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The new UK Labour Government's space minister will be John Battle, who also has responsibilities for telecommunications, science, technology, energy and the environment. Battle replaces the Conservative, Ian Taylor, one of the UK's most successful space ministers. Taylor influenced reforms of the European Space Agency, formalised a new UK space ...
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Surrey Satellite to build US Air Force spacecraft
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) of Guildford, in the UK, has been awarded a $5.1 million contract to build a microsatellite spacecraft bus for the US Air Force. It is the first contract to be awarded by the US Government to the UK concern. The spacecraft, to be called ...
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Rotormotion
Philip Amadeus has become managing director of UK helicopter-charter operator Redhill Aerodrome-based RotorMotion, which started operations in April. Amadeus, who spent four years ßying Boeing 737s for UK carrier Dan-Air, was most recently marketing manager for Aeromega, of Stapleford, Essex. Source: Flight International
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AI(R) defers engine choice for new regional-jet programme
The rapid rise of the regional jets at the top end of the market and the intense competition between engine makers seeking to power them dominated debate at this year's Regional Airline Association convention in Reno, Nevada, on 12-14 May. There was also spirited defence of 19-seat aircraft at the ...
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Chirac's Chinese visit reaps a harvest of civil orders
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has placed a $1.5 billion order for a second batch of 30 Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, further strengthening the European consortium's growing presence in that country. It is the biggest of three deals announced during the visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Beijing in ...
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SilkAir selects engine
SilkAir has selected the International Aero Engines V2500-A5 for its planned new fleet of Airbus Industrie A319/A320s. The Singapore-based airline is to order a mix of eight A319s and A320s to replace its two Fokker 70s and Boeing 737-300s (Flight International, 14-20 May). SilkAir will also take options on another ...
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'Safer' B-2 paint stripper takes the stage
Northrop Grumman is introducing an "environmentally safe" method for stripping paint from B-2 stealth bombers, which uses wheat starch as the blast material. The US manufacturer says that the dry alternative eliminates vapour emissions and produces less-hazardous waste than that associated with conventional, solvent-based paint strippers. The process is also ...
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Canpolar seeks help for ice-test system
Canpolar East, a Canadian machine-vision company based in St Johns, New- foundland, is looking for partners to develop a laser-based system able to measure ice accumulation on aerofoils. The technology, developed by Canada's National Research Centre (NRC), could form the basis of a hand-held sensor for use in wing de-icing, ...
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Blast-resistant container is set for tests
A composite/aluminium-hybrid blast-resistant cargo container for aircraft, developed by New Jersey-based Galaxy Scientific, has successfully passed two US Federal Aviation Administration screening processes and is to be prepared for field tests in July. The trials may lead to certfication in the third or fourth quarter of 1998. The ...
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Tupolev buys CADD 5
Computervision has sold $1.1 million-worth of electronic product-definition software to Tupolev Aviation, including CADDS 5 solid-modelling, CAMU electronic-mock-up and Optegra data-management products. The CADDS 5, meanwhile, is now available for use on Windows NT computers. Source: Flight International
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P&W plans demonstration of new JSF engine diagnostics
PRATT &WHITNEY plans to demonstrate pro-active diagnostic technologies planned for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engine. "Prognostics" will be able to detect impending failures, increasing powerplant reliability in the single-engined fighter, the company says. "Single-engine safety is paramount in the JSF," says Frank Gillette, P&W director of advanced ...
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'Superjumbo': why bother with a new design at all?
Sir - How good it was to see the letters from Noel Falconer and David Connolly (Letters, Flight International, 23-29 April, P64) about the Airbus Industrie new "super jumbo". It seems that, thanks to the accountants, we are to get not a state-of-the-art large aircraft, with refined aerodynamics, ...
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RVSM: cost must be allowed for
Sir - The extreme enthusiasm for reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) demonstrated by United Airlines' Mark Hurston (Letters, Flight International 16-22 April, P40) is by no means universal. Has the cost of qualifying certain aircraft types for RVSM been included in his, or anyone else's, projections? Just before ...
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Fairchild Dornier seeks partners for 528
Fairchild Dornier is "open to negotiation" with aerostructures companies around the world over risk-sharing partnerships in its 50-seat 528JET regional-jet programme. The company has already secured a deal with Aermacchi to work on the fuselage, which will be stretched by 7m over the original Dornier 328 structure built in South ...
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19-seat market remains 'alive and well'
British Aerospace, Fairchild Dornier, Raytheon Aircraft and several regional airlines have rallied to the defence of the 19-seater market, a sector branded by US analysts as "dead or dying". Raytheon predicts a steady world market for its Beech 1900D which Mike Scheidt, vice-president for airline sales, predicts will ...
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AlliedSignal begins reliability upgrades
AlliedSignal's $30 million enhancement programme for the ALF502R and LF507 engines, dubbed the XRP (extended-reliability package) has gone into top gear with the release of the first group of improvements. Major items of the "Group 1" XRP include new number two, four and five bearing packages, new number ...
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Phase Two of Jetstream Super 31 upgrade begins
British Aerospace has begun phase two of a performance-enhancement programme for the Jetstream Super 31 at Prestwick, Scotland. The package is aimed at boosting the aircraft's hot-and-high payload by up to 365kg, or four passengers. Phase One improvements included the introduction of a flapless take-off setting and the ...
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Allison revises growth plans for AE3007
Allison Engine is revising growth plans for its AE3007 turbofan, to tackle the thrust requirements of the projected Embraer EMB-170, a possible stretched version of the EMB-145 now being studied by the Brazilian manufacturer. "The growth version would use the fan from the Tay engine," says Allison large-commercial-engines ...
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CAE reveals C$100 million sales
CAE ELECTRONICS has revealed commercial flight-simulation orders exceeding C$100 million ($72 million), including its first sale to Airbus Industrie. The Canadian firm is predicting increased sales over the next two years, based on strong aircraft orders over the past year. The new orders include seven full-flight simulators, for ...
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FSI expands Toronto site for Dash 8-400
FLIGHT SAFETY International (FSI) is expanding its Toronto, Canada, training centre to accommodate a simulator for the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The simulator is scheduled to enter service in 1998. The expanded centre, to be completed in July, will also house a Dash 8-100/200/300 ...