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Star expands
Star Europe, the French charter airline, is planning to acquire later this year a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 to operate on long-haul charters to the French Caribbean. The airline, which was acquired by the Canadian tour firm Transat Group earlier this year, is also returning some of its leased Boeing 737s ...
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DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator
DERA helps UK to optimise Apache performance using Hovers simulator THE UK DEFENCE Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) is reconfiguring its helicopter mission simulator to accurately represent the McDonnell Douglas/Westland WAH-64 Longbow Apache. The DERA says that the capability will enable it to investigate "system trade-off issues" and advise the ...
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Humidifier takes the heat out of long haul operations
AN ADVANCED humidifier system has been successfully flight-tested on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 during long-haul operations, and systems are now being fitted to Boeing 767s and Airbus A340s, as well as several large business jets. The Humispace humidifier, developed jointly by French-based Le Bozec Filtration and Systems and ...
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Boeing upgrades transonic tunnel
BOEING IS refurbishing its 52-year-old transonic windtunnel as part of efforts to reduce development times for new models. The upgrade comes as Boeing's product-development work approaches recently unprecedented levels. At the core of the windtunnel upgrade is a new drive system made by French manufacturer Cegelec. It includes ...
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Derco stocks up
Parts-distributor Derco Aerospace is to stock and market exclusively filtration equipment produced by PTI Technologies for a range of US military aircraft. Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Derco will also distribute bais-ply military-aircraft tyres produced by Michelin Aircraft Tire, and Intertechnique fuel-circulation equipment for a range of airliners. Source: ...
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Saab magnetism
A Saab-lead consortium has launched a research programme to study technologies for limiting electro- magnetic interference with aircraft systems. Other partners in the Composites and Advanced Aircraft Technologies Electromagnetic Protection project, which is part-funded by the European Commission, include Aerospatiale, British Aerospace, Dornier and Eurocopter. Source: ...
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Italian air force faces pressure to cut staff
The Italian air force is coming under renewed pressure to reduce its personnel numbers, at the same time as it faces losing aircrew to airlines. Air force personnel number over 75,000, with staff costs rising from 37.9% of the its budget in 1989 to 46.6% of the 1996 ...
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Homing Harrier
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has made the first successful flight tests of an advanced navigation software module which allows AV-8B Harrier pilots to make precision approaches to restricted landing areas in bad visibility. The self-contained approach system uses the aircraft's existing navigation systems to calculate position and velocity precisely, relative to ...
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Israel nears Candid AEW resolution
Russia and Israel appear to be nearing an agreement over the sale of an Ilyushin -Il-76 Candid airframe to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for conversion to an airborne-early-warning aircraft for China. The IAI proposal has been stalled by its inability to secure the Il-76 airframe for conversion. ...
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India looks at RAF C-130s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDIA IS considering an offer to purchase up to ten secondhand Lockheed Martin C-130K transport aircraft, scheduled to be phased out of Royal Air Force service with the delivery of replacement C-130Js. The aircraft are among 25 C-130Ks Lockheed Martin has agreed to buy ...
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GEC dates Apache
GEC-Marconi Avionics has been selected to supply air- data systems for the US Army's McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopter. The initial order from the USA is for 24 systems consisting of air speed and direction sensors and a high-integration air-data computer. Source: Flight International
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Boeing targets 1998 for Eagle test flight
BOEING WILL test fly a fuselage-mounted infra-red search and track (IRST) system on board an E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft in the third quarter of 1998. The IRST and laser ranger package, called the Eagle, will be used to look at the feasibility of employing the ...
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Pacific Aerospace seeks certification for CT4C trainer
PACIFIC AEROSPACE is proceeding with the certification of its turboprop CT4C trainer, in response to what the New Zealand company says has been strong renewed regional interest in its low-cost military trainer. The CT4C, on which considerable certification flying has already been carried out, is powered by an ...
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USAF plans to use JASSM variants
THE US AIR Force is planning to eventually deploy a family of variants of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The USAF has told Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Missiles, the two contractors working on the programme-definition and risk-reduction (PDRR) phase of the project, that it foresees ...
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USA transfers equipment to boster anti-drug operations
Aircraft and other military equipment worth $112 million (£70 million) are to be transferred to Latin American and Caribbean nations for anti-drug operations under plans announced by the US Government. US Congress has been notified of proposals to transfer surplus Bell UH-1H helicopters and Fairchild C-26 observation aircraft ...
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IAE selected
Egyptair has selected the International Aero Engines V2500-A5 engine to power four Airbus A321s it recently ordered. The aircraft are due for delivery during 1997, and will join seven V2500-powered A320s already in service. Source: Flight International
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Space knockout
Malfunctions on satellites caused by electrostatic discharges are more common than manufacturers care to admit. Tim Furniss/LONDON THE DATE, 20 JANUARY 1994, does not immediately spring to mind as memorable in space history, but it was a nightmare day for the communications-satellite industry, particularly in Canada. Without warning, ...
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Lufthansa criticises 747-X design
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA operations chief executive Klaus Nittinger has criticised recent changes in Boeing's design proposals for its 747-500/600X. "The aircraft has changed so drastically [since November] that it has moved far away from what we would like to see," says Nittinger. Lufthansa was enthusiastic about ...
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BA fights for the continent
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE announcement of a new wave of restructuring at British Airways should have come as little surprise. In May, chief executive Bob Ayling followed the group's world-beating 1995 profits announcement with a stark warning that BA needed to make another £1 billion ($1.5 billion) in savings. ...
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MDHS plans to produce MD902 Explorer in 1997
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) is to phase out production of the MD900 Explorer in 1997 and replace it with a more advanced version, the MD902. The US company is upgrading the Explorer largely in response to competition from Bell, with its 427, ...