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Airborne 767 upgrade
Training Devices of Englewood, Colorado, is to upgrade an Airborne Express Boeing 767-200 full-flight simulator, recently acquired from All Nippon Airways, to Level C training standard. Source: Flight International
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GIV training expanded
FlightSafety International has added the Flight Visions head-up display to the Gulfstream IV-SP Level D simulator at its Savannah, Georgia, training centre. SimuFlite Training International has introduced GIV maintenance training at Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Skylark at 40
The UK's Skylark sub-orbital sounding rocket became the world's oldest operational space launcher on 13 February when its 40th anniversary was celebrated. A total of 431 Skylarks has been launched since the first Skylark flew from Woomera, South Australia in 1957. The current Matra Marconi Space Skylark 12 model can ...
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Communications study
Auspace of Canberra, Australia, has won a contract from the national defence forces to conduct a satellite-communications feasibiity study, under which satellite-based or unmanned-air-vehicle options to meet communications needs after 2005 will be investigated. Source: Flight International
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Space freezer
Matra Marconi Space has been awarded a $2.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop the Minus Eighty-degree Laboratory Freezer (MELFI) for the International Space Station (ISS). Three flight models will be built for NASA and one for Japan. The MELFI, which will become the first European payload ...
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PNG hides Hinds
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government seems to have acquired a small number of armed helicopters, possibly Mil Mi-24 Hinds, from an Eastern European source for use in the Bougainville secessionist insurrection. It is reported that the aircraft were delivered about two weeks ago in an unidentified large freighter of ...
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Towed delivery
Lockheed Martin Sanders says that it will deliver mass models of a fibre-optic towed decoy (FOTD) by mid-1997, following a successful critical design-review of the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) programme. The IDECM radio-frequency countermeasures system consists of the expendable FOTD linked by fibre-optic cable to an onboard techniques generator. ...
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Swissair charter
A new long-haul charter division of Swissair, Charter-Leisure, will be set up this year employing 200 people and operating two Swissair Airbus A310-300s. Swissair crews transferred to the low-cost operation will be paid less, but have the chance to become captains earlier. The division will replace its A310s with A330-200s ...
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Lagardere/Alcatel can rebid for Thomson
Lagardere and Alcatel Alsthom are to have a second chance of bidding for Thomson-CSF, following the French Government's decision to relaunch the privatisation of the defence-electronics giant with a search for industrial partners. Lagardère had emerged as the original winner in 1996, but the Government's decision was overturned ...
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'Amicable' Viasa liquidation agreed
Shareholders in Venezuela's Viasa have agreed to go ahead with an "amicable" liquidation of the failed flag carrier, which leaves the door open for a relaunch. Viasa was forced to cease operations at the end of January, in the face of mounting losses and lack of cash, while ...
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Fairchild cools down Longbow Apache
FAIRCHILDCONTROLS is to supply the environmental-control system for the upgraded AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopter under a $73 million contract from McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems. Frederick, Maryland-based Fairchild will supply the Improved Environmental Control System, a distributed vapour-cycle cooling and heating unit consisting of two redundant systems with ...
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ARINC Skydoc puts maintenance data on the Internet
ARINC HAS LAUNCHED a system for the on-line distribution of maintenance documentation. The Skydoc service provides secure access, via the Internet, to ARINC's maintenance-information database, which is updated continuously with the latest manufacturers' bulletins and regulatory authorities' directives. Atrial of the system involving Airbus aircraft is under way at Lufthansa. ...
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Tiny aircraft come under study
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is considering funding research into so-called micro air vehicles - aircraft with wingspans which measure just 150mm - which scientists believe could be used for tasks such as surveillance and detection of toxic chemicals on the battlefield. The aim is ...
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MDC fits redesigned C-17 gear pods
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has begun installing the first shipset of redesigned main-landing-gear pods for its C-17 military transport. The pods were revised under the "design for manufacturing and assembly" concept, aimed at cutting production costs. Introduced from aircraft No 33, the pods are projected to save $45 million over the ...
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B-1B upgrade
Boeing has been awarded a $179 million contract to perform an avionics upgrade and install a smart-weapons-delivery capability for the US Air Force's Rockwell B-1Bbombers. The enhancements, part of the B-1Bconventional-mission upgrade programme, are scheduled to be installed from 2001. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance needs stepping up-...
Sir - You attribute to maintenance error three aircraft accidents and 260 fatalities in the Airline Safety Review for 1996 (Flight International, 15-21 January, P31). Engineering departments/ organisations must act now, to prevent an increase in this statistic. I suggest replacing accountant types with professional engineers at management ...
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A340 switches: re-active or pro-active reaction?
Sir - In the article "Airbus fits switch guards after A340 hydraulic incident" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P16), Airbus Industrie describes the move to install guards as part of its "pro-active" stance on cockpit safety. If that stance were really pro-active, would not the A340 switch guards have ...
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Enhanced awareness
At the end of 1995, Sextant Avionique delivered the first production sets of avionics for the multi-role Dassault Mirage 2000-5. The first production deliveries of the aircraft for the French air force are scheduled to take place this year, and the -5 is also being promoted for export. ...
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Air Niugini hit by sackings
Papua New Guinea's (PNG) deputy prime minister and finance minister Chris Haiveta suddenly sacked all but two members of the seven strong Air Niugini's board of directors during a meeting in February, leaving final negotiations stalled for the acquisition of two new Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s, and other corporate ...
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Presidential intervention delays American settlement
AMERICAN AIRLINES says that first deliveries of new Boeing aircraft will be delayed after US President Bill Clinton intervened to push any pilots' strike back by at least 60 days. Clinton stepped in minutes after the pilots went on strike on 14 February and appointed an emergency mediation board, which ...