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Scholarship
Martyn Steele has won the 1995 Flight International Barnett and Piercey Flying Scholarship. Steele, in his second year at the University of Plymouth, Devon, won a Royal Air Force Flying Scholarship in 1994 and has some 21h of powered-flying experience. He hopes to fly with the RAF after he has ...
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MDC
John Steurer has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the Joint Advanced Technology programme at McDonnell Douglas (MDC) of St Louis, Missouri, succeeding Donald McGovern, who is to retire at the end of the year. Steurer, with MDC for 25 years, including being vice-president for integrated product definition, was ...
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Embraer
Brazilian airframe manufacturer Embraer has appointed Mauricio Botelho president and chief executive. He replaces Juarez Wanderley, who was the interim president during the transition period, which followed the carrier's privatisation. Wanderley becomes vice-president of industry under a new management structure. Botelho has held management positions in engineering, telecommunications, automation systems ...
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Rockwell
Newly appointed managing director of Rockwell Systems Australia (RSA) is David Grey, formerly managing director of GEC-Marconi Australia. Grey will be responsible for RSA's defence business, replacing Donald Boyce, who will return to the USA after more than five years in Australia. Source: Flight ...
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BAe Australia
Robin Southwell, managing director of British Aerospace Asset Management Organisation (AMO), is to become group chief executive at BAe Australia. Tony Rice is appointed to the new position of chief executive at AMO, with responsibility both for AMO and JSX Capital operations. Source: Flight International
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Loral FLIR for LAMPS
Loral will begin providing the Sikorsky Aircraft SH-60B LAMPS anti-submarine and airborne surveillance helicopter with forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) systems under US Navy contracts totaling $35 million. Source: Flight International
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Y-7 for Chinese Navy
Xian Aircraft (XAC) has converted two Y-7 turboprop transports into aircrew avionics trainers for China's naval air force. Modifications include, the installation of the new radar, displays and reconfigured cabin for training. Source: Flight International
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Warranty widening
Dassault Falcon Jet is claiming the industry's broadest warranty after increasing coverage on the structure of all new Falcon business jets to ten years, or 10,000h, and five years, or 5,000h on systems and avionics. Source: Flight International
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Challenger Satcom
KC Aviation is to install a Collins SAT-906 six-channel satellite-communications (sat- com) system in a Canadair Challenger 601-3R owned by US agricultural-equipment manufacturer Deere, with multiple cabin-telephone handsets, a dedicated facsimile line and personal-computer data-ports. Source: Flight International
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Mini Data Recorder
Aydin Vector has introduced a miniaturised device for aircraft digital flight-data recording, called the MiniAMOR-700. The asynchronous real-time multiplex and output reconstructor system is designed to combine a range of analogue and digital signals into a single high-speed digital data-stream for digital recording. Source: Flight International
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IUE transfer
Control of the venerable, long-serving International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, launched in 1978, has been transferred by NASA to the European Space Agency and the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council as part of a move in NASA's continuing cost-reduction efforts. Transbrazil stake ...
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Too tall
NASA astronaut Scott Parazinsky, has been dropped from cosmonaut training at Russia's Star City because, at 1.87m, he is too tall to fit safely into a Soyuz spacecraft in which, in an emergency, he would have to ride during his planned 143-day flight aboard the Mir 1, after launch on ...
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Extended mission
Cash shortages have delayed the production of a Soyuz booster to launch the Russian Soyuz TM23 to the Mir 1 space station in December. The launch will be delayed until February 1996, resulting in an extended stay in space by the TM22 crew, aboard the station. The 135-day mission by ...
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Up Tempo
Space Systems Loral's Tempo 1 communications satellite, not the Astra 1F spacecraft, will make the first commercial launch of a Russian Proton booster from Baikonur in June 1996. The Proton, marketed by International Launch Services, has five bookings for satellites launches into geostationary orbit, (Flight International, 27 September-3 October). ...
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Taiwan's domestic airlines jockey for position
FORMOSA AIRLINES with 23 aircraft, has the largest fleet of Taiwan's domestic airlines. It has two Saab 340As, six Saab 340Bs, three Fokker 50s, seven Dornier 228s and two Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders. Another Fokker 50 will be delivered in November. Two Fokker 100s will be delivered, one in December ...
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Stages in US law
US legislation requires that all Stage 2 aircraft be replaced, hushkitted or re-engined by the year 2000 and, in addition, US carriers had to ensure that 55% of their fleets were Stage 3 compliant by the end of 1994. Further deadlines call for 65% compliance by the end of 1996, ...
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QNC's route to Stage 3
Quiet Nacelle's (QNC's) earlier JT3D Stage 2 hushkit for 707-100s and OC-135Bs forms the basis of its Stage 3 upgrade package. To achieve Stage 3 compliance, an inner acoustic ring is located co-axially within the engine intake. The inner ring will be fully anti-iced and certificated for bird strikes. Additional ...
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Clarification on Eva structure
Sir - In response to the item on the management restructure at Eva Air (Flight International, 20-26 September, P75), I would like to point out that, following the departure of chairman Y F Chang, Shen-Chih Cheng, not Frank Hsu as you reported, has succeeded him. Mr Hsu, previously president, becomes ...
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No need to jump the gun on JAR 65
Sir - Andreas Georgiades, president of Aircraft Engineers International, wrote on the Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) requirement JAR 65 (Flight International, 6-12 September, Letters, P43). I would like to point out that the views and facts in David Learmount's original article (Flight International, 26 July - 1 August) ...