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Pathfinder/Sojourner Launch: 2 December, Cape Canaveral, Delta
The Mars Pathfinder is the second mission in the Discovery Programme, a NASA initiative for planetary missions, developed in three years for $150 million. The mission is regarded by NASA as an engineering demonstration of key technologies for future Mars landers. The Pathfinder will be used to investigate ...
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Four-seat Katana plan
Diamond Aircraft hopes to fly a four-seat derivative of its popular Katana DA20 "within 36 months", says the Canadian-based company. A second line is already being built to meet demand at the London, Ontario factory. The company says that it has around 280 orders, and production for the rest of ...
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Smiths' work on Beech MkII
Sir - Peter Henley gives a very positive view of the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System-winning Raytheon Beech MkII trainer in his flight test (Flight International, 2-8 October, P30). Our only regret is that Smiths Industries' contribution is not mentioned - the programme will provide us with $100 ...
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The exiles return
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australia, which exported several hundred pilots, mainly to Asia and the Middle East following their mass resignation during the 1989 pilot's dispute, is again facing an upheaval. Qantas pilots are becoming increasingly restless over perceived inequities in pay and conditions between short-haul (ex-Australian ...
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ANA buys Wicat A320
All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan has become the latest carrier to purchase an Airbus Industrie A320 flight-management and guidance system (FMGS) "free-play" trainer from Wicat Systems. The ANA trainer consists of a cockpit replica with simulated primary-flight and navigation displays, multi-function control/ display unit, flight-control unit, thrust ...
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FAA warned over PC training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US Federal Aviation Administration has been urged to delay an advisory circular permitting use of personal computers (PCs) for flight training, after research questioned the extent to which learning by computer transfers to the cockpit. The FAA plans to grant credit for up ...
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SAS and JAL pick CAE simulators
Scandinavian airline System (SAS) has ordered two full-flight simulators from Canadian manufacturer CAE Electronics, which has also gained other new business from Japan Airlines (JAL) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). CAE will deliver a Boeing 737-700 simulator, convertible to -600 and -800 configurations, to the SAS ...
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Thomson advances low-cost imagery
Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) is building the first flight-simulator visual system to provide calligraphic image-generation capability using a commercial graphics-workstation. The simulator will be delivered to Aerospatiale in 1997 for use in aircraft development. The system has a Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine2 low-cost image-generator, running TTS' Space ...
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More meteosats
The European Space Agency (ESA) will purchase two further Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites from Aerospatiale on behalf of Eumetsat, the European meteorological satellite organisation, it was announced on 16 October (Flight International, 25 September-1 October). The MSG 1 will be launched in 2000 and MSGs 2 and 3 in ...
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China takes Russian cosmonaut training
A group of Chinese doctors is to attend the Russian cosmonaut training centre in 1997 as part of a $1 million contract to take the first step towards a manned Chinese space flight. The doctors will be trained as cosmonauts to study Russian methods of selecting and training ...
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Powerful Proton M will enter commercial launch market
Tim Furniss/LONDON ILS International Launch Services will offer the up-rated Russian Proton M booster for commercial launches to geostationary orbit (GEO) in 1999. With a 50% increase in payload capability, the rocket will be the most powerful on the commercial market. The Proton M, which ...
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Rockwell wins USAF deal
Rockwell International, teamed with Lockheed Martin, has won a $179 million contract to build the first satellite in the proposed US Air Force space-based infra-red system (SBIRS), to upgrade US missile early-warning capabilities. The experimental low-Earth-orbit-based (LEO) satellite will be used to demonstrate space-based and ground technologies. ...
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US NTSB hearing on ValuJet DC-9 crash
The 11 May crash of the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 into the Florida Everglades will be the subject of a US National Transportation Safety Board five-day public hearing, scheduled to begin on 18 November in Miami. The DC-9 was operating a flight from Miami to Atlanta, and crashed ...
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Teaching practice
The British Aerospace flight-training centre at Prestwick is changing direction. Harry Hopkins/Prestwick A change of name, often reflects a change in direction, which is why the British Aerospace Flying College at Prestwick in Scotland, has been renamed BAe Flight Training. It is part of the company's new ...
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Feel free
The end-of-term report on air-transport liberalisation, for the period 1993-6 from the European transport commissioner Neil Kinnock is full of praise for, and pride in, achievements and future plans. Liberalisation, it says, has worked well, with few major upsets, but, to be completed successfully, needs a little more effort in ...
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Litton
Donald Lepore has been elected, a corporate senior vice-president of advanced electronic, defence and information systems company Litton, of Woodland Hills, California. He joined Litton's Airtron division in 1959. James Benham has been promoted to president of the Electron Devices division, of San Carlos, California. Benham, who succeeds John Middaugh, ...
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Three spacecraft will soon be launched
Three spacecraft will soon be launched to Mars to continue exploration ofthe "red"planet Tim Furniss/London The "life on Mars" hysteria which swept the world's media in August has added a touch of spice to the launch of three new missions to the Red Planet in November and December ...
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Northrop Grumman aids Russian ATC
Northrop Grumman has participated in a Russian air-traffic-control (ATC) demonstration in which remote radar data were digitised and transmitted via satellite to the Vladivostok area control-centre. The October feasibility demonstration was conducted by Primoraerocontrol, the ATC organisation for the Primorski Krai region, in conjunction with Japanese authorities and ...
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CAE Electronics prepares to equip India's FANS centre
CAE Electronics is preparing to deliver a future air-navigation system (FANS) workstation to India, for installation in the Calcutta air-traffic-control centre. The workstation will enable India to offer fuel-saving routes over the Bay of Bengal to airlines operating Boeing 747-400s with FANS-1 avionics. The workstation is similar to ...
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Key free-flight tool evaluated
Evaluation of a conflict probe which, promises to be a key element of the future US "free-flight" air-traffic-management system is under way at Indianapolis. The prototype conflict probe, named the user-requirement evaluation tool (URET), has been developed for the US Federal Aviation Administration by Mitre's Center for Advanced Aviation System ...