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Aero Tec laroratories
Aero Tec Laboratories (ATL) Europe's new Unmanned Vehicle Fuel Cell division is displaying its ultra-lightweight, bladder-type fuel tanks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ATL says that it is focusing on development of low-cost, non-exploding fuel cells, and can make complex fuel-cell shapes and sophisticated scavenging devices to optimise available space ...
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Siemens Plessey Systems
Siemens Plessey Systems is showing key components which will make up its future active array radars - a 12-bit receiver and an optical rotating joint. The active-array antenna is typically divided into several sub-arrays, says the company, each of which uses the 12-bit receiver. Signals received, pass through analogue-to-digital converters, ...
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Data sciences
Data Sciences is exhibiting its Sigma-M full-motion flight simulator, the latest development in the company's technology- demonstrator programme for cockpit trainers. The Sigma-M will be integrated with a low-cost, 6¡-of-freedom motion platform designed by Intersim, with high-resolution, out-of-cockpit views provided by Simis. The Sigma-M is available "at a fraction of ...
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Mesa
MESA AIR GROUP has agreed to purchase 16 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets, and take options on 16 more of the 50-seat twinjets. The firm orders are valued at $320 million, with deliveries to the US regional airline to begin in early 1997. Farmington, New Mexico-based Mesa began evaluating ...
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Impulse acquires
Australian regional Impulse Airlines has acquired two Raytheon Beech 1900D 19-seat turboprops in an A$13 million ($10 million) deal. The aircraft will be used between Newcastle, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Source: Flight International
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Californian Fokkers
Californian airline Air 21 has added its fifth ex-USAir Fokker F28-4000 since starting operations in December 1995 and says that it will operate eight by year-end and 15 by the end of 1997. The airline, which has a marketing agreement with Reno Air, says that the F28 does not require ...
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Last call for entries
The final closing date for the 1997/8 Flight International Directory of the UK and Ireland has been extended until 31 August. Anyone who has not yet updated their entry or any new organisations wishing to be included should contact Flight International Directories, tel: +44 (1707) 665151; fax: +44 (1707) 660330. ...
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United cargo delays
United Airlines has delayed the start of all-cargo operations between the USA and Asia from the third quarter of 1996 to March 1997, because suitable aircraft were not available. Four United McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s, including one -30CF, will be converted to full freighters by Aeronavali, a division of Alenia, with ...
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F18E/F catapult launch
The first catapult launches of the McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F have been successfully accomplished at the US Navy's Patuxent River, Maryland, test centre. Source: Flight International
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E&S wins visuals bid
Evans & Sutherland (E&S) has won a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $70 million, to replace the visual systems on up to 25 transport-aircraft flight-simulators. Under the $13 million initial phase of the five-year Air Mobility Command Visual Upgrade Effort (AMC VUE) contract, E&S will upgrade the visuals on ...
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Esterline expands
US test-equipment manufacturer Bauer Aerospace, based in Avon, Connecticut, has been acquired by the UK's Howden Group and renamed Bauer Howden. The company is expanding to offer fuel-nozzle cleaning. and testing services. Source: Flight International
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Kuwait privatisation
Kuwait is reported to be studying the privatisation of carrier Kuwait Airways as part of a wider programme to sell off stakes in state-owned enterprises. Source: Flight International
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Heat exchanger
AlliedSignal Aerospace has agreed to acquire the commercial-aircraft heat-exchanger repair and overhaul business of Nordam Group company LORI. Source: Flight International
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Aviation sales grows
US spares-reseller Aviation Sales, based in Miami, Florida, has acquired the assets of Dixie Bearings' aviation-distribution division, which handles aircraft bearings, power-transmission components and accessories. Source: Flight International
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Air India lease
Air India may offer some of its unused routes for lease to airline partners on a revenue-sharing basis, say reports quoting the country's civil-aviation minister CM Ibrahim. Air India would take 40% of revenues on the routes, which it does not use because of lack of aircraft capacity. ...
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Jersey profits
Jersey European Airways has posted its second consecutive year of profits, despite "intense competition" and "highly competitive" pricing on services to Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Pre-tax profits stood at £2.5 million ($3.85 million) for the year to March 1996, while sales rose by 19% to £74 million. ...
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Stowaway fatality
Two boys died after they had stowed away in the nose-wheel bay of a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 which made a 5h flight from Ulan Bator, Mongolia, to Kadena AB in Japan. Source: Flight International
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V-22 EMD progress
Bell Boeing has completed major assembly of the third of four V-22 engineering and manufacturing development aircraft. The first will be flown in December. Source: Flight International
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Inspections ordered
The 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein AB, Germany, has ordered the inspection of nose landing-gear actuators on all 19 Lock- heed Martin C-130 transports assigned there. The probe was sparked by the discovery of corrosion on one aircraft. The US Air Force says that there is no indication of a ...
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IAI order
The US Navy has awarded Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) a contract worth $600,000 for an initial batch of crashworthy troop seats for the Sikorsky Aircraft CH-53D heavy-lift helicopter. Options in the contract call for procurement of a large number of the energy-absorbing seats made by IAI's Mata Division. The US ...