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A clash of cultures
French ire and English sang froid characterise the European- defence debate after the UK chose a US helicopter. Douglas Barrie/LONDON JACQUES CHIRAC, the French President, "deplores" the UK's choice of the Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache Longbow as its next attack helicopter, while his head of ...
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Renaissance transport
Is the choice of military transport now between, the Lockheed C-130 Hercules or the Future Large Aircraft? Or can a fleet of small transports, integrated with larger ones, provide an alternative approach? Harry Hopkins/NAPLES THE ALENIA G222 is among the few 5-10t-payload loading-ramp-equipped transports, which are still ...
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Nagoya A300 families to sue CAL and Airbus
RELATIVES OF VICTIMS killed in the 1994 China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash, in Nagoya, Japan, have decided to sue the aircraft manufacturer and Taiwanese carrier, for substantial damages. Families of 124 of the crash victims are jointly seeking around '100 million ($1.16 million) each in compensation ...
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TransBrazil ditches 777
TRANSBRASIL HAS cancelled its order for three Boeing 777s. The Brazilian carrier informed Boeing of its decision just days before the Paris air show, held during June, but the US manufacturer has yet to announce the move officially. Transbrasil ordered the aircraft in 1993, originally for delivery starting ...
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Russian regrets?
The initial enthusiasm for East-West joint projects appears to be waning. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AT THE END OF THE 1980s, political and economical changes in the Soviet Union opened the way for a series of co-operative agreements between Western and Soviet aerospace companies. Now, five years ...
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Visionary approach
Surrey Satellite Technology is funding the development and launch of a new MiniBus space platform. Tim Furniss/GUILDFORD SMALLER, FASTER, CHEAPER - these are the qualities by which the products entering the burgeoning "smallsat" market are described. Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is one of the pack leaders; ...
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High-speed trains pose no threat to aircraft services
Sir - A recent report to the International Civil Aviation Organisation-CAEP, High-speed trains - competition and competitive power, written by Jan Veldhuis (Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority), Alf Schmitt (Germany) and myself, provides minimal support for the apprehensions put forward by "name withheld" and Haluk Taysi of Airbus (Flight International, Letters, ...
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IPTN MPA plans set back
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDONESIA'S air force has again pushed back its planned order for six Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235 MPA maritime-patrol aircraft by a year, representing a further setback for the programme. IPTN had been hoping that the air force would launch the MPA version ...
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Licence to change
European pilot-training organisations at all levels will have to cope with a new set of standards. David Learmount/LONDON Most European pilots know that flight-crew licence requirements are changing to a European standard, but few could say when or describe the differences. Pilot-training organisations, on the other hand, ...
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P&W begins testing PW4090 turbofan
PRATT & WHITNEY IS testing its PW4090 turbofan, the latest high-thrust version of the PW4000 which, rated at 400kN (90,000lb) take-off thrust, is destined to power Boeing's high- gross-weight 777-200 wide-body twinjet. The East Hartford, Connecticut-based company hopes to obtain US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the engine ...
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Customers tune in to weather system
AAI's SYSTEMS management subsidiary (AAI/SMI) has announced new customers for its Next Generation Weather Observing System (NEXWOS), the commercial version of the ASOS automated weather-reporting system in production for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Latvia's air-navigation service has ordered an ASOS II, the export version of ...
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MMS to build fourth Hot Bird
Tim Furniss/LONDON MATRA MARCONI SPACE (MMS) has been awarded a $200 million contract to build the 20 Ku-band transponder, direct-to-home, Hot Bird 4 satellite for European communications-satellite organisation Eutelsat. MMS is already building the Hot Birds 2 and 3. The MMS built, 2.7t Hot Birds 2-4, ...
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Collins windshear radar approved certificated
COLLINS COMMERCIAL Avionics, part of Rockwell International, says that its Forward Looking Wind-shear Weather Radar has received supplemental type certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration. Trials of the WXR-700X were completed using a Boeing 737-300. The radar warns of wind-shear conditions up to 90s ahead of the ...
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A320 Overhaul
Lufthansa Technik (LTAG) began overhauling Airbus A320 landing gears at its Hamburg, Germany site in July. Meanwhile, LTAG has acquired a complete Boeing 747-200 landing gear, in addition to the 747-400 gear already held in the company's inventory of rotable spares. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed signs deal to launch Superbird C
LOCKHEED MARTIN has signed a contract with Japan's Space Communications (SCC) to launch the Superbird C communications satellite on an Atlas 2AS booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1997. SCC, which is a joint venture of 28 Mitsubishi companies, operates two Superbirds, A1 and B1, which were launched ...
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Galileo capsule on suicide mission
A HUGHES-BUILT, INSTRUMENTED capsule was deployed from NASA's Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft on 12 July, en route for a 170,000 km/s encounter with the giant planet's atmosphere on 7 December (Flight International, 28 June-4 July). During the 75min plunge, the 338kg capsule will return data from the bowels of Jupiter before ...
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P&W in engine link-ups with Russians
PRATT & WHITNEY has taken delivery of the first Russian RD-120 flight-qualified production engine at its West Palm Beach factory in Florida, in the first stage of a joint programme with NPO Energomash to market a derivative of the Zenit upper-stage rocket engine. The primary application of the ...
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Concerns at UK CAA despite profits
THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority has voiced serious worries about finance for investment in air-traffic-control (ATC) development, despite declaring a trading surplus and showing convincing evidence of increased operational efficiency in its latest annual report. Success in reducing ATC departure delays - from an average of 20min ...
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Pemco pushes heavier 727-200
PEMCO WORLD AIR Services Group has received US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification (STC) for weight increases for the Boeing 727-200. The STC raises the maximum zero fuel weight to almost 70,370kg from 63,320kg, and maximum landing weight is increased to almost 74,500kg from 72,575. The first ...