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Japan and Boeing back off from contest
JAPAN'S PROPOSED YS-X aircraft will not be offered in competition with the new Boeing 737-600, and an initial agreement on co-operation with Boeing is still expected to be signed in the next few months, say Japanese aerospace officials. The YS-X is the subject of a joint feasibility ...
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Harv Flight Tests
Flight-tests of NASA's McDonnell Douglas F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV), with experimental nose strakes for yaw control, are due to begin on around, 24 May. The conformal vortex flow-control strakes will be used both in conjunction with, and without, the HARV's thrust-vectoring system, to assess yaw control ...
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New radial for US Harrier
A NYLON-BELTED radial tyre to be used on McDonnell Douglas AV-8Bs operated by the US Marine Corps has been developed by Dunlop Aircraft Tyres division. Dunlop says that the nylon belt gives the tyre supplementary compliance for the same overall weight, with no loss of strength. Steering and ...
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Space platform
The Ofeq 3 satellite is the first in a series of Israeli space platforms being offered to customers worldwide Tim Furniss/London Israel's Ofeq 3 satellite, which was launched into orbit by the country's Shavit booster on 5 April, is the first demonstration of a new, ...
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Transbrasil underlines improvements in Brazil
Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANEIRO TRANSBRASIL HAS swung back into the black for the first time in eight years, helped by Brazilian Government reforms designed to stabilise the country's volatile economy. Brazilian flag carrier Varig has already reported a profit for 1994, and expects to make ...
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Cost-cutting helps Austrian reduce deficit
THE AUSTRIAN Airlines (AUA) group has managed to slash its operating losses for 1994 and aims to be in profit this year as it presses ahead with its restructuring. Group operating losses were held to Sch207 million ($21 million) for 1994, compared with Sch726 million a year ago. ...
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Next-century strategy
Regional needs and advancing technology will shape selection and training programmes. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Not since 1944 has aviation known the sustained need, which now exists, to train pilots rapidly to high levels of competence on advanced aircraft. Added to the reasons prevalent then, ...
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Private means
The Canadian military has found a solution to training issues in times of cutbacks. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Canada is turning to the commercial sector for assistance in coping with defence-budget cuts. Nowhere is this more evident than in pilot training for the Canadian Forces. ...
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Low-cost measures
Agreeing to new training regulations is one thing - being able to afford them is another. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Regional airlines have long hoped for advances in technology, which would make flight simulation more affordable. Now US regulatory changes are planned which will make simulator training ...
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The X-Files
The programmes may be complementary, but the X-33 and X-34 launchers meet different needs. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA When NASA awarded contracts for the X-33 and X-34 re-usable launch vehicles (RLVs) on the same day in March, it inadvertently created confusion which Rockwell International and Orbital Sciences, ...
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BEA Hits Losses
BE Aerospace sank to a loss of $12 million, in its latest financial year, after being forced to write off older in-flight-entertainment systems made obsolete, by its new interactive MDDS systems. The net loss for the year ended 25 February compares with a $5.4 million profit a year ago. Acquisitions ...
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ADS Europe wins EU contract
ADS EUROPE, a consortium of French, Netherlands and UK companies, has received a £1.5 million ($2.4 million) European Union contract to demonstrate satellite-based automatic dependent-surveillance (ADS). Consortium member Racal Avionics is to supply ADS equipment for installation in five British Airways' and Netherlands national carrier KLM's Boeing 747-400s. ...
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Development of TCAS 4 begins
ROCKWELL'S COLLINS Air Transport division is developing a follow-on traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 4), based on the global-positioning system (GPS), with the goal of providing a prototype unit to the US Federal Aviation Administration in December 1999. The TCAS 4 will use differential-GPS position reports and automatic ...
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Cambodian Upgrade
Cambodia has awarded a $250-300 million contract to a French-Malaysian consortium to upgrade Pochentong International Airport over the next three years with a new 1 million-passenger-a-year terminal. The consortium includes Dumex-GTM, Aeroports de Paris and Malaysia's Muhibban Masteron. Source: Flight International
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Purso Tools updates MD-80 cabin trainer
THE RECENTLY established Aviation Engineering unit of Purso Tools, based in Pori, Finland, has completed its first cabin-trainer project by updating an existing McDonnell Douglas MD-80 cabin-procedures simulator. Purso says that it is in negotiations with potential customers and that it is attempting to establish a foothold in ...
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Arianespace loses Nahuel contract to Chinese
Tim Furniss/LONDON Daimler-Benz Aerospace has selected, China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC), to launch the Nahuel 1 communications satellite, which it is building with Aerospatiale for Argentine. The decision is a blow to Arianespace, which lists the satellite in its order book of 37 outstanding launches. ...
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Bedek faces probe after 747 work is questioned
A US FEDERAL Aviation Administration inspection team is to visit Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek overhaul division later this month, following concerns over the company's Boeing 747 maintenance work. Bedek, one of the world's primary 747 over-hauls, has meanwhile consented, to stepped-up FAA surveillance of its work on ...
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New Zealand operator tries V8 power on agricultural aircraft
Agricultural operator Super Air has begun in-house certification work on a Ford V8-powered variant of the Fletcher FU-24 agricultural aircraft. Hamilton, New Zealand-based Super Air will seek an initial supplemental type certificate (STC) to operate its own fleet of 14 FU-24s, and will eventually pursue full type-certification. ...
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ST50 heads for Paris
Cirrus Design, has completed US flight-testing of the ST50 single-turboprop business-aircraft and shipped the engineering prototype to Israviation in Israel. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus developed the all-composite ST50 under contract to Israviation. The prototype will be re-assembled in Israel, where flight-testing is scheduled in preparation for the aircraft's first ...
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Starships go to NASA for advanced GA programme
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has donated two Beech Starship twin-turboprop business aircraft to NASA for studies related to the US Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) programme. The AGATE programme is intended to combine the resources of NASA, the US Federal Aviation Administration, industry and universities to develop new technologies, ...