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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 ...
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Beech T-1 Jayhawk
The T-1 is a military training version of the Beechcraft 400A, itself derived from the Mitsubishi Diamond II. Source: Flight International
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Hawker 800
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force has taken delivery of its first U-125A search-and-rescue aircraft, based on the Hawker 800 business jet, and plans to procure 27. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force already operates four U-125 flight-inspection aircraft. The USAF operates six similarly equipped Hawker 800s, designated C-29As. ...
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Beech JPATS
Beech won the USAF/USN Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition in 1995 with this development of the Pilatus PC-9. JPATS plans call for production of 712 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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AAR refinishes
AAR is to refinish the exteriors of between 70 and 100 American Eagle Aero International (Regional) ATR 42s and Saab 340s at its Oklahoma City maintenance centre over 24-36 months, beginning in late October. AAR will also overhaul landing gear and flap-carriage assemblies, of 12 Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747 ...
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Portuguese F-16s
The US Department of Defense intends to provide Portugal with 25 surplus US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, plus spare engines, overhaul work and spare parts, worth an estimated $258 million. Source: Flight International
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Heron tests
The Israeli defence forces are to begin testing long-endurance, high-altitude, unmanned air vehicles for missions, which are now carried out by crewed aircraft. The tests will involve the Israel Aircraft Industries Malat Heron being operated with payloads such as surveillance radars, long-range oblique cameras and electronic-warfare packages. The Heron is ...