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US Border Patrol receives re-engined Huey for trials
THE US Border Patrol, has taken delivery of five Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1 utility rotorcraft, powered by Light Helicopter Turbine Engine's T800 turboprop engines. The re-engine UH-1s, delivered on 14 July, are on a one-year loan from the US Department of Defense. After testing the combination, ...
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BA reports on Oporto near-collision
A BRITISH AIRWAYS Boeing 737 avoided a head-on collision with a TAP Air Portugal Airbus A340 in May. The 737 took off rapidly from runway 17 at Oporto, Portugal, on 4 May, having seen that the A340 was on short finals for the same runway in the opposite direction. ...
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South Africa is raring to go
Sir - In the article "Survival techniques" (Flight International, 12-18 July, P28) there is the subheading "No better in South Africa" (P32). Fortunately, there are also some positive indications later in the text. Industrial development is in the forefront, particularly in provincial South Africa. The Orange ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, the first to be certificated at 400kN, will power the Boeing 777-300s recently ordered by Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai Airways International. R-R has defined a thrust level of 423kN for the initial -300 A-market stretch, saying that this can be achieved with adjustments to the ...
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Power struggle
It is a familiar story, but Russian engine makers are suffering from a shortage of funds. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW OF ALL SECTORS IN THE Russian aviation industry, engine manufacturers are receiving probably the sharpest criticism from national media and airline operators for their apparent inability to ...
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ITEC
International Turbine Engine (ITEC), a joint venture between AlliedSignal and the Aero Industry Development Center of Taiwan, is supplying its F124-100 turbofan engine to power the Czech L-159 combat aircraft which is being developed by Aero Vodochody. The engine, rated at 30kN, is a non-after-burning version of the TFE1042-70 (F125) ...
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LHTEC
LHTEC, a joint venture between Allison Engines and AlliedSignal Engines, is supplying its T800 turbo-shaft engine for the re-engineing of Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters flown by the US Border Patrol. The first re-engined aircraft was due to have been delivered in July. The T800 was originally developed for ...
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Next bus for Asian telecommunications
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S NEW A2100 spacecraft bus will be used in the company's $650 million Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) network programme. The satellite, equipped with large antennae manufactured by Harris, will provide a mobile-telephone communications system for the Far East and Asian regions, and will be operated by companies from Indonesia, ...
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DASA pleads with French
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has appealed to France to continue supporting the European Columbus module of the Alpha Space Station, following fears of French withdrawal. France has proposed to pull out of the DASA-led Columbus programme, by resurrecting its crew-rescue vehicle (CRV) project, cancelled earlier ...
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MMS wins ESA polar-platform contract is signed
Tim Furniss/LONDON MATRA MARCONI SPACE (MMS) and the European Space Agency have signed a $700 million deal for the development of a polar-platform spacecraft. The first, called the Envisat 1, will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 in 1999, to be operated in an 800km circular ...
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Discovery returns to Kennedy
THE SPACE SHUTTLE STS 70/Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 22 July after an 8 days 22h mission. It had been launched on 13 July, a record six days after the end of the last mission, the STS71/Atlantis. The Discovery crew deployed the final TRW-built ...
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Booster Test
The final test at Kourou, French Guiana, of the Ariane 5 solid-rocket booster was completed on 21 July. It was the second qualification firing and the seventh overall. The vehicle's maiden flight is now expected to take place on 17 January 1996. Source: Flight International
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MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce (MTR)
The MTR390 turbo-shaft engine will power some 427 Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters for the French and German armies, but two significant potential orders were lost when The Netherlands and the UK decided to order the US McDonnell Douglas Apache instead. Developed specifically for the Tiger by MTU, Turbomeca ...
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Loral and USAF complete GPS software tests
LORAL AND THE US Air Force have completed testing of new ground-control software, called Operational Release 6.A, for global-positioning-system (GPS) satellites. Loral says that the software, delivered ahead of schedule and under cost, met 99.7% of requirements during functional qualification testing. The USAF will now use the software ...
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UK offers to share helicopter evaluation data with Malaysia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA HAS BEEN offered the results of the UK's attack-helicopter procurement evaluation in support of its own helicopter programme, which is strongly tipped for inclusion in Malaysia's next five-year plan, starting in 1996 (Flight International, 5-11 April, P19). Type evaluation is provisionally targeted ...
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Rolls-Royce Turbomeca
The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 turbo-shaft engine will power the 67 Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache attack-helicopters ordered by the UK, opening up the possibility of the engine being considered for any upgrade of the US Army's fleet of Apaches. The engine has already been selected to power Europe's EH101 ...
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R-R and Snecma examine AMET blade technology
ROLLS-ROYCE AND Snecma are considering blade-in-ring technology as part of their collaborative Advanced Military Engine Technology (AMET) demonstrator project. Blade-in-ring, or Bling, technology uses titanium metal matrix materials, and offers a substantial weight saving over more conventional materials. As far as AMET is concerned, the two ...
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Williams-Rolls
An up-rated Williams-Rolls FJ44 turbofan will power Raytheon Aircraft's new light business-jet, designated the PD 374. The FJ44-2 selected is rated at 10kN (2,300lb) thrust and has a higher bypass-ratio, a larger-diameter fan and two additional intermediate-compressor stages, compared with the 8.5kN FJ44-1A used in Cessna's CitationJet. Certification ...
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DTI to fund civil avionics group
THE UK DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) is backing a new initiative aimed at raising the profile of the UK's civil-avionics industry through the establishment of a Civil Avionics Support Group (CASG). The DTI has agreed to fund the proposal. Launched by UK research group ERA Technology, ...