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TAG wins Farnborough lease
Techniques d'Avant-Garde (TAG) Group to is to convert the UK's Farnborough Aerodrome into a dedicated business-aviation airport following the decision by the UK Ministry of Defence to award the Luxembourg-based holding company a 99-year lease. The aerodrome, which will continue to be the venue for the biennial Farnborough ...
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Sikorsky adds HUMS
Sikorsky has delivered the first health- and usage-monitoring system (HUMS) for the S-76C+ helicopter following certification by the Norwegian and UK authorities. The HUMS, manufactured by GEC-Marconi, was delivered to Norway's Norsk Helikopter, which operates an S-76C+ on offshore-oil services. GEC's HUMS, developed for the S-76A+ and S-76C, ...
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Alpha plans to expand PC-12 share scheme
The US operator of a Pilatus PC-12 fractional-ownership programme plans to expand the scheme to additional locations. Alpha Flying has added a third single-turboprop PC-12 to its two-year-old PlaneSense programme, which is operating in the north-east USA, and a fourth aircraft has been ordered, says Alpha Flying president George Antoniadis. ...
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Night single-engined operations ban gets closer
Night commercial operations by single-engined aircraft will be banned in all European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) member nations if the Joint Aviation Requirements (JARs) go into force as they are drafted, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The relevant JARs are not finalised, however, but are due ...
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Bel 427 for Hainan
Samsung Aerospace has signed a letter of intent to sell three new Samsung-Bell 427 eight-seat helicopters to Hainan Airlines of China. It is also negotiating similar agreements with China Ocean and China Southern's Zhuhai Helicopters for another ten. Source: Flight International
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SATIC studies A340 Beluga designs
An outsized cargo "Beluga" derivative of the Airbus A340 is being proposed by Super Airbus Transport International (SATIC) as an option for delivering A3XX subassemblies to the final assembly line. SATIC, the Aerospatiale/ Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) joint venture responsible for the design and manufacture of the original A300-600-based ...
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Arianespace orders 20 more Ariane 4s
Delays in the commercial introduction of the Ariane 5 have forced European commercial launcher company Arianespace to order a further 20 Ariane 4 launchers, in a deal worth $1.5 billion. The decision comes against a background of continued high demand for commercial launches in an increasingly competitive booster ...
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Cassini takes off on mission to Saturn
The NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was despatched successfully en route to the planet Saturn 42min after launch by a Titan 4B/Centaur from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 15 October. The spacecraft, which had been surrounded in controversy because it uses a nuclear powerplant, will reach Saturn in July 2004 ...
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Clinton veto scuttles ASAT/SR-71
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and the development of a kinetic-energy anti-satellite (KE-ASAT) kill vehicle (KKV) have fallen foul of US President Clinton, who used the "line-item veto" to scrap funding for both. The funds were cut as Clinton revised the $248 billion fiscal year 1998 defence spending bill. ...
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Finnair opens talks with BA on alliance
Finnair has opened alliance talks with British Airways to compete with the Star Alliance partners SAS and Lufthansa in Scandinavia. The Finnish carrier says that no shareholding is on the table. The talks will cover a range of options stretching from linked frequent flyer programmes and code-sharing to joint marketing ...
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Lockheed Martin resumes European airlifter campaign
US Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is redoubling its efforts to forge a transatlantic military-transport partnership in the wake of Germany's shock move in proposing the Antonov An-70 as the basis of the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) (Flight International, 15-21 October). Senior Lockheed Martin officials believe that Germany's advocacy ...
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Malaysian Adder
Malaysia has agreed a $34 million contract with MIG Mapo for Phase III upgrade of 18 Royal Malaysian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrums. The upgrade includes the installation of an air-to-air refueling probe as well as modifications to the weapons control system to allow for the use of the Vympel R-77 ...
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Bombardier joins awards sponsors
Bombardier has become the latest company to become a sponsor for the 1998 Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards scheduled to take place at Asian Aerospace 98 in Singapore. The agreement was signed at the recent National Business Aviation Association convention in Dallas by the Canadian firm's vice-president communications, Catherine Chase, ...
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US military starts Huey re-engine project
The US Army National Guard has initiated the long-awaited programme to re-engine 131 ageing Bell Helicopter UH-1 light utility helicopters with Light Helicopter Turbine Engine (LHTEC) T800 turboshafts. The initial engine certification work, which covers the installation of LHTEC CTS800-54 engines in two UH-1s, will be paid for ...
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Taiwan chooses quiet-testing 'hush house'
Industrial Acoustics is to supply two engine/aircraft test centres with noise suppressors to the Taiwan air force. The deal coincided with the acceptance of a "hush house" built by the New York-based company at the air force's Chiayi air base. A second hush house for the Hualien air base is ...
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Westland supermodel
Westland Helicopters is the first European company to install MacNeal-Schwendler's MSC/SuperModel software package for automated structural analysis, its first aerospace-specific product. Westland previously used software developed in-house. Source: Flight International
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PATS unveils lightweight rotary-engine APU for corporate jets
PATS, The US supplier of auxiliary-power-unit (APU) installation kits, has revealed a lightweight rotary-engine APU for corporate jets which the company claims will lead to significant cost savings compared with conventional turbine APUs. The "non-turbine heavy-fuel engine" is based on the Wankel engine design originally used in motor ...
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'Intelligent seat' maximises comfort for the passenger
Aerospatiale subsidiary Sogerma has revealed an "intelligent" seat for first-class passengers, which adapts automatically to body shape for maximum comfort. Maintaining a comfortable seating position for a long time can be difficult, so the Intelligent Seat provides active support, distributing pressure at the interfaces between the seat and ...
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More questions than answers
The French Government has finally put the aerospace industry out of its misery by naming a partner for Thomson-CSF, but what signals doesthe decision send out for the future of European restructuring? It was billed as the deal which would finally kick-start restructuring in the French aerospace industry, not to ...
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Chris Broad...
Chris Broad nHUNT & PALMER Chris Broad and Neill Huston have joined Hunt & Palmer's commercial division as air-charter executives. Broad was formerly with Goldcrest Aviation, while Huston was commercial planning executive with Cale-donian Airways. Darren Tilley, formerly marketing manager of hotel group Ramada, has been appointed UK sales ...