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Delta 2 launches MSX
The Midcourse Space Experiment satellite (MSX) was launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, by a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 two-stage model on 25 April. The 2,760kg spacecraft, which was built by the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, is equipped with an array of ...
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China wins control of Hong Kong airlines
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG SWIRE PACIFIC has ceded control of Dragonair and lost to China its absolute majority interest in Cathay Pacific Airways, in a far- reaching settlement ending a year-long battle for control of Hong Kong's airlines. Under a deal struck just 14 months before ...
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Airbus bids to slash A310 costs to rival Boeing 757
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is studying ways of cutting the cost of its A310 aircraft, in an effort to revive sales and counter proposed higher-gross-weight developments of the Boeing 757. According to Adam Brown, Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, the company is looking at a ...
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Flight Dynamics plans HUDs for more 737s
FLIGHT DYNAMICS plans to increase its dominance of the market for head-up displays (HUDs) on civil transports by certificating its system for Category III operations on five Boeing 737 models by mid-1999. The schedule calls for certification of the 737-400 and -500 to Cat IIIa by the end ...
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AST becomes the first victim of UK training policy
David Learmount/LONDON THE UK'S OLDEST flying training school has become the first victim of a Government policy loophole enabling UK pilots to gain UK commercial pilot's licences in foreign training establishments. The 60-year-old Air Services Training (AST) at Perth, Scotland, announced on 26 April that ...
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Out of the black comes Tacit Blue
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US AIR FORCE has taken the wraps off another of its classified stealth projects with the unveiling of the Tacit Blue technology demonstrator. The Tacit Blue was used to test low-observable technologies eventually used in the Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber and other stealthy ...
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Hughes victor as FAA switches WAAS deal
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DCGraham Warwick/ATLANTA WILCOX ELECTRIC says that its $475 million Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract was terminated by the US Federal Aviation Administration because the agency became "a victim of its own experience" of cost and schedule overruns on previous programmes. The FAA ...
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GE gives go-ahead for CRJ-X engine
GENERAL ELECTRIC has formally launched development of the CF34-8C turbofan amid growing speculation that Bombardier is to follow suit with the proposed CRJ-X 70-seat stretch of the Canadair Regional Jet. At the same time, GE has signed an -8C collaboration agreement with Japan Aero Engines, a group formed ...
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1997 launch planned for MD-11 stretch freighter
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) could launch a freighter version of its proposed MD-11 stretch by the end of 1997, as part of a renewed attack on the large-cargo-aircraft market. "We hope to be out in the market with the MD-11 stretch by the second ...
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Japan and USA agree common ground
JAPAN and the USA have reached temporary agreement on outstanding route disputes in an effort to clear the way for broader negotiations on revising their 1952 bilateral air-services treaty. Under the deal, Japan Airlines (JAL) and United Airlines will be allowed to add new passenger services and ...
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DASA develops a towed radar decoy for Transall
Douglas Barrie /LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) Airborne Systems is developing a towed radar decoy for transport- and combat-aircraft applications, for use against radar-guided air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. The decoy has been successfully test-flown against monopulse radar emitters. In the transport-aircraft variant, the towed decoy would ...
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RAF will pull out of Germany by 2002
THE Royal Air Force is to withdraw its last combat-aircraft units from Germany by 2002 with the closure of RAF Bruggen and the relocation to the UK of its four Panavia Tornado squadrons. The decision to end the RAF presence in Germany was announced in the 1996 Statement ...
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Thrust-vectoring Sukhoi Su-27M flies
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW SUKHOI HAS BEGUN flight testing from the Zhukovsky flight-test centre, near Moscow, the first pre-production Su-27M (Su-35) Flanker variant equipped with thrust-vectoring nozzles. The aircraft, Su-27 number 711, had five flights in April, apparently with the axisymmetric nozzles in a fixed configuration. ...
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Phoenix survives scrutiny by VIPs
THE GEC-MARCONI Phoenix reconnaissance unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) survived a critical test at the end of April, when it was successfully operated at the British Army's Larkhill test range in front of an audience of key decision-makers. In the second quarter of 1995, GEC-Marconi was given 12 months to ...
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Defence cuts threaten Franco-German programmes
GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Ruhe is threatening that Bonn may have to "reconsider" its bilateral co-operation programmes if France fails to commit itself fully to its joint helicopter programmes. The French Government is debating possible cuts to the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 programmes, which Germany ...
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Boeing thrashes out offset with South African Airways
BOEING and South African Airways (SAA) are continuing discussions over the amount and method of paying offset counter-trade payments attached to the airline's $960 million order for seven Boeing 777-200s and two 747-400s, six months after the deal was signed in November 1995. Concern has been growing ...
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Bombardier regroups
BOMBARDIER IS TO reorganise, following the resignation of president Raymond Royer. The Canadian company is to split into five operating groups, each headed by a president. Robert Brown, president of Bombardier Aerospace, North America, (Canadair, de Havilland and Learjet) will be president of Bombardier Aerospace Group, which will now include ...
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Reconnaissance Office may get new Darkstar
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Congress may subsidise the cost of building a replacement for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III Minus Darkstar unmanned air vehicle destroyed on its second flight on 22 April, says US Air Force Gen Kenneth Israel, who heads the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO). ...
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Loral books five Ariane launches in $400 million deal
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL has booked a total of five satellite launches with Arianespace in a deal which could be worth over $400 million by the year 2000. It is the first block booking by a satellite manufacturer with the European launcher organisation. The first launch is scheduled for ...
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Doubts rock KLM and Northwest alliance
THE FUTURE of the transatlantic alliance between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines has again been thrown into doubt, following the apparent failure of the two airlines to agree on whether the tie-up should be expanded. The latest wrangle has reportedly prompted KLM to consider dissolving the ...