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Brazil orders missiles and support systems
The Brazilian Navy has ordered Aspide missiles and support equipment from Alenia Sistemi Navali, to equip its fleet of six Niteroi-class frigates, which are the subject of a modernisation programme. The $48 million order includes seven interrogation systems, 13 command and control consoles, and associated maintenance equipment. Alenia won a ...
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On the right track
Aerospatiale is positioning itself for merger with Dassaultand a central role in European consolidation. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE STATE-owned industrial giants of France are not renowned for their financial openness, and Louis Gallois, outgoing chairman of the country's aerospace flagship, Aerospatiale, admits that his company has been no ...
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Sikorsky selects medical-interior supplier
SIKORSKY HAS chosen Air Methods to supply aeromedical interiors for more than 90 UH-60Q medical-evacuation helicopters planned for the US Army and National Guard. Air Methods supplied the interior for a proof-of-concept UH-60Q completed in 1993, but had to bid competitively for production. The Denver, Colorado-based company ...
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Transaero upgrade
Florida-based Jetaire Services is to upgrade McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s operated by Russian carrier Transaero on lease from American Airlines. The aircraft will be fitted with Trimble 8100 global-positioning systems, and their dual Omega systems will be replaced by dual LTN-72 inertial-navigation systems. Source: Flight International
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CAA/BAA's 'rosy relationship'
Sir - The comments made by The Times newspaper of the UK on 17 July, responding to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry on behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority into airports authority BAA, are timely, uncannily accurate, and sum up with commendable clarity the relationship between BAA (a ...
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Air Canada
John Foster Fraser has been elected non-executive chairman of Air Canada, with effect from 1 August, replacing Hollis Harris, who is to retire. Fraser was most recently chairman and chief executive of Federal Industries. Source: Flight International
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Medical FLIR
Sikorsky has selected FLIR Systems' SAFIRE thermal-imaging system for installation on the US Army's Sikorsky UH-60Q medical-evacuation helicopter. Portland, Oregon-based FLIR will supply two systems with options to equip a total of 87 of the modified UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Eurocontrol members
The Slovak Republic's application for membership of Eurocontrol has been unanimously accepted by the organisation's Permanent Commission. Meanwhile, Croatia's application for accession to Eurocontrol has also been accepted. Source: Flight International
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Finnair leases 757s from ILFC
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON FINNAIR HAS concluded a lease deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) which will lead to the introduction of four new Boeing 757s from September 1997. The airline has signed an eight-year lease agreement, with extension options. All four aircraft, powered by Pratt & ...
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Swanwick delays cost CAA dearly
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority has confirmed that delays to the UK's new Swanwick en route air-traffic-control centre will leave it with a bill of around £10 million ($15.6 million), but says that it hopes to avoid raising user charges to meet the costs. ...
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Aaxico Industries flushes out BA's DC-10 blue-ice blues
BRITISH AIRWAYS hopes to slash the cost of implementing US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directives (ADs) concerning the formation of "blue ice" on aircraft, with the introduction of a testing device developed by Aaxico Industries of the UK. The FAA ADs, which initially apply to the McDonnell ...
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Constellation evaluates A320 and 737 to replace too-noisy 727-200s
CONSTELLATION International Airlines plans to acquire quieter, more efficient, aircraft to replace its Boeing 727-200s, which face a possible weekend noise- ban at the carrier's Brussels-Zaventem, Belgium, base. Constellation chief executive Christian Heinzman says that the airline is evaluating the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-300/400 to replace its Boeing ...
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University software may help pilots to miss obstacles
GKN WESTLAND Aerospace has completed simulator tests of a so-called "neurofuzzy" computer program designed to enable helicopter pilots to avoid obstacles in poor visibility. A neurofuzzy controller, developed by scientists at Southampton University in the UK, processes data from a range of sources to determine where it ...
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Bombardier wants lighter BR710 for its Global Express
BOMBARDIER HAS asked BMW Rolls-Royce to delete a mechanical-overspeed system from the BR710 turbofans powering the Global Express long-range business jet, to reduce weight. Gulfstream has not requested the same change to the BR710s powering its rival Gulfstream V, although it admits that the engine and its nacelle are overweight. ...
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P&WC tests Calcor nozzle
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PRATT & WHITNEY Canada has completed initial tests of Calcor Aero Systems' thrust-reverser/variable-exhaust-nozzle (REVEN) on a PW306. Calcor says that the engine runs, in a Toronto test cell, give it confidence that the nozzle will reduce specific fuel consumption (SFC) and increase thrust in altitude ...
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German authority approves Explorer
Germany's civil-aviation authority, the Luftfahrt Bundesamt, has become the first European agency to type certificate the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems Explorer. The 15 July certification award came within days of a recommendation from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) that all 27 of its member nations issue the eight-seat helicopter ...
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Business jets slip in GAMA totals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BUSINESS-JET shipments by US manufacturers slipped in the first six months of 1996, but are expected to pick up in the second half as production increases, initiated in 1995, work their way through. Compared with the first half of 1995, business-jet deliveries fell by almost ...
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Solar prize won
The solar-powered Icare 2 had its first flight at Laupheim air base in Germany on 7 July, winning the DM100,000 ($66,000) Berblinger Prize offered by the city of Ulm for solar flight. The lightweight, solar-powered aircraft has been developed by the Stuttgart University Institute for Air and Space Technology. The ...
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Untested software is blamed for failure of Ariane 5 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE FAILURE of the maiden launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 on 4 June resulted from the booster flying with an Ariane 4 dual-inertial reference system (IRS) untested for use in a new launch environment. The system also had "specification and design ...
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Bangkok Airways president aims for second carrier slot
Julian Moxon/BANGKOK THE PRESIDENT and owner of Thailand's privately owned airline Bangkok Airways wants to start a new airline to respond to the Thai Government's imminent call for offers for a second carrier to operate services on domestic and regional routes. Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, who owns ...