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Pratt & Whitney acquires Dutch engine-repair group
PRATT&WHITNEY has boosted plans to expand its Eagle Services engine-overhaul business to $1 billion annually by 1998, by agreeing to purchase the Flight Repair group of Netherlands company Interturbine. The group repairs engine aerofoils, stators and cases at centres in Dallas, Texas, and Singapore. P&W says that the ...
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Germany buys eighth Tornado trainer
CAE ELEKTRONIK has received a DM26.9 million ($15.2 million) contract to supply a Panavia Tornado full-mission simulator to be installed at the German air force's US training base at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The German subsidiary of Canadian simulator manufacturer CAE will deliver the device in early 2000. ...
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Fokkers updated
UK simulation company Quadrant Systems is upgrading Canadian Regional Air-lines' Fokker F28 simulator to Level C, having completed a Level B upgrade of the Toronto-based machine in March. Quadrant is also upgrading the computer in Indonesian airline Merpati's Fokker F27-500 simulator. Source: Flight International
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Cadet count rises for BAe flight training
British Aerospace Flight Training (Australia) has won pilot-training contracts worth A$6 million ($4.4 million) with the Australian Defence Force (ADF), Malaysia and Taiwan. Under the contract with Malaysia Airlines, the British Aerospace training group will train 32 new cadet pilots for the airline, including the 45 students already ...
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FAA approves use of PC-based training after push by AOPA
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC AN ADVISORYCIRCULAR (AC) approving the use of personal-computer-based aviation training devices (PC-ATDs) has been issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration, and is expected to simulate development of equipment costing substantially less than general-aviation flight-training devices now available. The US National Air Transportation ...
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Thomson Training confirms United Airlines full-flight deal
THOMSONTRAINING & Simulation (TTS) has confirmed a deal with United Airlines to supply two full-flight simulators - for the Airbus A320 and Boeing 777. The company will also supply United with an A320 flight-management and systems trainer, and desktop flight-management-system trainers designed for the Boeing 757 and 767. ...
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Ikonos launch due in December
The Ikonos 1, the first of two remote-sensing satellites being built by Lockheed Martin for Space Imaging EOSAT in Colorado, is scheduled for launch on a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle 2 two-stage booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, in December (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996). The satellite will be used to ...
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Kelly tow method gets patent
Tim Furniss/LONDON Kelly Space and Technology of San Bernardino, California, has been issued a US patent for its towed-launch technique to be used by the company's Eclipse re-usable spaceplane satellite launch system. The plan is to use a Boeing 747 to tow the Eclipse spaceplane to ...
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NASA to build small rover for Japan
NASA will provide a small robotic rover to conduct in-situ measurements of the surface of the asteroid Nereus in September 2003. Nereus is a 1.5km- diameter near-Earth asteroid. The rover will be aboard the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science's Muses C spacecraft, to be launched on ...
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NASA plans mission to investigate Sun's corona
A spacecraft could fly within 2.72 million kilometres (1.7 million miles) of the Sun in July 2007 as part of a series of new interplanetary space missions being studied by NASA. The Solar Probe, protected against high temperatures by a large umbrella-like heatshield, would be used to explore ...
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An-24 'engine failure' kills 44 in Cuba
Engine-failure during take-off is the most likely cause of t he 11 July crash of a Cubana Cuban Airlines Antonov An-24, in which all 39 passengers and five crew are believed to have died, says the Cuban aviation authority. The aircraft crashed into the sea, at night in ...
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Germany begins hypersonic attack missile programme
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) missiles subsidiary LFK has been carrying out windtunnel tests on a model of a hypersonic bunker-buster concept which it hopes to turn into an international demonstrator programme. The missile has the working name ASS 500. It is based on a concept ...
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How much will BAe put into JSF?
Sir - The announcement of British Aerospace's participation in the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is excellent news for the Warton and Salmesbury staff. When details emerge, however, it will be interesting to see how much BAe will contribute in terms of design and technology, as the initial ...
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Help needed on women in aviation
Sir - As a mature university student in my final year, and an ex-Woman's Royal Air Force air-traffic controller/operations, ground stewardess/flight attendant and civilian operations controller private pilots' licence, I am researching for my degree dissertation, initially entitled "A history of women in aviation". I want to cover ...
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Delta
Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, Georgia, has appointed Bill Crumbley managing director of the Delta Shuttle. He was most recently director for international reservation sales and services. Crumbley, who will be take responsibility for Delta Shuttle operations in New York, Boston and Washington DC, replaces Hiram Cox, who has been ...
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Hughes
Hughes Data Systems, of Irvine, California, has named John Fritch director of material. Before joining Hughes, he was with Litton Data Systems, Teledyne, RCA, Memorex, Amdahl and Seagate. Most recently, he was vice-president of electronic-commodity management at Connor Peripherals. Source: Flight International
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Textron
Pat Millard has been appointed original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) sales manager at Textron Lycoming, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He is a former vice-president of marketing at Narco Avionics and Porsche Aviation Products. Steve Logue becomes OEM accounts manager. He is a licensed air-transport pilot, commercial and certified flight instructor. ...