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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 ...
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Ten years after Lavi
Ovadia Harari has come a considerable distance in the decade since the Israeli Government dumped the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)Lavi fighter project. Then project manager on the Lavi, Harari is now general manager of IAI's military aircraft group. Both Harari and IAIhave moved on since the decision was ...
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EJI adds to Gulfstream IV-SP order
Executive Jet Inter-national (EJI), the US business aircraft fractional ownership organisation, has contracted for 11 more Gulfstream IV-SPs, taking its orders for the model to 27. The new agreement, which includes one additional aircraft for delivery in 1997, accelerates the exercising of five GIV-SP options due in 1999, ...
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Fishbed facelift
A familiar, delta-winged dart descends to a smooth landing at Aerostar's Bacau base, with the Carpathian mountains forming a hazy backdrop to this once improbable scene. It would have been unthinkable as recently as seven years ago that a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO code-name "Fishbed") - the most widely-used fighter the ...
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European commissions
European Aviation Air Charter (EAA) is one of the UK's youngest airlines, but it already employs more than 200 people and boasts a fleet of 15 100-seat aircraft. It has established European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR)-145 approval for its maintenance operation, and, more recently, a pilot-training centre at its Bournemouth ...
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Transylvanian transformation
Brasov is a picturesque Transylvanian town known for its architecture, its location in the Carpathian mountains, and its proximity to the semi-legendary castle now known - for the benefit of tourists - as "Castle Dracula". Although the much-feared, but respected historical leader Vlad the Impaler, in whose memory ...
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Dual operation
Arianespace, Europe's commercial space-launcher organisation, has long intended that its Ariane 5 vehicle will become its workhorse, and that it would be able to retire the long-serving Ariane 4. However, following the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), Kourou, satellite launch site in ...
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Back from the brink
AN AIRFORCE is rarely satisfied with its allotted budget, and many military air wings have fine-tuned the art of pleading poverty into a way of lobbying for extra cash. The Philippine Air Force, however, has been forced to endure more hardships than most. Years of financial neglect have been compounded ...
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Focus on Romania* Predicted 1997...
Focus on Romania* Predicted 1997 inflation: 90%* 70% aerospace directly state-ownedRomania's aerospace industry continues to be restructured following the fall of President Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in the early 1990s. Aerostar upgrades the MiG-21 -page 28 IARs rotary revival ------page 30Source: Flight International
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No turning BAC
Typically for the East European industry, Romaero's base at Baneasa Airport in northern Bucharest consists of pockets of activity interspersed with large areas of empty factory floor. On the one hand, there is the lively Pilatus Britten-Norman Islander assembly line, or the busy section of an otherwise empty production hall ...
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How to build an F-22
Three companies, three locations, three workforces, one aircraft: major sections of the first F-22 take shape in Lockheed Martin and Boeing factories across the USA, in Georgia, Texas and Washington, before coming together on the Marietta final-assembly line This page should hold cutaway poster of the F-22. If yours is ...
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Garrett Aviation teams up to offer RVSM approval project
Garrett Aviation Services of Arizona has teamed up with Atlanta-based Aviation Services Group to develop an operator RVSM (reduced vertical-separation-minima) approval programme, which will allow business-aircraft users a "quick and effortless" way to obtain approval to fly in RVSM airspace. Garrett says that the programme, which is specifically ...