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F-18 tests
Endevco has won a contract from McDonnell Douglas Aerospace to supply DC accelerometers for the F-18E/F flight test programme. The accelerometers will be used to study aircraft structural characteristics under a variety of flight-test conditions. Testing will be performed using seven aircraft from December. Source: Flight International
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Primal screen show
Avionics usually come first when it comes to upgrades to military aircraft such as the F-15, F-16 and F-18. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S F-16 and McDonnell Douglas' F-15 and F-18 represent the single largest constituency of modern Western-built fighters in service worldwide. With some 6,400 F-15s, ...
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Passengers become more sophisticated
Sir - The recent stand made by a group of UK charter carriers against low-quality flight operations is long overdue (Flight International, 12-18 July, P8 and Letters, 26 July-1 August, P39). In all markets, passengers are price-sensitive, but they are also quality-conscious. Premium-class passengers, in particular, have become ...
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Lufthansa and BA step up pilot hiring to beat shortage
Andrew Doyle/FRANKFURT Lufthansa and British Airways are to draw up plans for large-scale pilot recruitment for the first time since the recession began. Both carriers will be seeking candidates for ab initio training, as well as direct-entry pilots, while Lufthansa is also chasing foreign pilots ...
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Ringing in the new
What does the new Bell 407 offer over its predecessors? Graham Warwick/MONTREAL IF BELL IS renowned for two things in the commercial-helicopter field, they are the Model 206 and the two-blade rotor. These traditional Bell strengths have threatened to become weaknesses, however, as the prolonged ...
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RAF deal clinched by Reflectone
REFLECTONE HAS finalised its contract with Lockheed Martin to provide training equipment and services to support the Royal Air Force's purchase of 25 C-130J Hercules 2 transports. The $77 million contract, is the largest in the US simulation company's history. Reflectone will supply two full-flight simulators, a flight-training ...
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Aeroservice aims for expansion
AEROSERVICE AVIATION Center, plans to triple the size of its Miami, Florida flight simulator training base, following the acquisition of a new site adjacent to the international airport. The new site will have eight bays, and plans call for the company to operate simulators for the Boeing 727, 737, 747, ...
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E&S achieves its first sale as independent
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA EVANS & SUTHERLAND (E&S) has secured its first contract to provide commercial flight-simulator visual systems since establishing itself as an independent supplier in 1994. Airbus Industrie has ordered two E&S visual-systems for installation on A320 and A330/A340 simulators to be built by Thomson Training and ...
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FlightSafety makes plans for Vital installations
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) plans to begin installing its latest Vital ChromaView visual system on company-operated simulators by the end of 1995. ChromaView launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) is completing installation of three systems on Boeing 737 and 777 simulators, and the first training approval is imminent. FSI ...
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USAF Upgrade
FlightSafety International has received a $52 million US Air Force contract to upgrade seven Lockheed C-5 simulators with articulated, 225° field-of-view, MultiView display-systems, Lockheed Martin CompuScene PT2000 image generators and database-generation systems and larger motion bases. FlightSafety Services operates the C-5 simulator on behalf of the US Air Force. ...
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Taking the heat
CASA president Raul Herranz talks about his successful business strategy. Julian Moxon/MADRID WITH VIRTUALLY no rain in recent months, and the city now suffering the hottest weather in recent memory, the atmosphere in Madrid this summer is hardly refreshing. Unless, that is, one ...
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Canadian Airlines shakes up as results continue to weaken
DETERIORATING financial results at Canadian Airlines have prompted a top-management shake out at the carrier. The day after reporting worsening losses for the second quarter (Flight International, 2-8 August) the airline's president, Kevin Jenkins, announced that seven of his top 22 executives would be departing. They will be ...
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Bouncing back
The Oshkosh '95 show provided clues for those on the trail of a GA comeback. Karen Walker/OSHKOSH RECENT INDICATIONS that the US general-aviation (GA) industry is turning the corner out of recession have been reinforced by Oshkosh '95, the annual convention and fly-in of the ...
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Canadian turnaround
Bombardier is setting world standards for manufacturing methods. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL BOMBARDIER, ALMOST single-handedly, has restored Canada to a position in the major league of aerospace nations - initially through acquisitions, then with product launches, and now in sales growth. Next, it aims to lead the ...
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Why lemons can make pilots sick
Gunter Endres/LONDON WHAT WOULD YOU do if you are a pilot and you smell lemons in the cockpit? You would most likely to assume that the cabin staff is serving a gin and tonic, or cleaning the toilets, and you would ignore it. What you probably will ...
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Orbital Sciences to absorb MDA merger
SATELLITE AND launcher builder Orbital Sciences has agreed to acquire Canadian remote-sensing specialist MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). The deal, which needs US and Canadian regulatory approval, will be structured as a merger with Orbital exchanging shares, for all of MDA's outstanding stock. MDA supplies commercial remote-sensing ground ...
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USA tests precision approach advance
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A UNIQUE PRECISION-approach aid has been installed at Watertown Airport in Wisconsin and is awaiting approval. Final US Federal Aviation Administration approval of Advanced Navigation & Positioning's (ANPC) transponder landing-system (TLS) is expected in October. The TLS is a low-cost Category I landing system ...
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Duncan pushes turnaround performance
DUNCAN AVIATION IS guaranteeing customers a reduced turnaround time for the maintenance, refurbishment, or painting of light- and medium-sized business-jets. Lincoln, Nebraska-based Duncan's new PowerTurn programme specifies penalties if the company fails to redeliver the aircraft by the guaranteed date. "[Corporate] flight departments are increasingly expected to maximise ...
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Evas Sales Success
US telecommunications-giant MCI and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have both taken delivery of VisionSafe's emergency vision-assurance systems (EVAS). The portable systems will be used on the RAAF's Dassault Falcon 900s and MCI's corporate fleet, to ensure visibility of the instruments in the event of dense, continuous, smoke in ...