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NASA plans a fifth Discovery mission
NASA has invited proposals for a fifth mission in the Discovery programme aimed at producing "smaller, faster, better, cheaper" spacecraft. The mission will be launched in September 2002 and must cost less than $226 million to build and fly. The planetary-class mission will follow the Near Earth Asteroid ...
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ILS will continue with syntin fuel for Proton
The high-performance Russian hydrocarbon-based propellant, syntin, will continue to be used on the Block D fourth stage of the ILS International Launch Services Proton booster for all currently contracted launches, despite no longer being used on the Soyuz U2 booster, to save costs. The Soyuz U2 will continue ...
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FBO industry reshapes
From the USA to the UK, fixed-base operators have been changing hands as industry consolidation continues. In August, Mercury Air Group completed the acquisition of five FBOs from Raytheon Aircraft Services for $8.25 million. The sites involved are at Ontario International Airport in California; Georgia's Hartsfield International and Peachtree-DeKalb Airports ...
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RSAF will upgrade KC-135 tankers' cockpit avionics
THE REPUBLIC of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is planning a follow-on cockpit avionics upgrade for four Boeing KC-135A tanker aircraft being purchased from the US Air Force. Singapore wants to retrofit the four tankers with new two-man avionics suites eventually, similar to those in the USAF's KC-135 Pacer ...
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Brunei chooses TI radar for CN-235
BRUNEI HAS selected the Texas Instruments (TI) APS-134 surveillance radar for its IPTN CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), according to sources close to the programme. TI competed with GEC-Marconi, offering the Seaspray 4000, and Thomson-CSF, pushing the Ocean MAster 100. Brunei selected ARGOSystem as integrator for the programme. ...
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BAe Airbus tests A3XX foreplane concept
BRITISH AEROSPACE(BAe) Airbus is carrying out preliminary windtunnel tests of an A3XX configuration which has foreplanes on the upper-forward fuselage, at its Bristol Filton, UK, site. The foreplanes are designed to reduce cruise drag, by off-loading aerodynamic forces on the aircraft's horizontal stabiliser. Their overall span is roughly ...
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City Bird is ready to take flight
CITY BIRD, the new long-haul holiday airline launched by former EBA boss Victor Hasson, will begin operations between Belgium and the USA next March with two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. Hasson's City Hotels group holds a 62.5% stake, with the rest being taken up by private investors who were ...
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Firm evidencr on cause of TWA 800 explosion is elusive
WITH NEARLY 80% of the Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100 now recovered from the sea off Long Island, New York, there is still no evidence of bomb or missile damage. At the same time, there has been further study into the centre fuel-tank explosion and whether it caused the 17 ...
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Silk Air considers fleet replacement options
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SILKAIR OF SINGAPORE is drawing up plans to re-equip its fleet with a new range of larger and longer range 150-seat and 100-seat aircraft over the next five years. The carrier says that its existing fleet of five 118-seat Boeing 737-300s needs to be ...
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US low-fare carriers launch services
The new Pan American World Airways began operation on 26 September, and is to be followed into the air on 1 October by Delta Air Lines' new Delta Express low-cost operation. Rival ValuJet Airlines won US Department of Transportation (DoT) approval to resume flying on 30 September. Initially, ...
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South African Airways challenge to BA/Comair franchise falters
SOUTH AFRICAN Airways' (SAA) challenge to the BA/ Comair franchise agreement which was signed in June and scheduled to come into effect in October, looks as if it is set to fail. Jappi Schmitt, Commissioner for Civil Aviation at the Transport Ministry in Pretoria, says: "We have been ...
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Green light shows up for second Malaysian carrier
Green light shows up for second Malaysian carrier THE MALAYSIAN Government has finally given the go- ahead for the launch of the country's second national carrier in November, some two years after Malaysia Airlines (MAS) first blocked its start-up. The new airline is being set up ...
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Options for change
Alaska Airlines' order for 12 Boeing 737-400s, plus 12 options (Flight International, 25 September - 1 October) includes the right to switch the options for the new 737-800. The airline will take delivery of the firmly ordered 737s over three years from mid-1997. The 140-seaters will replace some of the ...
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Centralised ATM is on the cards for UK
David Learmount/LONDON THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority is expected to decide by the end of the year whether to proceed with plans to build the Prestwick-based Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (SCATCC). A review of the UK's two-centre air-traffic-management (ATM) policy by the CAA could result in the ...
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DC-3 crash
All six crew and 26 passengers on board a Dutch Dakota Association Douglas DC-3 (PH-DDA) were killed when the aircraft crashed into the Wadden Sea just north of the Netherlands. The aircraft was on the return leg of a 25 September pleasure flight from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Texel Island ...
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Star expands
Star Europe, the French charter airline, is planning to acquire later this year a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 to operate on long-haul charters to the French Caribbean. The airline, which was acquired by the Canadian tour firm Transat Group earlier this year, is also returning some of its leased Boeing 737s ...
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DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator
DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator THE UK DEFENCE Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) is reconfiguring its helicopter mission simulator to accurately represent the McDonnell Douglas/Westland WAH-64 Longbow Apache. The DERA says that the capability will enable it to investigate "system trade-off issues" and advise the ...
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Humidifier takes the heat out of long haul operations
AN ADVANCED humidifier system has been successfully flight-tested on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 during long-haul operations, and systems are now being fitted to Boeing 767s and Airbus A340s, as well as several large business jets. The Humispace humidifier, developed jointly by French-based Le Bozec Filtration and Systems and ...
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Boeing upgrades transonic tunnel
BOEING IS refurbishing its 52-year-old transonic windtunnel as part of efforts to reduce development times for new models. The upgrade comes as Boeing's product-development work approaches recently unprecedented levels. At the core of the windtunnel upgrade is a new drive system made by French manufacturer Cegelec. It includes ...
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Derco stocks up
Parts-distributor Derco Aerospace is to stock and market exclusively filtration equipment produced by PTI Technologies for a range of US military aircraft. Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Derco will also distribute bais-ply military-aircraft tyres produced by Michelin Aircraft Tire, and Intertechnique fuel-circulation equipment for a range of airliners. Source: ...