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Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy
Sir - I read the article "Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy as Airworld hires Canadians for A320s" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P8). I can surmise the reasons behind the decision, although why the UK Department of Education and Employment (DEE) should be so coy is elusive. ...
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Derlan contracts
Derlan Aerospace Canada has been awarded two contracts, worth $16 million, by Boeing Helicopters. The larger, $11.2 million, contract covers the supply of parts for 47 dynamic-component upgrade kits for US Navy and Marine Corps Boeing CH-46 helicopters. The second is for the manufacture of spare CH-46 ring gears. ...
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More CATIAS for BAe
British Aerospace Military Aircraft division has placed a £13 million ($19.5 million) order with IBM for around 500 CATIA computer-aided-design workstations, to add to the 200 it already uses. Source: Flight International
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Trimble markets
Trimble is to market Wichita-based Mid-Continental Instrument's MD 41 global-positioning-system (GPS) annunciator for use with its 2000-series GPS navigators. Source: Flight International
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Boeing suspension
New York-based EDO has received a $1.1 million subcontract to support Boeing Defense & Space Group's Military Airplanes division in development of new weapon-suspension and -release equipment for future combat aircraft under the US Air Force's Weapons Carriage Technology programme. Source: Flight International
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Cessna first
Cessna has flown the first Model 172 piston-single to be produced since 1986. The pilot-production aircraft, flown on 16 April, will be used for flight tests leading to recertification of the 172. Roll-out of the first 172 built at Cessna's new Independence, Kansas, piston-single plant is due in December. ...
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Learjet's second 45
Learjet flew the second Model 45 light business-aircraft on 6 April and says that the first flight of the third of five test aircraft is imminent. Flight-test delays have pushed certification back to January 1996, the end of parent company Bombardier's financial year. Source: Flight International
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Hole in the budget layer
NASA's efforts to demonstrate the USA's commitment to the worldwide effort to monitor the Earth's environment are under threat. Tim Furniss/GREENBELT, MARYLAND SINCE 1992, NASA'S EARTH Observing System (EOS) programme has had its $16 billion budget to the year 2000 cut by 50%. A further ...
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Urgency mounts for Alitalia state cash as losses grow
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE FULL EXTENT of Alitalia's losing battle with its massive debts became clear as the group revealed further losses for 1995. The extent of the deficit makes an injection of fresh capital essential if the airline is to continue operating. Although the group's headline loss was held to ...
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Japanese Boost
The Society of Japanese Aerospace (SJAC) is projecting a turnaround in sales for its 28 member companies for the first time in four years. The organisation is forecasting an increase of 2.3% to '786.2 billion ($7.28 billion) by the end of fiscal year 1996. Turnover in 1995 fell by 5.2%, ...
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AAI wins tester deal
AAI HAS won an almost $12 million US Air Force contract for engineering and manufacturing development of the Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester (JSECST). The JSECST programme is a joint US Air Force/Navy effort to acquire rugged, portable diagnostic equipment for testing aircraft electronic-warfare systems. ...
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First hand-held GPS navcom delivered
AlliedSignal Aerospace has begun deliveries of its Bendix/King KLX 100, claimed to be the first hand-held aircraft radio to combine a global-positioning-system (GPS) and communications transceiver in a single unit. The KLX 100 is aimed at recreational pilots for use as primary navigation/communications (navcom), and at professional pilots ...
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FLIR gets in the picture with Ultra 4000 camera
FLIR SYSTEMS HAS introduced a fully stabilised aerial-camera system for news gathering, which combines a thermal imager with a television camera. A Portland, Oregon, television station will be the first customer for the Ultra 4000 day/night airborne-camera system. The Ultra 4000 combines FLIR Systems' SAFIRE thermal imager with ...
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Electro-impulse de-icing is selected for Premier I
A LOW-POWER DE-ICING system, which uses a short-duration, high-acceleration deflection of the leading edge to remove ice, has been selected by Raytheon Aircraft for use on the horizontal stabiliser of its Premier I light business-jet. The electro-magnetic expulsion de-icing (EMEDI) system has been developed by Innovative Dynamics ...
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Talking Tanks
Richmond, British Columbia-based Con-Space Communications is to supply Air New Zealand with equipment allowing communication with maintenance crews working inside aircraft fuel-tanks. The company has supplied similar equipment to the Canadian and US air forces and several airlines. Source: Flight International
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USA tries again to close F-16 Indonesian sale
US GOVERNMENT officials are hoping that a planned visit to Indonesia by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff will revive the flagging deal to sell nine embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs which had been destined for Pakistan. Gen John Shalikashvili is due to visit Indonesia in early May ...
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Airship deal at final stage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AIRSHIP manufacturing will resume in the UK as soon as a UK investor group finalises its purchase of designs, patents and other assets of Westinghouse Airships. The transaction (Flight International, 10-16 April) will be completed shortly, says Roger Munk, who is leading ...
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Boeing team discloses airborne laser details
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES DETAILS OF ONE of the two airborne laser (ABL) systems being offered for a $755 million US Air Force demonstration contract have been revealed by the Boeing/Lockheed Martin/TRW team. The weapon is designed to destroy ballistic missiles just after launch. The group expects to submit its main ...
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Rising fortunes
Agusta's resurgence has been confirmed with one order from North America. Julian Moxon/MILAN THERE COULD HAVE BEEN no better sign of Agusta's long-awaited revival than the record order from Omniflight Helicopters, which was announced at the Helicopter Association International show in Dallas, Texas, in February. ...