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MDC board terminates MD-XX
McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) long-term commitment to the commercial jet-airliner business has once more been thrown into doubt following the board's decision to scrub plans for the proposed MD-XX tri-jet. MDC chief executive Harry Stonecipher admits that the decision to abandon the programme, which was taken at a ...
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Swissair threatens to pull out of Sabena deal
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Swissair has warned that it is prepared to pull out of its investment in strike-hit Sabena if it does not meet the cost-cutting targets being set for the loss-making Belgian carrier. Swissair confirms, however, that it is pressing ahead with a joint fleet-renewal programme to ...
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TAM Fokker 100 clipped building before crashing
Brian Homewood/RIO de JANIERO A Fokker 100 (PT-MRK) operated by Brazilian regional airline TAM crashed into a densely populated residential area shortly after take-off from Sao Paulo's downtown Congonhas airport on 31 October. All 90 passengers and six crew on board were killed, along with at least ...
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Avpro studies Harrier personnel pod
UK company Avpro, is looking for development funding for a personnel pod to be carried on the outer-wing hardpoints of a British Aerospace Harrier GR7 or McDonnell Douglas AV-8B. Project director Mike Ryan, believes that the personnel extraction/insertion (exint) pod could be used for a wide range of missions, including ...
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Dowty awarded BAe IFPCS contract
British Aerospace has contracted Dowty Aerospace to design and develop a suite of flight-control actuation equipment for installation on BAe's Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control System technology demonstration rig. The rig, located at BAe Military Aircraft Division at Warton in the UK, will be used to perform integration ...
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Honeywell prepares to launch Primus Epic avionics system
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Honeywell plans to unveil its next-generation integrated-avionics system, the Primus Epic, at the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) meeting in Orlando, Florida, in mid-November. Hardware development, module building and testing begins in 1997, with software due to be run in 1998. Testing ...
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Litton replacements
Litton Industries has won a US Navy contract, potentially worth more than $50 million, to provide up to 784 replacement navigation systems for Lockheed Martin P-3s and C-130s. The replacement system combines laser inertial-navigation and global-positioning in one complete unit. Source: Flight International
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Kenya's Dutch treat
Allan Winn/NAIROBI If there hadn't been a KLM, I wouldn't have known what to do - we'd done all the things we could," says Kenya Airways managing director Brian Davies as he looks back over the months since a successful privatisation and the formation of a successful ...
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Momentum versus kinetic energy
Sir - Mr Alan Mason says that, "mass times velocity says it all". Actually, it doesn't. He seems to be mistaking momentum (MV) for kinetic energy (half MV2) - more than a slight difference when one is talking of speeds of 50,000km/h, or 8.5 miles/s. A given mass ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 3
Compiled by Jennifer Pite/LONDON Introduction by Paul Lewis/Singapore A quick look at the activities of operators listed in this section of Flight International's three-part directory shows that, in the regions covered, the prime movers in maintenance at the moment are mostly based in Asia-Pacific. The ...
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Qantas
Australian national airline Qantas has hired senior Ansett executive Paul Donovan to head its Auckland office as New Zealand manager, to strengthen and expand its New Zealand position. Donovan, who had been with Ansett for 25 years and is a close associate of recently ousted Ansett managing director Graeme McMahon, ...
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Space Systems/Loral signs up Alliant for conditional EELV deal
Alliant Techsystems, which leads one of the four contractor teams bidding for the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programme, has signed a memo- randum of understanding with Space Systems/Loral to launch up to ten satellites between 2002 and 2006, if it emerges as the competition winner. ...
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Hughes selects launchers for 12 communications satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes and the Inmarsat-affiliate company ICO Global Communications, have selected four booster types, to carry 12 mobile communications satellites into orbit from late1998. The first ICO craft will be on an ILS International Launch Services Atlas 2AS booster. Three more - probably including ...
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Long March success revives the Chinese launcher programme
China's ailing launcher programme received a boost in mid-October with the launch of a national remote-sensing satellite aboard the third Long March LM 2D booster, from Jiuquan. The launch followed the failure of an LM3 to place the ChinaSat 7 into correct orbit in August (Flight International, 28 ...
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Cryo test
The Indian Space Research Organisation has test-fired a sub-scale, pressure-fed, 1,000kg-thrust cryogenic, liquid-oxygen/liquid-hydrogen engine for 120s, from the Mahendragiri liquid-propulsion-systems centre. The test was the final one in a 14-firing programme leading to the development of an indigenous engine to power the upper stage of the Geostationary Launch Vehicle, to ...
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Bridging the gaps
Günter Endres/Port of Spain Sixteen times a day, a 56-seat Air Caribbean NAMC YS-11A-500 turboprop takes off on one of the shuttle flights which form the "air bridge" between Trinidad's Piarco Airport and Tobago's Crown Point International. In peak season, demand rises to make up to 38 ...
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Leaving home
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV In recent years, Bedek Aviation, the maintenance and overhaul division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), has become one of the "money makers" for its parent group. The business has become so successful, in fact, that it is asking potential customers to postpone the transfer of ...
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Where next for MDC?
The decision to drop the MD-XX raises fresh questions over a future for Douglas Aircraft Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has dropped the MD-XX not because of the $2 billion over four years that it would have taken to develop the MD-11 derivative, but because ...