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Russia and Ukraine clash over crash
Russian air force findings that a multiple engine failure caused the loss of an Antonov An-124 Ruslan have been sharply rejected by Ukrainian engine manufacturer ZMKB Progress. The Russian air force commander-in-chief Col Gen Anatoly Kornukov said on 10 February that the cause of the fatal crash on 6 ...
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Partners poised to restart X-31 VECTOR
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Industrial partners in the tri-national X-31 VECTOR research programme expect the signature in March of an inter-government memorandum of understanding (MoU) signalling the restart of the successful thrust vectoring work. Following the approval of the US portion of the programme's funding in mid-January, similar clearance is expected from ...
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Tight rein forecast
Max Kingsley-Jones and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON for Flight International It is one of the ironies of the airline cycle that just as the manufacturers are gearing up to record production levels, the market runs into trouble. Last time round it was the Gulf war which heralded a dramatic and damaging descent ...
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Multimission craft
Julian Moxon/Marignane, FRANCECUTAWAY DRAWING/Giuseppe Picarella In bringing two new machines to the market in the space of two years, Eurocopter appears to have pulled off something of a coup. By any standards, the eight seat, twin engined EC135 and now the five seat EC120 Colibri single have both been very ...
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Coming on strongly
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Certification begins this quarter for Kamov's much delayed new Ka-226, which had its first flight on 4 September, 1997. Unusually, it was not really a test flight but a demonstration for Russia's Minister of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, whose new Ministry has provided the funding to bring the ...
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Calculated landings
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS According to David Jacobson, a training captain on Qantas' Boeing 737 domestic fleet, in this age of "-technical precision, the manual landing flare manoeuvre has remained imprecise. Conventional techniques have relied upon an inconsistent, critical estimation of height above the landing surface, and are subject to a number ...
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Cuts mar USA year
Tim Furniss/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER The BOEING/Lockheed Martin United Space Alliance (USA) has had a successful first year as NASA's prime contractor for the Space Shuttle programme (see box), but it has been overshadowed by the need to lay off about 363 of its 6,000 workers at the Kennedy Space ...
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Singapore support
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Singapore, for its comparatively small size, is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of aerospace businesses of any country in South-East Asia. There are now more than 70 separate aerospace ventures operating from the island republic and, in spite of the recent regional economic downturn, this ...
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Rutan assistance helps Angel relay concept to take wing
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A US company plans to begin operations in 2000 with a communications-relay aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. A proof-of-concept aircraft is under construction at Rutan's Scaled Composites and is to be flown in mid-1998. Angel Technologies of St Louis, Missouri, says that it is "on ...
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Extra expects approval for 330 aerobatic aircraft in March
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German light aircraft manufacturer Extra Flugzeugbau expects to complete certification of work on its new Extra 330 aerobatic aircraft by the end of March. The aircraft, an upgraded version of the Extra 300, has a more powerful engine and "much better manoeuvrability" for competition flying, says ...
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Charter office
French, Le-Bourget-based charter operator Air Enterprise has set up a UK office. Based at Farnborough Airport, the company will operate a full range of Dassault Falcon business jets. Air Enterprise is scheduled to take delivery of a Challenger 601-3A at the end of February. Source: Flight International
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Robin sister company develops a new ultralight single
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Avions Robin sister company Bul Aero has developed a single engined ultralight aircraft, to be unveiled officially in the second quarter of this year. "There is a requirement for low-cost aircraft and there is no way to achieve this if you stick with the conventional certification system," ...
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Dornier Seastar plans India restart
Dornier Seastar is hoping to resume production of its Seastar multi-role amphibious aircraft in India with manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), eight years after the programme was halted. The German company, headed by Conrado Dornier, has submitted a proposal to HAL chairman Krishnadas Niar to set up a joint venture, ...
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Air Hanson wins UK royal helicopter contract
Air Hanson has been awarded a ten year contract to operate a Sikorsky S-76 on behalf of the UK's Royal Family. The leased helicopter will be based at Air Hanson's Blackbushe, Surrey, headquarters and will replace two Westland Wessex HCC4s operated by the Royal Air Force's 32Sqn since 1969. ...
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Tridair settles dispute with Bell
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES California-based helicopter conversion specialist Tridair Helicopters and Bell Helicopter Textron have settled a dispute over the alleged use of Tridair-developed data for Bell helicopters not covered by the 1993 licence agreement between the two companies. Under the settlement, the original licence deal will be amended to allow ...
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AE31X partners launch pre-development work
Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have agreed to launch pre-development work on the AE31X project in March, before any final joint venture business agreement and without the active participation of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero). A joint team is to be established in Toulouse ...
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BA to fund new orders with refinancing deal
Max Kingsley-Jones and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON British Airways is in talks with engine manufacturer General Electric over a wide ranging aircraft refinancing package which would see the carrier take more GE-powered Boeing 777s in place of some of its outstanding 747-400s. GE is understood to have made an approach to ...
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P&W prepares for geared fan launch
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES An advanced technology geared turbofan that will form the basis of a new family of engines in the 107-156kN (24,000-35,000lb) thrust range is to be launched by Pratt & Whitney. P&W will use the new engine to challenge the market dominance of CFM International's CFM56. ...
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FAA WAAS report acknowledges GPS signal jamming concerns
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Estimated life-cycle costs of the wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) have increased by 21% and "major concerns" have surfaced over signal interference, according to a US Federal Aviation Administration report to Congress obtained exclusively by Flight International. The report warns that "technical uncertainties" relating to intentional ...
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Boeing lines up more buyers for new 717
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is close to signing orders and options for almost 200 717-200s, with leasing companies the main focus of interest. According to company sources, by far the biggest single impending sale of the 100-seater is to leasing giant International Lease Finance, which is understood to ...