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Higher orbit
The US company CTA Space Systems, of McLean, Virginia, is making its first venture into the lightweight geostationary orbit (GEO) communications satellite market. It is building the Indostar 1 satellite for PT Mediacitra of Indonesia. This first direct broadcast satellite (DBS) dedicated to television transmissions for a single ...
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Flexible flying
For aspiring pilots who mortgage their careers until middle-age to earn a full airline pilot's licence, airline sponsorship is the ultimate dream. Yet, would-be pilots know that such offers are few, and the schemes, reacting to market behaviour, have been sporadic. When sponsors do announce a course, many are called, ...
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UK Met Office offers tailored research
Tailored weather research could offer airlines big cost savings and ease air-traffic-management (ATM) planning tasks for agencies such as Eurocontrol, according to the UK Meteorological Office. The Bracknell, UK-based weather centre is about to offer contract services to organisations which it believes could benefit from the availability of targeted weather ...
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FBS simulator
FBS has ordered a Bell 412 full-flight simulator from FlightSafety Simulation of the USA. FBS is a joint-venture between FR Aviation, Bristow Helicopters and Serco Defence of the UK. Source: Flight International
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New evidence reveals fire on doomed Challenger's booster
New evidence that part of the right-hand solid- rocket booster (SRB) of the Space Shuttle STS 51L/Challenger was breached and caught fire at lift-off on 28 January, 1986, has been revealed by controversial aerospace engineer Ali AbuTaha. Seven crew were lost when the Shuttle broke apart at T+73s, in what ...
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Secondary implications
Sir - You wrote in the Airline Safety Review for 1996 (Flight International, 15-21 January, P31) that "-the year provided its ironies" - none more so, I feel, than the contribution of secondary radar to the Lima Boeing 757 fatal accident. I understand that, following a request for position and ...
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Found begins Bush Hawk tests
FOUNDAIRCRAFT Canada's plans to resurrect production of the FBA-2C light utility aircraft have progressed with the flight-testing of a rebuilt example. The Gravenhurst, Ontario-based company is flying the aircraft to collect the information required for re-instatement of the FBA-2C type certificate and the data needed for development of the improved ...
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Eastern Promise
ONE OF THE MOST important promises of the so-called "peace dividend" for Western aircraft manufacturers was to be their ability to sell their products to the old Warsaw Pact countries in Eastern Europe. In fact, one of their greatest burdens may turn out to be the need to purchase most ...
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Emery
Christian Ranchon has been appointed sales manager, France, at international services company Emery Worldwide, of Redwood City, California. He was formerly station director at MSAS Cargo International. Thomas Pattillo has become director for customer satisfaction and quality at Redwood City and Robert Buhl has become director for business development, ...
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El Al chief eyes turnaround
Joel Feldschuh's experience as a fighter pilot in the Israeli air force and head of its intelligence should prove useful in his new job as the president of El Al, the Israeli national airline. He is aware, however, that these skills alone will not be enough to improve ...
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Beijing insider takes control at Air Macau
China National Aviation (CNAC) has moved to consolidate its control of Air Macau by appointing a key Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official to the position of chief executive at the airline. The appointment of Li Keli, formerly CAAC deputy director of international affairs, was initially made ...
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737 first flight
The first next-generation 737-700 has undergone initial engine runs in readiness for a maiden flight expected by 10 February. Deliveries to launch customer Southwest Airlines are due to begin in October, pending successful certification. Total orders for all three next-generation models now stand at 517. Source: Flight International
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Enterprising Boeing
Boeing has appointed international affairs senior vice- president Lawrence Clarkson to head its new Enterprises Unit, created to handle the company's growing non-traditional businesses. Boeing will initially use the unit to manage the Boeing Business Jets venture. "That's the best example of the type of enterprise we will pursue," says ...
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US airline safety ratings to hit Internet
Safety data on US air carriers are to be put on the Internet by the Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to make them more accessible to the travelling public. The agency says it will not, however, rank airlines according to their accident records, although information on accidents and some ...
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BA re-organisation
British Airways has confirmed that talks are under way to establish a single holding company for the two French airlines in which it has a stake, Air Liberté and TAT. In early January, the UK carrier was given the go-ahead for its take-over of bankrupt Air Liberté, in partnership with ...
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VASP eyes up Argentinas
Acquisitive Brazilian airline VASP is understood to have made an approach to take a controlling stake in Aerolineas Argentinas. Iberia, which still has an interest in the Argentinian carrier, and which would still need to give its approval for any deal, says that no concrete offer for the airline has ...
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Czech Government confronted by pressure to relieve air industry
The Czech Republic is facing mounting pressure to resolve chronic funding problems for its air force and aerospace industry following the publication of an open letter to President Vaclav Havel from several hundred Czech air force personnel claiming that the service is disintegrating because of a lack of spares and ...
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Boeing expected to agree late change to new 737 flightdeck
Boeing is close to agreeing to airline requests that it replace electro-mechanical standby instruments on the 737-600/ 700/800 flightdeck, with a single, solid-state, liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit. A final decision is expected when the manufacturer can ascertain whether enough of the units can be supplied to meet planned next-generation ...
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European consortium presents noise findings
A recently completed European research project has enabled engineers to understand the way in which so-called "buzz-saw" noise is generated and propagates along the nacelle of a jet engine, according to Rolls-Royce, one of the participants in the "Fanpac" research programme. Buzz-saw noise is caused by shock waves ...
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British Midland lobbies EC for European slots at Heathrow
British Midland (BM) has entered the fray over the British Airways/American Airlines alliance, arguing that slots should be made available for its European feeder services rather than exclusively for new transatlantic operations. Chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the move follows the recent intervention of European competition commissioner ...