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BAe and Dassault open door to joint venture
Dassault Aviation confirms that it is "moving closer every day" to British Aerospace on joint development of combat aircraft. There is no hint of a merger, but the two are understood to have "opened the door" to a joint venture, building on a memorandum of understanding signed in 1996. ...
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EC will inspect Delta's new Boeing sole-supplier deal
Delta Air Lines has signed a definitive 20-year, 644-aircraft, sole-supplier contract with Boeing, but says that the manufacturer cannot enforce any exclusivity provisions unless permitted by the European Commission(EC). The EC has said that it will examine the contract, which Boeing maintains meets the terms imposed as a ...
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NATS moves to limit 'brain drain' to Eurocontrol
UKair-traffic controllers are seeking to take legal action against moves by their employer, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to head off a potentially crippling drain of staff by preventing its employees getting new jobs at Eurocontrol. Eurocontrol advertised for controllers throughout Europe early this year and received up ...
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737 awaits test
Boeing says that the European Joint Aviation Authorities has not yet defined the nature of the final certification tests for its newly designed overwing exits for the Next Generation 737 series. The JAA has approved the new design under the "equivalent-safety finding" principle, but has demanded tests before final certification. ...
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Defence review hints at helicopter group
The UK Ministry of Defence is considering the creation of a joint British Army and Royal Air Force helicopter group under the Government's Strategic Defence Review (SDR). Senior industry sources say that, as part of the SDR, officials are mooting the setting up of a two-service helicopter-support group ...
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Data Sciences closes on airline order after RAF FEST success
Ian Sheppard/Cranwell Data Sciences is close to securing the first airline customer for its low-cost full-motion Flight Engineering Systems Trainer (FEST), following the launch of the personal-computer-based simulator with the Royal Air Force. FESTproject manager Neil Baker says that "detailed discussions" are being held with a ...
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Orbital surgery
NASA is sponsoring a new US national computation centre at Stanford University, California, which will focus on the use of three-dimensional virtual reality in coping with medical emergencies in space. NASA's Ames Research Center will provide $500,000 a year for five years. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon joins first Premier I
Raytheon is moving ahead with assembly of its first Premier I light business-jet, which has hit delays caused by significant design changes, such as an increased wing chord. Major structural assemblies are being fitted into the first forward and aft fuselage sections, which have been produced with a novel fibre-placement ...
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Rada places Smart Cats in Los Angeles
Israeli test-equipment company Rada is expanding its network of testing sites, with a second US centre, at Los Angeles International Airport, to be established in co-operation with Hong Kong company New Reef. The first US testing station at Miami is now operational, and the two centres will together ...
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FedEx leads orders for rigid cargo bulkhead
FedEx is to replace the nylon nets used in its fleet of older widebody aircraft to protect crew from the hazards of loose cargo pallets, with a new rigid cargo bulkhead from US structures specialist Tolo. The barrier is based on Tolo's patented Grid-Lock technology and is formed ...
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War in the financial dimension
The Royal Air Force faces one of its biggest battles as the UK Government finalises another defence review Douglas Barrie/LONDON What do politicians do when they finish one defence review? They start another one. The UK's armed forces are now bracing themselves for the outcome of what is ...
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Dubai show exhibitor list
CompanyStand No/Chalet No Abu Dhabi National Oil for DistributionOe/C09 Adams Rite Sabre InternationalB180 AdcomB790 Adpr Consult (M) Sdn BhdB298 Advanced ElectronicsA880 Aer Rianta InternationalB400 AerazurA810 Aerospace Industries Ass Of AmericaB06 Aero Parts And Services InternationalA300 Aero TradeC120 Aerolux B610 Aeromaritime Mediterranean C125 AerospatialeA820/A26 Aerotech World Trade B180 Aero Vodochody A765 ...
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DUBAI 97 AIRCRAFT - Expected
Airbus A330-200 or A340-300 AMF Super Mushshak Trainer Antonov An-74TK convertible transporter Boeing C-17 Boeing F-15 Boeing F/A-18C Boeing 777-300 Boeing AH-64D Longbow Apache Boeing MD600 Boeing MD900 Boeing CH-47 Chinook Bombardier Global Express British Aerospace Hawk 100 British Aerospace Hawk 200 (FSM) British Aerospace Hawks TMK1/1A x 9 ...
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Originally published in Flight International,...
Originally published in Flight International, 27 February, 1982 Originally published in Flight International, 25-31 May, 1994 Originally published in Flight International, 5-11 June, 1991 Overleaf: original A300B1 cutaway drawing published in Flight International, 6 April, 1972 Full-size copies of cutaway drawings on this page and elsewhere in this supplement are ...
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China's Long March 3B launches the ApStar 2R
Tim Furniss/LONDON China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) again launched a Long March 3B booster on 17 October, marking the second successful launch in less than two months and helping to restore confidence after the failure of the first LM3B in February 1996. The booster carried Hong ...
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Panel trouble hits Global Surveyor
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter may be restricted in its $250 million mapping mission of the red planet by a problem on one of the spacecraft's twin solar panels, which were to be used to control the orbit. The MGS was demonstrating the ...
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Russian cash
Money allocated to the Russian space programme in 1998 is "so inadequate" that it could discontinue space activities. The cash is "not enough" to honour Russia's commitment to the International Space Station claims Vladimir Gusev, chairman of the Russian parliamentary industry and transport committee. The allocations are 60% less than ...
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Cosmonauts reconnect cables from Mir solar panels
Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradev made a second foray into the damaged, unpressurised, Spektr module of the Mir space station on 20 October. The crew connected cables from two of the three undamaged solar panels to the space station's central control unit. The connection of the ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus history
When the seeds which were to spawn today's Airbus Industrie were first being sown in the mid-1960s, the term "air bus" was a generic expression adopted by the industry to describe a short- to medium-range airliner proposed to meet increasing demand on busy European air routes such as London to ...
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Airbus supplement: A319 flighttest
Peter Henley/HAMBURG The 124-seat A319 is the smallest of the Airbus Industrie family of airliners, featuring the same basic flightdeck and similar handling characteristics to all the other Airbus fly-by-wire (FBW)aircraft. A "shrink" derivative of the 150-seat A320, the A319 is offered with the same engines ...