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Japanese collision
Two Japanese news-gathering helicopters collided near Nagano, 200km (110nm) west of Tokyo, on 27 April, killing all six people aboard. The Aerospatiale helicopters were returning from filming forest fires for rival television stations. Source: Flight International
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Chinese Learjets
China's Hainan Airlines has ordered a Learjet 60 for delivery in mid-1996, to join a Model 55 used for corporate charters. The aircraft is the first new business-jet sold to China's private sector, says Learjet. Malaysia's Ministry of Transport, meanwhile, has taken delivery of a second flight-inspection Learjet 60. ...
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Mexican support
Oklahoma-based Downtown Airpark and TAESA of Mexico have established a joint general-aviation service centre at Toluca Airport, near capital Mexico City. Downtown Airpark-Mexico will support Rockwell Twin Commanders operated in Latin America. Source: Flight International
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Digital ATC
AIT Recorders has developed a digital air-traffic-control (ATC) data-recording system, which it claims can simultaneously record all radar, voice and environmental data entering an ATC centre, using digital compression techniques. The UK company's Comfile 2000 Digital Recorder uses DAT cassettes as the storage medium, along with a 1Gb hard disk ...
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Observing airports
AAI/Systems Management has received a $14.4 million US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract for an additional 106 Automated Surface Observing Systems, for installation at US airports. Source: Flight International
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Optegra for Embraer
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer has ordered $260,000-worth of software and ser-vices from computer-aided-design specialist ComputerVision, including the Optegra data-management system and Electrical Design Entry wiring-design system. Source: Flight International
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Derco support
Derco Aerospace is to provide logistical support for Lockheed Martin C-130 maintenance by Chile's Enaer, providing spare parts, component repair and overhaul. Source: Flight International
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Mesaba shift
Northwest Airlink carrier Mesaba Airlines has signed an amended agreement under which Northwest Airlines will purchase all of the regional's capacity, while the cost of Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 heavy maintenance will be shifted from Northwest to Mesaba. The agreement will allow both carriers to benefit from Mesaba's lower ...
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Delta deal
Delta Air Lines and Korean Air have received approval for an expanded code-share/ blocked-space agreement beginning 1 June. Delta will buy seats on Korean's four weekly Washington-New York-Seoul and daily Honolulu-Seoul Boeing 747 flights. Korean will buy seats on Delta's daily Honolulu-Seoul Lockheed L-1011 flights. Source: Flight International
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Cargo upgrade
Luxair opened a cargo centre at Luxembourg Findel Airport on 26 April. It will handle up to 500,000t of cargo annually. The 90,000m2 (2.5 million ft2) apron can accom- modate eight Boeing 747s, of which four can be loaded or unloaded simultaneously. Source: Flight ...
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The X-Prize
US President Bill Clinton has been urged by Congressional space-supporters - led by Republican Richard Gephardt - to encourage the work of the X-Prize Foundation. The Foundation has been established to find private benefactors to fund a $10 million award to the first private team to build a re-useable spacecraft ...
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USAF flies Starlifter with electric controls
THE US AIR FORCE has flown the first Lockheed NC-141A Starlifter fitted with Lucas Aerospace electric-aileron actuators, replacing the aircraft's traditional electro-mechanical devices (Flight International, 3-9 April). The USAF says tests of the Electric Starlifter could lead to the technology being introduced on its entire fleet of C-141s and C-5 ...
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Eurofighter
The German-built prototype of the Eurofighter EF2000 is scheduled to have its first public flying display at ILA '96. The pilot of the first development aircraft, DA1, is scheduled to perform a restricted 5min flight routine at the Berlin-based show. The routine will be straightforward and strictly limited, ...
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Checking on CIS registrations
The captions on two of the illustrations to Paul Duffy's article "Safety measures" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P58) may be misleading. The ORBI Georgian Airlines and Air Ukraine Boeing 737s shown carrying Brazilian and Irish registrations, respectively (pointed out in the caption), may give the impression that ...
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Varig emerges from cutbacks
VARIG dipped into the red during 1995 after shouldering the cost of widespread redundancies, but the Brazilian carrier has outlined plans to expand again this year. After making a profit of around $209 million in 1994, the airline slipped to a deficit of just under $7 million ...
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Low-fare Europe?
Kevin O'Toole/BRUSSELS IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before the US "no-frills" experiment began to take root in Europe's rapidly deregulating market. Pioneers have already emerged, offering the kind of no-frills point-to-point services which shot Southwest Airlines, ValuJet and others to fame in the USA. ...
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Winglet gives Gulfstream GII 'hot-and-high' benefit
AVIATION PARTNERS, a Seattle-based company producing a blended-winglet conversion for the Gulfstream II, hopes to attract new sales for the aircraft in 1996 on the back of better-than-expected hot-and-high performance from the modified wing. The company says that "hidden advantages" of the drag-reducing winglet modification are emerging ...
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Lockheed Martin building F-16 IRST
LOCKHEED MARTIN is building an infra-red search-and-track (IRST) sensor pod for flight demonstration on its F-16 in April-May 1997. The company sees a substantial export market for the sensor, a podded version of the AAS-42 IRST in service since 1994 on US Navy Grumman F-14Ds. It has been ...
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Thailand gears up for second military-satellite system
THAILAND'S military is drawing up requirements for a second satellite system for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, to add to its Star of Siam communications-satellite programme. The Thai armed forces are understood to be looking for a low-Earth-orbiting imaging satellite, providing a resolution of 1m (3ft) or less. ...
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Airbus Industrie
Airbus Industrie has appointed Jurgen Thomas, the former executive vice-president of preliminary design and technology at Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus, to the post of senior vice-president of its new Large Aircraft division. Thomas has worked in the aerospace industry since 1962, moving via VFW to Airbus activities, where he started as ...