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Aerojet to test NK-33
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AEROJET PLANS TO test-fire a Russian-produced NK-33 rocket engine at its Sacramento, California, plant on or about 4 October. Two engines were received in August under an agreement between Aerojet and NK Engines of Samara, Russia. The NK-33 is the baseline engine for ...
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NASA starts on New Millennium project
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA PLANS TO launch three interplanetary space missions before 2000, as part of a $100 million-a-year New Millennium space-technology validation effort. The first to be launched in 1998, will be built by Spectrum Astro at a cost of about $30 million. It is ...
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Four bid for Shuttle contract
BAMSI, BOEING, McDonnell Douglas, and the United Space Alliance of Lockheed Martin and Rockwell have informed NASA of their interest in becoming prime contractor for Space Shuttle operations. The statements of interest will be evaluated by the space organisation and a draft request for proposals (RFP) issued in ...
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Aerospatiale wins EDEN contract for Neurolab
AEROSPATIALE HAS signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop and manufacture the instruments for the ESA portion of the Space Shuttle Spacelab Life Sciences 4/STS89 Columbia mission, called the Neurolab, which will be the highlight of NASA's Neuroscience research programme, in March 1988. Called ...
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Euromir 3 mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) will propose a third Euromir mission to the Mir 1 Russian space station in 1998, at the Council of Ministers meeting in Toulouse on 18-20 October. The second Euromir mission, carrying German astronaut Thomas Reiter, was launched aboard Soyuz TM22 from Baikonur on 3 September. ...
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Pakistan K-8 deliveries
The Pakistan air force is to take delivery of a further six Nanchang K-8 Karakorum jet trainers from China. An initial six were handed over in late 1994, for evaluation. The aircraft are among a first production batch of 15 AlliedSignal TFE731-2A-powered K-8s produced by Nanchang Aircraft. Source: ...
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SIA expands 777 options
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has widened its "Y aircraft" evaluation of the Boeing 777 to include the longer range -200 B-market and -300 stretch variants. The 777 is competing against the Airbus Industrie A330/340 for an SIA order for up to 17 aircraft. A final selection was due ...
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PIA 747 talks
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is reported to be negotiating to purchase six used Boeing 747-300s from Singapore Airlines, to replace six elderly 747-200s. Source: Flight International
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DASA turns down Eurofighter offer
Douglas Barrie/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has rebuffed an UK Government-brokered compromise solution to the highly charged problem of work-share on the four-nation Eurofighter combat-aircraft programme. The UK proposal offered a trade-off on management restructuring in exchange for allowing DASA to maintain a higher level of ...
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Russia tests new cruise missile
RUSSIA IS TESTING a next-generation air-launched long-range cruise missile at the air force's Ahktubinsk air-weapons evaluation centre. The development, thought to have been initiated in the late 1980s, is probably the recently, reported Raduga Kh-101 subsonic-cruise-missile programme. The missile is being tested from a modified ...
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FANS doubters 'risk being left behind'
AIRLINES WHICH DO not subscribe to the future air-navigation system (FANS) risk being left behind as others reap the financial benefits resulting from the more efficient route structure and reduced delays the system will make possible. The warning came as the industry met for the Flight International ...
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Eastern expansion
Vietnam is on the brink of major air-transport growth. Paul Lewis/HANOI THE INDOCHINA region of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) is emerging from more than four decades of conflict and economic isolation and today represents the last real undeveloped air-transport market in the area. ...
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Malaysia Airlines wants more widebodies to meet growth
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) plans to order 25 new wide body aircraft for delivery between 1998 and the year 2000, including an undisclosed number of additional Boeing 747-400s, says company chairman Tajudin Ramli. The aircraft are needed to meet growth in air traffic beyond ...
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UAE rejects F-16U proposal
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S plans to produce advanced derivatives of the F-16 combat aircraft have been dealt a blow with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deciding to drop the F-16U from its strike-fighter competition. The UAE's decision to reject the Lockheed Martin offer was because of the associated $2-3 ...
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Global Express is taking shape
MAJOR SECTIONS of the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet will begin arriving at de Havilland in Toronto, Canada, in December. Final assembly will begin in March 1996 and the programme is on schedule for a first flight in September 1996, the Canadian company says. "The Global ...
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SSAC launches new SJ30
SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has repositioned the SJ30 light business-jet to avoid competing head-on with Raytheon Aircraft's new Premier I. The Taiwanese-backed company now plans to develop an increased-performance SJ30-2 concurrently with the original aircraft, now designated the SJ30-1. The SJ30-2 will be powered by two uprated, 10kN ...
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Dassault demonstrates Falcon 900EX design range
DASSAULT AVIATION flew its first Falcon 900EX long-range business jet non-stop from Luton,UK, to Las Vegas, Nevada, for its NBAA debut. The flight demonstrated the aircraft's 8,320km (4,500nm) design range, the manufacturer says, covering an air distance of 8,700km with a payload equivalent to more than eight passengers and three ...
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Challenger certificated
Bombardier's 7,500km (4,060nm)-range Canadair Challenger 604 received Canadian certification on 20 September. Factory deliveries begin this month and US certification is scheduled for late October. Source: Flight International
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EJA expands NetJets with European move
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) has launched the long-awaited expansion of its NetJets business-aircraft fractional-ownership programme into Europe. EJA will base four company-owned Cessna Citation S/IIs in Europe, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1995 and will begin selling aircraft shares, in the first quarter of 1996 says, ...
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Rutan builds single-jet Vantage
BURT RUTAN'S Scaled Composites (SCI) will fly a prototype of VisionAire's Vantage single-turbofan business jet in April 1996. SCI has a contract to build the prototype and complete the first 40 flights of the six-place, all-composite, aircraft. VisionAire, based in St Louis, Missouri, unveiled a full-scale cabin mock-up ...