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Ill fated ambitions
The Romaero Rombac BAC One-Eleven programme is rooted in former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu's ambitions to make Romania independent of the Soviet Union. As a maverick among the former Communist Bloc leaders, Ceausescu had refused to take part in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and later exploited initially good ...
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International Space Base
The name Kourou has become synonymous with that of Arianespace, but the European launcher organisation is only a user of the launch site. The CSG is operated by the French space agency CNES but was developed with funds from the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA). ...
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A3XX in favour
Sir - Recent coverage (Flight International, 2-8 April, P4) has been favourable to Airbus Industrie's decision to proceed with its A3XX, while Boeing's decision not to go ahead with a "super-jumbo" appears to be very much the voice of Boeing finance. Decisions to launch new aircraft have always been risky. ...
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plane handling...
UK-based Plane Handling opened its 45,000ft2 (4,200m2) warehouse at Manchester Airport in March. Building the warehouse - which includes three floors of offices - took just four months. Pictured at the opening (from left) are cartoonist Chris Lea, who caricatured guests at the opening, Plane Handling operations director Pat Heslop ...
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James Sdoia...
Online parts and services finder Inventory Locator Service (ILS) has named James Sdoia vice-president for marketing and sales. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, he will take responsibility for ILS services worldwide. He is from the Global Financial division of Alltel, where he was senior vice-president and general manager for Asia. ...
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Cirrus design
Cirrus Design, of Duluth, Minnesota, has named Cecil Miller vice-president of manufacturing. He will take charge of developing Cirrus CR20 production. He comes from Raytheon Aircraft, where he was vice-president of operations. Source: Flight International
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Lunar prospector construction complete...
Construction and assembly of the NASA Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been completed by Lockheed Martin in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 24 September, on a mission to obtain the first complete compositional and gravity maps of the moon. The $63 million, low-cost, Discovery mission will carry ...
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Manned soace flight log update
NoCountry(*)DateSpacecraftType/Crew Flight time 193USA 11019 NovSTS 80/ColumbiaScience/517d 15h 53m^ 194USA11112 JanSTS 81/AtlantisSMM /6+10d4h 55m 195Russia 12>10 FebSoyuz TM25Mir ferry/3In flight 196USA 11211 FebSTS 82/DiscoveryService/79d23h 37m * Indicates total number of launches by this country since 12 April 1961 > Former ...
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GOES IS GO...
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, the GOES K, will be launched on the last Atlas 1-series booster operated by ILS International Launch Services from Cape Canaveral, on 24 April. It is the third of a $1 billion fleet of five new-series satellites. ...
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Kapustin Yar is revived for launches
Russia's launch base at Kapustin Yar, in the sparsely populated area close to the Caspian Sea, will end 12 years of retirement when it is used again as a satellite-launch station in 1999. The base was first used for a missile launch in 1947 and its first orbital ...
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NASAselects two satellites to study...
NASA has selected two small, low-cost, satellites to study the distribution of the Earth's forests and the variability of its gravity field under a new Office of Mission to Planet Earth, Earth System Science Pathfinders, programme. The vegetation-canopy lidar (VCL) mission will use a multibeam laser-ranging device to ...
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Engineering dominance
LOOK AT FIGHTER evolution in 25-year steps, and the technological advance which can occur in a quarter-century is obvious. The 1915 Fokker DVII, 1940 North American P-51 and 1965 McDonnell Douglas F-4 were each the dominant fighters of their age, and illustrate the advances that have been achieved. Another 25 ...
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Challenging evolution
WHEN THE US Air Force began defining its requirement for an air-superiority fighter to replace the McDonnell Douglas F-15, the world was a very different place. The Soviet Union still existed and Iraq was just a minor Middle Eastern power. The major regional conflict had not yet replaced superpower confrontation ...
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Integrating information
LOW-OBSERVABLE AIR superiority places severe requirements on avionics that can only be met by the degree of integration evident in the F-22, says Marty Broadwell, deputy avionics team-leader. "We are collecting snippets of information, with minimum illumination, pencil beams, sensors that are passive or barely on. Alone, ...
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Arming from the inside
CHALLENGING WEIGHT and cost goals have been met by the F-22's armament-system design team while ensuring that the aircraft ultimately will be able to perform missions other than air superiority. The first of those extra missions, near-precision strike using the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), already has been added to ...
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Painting by numbers
BUILDING L-64 AT Marietta is not a paint shop, although it is here that F-22s will be finished before being towed across the road for radar cross-section verification ready for first flight. Each F-22 is expected to spend about 20 days in this building, where the elaborate, ...
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Testing for combat
DEMONSTRATING THAT he F-22 is at least twice as effective in combat as the F-15, as required by contract, will require a combination of wargaming, simulation and flight testing. Computer modelling is being used to develop a statistical basis for the comparison, with almost 1 million simulated engagements already ...
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Supplying a total system
DEVELOPING SUPPORT and training systems concurrently with the aircraft and engine has allowed designers to take advantage of the capabilities of the F-22's integrated avionics. The aircraft has extensive onboard diagnostics, required for sensor fusion and fault tolerance, which can be used to eliminate ground-support equipment, while the flight software ...
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Airbus offers extended-range HGW A330-300s
Airbus Industrie is actively offering an increased weight, extended range derivative of the A330-300 twinjet, as final assembly of the first A330-200 progresses at Toulouse. The range of the new high-gross-weight (HGW) version of the -300 would typically be boosted by some 1,300km (700nm) to around 10,200km. The ...