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Canadian Tie-Up
Bombardier has signed a joint-venture agreement with CAE Electronics to build a training centre at CAE's Montreal plant. The centre will house CAE-built simulators and other training equipment for the Canadair Regional Jet and Challenger business jet. Source: Flight International
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Finnair embarks on trials of mobile-telephone detector
FINNAIR HAS BEGUN trials of a system, which can detect mobile-telephone signals inside aircraft cabins. Cabin crew will be equipped with the portable device to catch mobile-phone users, whose calls may interfere with aircraft systems. The carrier says that, despite being alerted to the potential dangers, a small ...
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Hughes tries out Peace Shield software
Hughes Aircraft technicians are testing software on the multi-purpose consoles of the $1 billion tactical-air-operations system for Saudi Arabia. Called the "Peace Shield", the system will integrate existing radar and communications equipment with Hughes workstations and large screen displays. The Peace Shield, originally developed by Boeing until it was ousted ...
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Impulse falls out with BAe over return of Jetstream 41 fleet
TROUBLED AUSTRALIAN regional carrier Impulse Airlines has announced that it is returning its fleet of five Jetstream 41s to the British Aerospace subsidiary in a deepening row between the two companies. Impulse managing director Gerry McGowan has cited "...a changing relationship with the manufacturer due to the restructuring of our ...
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US regionals balk at FAA proposals
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US REGIONAL-airline industry is trying to water down the US Federal Aviation Administration's programme to bring Part 135 regional carriers up to the same safety and training standards as the Part 121 major long-haul US carriers. The 90-day comment period on ...
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Phantom of the skies
CROSSAIR UNMASKED ITS latest Saab 2000 delivery on 2 July, when the aircraft, painted in the colours of the musical The Phantom of the Opera, went into service on the Basle/London Heathrow route. The airline will be the official carrier for the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, which opens in Basle ...
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Boeing cuts narrowbody rates as recovery lags
BOEING'S DECISION TO make further cuts in production rates for its 737 and 757 narrow bodies is being seen as a temporary measure until an anticipated recovery in 1997. The company says that 737 production will be reduced from seven to five a month in April 1996, ...
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Bea In Doldrums
Sales and profits continue to slip at BE Aerospace, but there are signs that cabin-equipment orders are picking up, says chairman, Amin Khoury. In the group's first quarter to the end of May, sales were down by 3%, to less than $56 million, and net profits were little more than ...
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Arianespace aims for US military market
Julian Moxon/PARIS ARIANESPACE IS TO join with a US team to compete for the supply of a new family of US Air Force medium/heavy launchers, marking its first attempt to break into the virtually closed US military-launcher market. The Pentagon's Evolved Expandable Launch Vehicle (EELV) contract, ...
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Helicopters put online in Quebec
QUEBEC HAS implemented a datalink network, supplied by Arnav Systems, to track and communicate with Quebec Hydro Electric's helicopter fleet. The GeoNet system consists of 50 earth stations in five districts. The network is being used for flight following and data messaging between Quebec Hydro's ground operations and ...
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Executive Jet takes first NetJets Ultra
EXECUTIVE JET International (EJI) has taken delivery of the first of 25 Cessna Citation Ultra business-jets on order for its NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The Montvale, New Jersey-based company will receive 16 Ultras by the end of 1995, and says that it has 85 part owners already signed up. ...
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Chek Lap Kok date put back
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE EXPECTED completion date of Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport has been pushed back to April 1998, following the signing of a long-awaited agreement with China on the overall financing of the project. The Hong Kong Government has admitted for the ...
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Tailwheel GlaStar kitplane tested
STODDARD-HAMILTON is flight-testing the GlaStar kitplane in tail-wheel configuration, having completed more than 170h flying with tricycle gear. The two-seat GlaStar, is designed to be easily convertible, between tricycle, tail-wheel, float and ski landing gear. The Arlington, Washington based company has begun shipping tail and wing kits. Several ...
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Europa Aviation says that it
EUROPA AVIATION says that it has sold almost 230 kits for its Europa light aircraft, with customers in 20 countries. The first customer-completed aircraft, one of which was on show at the recent Popular Flying Association rally at Cranfield, in the UK, are to be flown shortly. ...
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No better in South Africa
The slow recovery, from recession in South Africa has been compounded, by a weak economy and concern over stability, during the transition period and the first 12 months of multi-racial government. While corporate flying in this part of the continent has always been a necessary business tool, FBOs have been ...
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F-22 derivatives study under way
LOCKHEED MARTIN AND BOEING have begun studying derivatives of the F-22 air-superiority fighter under a 24-month, $9.5 million, US Air Force contract (Flight International, 15-21 March). Missions under study are strategic attack/interdiction; lethal and non-lethal suppression of enemy air-defences; reconnaissance; and surveillance. The study is in two phases. The first, ...
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GE invades European sector
Tim Furniss/LONDON GE AMERICOM IS TO be the first US Company to invade the European communications-satellite industry following a 1992 decision by the European Commission to deregulate the sector by opening it to international competition. The US Company, through its subsidiary GE Capital Satellites International ...
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Delta 3 engines selected
McDONNELL DOUGLAS has selected Pratt & Whitney and Alliant Techsystems to provide the second-stage engine and solid-rocket boosters for the new Delta 3 booster, respectively. The P&W RL10B-2 cryogenic engine will power the vehicle's second stage. This is a derivative of the RL-10 engine, which has been in ...
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Spot the difference
THIS MULTI-TEMPORAL SYNTHETIC-APERTURE radar (SAR) image of the Gulf of Gaeta, Italy, was created by combining the first SAR image from the European Remote Sensing satellite, ERS 2, taken on 2 May, 11 days after its launch, and two ERS 1 images, taken on 27 March and 1 May. Parts ...
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Texas works on HARM upgrade
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IS considering developing its ASQ-213 high-speed anti-radiation missile (HARM) targeting pod, to meet performance requirements originally intended to be met by the now-cancelled McDonnell Douglas precision direction-finding system. The company has completed a $3 million study into such a project, and hopes to test an upgraded ...