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FMS retrofit
Honeywell's FMZ-2000 flight-management system has been certificated for retrofit to the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3A business jet, providing growth capability for satellite-based navigation and precision approaches. Source: Flight International
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SST launch
The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology Minisat will be launched into orbit aboard a Russian Rokot booster from Baikonur in 1997. The 300kg spacecraft will carry communications and high-resolution imaging payloads. Source: Flight International
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Asian clearance nears for AH-64D Apache
THE US GOVERNMENT is about to clear the improved McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Apache helicopter for sale to Singapore and Malaysia. Approval to offer the attack helicopter is "imminent" says a senior US defence source. Release of the accompanying Lockheed Martin/Westinghouse Longbow millimetre-wave radar will take up to another ...
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SAAF considers used C-130 Hercules
The South African Air Force (SAAF), is considering acquiring secondhand Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transports, being offered by the US Government, to boost its future transport capability. The air force is studying the costs of upgrading early-model Hercules to extend airframe life. The aircraft on offer are now ...
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Wolf begins USAir team building
STEPHEN WOLF, USAIR'S newly appointed chairman, has begun to build his top-management team with the appointment of old confidants Rakesh Gangwal and Lawrence Nagin. Gangwal, who joins the USAir board as president and chief operating officer, comes from Air France, where he was executive vice-president for planning and ...
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Definitive cockpit is finalised for Eurofighter EF2000
THE FINAL COCKPIT layout for the Eurofighter EF2000 is close to being signed off. The last customer assessment has been concluded by the industrial partners, with "...no outstanding issues to be addressed". The direct-voice-input (DVI) element of the cockpit has proved to be popular with air force pilots ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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Call Red
Air-ambulance work in Europe is in its infancy, but is already establishing its credibility. Tony Booth/LONDON IN 1989, THE UK'S West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) launched a project to provide a five-county area of the central UK with air-ambulance cover (the County Air Ambulance service). The idea began ...
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Hawker aerospace arms head for Fleet
CANADA'S FLEET Aerospace has agreed to purchase the aerospace businesses of Hawker Siddeley Canada for $27 million. The businesses, which had 1995 sales of almost $93 million, include Hawker Siddeley's Orenda division, which is developing a new range of high-power piston engines for general-aviation aircraft. The businesses will ...
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IPTN speeds up N-2130 regional-jet programme
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has advanced the planned entry-into-service date of the proposed N-2130 regional jet by two years, in response to domestic demand and forthcoming foreign competition. With Japan trying to revive its YS-X programme and talks on the Chinese/South Korean ...
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Third EMB-145
Embraer flew the third EMB-145 regional jet for the first time on 14 February. A fourth aircraft is set to join the test programme in March. The flight-test programme has so far logged 150h since 1995. Source: Flight International
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Russian programmes crippled by funding shortfall
THE RUSSIAN AIR force has admitted that Mikoyan's Object 1.42 fifth-generation-fighter programme has ground to a halt because of a lack of funding. A crisis meeting held this month with senior officers and design bureaux officials in attendance paints a grim picture of the air force's operational readiness and the ...
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GRIFO deal
Italy's Fiar has concluded a $50 million deal with the Pakistani defence ministry for the supply of 30 Grifo-M3 multi-mode pulse-Doppler radars for the air force's Dassault Mirage III upgrade. The contract award, follows a prolonged flight-test programme, in a test-bed aircraft in Pakistan during 1995. The company is also ...
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Through the looking glass
The Israeli air force is testing a cockpit upgrade for its Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV OPERATIONAL evaluation of Israeli air force upgraded Sikorsky CH-53s has only just begun, but the pilots are already saying that the new avionics have stretched the capability of ...
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US Air Force wants F-16 TARS reconnaissance pod
THE US AIR FORCE IS seeking funds to equip Air National Guard (ANG) Lockheed Martin F-16Cs with a reconnaissance pod under the theatre airborne-reconnaissance system (TARS) programme. It wants 20 pods and five ground stations, with initial deployment of four pods and one ground station required within a year of ...
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Tether tries again
Tim Furniss/LONDON IF IT DOES NOT WORK THIS time, NASA will probably ditch the project. The Italian Tethered Satellite System (TSS), it is hoped, will be deployed successfully from the Space Shuttle Columbia/STS75 on 24 February, with the aim of reaching a distance of 20km at the end ...
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The big orange
EUROPE'S SOLAR heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has returned spectacular images of the Sun from its unique vantage point in solar orbit, 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth, where the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun are equal. The Matra Marconi Space-built SOHO was launched in December 1995, and the ...
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Germany
Gunnar Simon, former chief of the armaments department of the German defence ministry, has been appointed State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defence. He replaces Jorg Schonbohm, who has been appointed as senator for home affairs in the Berlin regional government. Simon has been in the ministry since 1973, ...
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Pilots beware
Sir - As the UK British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) and the Independent Pilots Association (IPA) have received many recent enquiries, we are offering some cautionary advice to pilots seeking employment. We are led to believe that pilots are being offered employment verbally, subject to their obtaining UK ...