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Russia in need of a new revolution
Russian aviation is in crisis, as anybody who has recently passed through Moscow's Sheremetyvo Airport will have gathered. What should be an international gateway to Russia is a chaotic mix of despairing passengers, futile bureaucracy and casual corruption. Like much else in Russia, the airport has yet to ...
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Fuel-leak detection system goes on trial
The UK division of international oil and gas engineering company J P Kenny has launched a system to detect possible leaks in airport fuel- hydrant networks. Developed in association with Texas-based software companies PMA and Modisette, the LeakLoc system is undergoing acceptance trials at London Stansted Airport. ...
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MDA offers dent remover
An electromagnetic dent-removal (EDR) process used by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) is being offered to outside users following its formal certification as an approved repair process for the MD-90. EDR has been under development at MDA since 1986, and used on commercial and military production lines to undertake ...
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Fit for survival
Only a few years ago, it seemed that the large passenger-carrying hovercraft was doomed to extinction. It had only ever achieved a foothold in one major market - across the Channel between England and France, and even then only a few of the biggest Westland/British Hovercraft SR-N4 craft ever entered ...
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Heliwing flies
Boeing's Heliwing aerial vehicle (UAV) had its first flight on 26 April, lifting off and hovering for several minutes at 10 ft (3m) at Boeing's test site in Moses Lake, Washington. The tail-sitter air vehicle has a fixed-wing and a pair of 2m-diameter counter-rotating propellers coupled to a 30kW (40shp) ...
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ESA set to double GIV-SP order
Ramon Lopez/ DALLAS/FORT WORTH EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) is to buy as many as 40 Gulfstream IV-SP business jets and is surveying the market for an aircraft able to supplement its fleet of Hawker 1000 business aircraft. Early this year, EJA ordered seven Gulfstream IV-SPs ...
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IHI to become partner in CF34
Ishikawajima - Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) of Japan is to become a major partner in the General Electric CF34-8C turbofan under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two companies. The announcement confirms persistent rumours of imminent IHI involvement in the engine (Flight International, ...
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Bombardier tests CL-415 modifications for France
BOMBARDIER HAS completed flight-testing of modifications to the Canadair CL-415 water-bomber and is preparing to present the results to France's Securite Civile, which had refused to take delivery of the aircraft (Flight International, 9 March-4 April, P17). Scooping tests were conducted off North Carolina in early April, ...
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Security fears hit Olympic flight plan
SECURITY CONCERNS are posing early hurdles for the plan to install a helicopter short-haul transport system at Atlanta, Georgia, in time for the 1996 Olympic Games. The project, backed by the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Helicopter Association International (HAI) and seen as a blueprint for similar ...
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GA deliveries recover in USA
US GENERAL-AVIATION aircraft manufacturers posted an almost 34% increase in billings, to $595 million, for the first three months of 1995 and shipped 207 aircraft, an increase of more than 14% over the 1994 first quarter. The recovery was led by increased shipments of turboprop-powered aircraft, says the US General ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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Elbe converts Tu-154 for German open skies
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace Airbus subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke has delivered a converted Tupolev Tu-154M airliner to the German air force for use in open-skies surveillance operations. The aircraft, formerly part of the Federal defence ministry VIP flight, has been adapted for the surveillance role in a 12-month conversion costing DM45 ...
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Hughes in valve race
Hughes Training (HTI) has launched an urgent programme to develop a replacement for light-valve projectors used in its McDonnell Douglas F-18 dome simulators. General Electric ceased production of Talaria light-valves in 1994. GE light-valve projectors are widely used in dome simulators and no off-the-shelf replacement exists, HTI says. ...
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Israel/Jordan plan airport link up
ISRAEL AND JORDAN are investigating the possibility of common use of the Jordanian airport at Aqaba on the Red Sea. The heads of the civil-aviation authorities of both countries will soon tour airports, which serve more than one country, to evaluate the proposed plan. The mid-town airport of ...
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US National Guard seeks reconnaissance pods
THE US AIR NATIONAL Guard has issued a requirement for 26 reconnaissance pods to be carried by Lockheed F-16s or McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15s. The pods are to be available in 1996, when the US Air Force's last MDC RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft are retired. The ...
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FedEx opens Philippines cargo hub
FedEx has established its new Asia-Pacific cargo hub with the opening of the revamped Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) in the Philippines. FedEx's intra-Asia network will connect nine regional cities, including Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo. Its overnight express freight service will operate five ...
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S Korea courts Europeans for KTX-II participation
SOUTH KOREA HAS asked British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace of Germany and Dassault Aviation of France, to submit proposals for the joint development of its planned KTX-II advanced jet trainer/ light-combat aircraft. South Korea is looking for an overseas risk-sharing partner to assist Samsung with the design and engineering ...
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TNT considers Subic Bay tie-up with FedEx
TNT Worldwide Express is looking to relocate its Philippine-based Asian freight hub from Manila to Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) and is negotiating a line-haul co-operation agreement with FedEx as part of the move. The company's joint venture Pacific East Asia Cargo (PEAC) carrier is constrained by a ...
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Boeing reaches Space Station milestone
IN A MAJOR PROGRAMME milestone, Boeing Defense and Space Group has completed fabrication of the exterior structure of the first of two US pressurised connecting-node modules for the proposed Alpha international space station. The 2,267kg aluminium nodes are the 4.8m-long, 4.4m-diameter sections to which the Space Shuttle, space-station ...
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Sukhoi tests ECM system on Su-34 strike aircraft
SUKHOI HAS begun testing the Sorbtsiya-S electronic- countermeasures (ECM) system on board the first prototype of its next-generation Su-34 long-range strike aircraft. The aircraft, previously known as the Su-27IB, is being flown from the Zhukovsky flight-test research centre, near Moscow, with the Sorbtsiya-S fitted in wing-tip pods. ...