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Kinnock raises stake over US open skies
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON European Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has renewed his legal battle to win rights to negotiate a direct air agreement with the USA. If this is successful it could pave the way for all of the region's air bilaterals to come under a European Union (EU)banner. Kinnock ...
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Scale model of Space Station lifeboat prototype flies
NASA's X-38 unmanned scale model of a seven-person emergency crew return vehicle lifeboat for the International Space Station (ISS) made its first glide flight over the Mojave Desert, California on 12 March. The prototype lifting body was dropped from a B-52 deployed from Edwards AFB, California, at 23,000ft (7,000m ). ...
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Lockheed Martin in bid to save merger
A team from Lockheed Martin is working to come up with a new proposal to put to the US competition watchdog, the Department of Justice (DoJ), to salvage its proposed merger with Northrop Grumman. The eleventh hour effort began at the start of March after the DoJ had informed ...
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GE unveils new CF6 growth study
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric is studying a new growth variant of the CF6-80C engine which will be aimed at the planned 747-400X stretch, as well as increased gross weight variants of the 767-400ER. The new study variant, known as the CF6-80CG2, will have a baseline thrust capability ...
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Rolls-Royce streamlining sees restructure into smaller units
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A major restructuring at Rolls-Royce will see the aero-engine arm divided into a series of smaller, market focused, units, in a bid to co-ordinate product strategy across the group and its growing tally of international partnerships. The existing umbrella Aerospace division, which covers all R-R aero-engine ...
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American and BA head talks on alliance to challenge Star group
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Talks are under way which could lead to the creation of a worldwide airline alliance grouping involving British Airways, American Airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific Airways. If the deal is cemented it would rival that of the Lufthansa/United Airlines-led Star Alliance. JAL, which recently ...
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UK industry looks for cash to fight off German A3XX wing bid
Ian Sheppard/LONDON The UK aerospace industry is stepping up pressure on its Government to match Germany in funding future wing research, warning that failure to do so would mean losing strategic wing development work for the Airbus A3XX 600-seater airliner to German industry. British Aerospace Airbus is waiting ...
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Patria fills Saab void with Embraer work
Sonaca of Belgium is to outsource production of some of the front and rear fuselage sections it manufactures for the Embraer RJ-145 to Patria Finavicomp of Finland, which has been hit by closure of Saab 2000 production. The last components for Saab will leave its plant in Halli, Finland, ...
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USAF develops flow visualisation method
The US Air Force's Wright Patterson Research Laboratory at Dayton, Ohio, has developed a new flow visualisation technique for combustion flows, using holography and lasers. The flow is recorded by firing two Nd:YAG lasers into it, injection seeded with titanium oxide particles to allow reconstruction of the flow as ...
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Taiwan rivets
Aerofit Products of California has contracted with National Aerospace Fasteners of Taiwan to manufacture fitting devices and fasteners for Boeing 757s and 767s. Source: Flight International
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A merger too far ?
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman shocked the industry in July 1996 with news of their merger agreement. Now it is the turn of the US Departments of Defense and Justice to shock, with their last-gasp opposition to the merger plan. Just weeks ago, as shareholders voted to ...
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Ice find leads to renewed interest in lunar probe
Tim Furniss/LONDON Prospects for an eventual mission to one of the poles of the Moon to obtain ice samples have been boosted because data returned from the Lunar Prospector orbiter show a "high probability" that water ice exists. NASA, however, will be unable to support a fully funded ...
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Polar Lander construction is under way
Lockheed Martin Astronautics is constructing the Mars Surveyor '98 Polar Lander which is due to be launched on 3 January, 1999, to land at the southern polar cap of the Red Planet on 3 December, 1999. The Mars Polar Lander will be equipped with cameras, robotic arms and instruments ...
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Hughes to construct Asiasat replacement
Asia Satellite Communications has ordered an Asiasat 3S from Hughes to replace the Asiasat 3 satellite stranded in orbit after an ILS International Launch Services Proton launch failure on 25 December last year. Asia Satellite received $200 million insurance compensation for the loss and will use the funds for ...
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First component
The first major flight component of the NASA/Lockheed Martin X-33 sub-orbital re-usable launcher technology demonstrator vehicle has arrived at the Skunk Works, Palmdale, California. Source: Flight International
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Qantas talks with Cathay break down
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Talks have broken down between Cathay Pacific and Qantas over the Australian carrier's plans to acquire up to five RB.211-524D4-powered Boeing 747-200s, with airline sources confirming that the carrier expects to consider a wider range of options in the wake of the Asian downturn. These aircraft include new ...
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Shuttle catches up
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's Space Shuttle is catching up with the space age. Honeywell Space Systems of Arizona has delivered 11 flat panel displays for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the first of NASA's fleet of four orbiters to undergo a cockpit display upgrade. Honeywell's Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS) has a ...
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Dasa offers MiG-29 to fill EF2000 gap
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is offering to upgrade Polish, Czech and Hungarian MIGMAPO MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter aircraft to a NATO-interoperable standard as a stopgap until each country is in a position to procure the Eurofighter EF2000. Although the aircraft has so far been considered too expensive for ...
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Broach the subject
The US and UK governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which allows for exchange of technical information related to the Broach penetrator warhead, also known as the Multiple Warhead System. The Broach is a candidate for use on the Raytheon Systems Joint Standoff Weapon and the Boeing AGM-86C ...
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Bahrain F-16
Bahrain has signed a letter of acceptance (LoA) to purchase up to 10 Lockheed Martin F-16Cs powered by the General Electric F110-100B. The LoA covers eight Block 40-standard aircraft with an amendment request for two more. Source: Flight International