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Cirrus confirms SR20 performance
CIRRUS DESIGN has announced definitive performance figures for the SR20 light aircraft and begun converting delivery-position options into firm orders. US Part 23 certification has been scheduled for the third quarter of 1997, with customer deliveries to begin later that year. Cirrus is offering the SR20 to current ...
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CAE will build simulators for Global Express
BOMBARDIER HAS awarded CAE Electronics a $27 million contract to build the first two simulators for its Global Express long-range business jet. The full-flight and fixed-base simulators will be installed at the Bombardier Aerospace Training Centre in Montreal by early 1998. The centre, which was opened in December ...
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Southwest selects E&S visual for 737
US CARRIER Southwest Airlines has selected the Evans & Sutherland (E&S) ESIG-3350 visual system for a Boeing 737-700 full-flight simulator which is on order from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS). The Level C simulator is to enter service at the end of 1997, when 737-700 launch customer Southwest receives the ...
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-and wins C-141 contract
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has won a five-year, $65 million contract to operate the US Air Force's Lockheed C-141 transport aircrew-training system. C-141 simulators are now operated by Hughes Training. FSI will take over by 1 October. FSI operates the USAF's Boeing KC-135 tanker and Lockheed C-5 transport aircrew-training ...
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FSI trains Mesa
FlightSafety International is to provide Raytheon Beech 1900D simulator training for US regional Mesa Airlines. Mesa will use Level D simulators in Wichita, LaGuardia and Daytona Beach. Source: Flight International
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Thai picks TTS devices for its A330 and 777
THAI AIRWAYS International has ordered two full-flight simulators from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), for the Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 777-200. The Level D simulators will be delivered to Thai's new Bangkok training centre at the end of 1997 and the beginning of 1998. Visual systems for the ...
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FlightSafety studies PC training power
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is moving to exploit the power of personal computers (PCs) for pilot training. The US training company has signed agreements enabling it to create "virtual classrooms" for customers and to improve and adapt Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator software for PCs. FSI ...
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MMS wins contract for Columbus
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has awarded Matra Marconi Space (MMS) the contract for the development of a data-management system for the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF). The system records and processes the laboratory's operational data, and scientific data gathered. DASA is the prime contractor for the COF, the European section ...
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LOSAT hummer
Lockheed Martin Vought Systems has test-fired its line-of-sight anti-tank (LOSAT) kinetic-energy missile from a high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMV). The test proved the suitability of the HMMV, or Hummer, as a launch platform for the hypervelocity hit-to-kill weapon, following cancellation of the intended LOSAT platform, an advanced gun anti-tank system. ...
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Air Niugini takes step towards privatisation
AiR NIUGINI has been corporatised as a first step towards privatisation, despite a row between the Papua New Guinea Government and its National Airlines Commission (NAC). There had been fears, that the deadline of 7 August would not be met, after a quarrel over the ownership of the ...
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Pentagon should rethink CAS, say US accountants
THE US GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO) has warned that there may be flaws in US Department of Defense thinking on improvement of close air support (CAS). The Pentagon is planning to invest more than $11 billion in CAS weapons upgrades over the next six years, but the GAO ...
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United move
United Airlines has applied to launch a new thrice-weekly service from San Francisco to Jakarta, via Osaka, in a move likely to further inflame the long running US-Japan bilateral air-services dispute. Japan has rejected a similar application by Northwest Airlines, and says that it will not approve any other new ...
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The phase-out rules in Europe and the USA
NON-STAGE 3 aircraft will be banned from operating in European Union member states from 1 April, 2002, unless specific waivers are granted for up to an additional three years. Any Stage 2 aircraft, which reaches 25 years of age before the final cut-off date, must be removed from service immediately. ...
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Hubble shows doomed star
THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE continues to return pictures to Earth including this stunning image of doomed star Eta Carinae. The star is 8,000 light years away and was the site of an explosion, which was seen on Earth 150 years ago. Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars in ...
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Gunships for hire
An air force of mercenaries has turned the tide of battle against insurgent rebels in Angola and West Africa. Al Venter/SIERRA LEONE A GROUP OF South African mercenaries, all veterans of their country's long-lasting war against the Marxist regime in Angola during the 1980s, has established the ...
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Sea Launch joint venture boosted by first payload
THE BOEING-LED Sea Launch joint venture, has been assigned its first satellite payload the Hughes Communications Galaxy 11, which is scheduled to be launched in June 1998. The launch will also carry the first Hughes HS-702 spacecraft bus. Boeing is joined on the $500 million programme by ...
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Mission to return Mars samples could be accelerated, says NASA
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA IS STUDYING the possibility of bringing forward a mission designed to bring back samples from Mars, following public excitement raised by its announcement that microscopic life forms may once have existed on the planet. The original launch date was scheduled for 2005. ...
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DASA parent heads towards first-half profit
DAIMLER-BENZ is now on course to announce a profit for the first half of the year, marking the start of a climb-back from 1995 when escalating aerospace losses, worsened by the cost of closing Fokker, had left the German giant nursing a massive deficit. While Daimler-Benz confirms that ...
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A storming Oshkosh
Bad weather may have cut public attendance, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of exhibitors at this year's convention and fly-in at Oshkosh David Higdon/OSHKOSH AVIATORS BY THE tens of thousands renewed their love affair with aviation during the 44th annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) ...
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-as FAA raises fears over Russian progress on safety
THE USA IS worried that Russia, which barely met accepted International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) air-safety oversight standards in 1994, is failing to take action to improve its performance. In October 1994, a US Federal Aviation Administration safety-oversight evaluation, carried out with Russian authorities under the FAA's International ...