitoring interference caused by polar and solar winds, major factors in "space weather", is ...
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Brazilian Black Hawks
The Brazilian army has ordered four Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk helicopters for delivery in August, to be based in Patuca, Ecuador. The helicopters will be used on peacekeeping missions along the disputed border between Ecuador and Peru. Source: Flight International
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Top rate weapon
Textron Systems has delivered the first sensor-fuzed weapon under the $157 million, 521-unit, full-rate-production contract awarded by the US Air Force in April 1996. A $142 million contract for a further 542 weapons was awarded to the US company in March. Source: Flight International