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Derco Aerospace becomes virtual-propeller warehouse for the Pentagon
DERCO AEROSPACE is to provide "just-in-time" delivery of propeller parts to the US services. As the major subcontractor to Hamilton Standard on a "virtual prime-vendor" (VPV) contract awarded by the US Department of Defense under its Lean Logistics initiative the company will introduce commercial practices to military procurement. ...
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New UK helicopter school opts for Frasca
Frasca International is to supply cockpit-procedures trainers (CPTs) for the UK Defence Helicopter Flying School, which is being set up to take over all military helicopter training in the UK. The US manufacturer, based in Urbana, Illinois, will supply three CPTs - two for use in single-engine training ...
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US schools fear GPS shortfall
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US flight-training industry fears that a problem may be emerging because students trained on older aircraft, which have no satellite-navigation equipment, are unfamiliar with the global-positioning system (GPS). The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA), representing flight schools, has appealed for information ...
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IVEX bases new visual on Infinite Reality image-generator
IVEX, of Georgia, is developing a commercial flight-simulator visual system based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) latest Infinite Reality image-generator. The new Aero-Reality visual is intended for use on Level D flight simulators and is to be available for delivery within six to nine months. The company is using ...
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Techniflite mobile flight simulator awaits FAA approval
TechniFlite has completed its first mobile flight-simulator and awaits US Federal Aviation Administration certification of the truck-mounted device before taking it on the road to provide training for regional airlines. The initial Mobile Training Facility (MTF) represents the Raytheon Beech 1900D. TechniFlite says that regional airlines have signed ...
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ILS boosts Atlas 2AR
ILS International Launch Services says that its planned Atlas 2AR booster, equipped with a Russian/Pratt & Whitney RD-180 engine, will be able to place 4,000kg into geostationary transfer orbit, an increase over its originally advertised 3,820kg. Source: Flight International
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International Space Station faces service-module crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON The International Space Station (ISS) Service Module being built by Russia is eight months behind schedule, meaning a delay in the launch of the first ISS crew until early 1999, NASA has confirmed (Flight International, 27 November-3 December). Russian Government funding for the project has ...
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Bion 11 monkey flight is postponed
The launch of the Russian-NASA-international Bion 11 recoverable satellite, with two macaque monkeys aboard, has been postponed from 10 December to about 24-25 December by technical problems and launch pressures at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, indicating that new military launches are expected. The Bion 11 mission - the sixth ...
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Virtually commercial
Military simulators are benefiting from the fast pace of commercial computer development. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INTHELAND of illusion, designed by Disney's imagineers, the simulation industry gathered in early December to dazzle its customers with the realism of the virtual worlds it can now create. While the packed ...
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Loss of power
The world, it seems, is awash with new airliner projects. The manufacturers may be able to afford to launch some of these aircraft and, in some cases, the airlines will be able to afford to buy and operate them - but will the engine makers be able to afford to ...
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Sundstrand will take Labinal's share of Auxiliary Power
Sundstrand is to buy out Labinal's interest in Auxiliary Power International (APIC), formed by the two companies as a joint venture in 1989 to design, manufacture, market and support commercial-aircraft auxiliary power units (APUs). Many of the details have yet to be released, but it is believed that ...
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Starsem contract signed
Space Systems/Loral, has signed a contract with Starsem, for three firm launches of each of four Globalstar mobile-communications satellites, plus eight optional launches, starting in 1998 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Flight International, 23-29 October). The Soyuz - seen here with an escape tower in its manned Soyuz TM launch configuration ...
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Japan Air System takes its first Boeing 777
Japan Air System (JAS) took delivery of its first Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered Boeing 777-200 on 4 December, from an order for seven aircraft. The JAS 777s, which are the first to be painted in the airline's new scheme, will also be the first operated on the Japanese domestic network ...
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Avro delivers 300th RJ/146
Avro has delivered the 300th RJ/BAe 146 airframe, with the handing over of the second of three RJ85s for Azzurra Air of Italy. Meanwhile, Avro is understood to be in negotiations with Uzbekistan Airways on an order for three RJ85s, with deliveries scheduled for 1997. Total orders for the RJ ...
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Blended winglets
Aviation Partners says that 50 Gulfstream IIs will have been fitted with its blended winglets by the first quarter of 1997, and the Seattle-based company is aiming to equip the remaining 150 GIIs by the year 2000. The modification increases range by 7%. ...
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Boeing completions
Boeing Business Jets has selected Jet Aviation, of Basle, Switzerland, and K-C Aviation, of Dallas, Texas, as completion centres for its corporate 737. The Boeing/General Electric joint venture has so far sold three aircraft, two to GE and one to an outside buyer. Source: Flight International