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RAF considers longer lives for Hawk advanced trainers
Back to Warton for a refit before 2008? Douglas Barrie/LONDON Guy Norris/Los Angeles The Royal Air Force is examining a life-extension programme for its British Aerospace Hawk trainers, with BAe also looking at the possibility of addressing any emerging requirement with a re-engined aircraft fitted with a digital cockpit. The ...
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Hubble serviced
The seven crew of the STS 82/Discovery began the second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope on 14 February. It will be fitted with a new imaging spectrograph and a multi-object spectrometer. Other components will also be replaced. Source: Flight International
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Tupolev plans to fly Tu-334 in May/June
Valentin Klimov, general director of Tupolev, says that the prototype of the much-delayed Tu-334 regional airliner will be flown for the first time in late May or June, following project funding from the Ukrainian Government. The proposed 100-seat twinjet, which is intended to replace the CIS' ageing fleet ...
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Fokker Aviation bolsters Asian sales support
Fokker Aviation is to take over LAB Asia Pacific's airframe-maintenance site in Singapore, in an effort to bolster flagging after-sales support for airlines in the region which are continuing to operate Fokker aircraft. The Dutch company has reached an accord with LAB to take over the running of ...
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Low-cost weather observation unit gets precipitation sensor
US instruments company AAI/Systems Management is offering the option of a precipitation identification sensor on its Next Generation Weather Observing System (NEXWOS) - a low-cost meterological device designed for smaller airfields. The sensor identifies rain, snow, haze, smoke and drizzle. The standard version of the ground-based automatic weather-observation ...
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Dutch investigate infra-red signature of NH90
The Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) has carried out windtunnel testing of a model of the NH Industries NH90 helicopter, aimed at evaluating the aircraft's infra-red signature during a range of flight conditions. The tests provided data on engine air-intake characteristics and exhaust- gas recirculation, while simulating the aircraft in ...
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Air-force fighter competition heats up as bidders jostle
International competition to win a pending Philippine air force order for 18 fighter aircraft is intensifying, with the number of potential contenders and proposals continuing to lengthen. The air force has been given a range of industry briefings and presentations on at least nine different European, Israeli, Russian ...
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Navy pushes for ASuW helicopter
The Philippines is expected to give priority to the acquisition of new naval helicopters over competing claims for funding from the air force for replacement search-and-research (SAR) and heavylift machines. Increased concern over Chinese encroachment of the South China Sea Spratly Islands and the need to enforce the ...
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Companies gear up to renew air-surveillance radar-system tenders
Competing US and European radar manufacturers are dusting off 13-month-old tenders submitted to the Philippines for six air-surveillance systems, in anticipation of a renewed round of bidding. The Philippine air force is expected to ask companies to revalidate their proposals and submit revised pricing. The original six tenderers ...
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NASA again curbs funding request-
NASA has kept its budget request for 1998 down to $13.5 billion as it continues to seek lower, but more stable, funding over the next five years. The space agency, which has agreed this approach with the White House, has asked for a $13.7 billion budget this year ...
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Lockheed Martin receives Milstar 2 payload
Lockheed Martin has received the first medium-data-rate (MDR) payload from Hughes for the next series of upgraded Milstar military-communications satellites. These are scheduled to begin launches aboard Titan 4/Centaur boosters in 1999. The Block 2 spacecraft will have enhanced communications capabilities for all the US military services, including ...
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Diamonds are forever
Hughes Space and Communications has won $2.6 million from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to study the use of commercial-grade diamonds to extend the lifetime of high-power transponders on communications satellites. Man-made diamonds would also allow transponders to be used at higher power. Source: Flight International
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-while Russia pledges fresh cash for the ISS
Better news has emerged for Russia's space industry, with the Russian Government pledging an immediate $100 million to pay overdue funds to the International Space Station (ISS) project, and the Khrunichev space-manufacturing concern securing a $36 million loan to support its Proton booster production work. The new cash ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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Tracor wins Y-barrel
Tracor Flight Systems of Austin, Texas, has been awarded a ten-year, $27 million contract to manufacture over 400 "y-barrel" assemblies for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. The y-barrel assembly forms the lower fuselage between the aircraft's wings, and it also houses the main landing gear, fuel and hydraulic and electrical lines. ...
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Full system testing is necessary
Sir - I read the letter from Jack Karran about the Lima Boeing 757 accident (Flight International, 5-11 February, P41). It should be noted that his suggestion that there should be the ability to test pitot/static "air-pressure sensors" would be adequate only if it were to be a ...
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Russian Aerospace '97
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com Source: Flight International
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Aer Lingus
Frank Doyle has been appointed director of ground services in the UK for Irish national carrier Aer Lingus. He will have responsibility for airport operations and the airline's third-party handling business at the UK's London Heathrow and Manchester Airports. Doyle, formerly general manager for cargo, will be based at the ...
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SITA: Dedicated to communicating
From the start, airlines could not be efficient without good contactability. The need for better company communications, over developing long routes, gave birth in 1949 to SITA (once known as the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques) - a non-profit-making co-operative, among major airlines - to provide self-managed communications. It has ...
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Aeronet: Development of a network
SITA's AeroNet is a centrally managed data network capable of handling and routeing high volumes of complex - and often commercially sensitive - digital data streams from sophisticated applications. It might be compared with the newest databus in civil aircraft - where a point-to-point bus system, such as the Arinc ...