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IAI's Amos communications satellite is attracting customers from outside Israel. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH of the Amos 1 communications satellite on 16 May has proved to be the trigger for a major effort to turn Israel's space capability into a profitable business. Israel ...
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Australia funds Seeker trials
Demonstration flights have prompted the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to allocate funds for full evaluation trials of the locally built Seabird Seeker SB7L purpose-built surveillance aircraft (Flight International, 21-27 April, 1993) as part of the ADF's review of battlefield mobility and surveillance capabilities. ADF Director General Force Development ...
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Israel primes Nautilus for rocket
THE ISRAELI ARMED forces plan to deploy the Nautilus laser weapon in northern Israel for testing against simulated artillery rockets, and also potentially against BM-21 rockets, if fired by guerilla groups in southern Lebanon. The US Department of Defense is funding the bulk of the joint development of ...
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Deutsche Post seeks domestic airmail
GERMANY'S POSTAL service Deutsche Post is to issue, for the first time, an international invitation to tender for internal German nighttime airmail services. The tender will be issued later this month. Deutsche Post says that the new contract will begin on 26 October, and will be worth "three-figure ...
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Allison
Richard Quirin has been named executive vice-president and chief financial officer at Indianapolis, Indiana-based Allison Engine, a member of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group. He was formerly at Lucas Electronics Systems Products and served as vice-president for contracts and business development on special assignment to Lucas Geared Systems. Source: ...
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Times when GPS is of no help
Sir - In response to Derek Colbourne (Letters, Flight International, 26 June-2 July, P40), I, too, have flown into Tregganu, as well as Tauwau, northern Borneo. I have flown into Chin Min on the Taiwanese/Chinese airspace border, to Saana in Yemen, and to most of the marginal airstrips in New ...
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Family fortunes
Braathens SAFE celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with the founder's grandson at the helm Max Kingsley-Jones/OSLO AT THE LAST COUNT, the Norwegian population totalled some 4.5 million. In 1995, Norway's flag carrier, Braathens SAFE, carried more than 4 million passengers on its domestic routes, representing 52% ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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Falcons helped by CATS
Dassault Aviation is planning to offer Falcon business-jet operators a computerised, CD-ROM-based troubleshooting system, to speed up fault diagnosis and improve dispatch reliability. The Computer Assisted Troubleshooting System (CATS) was initially developed to assist Dassault's Falcon help-desk to evaluate the symptoms of a malfunction and propose the most ...
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Light fighter, big punch
The British Aerospace Sea Harrier Blue Vixen/AIM-120 upgrade is proving its worth with the Royal Navy. Douglas Barrie/YEOVILTON WHEN the Royal Navy's British Aerospace Sea Harriers were armed with Raytheon AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles, engagement with an enemy was compared to having a "knife fight in a phone ...
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KLM tries to pacify Northwest
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS MOVED to patch up its strained boardroom relationship with Northwest Airlines, proposing that the carriers be locked into their alliance agreement for up to five years at a stretch. Until now, the agreements have been ratified annually, but KLM chairman Pieter ...
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Scientists work on software to help damaged aircraft land
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aircraft, which suffer major equipment failures or explosions, could be landed safely using software developed jointly at NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The new research envisages that in less than 1s a damaged aircraft's computers would be able to "relearn" ...
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Third EGNOS satellite considered
Max Kingsley-Jones andKieran Daly/LONDON THE PARTNERS responsible for developing the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) now have leases for the first navigation transponders to be flown on two Inmarsat satellites, and are considering the need for the use of a third satellite. The EGNOS ...
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Japanese H2 may be used as Artemis launcher for Europe
Tim Furniss/LONDON A DEAL WHICH could include the free launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) troubled Artemis communications-technology satellite aboard a Japanese H2 booster is being negotiated between the European and Japanese space agencies. The deal would be part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two agencies. ...
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UK envisages future in Earth observation
A DRAFT PLAN looking at future UK space policy, has confirmed a continued commitment to remote-sensing Earth-observation programmes, which could form the second fully commercialised space industry, after communications (Flight International, 10-16 April). The plan was released by UK space minister, Ian Taylor at the second Space Policy ...
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NASA selects new Millennium targets
NASA's FIRST New Millennium craft, the Deep Space 1, equipped with an ion-propulsion system and to be launched in July 1998, will fly past the asteroid McAulliffe and the comet West-Kohoutek-Ikemura, NASA has announced (Flight International, 10-16 January). Another New Millennium spacecraft will be flown in formation with ...
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Rolls-Royce stands to benefit from turbine-materials study
An UK UNIVERSITY-industry consortium has been awarded a £3.3 million ($5.1 million) Government grant to develop advanced materials for use in aero-engine turbine blades. The consortium, headed by Professor Colin Humphreys from the department of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, will involve engine manufacturer ...
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Date set for Ariane 5 report
THE REPORT of the official enquiry into the loss of the European Space Agency's (ESA) first Ariane 5 booster after launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on 4 June, is due to be released on 15 July. The second Ariane 5 launch is still scheduled for October. The accident ...
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Third-party maintenance directory
Part 2: The Americas Jennifer Pite/LONDON IN THE USA, many providers of third-party maintenance are having a difficult time. Significantly, however, Sabretech has leased the ex-Page Avjet site in Orlando, Florida, and is planning to offer heavy maintenance and modifications, initially for Boeing 737s and Lockheed L-1011 TriStars, ...
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UK taxes tilt training balance in US favour
David Learmount/LONDON TAX CHARGES ARE THE prime reason that the UK flying-training industry is unable to compete against US rivals, according to the draft of a study of US flying-training organisations (FTOs) undertaken by the UK General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA). A UK ...