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Towards the peak
Tim Furniss/LONDON OF THE 1,360 PAYLOADS expected to be launched into Earth orbit before 2004, 65% are commercial communications satellites, according to the Worldwide Mission Model study produced by the Teal Group, the defence and aerospace market-analysis company based in Fairfax, Virginia. These and similar market ...
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Diamonite delivers refitted Tu-134
DIAMONITE HAS delivered its 26th interior refurbishment of a Russian aircraft. The latest refit, a Tupolev Tu-134A, was sent to Moscow on 12 June. The aircraft is for a major Russian bank and is managed by the Kasparov Consultancy. Kasparov, owned by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov, ...
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Market change
ARIANESPACE HAS analysed three major factors for the reduction of GEO civil-communications satellites. The globalisation (or regionalisation) of space projects has caused a significant change in the telecommunications market. National projects are tending to disappear, replaced by projects "without borders". The monopolies held by organisations such as Intelsat are at ...
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Division brings dVISE to a wider audience
UK SOFTWARE Supplier Division is launching a personal-computer (PC)-based, Windows NT-compatible version of its dVISE virtual-reality software, in response to customer demands to widen access to such tools. The dVISE was previously available on UNIX workstations only. Aerospatiale, British Aerospace, Gulfstream, Rolls-Royce, McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and NASA all use the ...
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The cabin challenge
Perceptions of new cabin dangers are emerging as old problems resurface. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PASSENGERS ignore safety briefings because they believe that it is the cabin crew's responsibility to protect them, according to recent research. Professor Helen Muir, of Cranfield University in the UK, ...
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Colombian threat
The USA is threatening to suspend daily Avianca flights between Bogota and Miami or New York in retaliation for the Colombian Government's refusal to permit American Airlines to operate daily flights between New York and Bogota. The flight is allowed by the bilateral agreement between the two nations, says Washington. ...
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Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 noses ahead
STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY of the first Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 forward fuselage is complete and installation of tubing, wiring, cockpit instrumentation and avionics racks is under way at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems in Marietta, Georgia. Visible (see picture, right) is the radar bulkhead, which is canted to reduce radar cross-section, ...
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Germany will close three radar centres by 2000
Andrzej Jeziorski/FRANKFURT T HE GERMAN AIR-traffic- services agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is to close down three of its six radar centres by the year 2000 as part of the agency's efficiency drive. No decision has yet been made about which centres are to go, says DFS ...
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Jet finalises regional-fleet plan
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON JET AIRWAYS IS finalising plans for the acquisition of a fleet of regional aircraft to operate on services in north-eastern India. ,Jet Airways' chairman Naresh Goyal says that the airline is committed to initiating regional services: "We are vigorously pursuing plans to induct smaller ...
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Equal rights
Paul Duffy/BOCA RATON, FLORIDA THE DEMAND FOR OLDER aircraft, particularly for freighters, is rising strongly because operators are beginning to realise that the economics of using older aircraft can result in considerable cost savings. According to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC), world air cargo will continue ...
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Lockheed
Vance Coffman has been appointed president and chief operating officer at Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Maryland. Former president Norman Augustine remains vice-chairman and chief executive. Coffman, who joined Lockheed in 1967, served as president of the Space and Strategic Missiles sector following the March 1995 merger with Martin Marietta. Earlier ...
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It's the passengers who matter
Sir - The argument that "-the airline industry needs to bring public perceptions and expectations in line with reality" in your Comment, "Means to and end" (Flight International, 3-9 July), surely needs to be turned on its head. The airlines need to listen to what the customer wants and expects, ...
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Safety review
Controversy about airline safety has been rife in the first six months of 1996. David Learmount/LONDON THERE WERE 609 DEATHS in world airline accidents during the first six months of 1996, which compares with only 206 for the same period the previous year. The figures for 1995, however, ...
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GKN Westland uses CATIA on Dash 8 nacelles
THE STRUCTURES division of GKN Westland Aerospace has taken delivery of 12 new Dassault Systemes CATIA computer-aided design (CAD) workstations, and established a separate internal department to handle the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 nacelle-manufacturing contract which the company won in November 1995. John Harris, sales manager of ...
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Flying into the future
Communications, navigation and surveillance in European airspace will be substantially different in the next decade - but how different? Kieran Daly/LONDON AROUND THE WORLD, air-traffic-services (ATS) providers are coming to terms with how the advent of the future air-navigation system will affect their airspace. For dozens of nations, ...
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Raytheon E-Systems tests GPS for troops
RAYTHEON E-SYSTEMS and the US Army have conducted field trials of a drop-zone assembly aid which uses the global-positioning system (GPS) to provide troops with the direction and distance to an air-dropped load or an assembly point. The equipment consists of a hand-held locator, which is carried by ...
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Carnival management
Florida-based scheduled and charter carrier Carnival Air-lines has become the fourth customer for ReArm's "outsourced" revenue-management service. Other clients of Maryland-based ReArm are regionals CommutAir and Gulfstream and "an unnamed US jet carrier". Source: Flight International
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Israel presses Russia in bid to clear way for China AEW deal
Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV THE ISRAELI Government is pressing Russia to approve the sale of an Ilyushin Il-76 Candid, to allow Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to conclude a deal to convert the aircraft into a Phalcon radar-equipped airborne early-warning platform for China. A $250 million deal to ...
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Lufthansa Cargo cuts costs and capacity
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LUFTHANSA CARGO IS clamping down on costs and capacity, as the world's largest international freight carrier steels itself for another couple of tough years in the heavily oversubscribed international freight market. The operation ended its first year of independence in 1995, showing a DM20 ...
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RAF considers JTIDS Tornado GR4 update
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE is studying the possibility of equipping its Panavia Tornado GR4 strike-aircraft with the Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems (JTIDS) data-communications network. Funding for fitting RAF combat aircraft with the JTIDS so far covers only two squadrons of Tornado F3s, along ...