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WAH-64 collaboration
IMI Marston of the UK and New York, US-based Hughes-Treitler are to manufacture jointly environmental-control-system heat exchangers for the British Army's ordered fleet of Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64 Longbow Apache attack helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Radarsat first
The UK's Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) has become the first organisation outside Canada to be certified to provide imagery from the Canadian Radarsat remote-sensing satellite through its ground station at West Freugh, Scotland. DERA holds a licence to distribute Radarsat data in the Denmark, Ireland and the UK, and ...
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Magnetic matters
The first magnetic spectrometer to be sent into space, to capture elusive space particles such as anti-matter and dark matter, will be flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in May 1998. The Chinese/Russian/US spectrometer, based on a rare mineral called neodymium iron boron, may then be installed on the International ...
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747 conversions
Boeing has received a contract from All Nippon Airways of Japan for the conversion of one 747-200 to full-freighter configuration - the second of the airline's 747s to be modified. The aircraft will be delivered to Wichita in April 1997 for the conversion work, and is scheduled to be handed ...
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Cargo change
Swissair is to take over Sabena's cargo operations as part of a programme aimed at radically cutting costs at the Belgian airline, in which the Swiss carrier has a 49.5% share. Swissair will integrate Sabena's operations with effect from 1 January, 1997 (Flight International, 28 August-5 September). ...
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Rice trade
The Thai Government has approved the barter purchase of two CN-235s from Industri Pesawat Nusantara Terbang of Indonesia, in exchange for 110,000t of rice. The aircraft will be used by the agriculture ministry. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon maintenance
Raytheon Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Aircraft, has won a $21 million US Air Force contract to continue maintenance of USAF trainers at Columbus AFB, Mississippi. The award is the third-year option of a potential five-year deal. This option, which covers fiscal year 1997, brings the value of the contract ...
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One F-22 dropped
One of four Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 pre-production verification (PPV) air- craft will not now be built, to save money. The ninth development F-22 will be used with three PPV aircraft for US Air Force initial operational test and evaluation. Source: Flight International
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Trent 800 ETOPS
The Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 has received 180min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration. The General Electric GE90-powered 777 gained 180min ETOPS earlier this month. Source: Flight International
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Valujet disposes
ValuJet Airlines has sold 15 aircraft and five spare engines "at, or above, the company's book value", as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration order to standardise and shrink its fleet. The transactions reduced ValuJet's debt related to aircraft acquisition and operation by $47 million. They cover seven company-owned ...
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Continental
Continental Airlines, of Houston, Texas, has appointed chief executive Gordon Bethune chairman of the board, succeeding David Bonderman. Chief operating officer Gregory Brenneman has been elected president. Source: Flight International
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MDC
MDC Gale Schluter has been appointed vice-president and general manager of St Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) space and defence-systems operation, replacing Bill Olson, who is to retire. Schluter was formerly vice-president and general manager of the unit's space-transportation business. Harry Combs (right), with Neil Armstrong ...
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AlliedSignal
AlliedSignal, of Township, New Jersey, has appointed Paul Wong chairman for Greater China. Wong, who succeeds Brent Lok, was formerly vice-president and general manager for China and Hong Kong at National Semiconductor. Lok becomes vice-president of AlliedSignal's materials management for Asia. Source: Flight International
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Hall of fame
Harry Combs, a pilot since 1928, founder of AMR Combs and responsible for the turnaround of Gates Learjet in the 1970s and 1980s has been officially enshrined in the US National Aviation Hall of Fame and presented with a gold medal for honour and achievement by its president, Dennis Corbly. ...
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Aviall
Margaret Bouline has been appointed director of information services at aviation-parts distributor Aviall, of Dallas, Texas. Before joining Aviall in October 1995 as manager of information services, Bouline held management and programming posisiotns at Sunbelt Nursery Group, Zale, Fidelity Investments and US Sprint. Source: ...
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Air India terminates Caribjet wet leases
AIR INDIA HAS terminated its wet-lease contract with Belgium-based Caribjet, which has been flying Airbus A310-300s and Lockheed TriStar 500s on behalf of Air India on certain services. The airline signed a two-year agreement with Caribjet in 1995, which had been scheduled to run to December 1997. ...
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High-profile Hercules
A multi-national C-130 squadron has been supporting NATO in Bosnia for almost a year. Tim Ripley/RIMINI NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE Col Lasse Hobber, commander of NATO's multi-national Lockheed-Martin C-130 Hercules squadron in Bosnia, says: "When our capability became known around the theatre, we started to be asked ...
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Safety circles
Immovable human-factors obstacles are a major concern in helicopter safety. David Learmount/LONDON THE LIST OF HELICOPTER accidents which, occurred in 1995 (see P43) contains 209 accidents, compared with 272 for the previous year (Flight International, 20-26 September, 1995, P36). As promising as this may sound, ...