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Thomson & Hughes JV
Thomson CSF-Airsys and Hughes Aircraft will set up a company to respond to NATO's Air Command and Control System requirement, aimed at replacing the existing NATO Air Defence Ground Environment. The jointly owned company will be called Air Command Systems International. Source: Flight International
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Vantage roll-out
The proof-of-concept prototype, of the VisionAire's all composite Vantage business jet, will be rolled out on 8 November. The six seat, single-engined design, is being completed by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, at its plant in Mojave, California. Production examples will be assembled at a new plant in Ames, Iowa. The ...
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K-C completion
K-C Aviation has completed the interior installation of its first Canadair Challenger 604. The aircraft, which is owned and operated by FMC, was completed within 18 weeks. K-C Aviation has six more Challenger 604s in completion, which are scheduled for delivery in 1997. Source: ...
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Combs buys
AMR Combs is acquiring certain assets of Air/Lyon's executive-aviation-services business at John Wayne/ Orange County Airport in Santa Ana, California. The deal includes the fixed-base operation, the hangar site and the flight-operation programme at the airport, which have been operated under the name Martin Aviation since 1923. Air/Lyon will retain ...
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Dragonair delays
Dragonair of Hong Kong is to postpone its planned public listing on the local exchange until the end of 1997, reportedly to give the airline more time to improve its profit growth. It had originally been intended to float part of Dragonair's stock early in 1997 as part of the ...
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DRS echo
Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems' (DRS) Precision Echo unit has received a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $8 million, to supply 8mm cockpit video-recorder systems for Fairchild A/OA-10As. Precision Echo supplies similar systems for the McDonnell Douglas F-18 and AV-8B. Source: Flight International
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Starsem expects
The Russian space agency, Samara, Aerospatiale and the Stasem Arianespace consortium, which is marketing the Soyuz booster, expects to sign its first launch with Globalstar 'soon', say sources. Source: Flight International
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Spaceport first
The first launch from Spaceport Florida's refurbished launch pad No 46 at Cape Canaveral is scheduled for September 1997, when a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV 1) will carry NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter into space. After the failure of the maiden flight of the LMLV 1 in 1995, NASA had ...
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Marconi win
Matra Marconi Space has won a $10 million contract to provide a network of ship-borne, mobile and central-hub satellite-communications terminals, called the SISCOMIS, to the Brazilian armed forces. They will use the X-band terminals on the Brazilsat B1 and B2. Source: Flight International
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Slow progress
Cash shortages have delayed yet another Russian space launch. The Progress M33 tanker, which was to have been launched on a Soyuz U rocket on 15 October to supply cargo to the Mir 1 space station, has been grounded until early November. Budget cuts have reduced the annual production of ...
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Tyrolean heads-up
The first operational Category IIIa landing of a head-up display (HUD)-equipped Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet was performed by a Tyrolean Airways flightcrew at Graz, Austria, on 10 October. The Flight Dynamics HUD was certificated for use on the Austrian carrier's Regional Jets in April, allowing landings at runway visual range ...
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Airports demobbed
Four former military airbases in the USA, have been enrolled in a federal grants programme, designed to convert former military airfields into civil airports. Funding of $26 million has been put up in fiscal year 1996 for the Military Airport Programme. The plan includes disused airfields at Williams AFB, Bergstrom ...
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Age-60 ruling
A federal appeals court panel will rule within a few months whether the US Federal Aviation Administration can continue to bar pilots of over 60 years from commanding US commercial passenger aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Debonair expansion
New UK low-cost carrier Debonair will introduce flights from London/Luton to Rome's Ciampino Airport on 21 November. Source: Flight International
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Noisy phase out
The US Federal Aviation Administration reports that US air carriers are ahead of schedule in phasing out noisier Stage 2 aircraft such as the Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The number of Stage 2 aircraft in service declined in 1995, from 2,250 to 2,048. By 31 December, 1996, airlines ...
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...