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BAe's plans for STN Atlas purchase falter
THE GERMAN DEFENCE ministry has blocked an attempt by British Aerospace to form an Anglo-German consortium to buy German defence-electronics company STN Atlas. BAe was hoping to team up with Daimler-Benz Aerospace for a joint bid, until the ministry intervened, saying that it wanted the company to go ...
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ValuJet aims for 16 September restart
VALUJET AIRLINES is poised to resume flight operations the week of 16 September, initially operating seven aircraft between Atlanta and four as-yet-unnamed US cities. The airline will be able to build its fleet to 15 aircraft and extend services to 17 destinations within 45 days. The Atlanta-based airline ...
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Sound of silence
THE UK GOVERNMENT has decided that the absolute noise limits for airliners leaving London's three major airports should be reduced by up to 3dBA. This action, it says, will reduce noise for airport neighbours at little cost to the airlines - "only" 12% of departures of the heaviest-laden Boeing 747s ...
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Crazy Hawk RC-7Bs go to South Korea
TWO HEAVILY MODIFIED US Army de Havilland RC-7B airborne reconnaissance aircraft have been deployed for operations in South Korea. The aircraft have been fitted with the Crazy Hawk ARL-M (airborne-radar low-multi-function) radar system derived from the Hughes-made HiSAR high-resolution ground-mapping radar. In conjunction with California Microwave, ...
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RAAF rejection fails to halt F124/T45
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ALLIEDSIGNAL AND McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are to continue with a planned flight-test programme of the F124 turbofan in the T-45A Goshawk, despite being dropped from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) lead-in fighter competition. The decision to reject the US aircraft leaves only the ...
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Boeing scours world for engineers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESand Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING IS STEPPING up a massive worldwide recruitment drive in an effort to find engineers to cope with a record number of commercial-, space- and military-product developments. "We're hiring everybody we can get," says the company, which is searching for up ...
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Eurocopter embargo payment judgment due in October
A FRENCH Commercial Court will judge on 3 October on whether Eurocopter should pay an international arms dealer for allegedly arranging the sale of 50 Super Pumas to South Africa during the United Nations arms embargo to the country (Flight Inter- national, 1-6 May). The ...
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Swedish merger
Saab and Ericsson are to combine their defence-electronics activities into a new joint-venture company. Ericsson Saab Avionics will consist of Ericsson Microwave Systems, Saab Dynamics Airborne Equipment and the electrical-environment department of Saab Military Aircraft. The concern, which has its main interest in work on the Saab JAS39, will have ...
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France reveals plans to shake up DGA
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S DEFENCE minister Charles Millon has revealed plans for a massive shake-up of the DGA (direction generale de l'armament) arms-procurement agency as part of the overall restructuring of the nation's defence industry. The minister says that the costs and development time for new weapons ...
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Air-conditioning duo test regional system
KATSUHIKO HAMADA, ENGINEERING STAFF manager at Sumitomo Precision Products and leader of the Japanese company's 100-seat regional-jet air-conditioning system co-development team (left), and Greg DeFrancesco, Hamilton Standard's chief engineer and co-development team leader, prepare an air-conditioning pack for testing at Hamilton's Connecticut, US site. Hamilton and Sumitomo are developing the ...
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Pros and cons of low/mid wings
Sir - The concept of the omnibus owes more to tradition than to talent; if a design works, there is no need to change it. Airbus Industrie aircraft - and Boeing airliners - are low-winged, so Airbus, with its A3XX, abjures the main advantage, which a clean-sheet approach has over ...
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Air-breathing technology
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Advanced Space Transportation office, in Huntsville, Alabama, has selected five industry teams to develop the much-vaunted but yet operationally unproven technology for air-breathing rocket engines. This could be the next step towards new propulsion techniques to take the agency into the next century and could ...
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Base records
The British Aerospace Systems and Equipment (BASE) SCR500-660 combined cockpit-voice/flight-data recorder has been selected for the Sikorsky S-92 multi-purpose helicopter. The unit can store 1h of voice and 10h of data. The SCR500-120, meanwhile, which holds 2h of voice, has been picked by Aero International (Regional) for its Avro RJ ...
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Professional benchmark
THE RAF'S RED ARROWS team has a set of standard operating procedures (SOPS) based on decades of experience. All display sites are surveyed by the Red Arrows and categorised A, B, or C. Category A is ideal, B involves some overflight of built-up areas, and C is unacceptable ...
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Polish Government considers Swidnik SW-4 purchase
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH MINISTRY of the Interior could become the launch customer for the PZL-Swidnik SW-4 light helicopter, which is due to be flown for the first time within weeks. According to the company, Polish interior minister Zbigniew Siemiatowski has told Swidnik that he wants ...
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Bombardier
Bombardier Aerospace Group has appointed Michael Graff president of Bombardier Business Aircraft division, based in Montreal, Canada. He was formerly a partner with McKinsey, an international consultancy. Source: Flight International
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Philippines suspension
Air Philippines has temporarily suspended flying after it voluntarily grounded its fleet of three Boeing 737-200s and six NAMC YS-11s following "-the discovery of defects in the landing gear". A planned resumption of operations in September may be delayed. Source: Flight International
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Association of young pilots
Seen here, are teams of young pilots at Bournemouth UK, their first stop on the 1996 Air Tour of Europe, organised by the Association of Young Pilots for Europe. Fifteen teams of 18-24-year-olds were greeted on their arrival from Ostend Airport, by Bournemouth Flying Club members. Source: Flight ...
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Power games
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE TWO MANUFACTURERS which will offer engines for Boeing's 747-500X/600X derivatives laid their cards on the table at Farnborough, and highlighted the radical differences between two powerplants which could end up being remarkably similar in terms of performance. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney ...
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Emery
Scot Dunsmore, has been appointed Emery's Worldwide general manager, for Birmingham UK, by the Redwood City, California-based freight carrier. He was previously sales manager at Birmingham. Robert Bongaerts (right) is named logistics manager for Europe, based initially at Maastricht, Netherlands. He was formerly operations director for Europe at UPS Worldwide ...