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China reveals new RPV
China has unveiled a new medium-range remotely piloted vehicle (RPV).The Xian ASN-206 is powered by a single HS-700 four-cylinder pusher engine, rated at 37kW (50hp). It has a maximum take-off weight of 222kg, a wing span of 6m and overall length of 3.8m. According to Xian ASN Technology, the RPV ...
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OSC hit by another Pegasus failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Orbital Sciences' (OSC) Pegasus XL air-launched satellite booster failed in its mission on 4 November for the third time in six flights. The vehicle's satellite payload - Argentina's first spacecraft, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-B), and NASA's High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) - failed to ...
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Russian Mars 96 probe is ready for November launch
Mars 96, Russia's contribution to an international three-craft exploration of the Red Planet, is due to be launched by a Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 16 November. It will follow the US Mars Global Surveyor, launched on 7 November, and the Mars Pathfinder, set for a 2 ...
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Bold venture
Developing the X-33 VentureStar re-usable launcher prototype will present a difficult challenge. Tim Furniss/LONDON "The VentureStar is going to revolutionise the world of space launch-it is going to open up a thrilling new frontier in space - the business frontier", says Micky Blackwell, president and chief ...
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USAir and Emirates boost Airbus
Ramon Lopez/Washington DC and Max Kingsley-Jones/London Airbus Industrie has won two significant orders, securing agreements with USAir for up to 400 single-aisle aircraft and with Emirates for as many as 23 A330-200s. Both deals were won in the face of fierce competition from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. ...
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Australia accepts AlliedSignal runway monitor
Air Services Australia has accepted the AlliedSignal Aerospace precision runway-monitor (PRM) installed at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport. Sydney is the first airport outside the USA to be equipped with the PRM, an electronically scanned, monopulse, secondary-surveillance radar which, enables simultaneous approaches to multiple parallel runways. The PRM scans ...
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Airbus upgrade
Aerospatiale maintenance and overhaul subsidiary Sogerma-Socea has signed contracts with Air France and Air France Europe covering the supply of equipment for Airbus A320s and A340s.The company is to upgrade galleys and crew rest areas for seven Air France A340s. Delivery of the first two ship sets is due in ...
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Polynesian revamp
Following financial restructuring a year ago, Polynesian Airlines has reported a net profit of $720,000 on sales of $25.8 million. The airline, which operates a Boeing 737-300 on regional routes, funded the purchase of a second de Havilland Twin Otter for inter-island routes. Source: Flight International
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US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgrade
US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgradeSource: Flight International
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GAO reports on US airline safety
New US airlines suffer higher accident rates than those of established carriers, Congressional investigators say. Start-up carriers during their first five years of operation were also shown to have higher incident- and enforcement-action rates. The US General Accounting Office says that the analysis highlights the need for better ...
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Boeing considers options for fixing 737 rudder units
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is sifting through the data from worldwide inspections of almost 2,700, 737 rudder power-control units (PCUs) and will make recommendations on possible design changes to the US Federal Aviation Administration by the end of the month. The action follows an alert service-bulletin from ...
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Boeing ups 777-200X weights
Boeing's studies of a heavyweight, very-long-range "-200X" derivative of the standard-body 777 are now focusing on an even heavier maximum take-off-weight design which has a strengthened wing, increased fuel capacity and a new wingtip design. "We're getting feedback from the airlines on these models", says 777 product development ...
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Automatic growth
Aerospatiale of France says that it expects business worth Fr500 million ($100 million) a year from its new automatic test centre, based at Toulouse and Paris. The centre brings together the company's Aircraft Business Systems division, Missiles Automatic Test Centre and Sextant Avionique automatic test activities. Source: Flight ...
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Brussels expansion
Brussels Airport has outlined a BFr14 billion ($466 million) plan to add another concourse to its recently inaugurated new terminal. A tunnel will link the new concourse to the existing area. Source: Flight International
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Langkawi direct
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has launched a new thrice-weekly direct service between Langkawi and Taipei, using an Airbus A330-300. Source: Flight International
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Engine failure
A No3 engine failure seconds after take-off was the cause of the 22 October crash of a Millon Air Boeing 707 freighter at Manta, Ecuador, says the Ecuador Civil Aviation Department. All four crew and 20 people on the ground were killed. Source: Flight ...
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Wrong figure
Sir - In my letter "Baffled at such a waste of money" (Flight International, 6-12 November, P63) you state that the "-use of an aircraft (say, at $4,500/h) would mean that 100h would cost $500 million in charter". This, of course, should have read $450,000, as I wrote originally. ...
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AirKenya
The biggest and most prominent of Kenya Airways' domestic competitors is Airkenya Aviation, formed in 1987 by the take-over of Sunbird Aviation by Air Kenya. Today, it carries some 120,000 passengers a year, two-thirds of them scheduled. Roughly one-third are charter, but "-we don't always know exactly ...
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Royal Air Maroc's plans for Israel flights founder as peace crumbles
Royal Air Maroc has postponed plans to start direct flights to Israel following the near-breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the accompanying upsurge of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, Israel and Morocco reached agreement providing for flights between the two countries, ...