All news – Page 7205
-
News
The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
-
News
Columbia returns with new record
The Space Shuttle Columbia's extended STS80 mission was completed with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 December. The mission duration of 17 days 15h was a new Shuttle record. The prime objectives of the mission were completed successfully. These were to deploy and retrieve ...
-
News
New launchers
Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Alliant TechSystems have been awarded initial $30 million contracts to design versions of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) to replace the Delta, Titan and Atlas. The first of a single family of EELVs may fly in 2000. 31 Navstar GPS Block 2F satellites ...
-
News
Launcher proposals
EUROPE Aerospatiale, SEP and BPD of France and Italy are discussing the development of the Ariane Complementary Launcher (ACL). The company-funded ACL would place 1,000kg into 800km LEO. ITALY Vega. Italy's proposed solid-propellant satellite launcher, formerly the San Marco Scout. It comprises two Zefiro ...
-
News
800 XP APU
Raytheon Aircraft is to install AlliedSignal's 36-150 auxiliary power-unit (APU) as standard on the Hawker 800XP mid-sized business jet, beginning in 1997. The 35-150Wis certificated for in-flight operation. Source: Flight International
-
News
Corporate crash
Four Australians, including two senior executives from one of Papua New Guinea's most prominent companies, were killed on 9 December when their corporate Piper Navajo crashed and burned while approaching Papua New Guinea's Porgera gold mine. One passenger survived with severe burns. Source: Flight International
-
News
Saudi Arabian centre
Saudi Arabian Airlines has consolidated most of its flight training at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida. Saudia, which says that its need for pilots, will double with the acquisition of 61 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft, is sending each student to Embry-Riddle for 12 months, to receive 320h flight ...
-
News
The definition of 'insurgency'
Sir - According to Hornby's Oxford Student's Dictionary of Current English, the word "insurgent" means either the adjective "rebellious", or the noun "rebel soldier". While this definition fits perfectly well the Tadjikistan anti-Government forces, I fail to correlate the inclusion of the word "Muslim" in the Alexander Velovich ...
-
News
Garuda sells
Garuda is planning to dispose of five McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s and six MD-11s, as part of its fleet-rationalisation plan. Source: Flight International
-
News
Screw loose
A loose 6mm screw caused the jamming of the outer-airlock door of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS80 mission, leading to cancellation of two space-walks scheduled to practise International Space Station assembly procedures. The screw was found embedded in the door's gearbox. ...
-
News
MMS contract
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been awarded a contract from international satellite-communications organisation Intelsat to supply the Intelsat K-TV satellite, which will operate over the Asia-Pacific in 1998. Source: Flight International
-
News
Zero-time 2000
Crossair has received approval to carry out zero-flight-time pilot-conversion training using its Flight Safety International Saab 2000 simulator. The first pilot conversion is scheduled to be completed, at the end of January. Source: Flight International
-
News
Simcoms's Beech unit
Simcom International has installed a Beech Baron simulator at its Scottsdale, Arizona, training centre along- side Beech King Air and Cessna 300/400 simulators. Source: Flight International
-
News
Citation X gets level C
Flight Safety International's (FSI) first Cessna Citation X simulator has received Level C certification at its Wichita, Kansas, training centre. A new Level D Canadair Challenger 601-3A simulator will be delivered to FSI's Tucson, Arizona, centre this month. Source: Flight International
-
News
Colleges go for wings
Singapore Flying College, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines and Simuflight, a training organisation in Auckland, New Zealand have both bought, Wicat's Wings computer-based ab initio flight training courseware. Source: Flight International
-
News
B-52/B-1 training
McDonnell Douglas has won a five-year, $15.5 million, USAir Force contract to support Boeing B-52H and Rockwell B-1B aircrew training, providing instructors and developing courseware. Source: Flight International
-
News
Common ground
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems are to supply reconnaissance and intelligence ground stations to the US Department of Defense under contracts, which include potential future squadron and unmanned-air-vehicle ground stations. Source: Flight International
-
News
PFP briefed on DGPS
The US Government has briefed the nine Partnership for Peace (PFP) nations, on its proposals for a standard landing system, to be adopted by NATO by the end of 1997, to replace precision-approach radar by 2010. Source: Flight International
-
News
Taiwanese avenger
The US Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $63 million contract to supply 74 vehicle-mounted Avenger fire units to Taiwan. The Foreign Military Sale also includes Raytheon Stinger surface-to-air missiles to be used with the Avenger system. Source: Flight International