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EW F-18 under development
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and Northrop Grumman have formally agreed to develop jointly a derivative of the F-18E/F Hornet strike aircraft as an electronic-warfare (EW) aircraft. It is proposed as a replacement for Northrop Grumman's EA-6B Prowler early in the next century. Although they are teamed on the F-18 ...
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Carry on Loral
Loral will continue to operate and maintain electronic-combat systems at the US Air Force's Weapons and Tactics Center Range in Nevada. An $86 million contract calls for Loral to continue providing technical support until the year 2000. Loral has held the contract since 1980. The aerial-combat range includes anti-aircraft artillery ...
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Thai needs new aircraft and another chairman
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Thai Airways International is considering purchasing the Airbus Industrie A340, or additional McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11 tri-jets to meet its requirement for new long-range aircraft for use on thin routes. The aircraft are needed to replace larger Boeing 747-400s on existing under-utilised routes ...
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Phoenix Airways rescued
PRIVATELY OWNED South African airline Phoenix Airways has been taken over by Cape Town-based charter operator Atlantic Air. The buy out, follows weeks of speculation on imminent bankruptcy hotly denied by the low-fare airline's managing director, Hugo Smit. The uncertainty surrounding Phoenix in the weeks before ...
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UK research satellites find dynamic radiation belts
THE EARTH'S van Allen radiation belts are more dynamic than previously thought, according to data returned from the Space Technology Research Vehicles STRV 1A and 1B, launched in June 1994. These satellites, built by the UK's Defense Research Agency (DRA) at Farnborough, were expected to survive only for ...
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Orbcomm success
ORBCOMM'S NETWORK Control Centre in Dulles Virgina, received messages on 25 July which had been transmitted to a passing Orbcomm satellite by a prototype subscriber communicator near the Dead Sea, Israel. The intercontinental transmission and receipt of the store-and-forward Globalgram messages proves the Orbital Sciences subsidiary's ability to ...
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High flyer
The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft, the first probe to pass over the poles of the Sun, reached its maximum latitude of 80.2° north of the Sun's equator on 31 July. The spacecraft had traveled 2.56 billion kilometres since its deployment from the Space Shuttle Discovery in October 1990. ...
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Too many cooks?
Is Russia's recipe for arms-export success too rich? Alexander Velovich/MOSOCW EIGHTEEN AIRCRAFT being offered by eighteen agents, including a Russian popular singer with alleged mafia connections. No wonder the sale of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums to Malaysia proved such a tortuous process. Russia's attempts to "rationalise" ...
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Cathay profits turn up over first half of 1995
CATHAY PACIFIC produced a better-than-expected performance for the first half of 1995, after overcoming what the airline admits was a poor start to the year. Japan's Kobe earthquake early in the year resulted in the cancellation of ten Cathay flights and added further gloom to the already depressed ...
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Taiwan says 'no' to ex-Pakistani F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE TAIWAN HAS ruled out purchasing any of Pakistan's embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the US Government, because of a lack of commonality with the F-16s it has already ordered. The US Government is trying to find a buyer for the 28 completed F-16s ...
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Textron piston production to grow
Ramon Lopez/WILLIAMSPORT TEXTRON LYCOMING production of piston engines following Cessna Aircraft's decision to revive its single-engined general-aviation (GA), and Piper Aircraft's emergence from four years of bankruptcy protection. Cessna, a sister company within the Textron group, decided to re-introduce the 172, 182, 206 and Turbo ...
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Northwest and KLM increase US-Europe frequencies
NORTHWEST AIRLINES and KLM will inaugurate a joint daily non-stop service between Washington's Dulles International and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on 29 October, replacing the present thrice-weekly frequencies. The new service will be flown with McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. The two airlines now offer joint schedules from 11 North American ...
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Manila falls foul of FAA
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration says that Manila's Ninoy Aquino International, in the Philippines, does not now maintain security measures which are fully consistent with standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The USA believes that air services between the USA and the Philippines can continue, ...
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More Alitila 767s
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), in conjunction with Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, has wet-leased three new-build Boeing 767-300ERs to Alitalia. The first aircraft was delivered in early August, with the remaining two scheduled for delivery in November and February 1996. The three 767s were ordered from Boeing by SALE in ...
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SIA considers new regional-jet options
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) is considering a longer-term requirement for a smaller regional passenger jet, in addition to its yet-to-be selected "Y-aircraft", to complete replacement of its Airbus A310-200/300 fleet. The airline is examining options for a "W-aircraft" to supplement its future Y-aircraft and replace the A310 on lower-density ...
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Good initial results for C-17 test
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS from the vital 30-day US Air Force evaluation of the McDonnell Douglas C-17 transport suggest that the aircraft performed better than expected, achieving launch-reliability rates of 99.4%. Twelve C-17s logged 2,252h in the Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Evaluation (RM&AE), transporting 5,000t of cargo. Out of 513 ...
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Sentinel 1000 destroyed in fire
A DEVASTATING fire has destroyed the only existing, Westinghouse Sentinel 1000-001 airship and its hangar. The fire broke out on 2 August at the Westinghouse Airship Flight Centre at Weeksville, North Carolina. The hangar, one of the largest wooden structures in the world, was built more than 50 ...
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FAA tightens security
The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered tighter security at US airports as a precautionary measure against possible terrorist acts. The move is prompted by information from law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, and is not expected to cause delays. Source: Flight International
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Indian Government rejects Tata/SIA joint-venture application
AFTER SITTING ON THE application by Tata Industries and Singapore Airlines (SIA) for a joint-venture airline since the beginning of the year, the Indian Government has finally rejected the proposal, along with 18 others aspiring to start private airlines in India. The Tata/SIA venture, which had planned to ...
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Canadian trainer options tighten up
SELECTION OF A turboprop trainer for Canada's proposed industry-operated NATO flying-training programme will begin soon. The choice is expected to narrow to the Embraer EMB-312H Super Tucano, the Pilatus PC-9 and the PC-9-based Raytheon Beech MkII, winner of the US Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition, which had its ...