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The role of the flight engineer
Sir -The advantages perceived of a flight engineer's potential input to a new-generation automated flightdeck gives me concern. The concept of these aircraft was to exclude the flight engineer. The checklist philosophy (be it the engine-indication and crew-alerting system or electronic centralised aircraft-monitor) generated is the backbone of ...
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First Iridium satellites are launched
A McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Delta 2/7920 two-stage booster launched the first five Motorola Iridium satellites into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 5 May. It was the first lift-off of a Delta 2 since the 17 January explosion of a three-stage booster after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, ...
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Kuwait satellite
The Kuwait Government is seeking investment from national businesses to develop an $800 million communications satellite and ground system. Kuwait has been allocated a position in geostationary orbit by the International Union of Telecommunications. Source: Flight International
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Europe's X-Ray telescope is on schedule
The X-Ray Multi-Mirror space telescope, Europe's largest science satellite, is on budget and on schedule for a launch aboard the Ariane 5 on 2 August, 1999, mission managers and scientists reported at a quarterly project review at the Matra Marconi Space (MMS) factory at Filton in Bristol, in the UK. ...
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NASA decides on Mars aero-braking
NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have agreed a strategy for placing the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) into its operational orbit, using an aerobraking technique which it is hoped will not further damage one of the craft's solar panels, which did not fully extend after launch in November 1996. ...
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Gulfstream wins deal to supply VIP aircarft
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has won a $69.9 million US Air Force fixed-price contract to provide two Gulfstream V long-range business aircraft for members of Government and Congress. The company beat a bid from Boeing Business Jets for the C-37A competition, part of the VC-137 replacement programme. The C-37As will ...
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STOVL promise lifts JSF
EMPHASIS ON THE short-take-off/vertical-landing (STOVL) variant of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is increasing. Progress with the JSF concept-demonstration phase is leading programme and service officials to speculate that the STOVL variant planned for the US Marine Corps and the Royal Navy could find applications with the US Air ...
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Paris '97: a preview
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL Flight International will provide full editorial coverage throughout the build-up and duration of the show, starting with a comprehensive guide to the show in the Paris Show Special issue (11-17 June). First News will be published in the 18-24 June issue, followed by a full Show Report (25 ...
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Single-minded
FLIGHT TESTING OF the VisionAire Vantage single-engined business jet is demonstrating the high- and low-speed performance necessary for the aircraft to be competitive and safe, says its developer. VisionAire says that the proof-of-concept (PoC) aircraft, built and flown by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, is achieving cruise speeds equivalent to other ...
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Future change
Terrazoni: "We think Airbus should be the vehicle for integration of the European civil-aircraft industry" Aerospatiale has expanded its presence in the regional-aircraft field considerably through the ATR 72 By far the largest component of France's civil-aircraft industry is built around the Airbus Industrie consortium, which ...
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Philippines spells out maritime needs
The Philippine air force has begun drawing up its requirement for six new long-range maritime-patrol aircraft (MPAs), as part of a recently approved 15-year defence-modernisation programme. A replacement fleet of MPAs represents the air force's next procurement priority after the acquisition of new multi-role fighters and surveillance radars. ...
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Broad horizons
To many of the pilots who were trained by the UK armed services during the 1950s and 60s, the de Havilland Chipmunk is no more than a basic trainer with a tailwheel. To a team of senior Royal Air Force flyers in 1997, however, it is the vehicle for a ...
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Flying the Five
The large Honeywell primary flight displays show numerous perameters without clutter. The Gulfstream V wing is larger and holds more fuel than its predecessor on the GIV At a glance, the Gulfstream V looks much like its predecessor, the GIV, but closer investigation reveals it to ...
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Northrop
Wayne Snodgrass has become vice-president of Northrop Grumman's newly created Anti-Submarine Warfare & Ship Systems business, an element of the company's Electronic Sensors and Systems division. He was vice-president of the company's Naval Systems business in Cleveland, and he will be relocated to the division's headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. ...
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Boeing hopes for 737 seating agreement
Boeing hopes that a final evaluation test planned for 20 May will resolve the long-running issue with the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) over exit-limit maximum seating for the next-generation 737-700 and -800. The US company originally configured the -800 with a maximum load of 189 seats, while ...
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Kenya Airways introduces its first Boeing 737-300
Kenya Airways has introduced the first of three new Boeing 737-300s on services from its Nairobi base, as the airline develops the airport into a hub operation. The aircraft - central to the hub's regional development - are replacing two 737-200s leased from GPA. Kenya has recently begun direct daily ...
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Mindanao's Beech Express
Mindanao Express, the Philippine-based regional airline formed in 1996, has recently taken delivery of six secondhand Raytheon Aircraft models, including four Beech C99s, and two 1900Cs (pictured). The Philippine airline has begun operating a series of routes in the intra-Mindanao rural areas, and in addition is providing connections to major ...
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New initiative revives hopes for central European ATC unity
Hopes for the creation of a common central European upper-airspace air-traffic-management centre have been revived with a new initiative aimed at producing a signature from the eight involved nations on 27 June. The Central European Air Traffic Services (CEATS) project, which includes Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, ...
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Chek Lap Kok is 'on target' despite railway concerns
Hong Kong's Airport Authority (AA) remains confident that the new airport at Chep Lap Kok will open as planned in April 1998, despite concern that the new airport express railway line and cargo-handling centre may not meet this schedule. With 12 months remaining before the $6.38 billion airport ...
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Regional Airlines prepares to accept EMB-145 after delays
The Embraer EMB-145 regional jet was expected to gain European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA)certification on 12 May, around six months later than originally planned, clearing the way for European launch customer Regional Airlines to put the type into service in early June. The delay was caused by JAA ...