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Top managers at avionics manufacturer Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, have changed jobs. In the commercial-aviation-systems division, Dean Vittetoe, formerly customer-support director for the Americas, becomes director of strategic-supply management. He is succeeded by Bertrand Dunou, who previously headed customer support in Europe. Dunou's replacement is Adrian Paull, who has worked ...
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Snecma president's restructuring pays off
Snecma has announced a major cut in its losses for 1996 and expects to return to the black this year, following continued recovery in the aerospace business after restructuring under new president Jean-Paul Béchat. Only group figures have been released, so that it is difficult to estimate the ...
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Seasons on Mars...
The latest images from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, since its servicing in orbit by the crew of the STS82 mission, show changes between Mars' northern-hemisphere spring and summer. The annual north-polar, carbon dioxide frost cap is vanishing, revealing the smaller, permanent, water-ice cap. Also ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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Hunting will sell off its non-core businesses
THE UK'S Hunting group has announced plans to disband its aviation division in a move expected to lead to the quick disposal of its aircraft-interiors businesses and the eventual sale of the cargo airline. Hunting chief executive Ken Miller says that the group wants to sell off its ...
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EC compliance could delay JAR-OPS
The introduction of the first (air-transport) element of the Joint Airworthiness Authorities' (JAA) JAR-OPS 1 regulations may be delayed significantly beyond the 1 April deadline by the need to comply with European Commission's (EC's) own air-transport legislation. In a move which has taken the JAA by surprise, EC ...
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China considers Rafale/M88
France and China are in discussions over the possibility of the Chinese air force acquiring the Dassault Rafale next-generation fighter aircraft. Chinese officials, including senior procurement officers, initially visited Dassault in 1996, while, more recently, French representatives, including those from Rafale engine manufacturer Snecma, have spent a considerable ...
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SA floats Sun Air with...
South Africa has launched the privatisation of regional carrier Sun Air, giving the opportunity for a foreign airline partner to take a share of up to 49%. Prospective buyers are being asked to register their interest by 10 April, says NatWest Markets, the UK investment bank which is ...
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Pratt &Whitney offers Airbus PW4000 alternative for A3XX
Pratt & Whitney is holding discussions with Airbus Industrie on the development of a PW4000-based derivative engine for the A3XX, as an alternative to the all-new GP7000 turbofan which is being proposed by the General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance. According to Alain Garcia, Airbus Industrie's senior vice-president ...
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MIGMAPO reveals light fighter project
MIG MAPO has begun work on a new fifth-generation fighter design in the wake of the collapse of its 1.42 fighter project for the Russian air force. The project, the Lightweight Multi-function Fighter (LFI), was revealed by MiG MAPO director of strategic planning Alexander Ageyev. He describes it ...
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Racal develops hand-held IFF
With an eye to Europe's developing "open-skies" approach to civil-aircraft routing, Racal Wells has launched a private-venture programme to develop a hand-held identification friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder for use aboard balloons, gliders, para and hang gliders, microlights and light aircraft. Work on the design is based on a study ...
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RVSIice detector takes to the...
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) is to develop an on-aircraft wide-area ice-detection system for flight testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The system will be based on RVSI's hand-held ice detector, now in use with Delta Air Lines' Boston-New York-Washington shuttle service. The hand-held ID-1H is ...
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ICO diputes TRW patent claims
ICO Global Communications is to campaign to invalidate patents granted to TRW, to protect the "exclusivity" of the US company's "invention" of a satellite system operating in medium-Earth orbit (MEO), to provide global communications to hand-held terminals via ground stations. Following the receipt of three US and two ...
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Loral and Lockheed Martin win more satellite contracts
The Intelsat organisation has selected Loral to build two high-powered, high-capacity, satellites for the follow-on series (FOS) 2 programme. The $600 million contract, which includes options for further craft, includes the launch in 2000 of the two satellites into orbital positions over the Indian Ocean. The FOS 2 craft will ...
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H2 boosters
Thiokol will build the Castor 4A-XL solid sub-boosters (SSBs) for Japan's uprated H-2A satellite launcher, replacing Japan's Nissan, which provides the SSBs for the current model. The H2A will be a more powerful version, built at lower cost, and will be launched in 2000. ...
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Rising star
In the byzantine world of the Russian aerospace industry, perhaps nothing should come as a surprise.The emergence, however, of Alexei Fedorov as Sukhoi's general director was an unexpected triumph for the boss of the Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association. Fedorov's ascension has come at the expense of Mikhail Simonov, ...
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Flight Sciences, which specialises in...
Flight Sciences, which specialises in helping airlines reduce their fuel bills by improving efficiency, expects to sign contracts with major carriers later this year, as part of its efforts to expand its client base in Europe and Asia. The US company recently completed a five-month project with Austrian ...
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Sir - The Chinese XXJ...
Sir - The Chinese XXJ (Flight International, 12-18 March, P15) can hardly "-be referred to as the F-12 in China" - that designation having already been applied to the NAMC J-12 (F-12) light short-take- off-and- landing fighter first flown in 1970 and again, in improved form, in 1975. Six prototypes ...
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Boeing Fasthawk is on the...
BOEING NORTH American has won an $8 million contract from the US Navy to demonstrate technologies applicable to a next-generation ship-launched land-attack missile system, dubbed the Fasthawk. The 36-month Low-Cost Missile System technology demonstration will test a finless, bended-body airframe, fixed-geometry annular inlet and a slip-out booster/ramjet engine. ...