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Rush to hush
Different approaches to hushkits exist in Europe and the USA. Andrew Doyle/LONDON HUSHKIT SALES are booming, but the US domestic market is eclipsing that of Europe, highlighting the radically different approaches being taken by the airlines and airports of the two regions. The major passenger ...
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MDC
Stuart Thomson has been named vice-president of business development at McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) Military Transport Aircraft unit at Long Beach, California. Thomson formerly director of business development for the C-17 programme replaces Gary Mears who has resigned. Source: Flight International
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Ageing-airliner census 1996
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THIS YEAR's Flight International census of ageing airliners shows a growth of 6% (to some 8,200) in the number of jet-powered and turboprop aircraft more than 15 years old in active service at 1 January, 1996. The number of jet-airliners in existence, which ...
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Fleet wins wing deal
CANADA'S FLEET Aerospace has won an initial C$40 million ($55million) contract from Hyundai Space and Aircraft to supply wing components for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. Deliveries will begin in 1997. South Korea's Hyundai is developing the wing for the 100-seat MD-95 as a risk-sharing partner. Toronto-based Fleet will ...
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Boeing chooses Concentra ICAD
BOEING HAS SELECTED Concentra's ICAD knowledge-based software to automate the design of electrical wire-harnesses for its commercial aircraft. The system will be used to help reduce installation time for aircraft wiring harnesses. Burlington, Massachusetts-based Concentra plans to complete development of the Boeing electric-configuration system by the end of ...
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ILS opens free-access stolen-parts database
INVENTORY LOCATOR Service (ILS) is to provide free access, via the Internet, to its database of stolen aircraft-parts. Previously, the database was available only to customers using the company's "electronic marketplace" to buy and sell aircraft parts. ILS created the database after a 1989 industry conference estimated that ...
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Longer-lasting light hydraulic fluid is set to shave fuel bills
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A FIRE-RESISTANT hydraulic fluid able to operate for longer at higher temperatures will be available early in 1997. US petrochemical group Monsanto says that it is now commercialising its Skydrol 5 fluid after successful in-service tests. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has already approved the fluid ...
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TRW completes tests on Milstar anti-jam antenna
TRW HAS COMPLETED tests on an anti-jam antenna for use on Lockheed Martin Milstar II ultra-secure communications satellites being built for the US Department of Defense. The space-borne nulling antenna, claimed to be the first system able to detect and defeat enemy jammers in real time, changes its ...
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Cessna starts to build Model 172 Skyhawks
Graham Warwick/INDEPENDENCE CESSNA HAS BEGUN assembly of the first Model 172 Skyhawks at its new piston-aircraft plant at Independence, Kansas. Six aircraft are already in assembly, and the first will be completed by mid-November. The first aircraft will undergo US Federal Aviation Administration flight-testing in December ...
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Cirrus confirms SR20 performance
CIRRUS DESIGN has announced definitive performance figures for the SR20 light aircraft and begun converting delivery-position options into firm orders. US Part 23 certification has been scheduled for the third quarter of 1997, with customer deliveries to begin later that year. Cirrus is offering the SR20 to current ...
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CAE will build simulators for Global Express
BOMBARDIER HAS awarded CAE Electronics a $27 million contract to build the first two simulators for its Global Express long-range business jet. The full-flight and fixed-base simulators will be installed at the Bombardier Aerospace Training Centre in Montreal by early 1998. The centre, which was opened in December ...
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Southwest selects E&S visual for 737
US CARRIER Southwest Airlines has selected the Evans & Sutherland (E&S) ESIG-3350 visual system for a Boeing 737-700 full-flight simulator which is on order from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS). The Level C simulator is to enter service at the end of 1997, when 737-700 launch customer Southwest receives the ...
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-and wins C-141 contract
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has won a five-year, $65 million contract to operate the US Air Force's Lockheed C-141 transport aircrew-training system. C-141 simulators are now operated by Hughes Training. FSI will take over by 1 October. FSI operates the USAF's Boeing KC-135 tanker and Lockheed C-5 transport aircrew-training ...
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FSI trains Mesa
FlightSafety International is to provide Raytheon Beech 1900D simulator training for US regional Mesa Airlines. Mesa will use Level D simulators in Wichita, LaGuardia and Daytona Beach. Source: Flight International
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Thai picks TTS devices for its A330 and 777
THAI AIRWAYS International has ordered two full-flight simulators from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), for the Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 777-200. The Level D simulators will be delivered to Thai's new Bangkok training centre at the end of 1997 and the beginning of 1998. Visual systems for the ...
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FlightSafety studies PC training power
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is moving to exploit the power of personal computers (PCs) for pilot training. The US training company has signed agreements enabling it to create "virtual classrooms" for customers and to improve and adapt Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator software for PCs. FSI ...
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MMS wins contract for Columbus
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has awarded Matra Marconi Space (MMS) the contract for the development of a data-management system for the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF). The system records and processes the laboratory's operational data, and scientific data gathered. DASA is the prime contractor for the COF, the European section ...
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LOSAT hummer
Lockheed Martin Vought Systems has test-fired its line-of-sight anti-tank (LOSAT) kinetic-energy missile from a high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMV). The test proved the suitability of the HMMV, or Hummer, as a launch platform for the hypervelocity hit-to-kill weapon, following cancellation of the intended LOSAT platform, an advanced gun anti-tank system. ...
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Air Niugini takes step towards privatisation
AiR NIUGINI has been corporatised as a first step towards privatisation, despite a row between the Papua New Guinea Government and its National Airlines Commission (NAC). There had been fears, that the deadline of 7 August would not be met, after a quarrel over the ownership of the ...
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Pentagon should rethink CAS, say US accountants
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO) has warned that there may be flaws in US Department of Defense thinking on improvement of close air support (CAS). The Pentagon is planning to invest more than $11 billion in CAS weapons upgrades over the next six years, but the GAO ...