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Cessna flies piston and jet on same day
Cessna accomplished two first flights on 19 April, flying the Citation Bravo business-jet and Model 172 piston-single prototypes from different airports in Wichita, Kansas, within 45min of each other on the same day. Certification of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A-powered Citation Bravo is scheduled for April 1996. ...
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The Albatros evolves
The signing of two critical agreements with the Czech Government in April has given Aero Vodochody the official go-ahead for the long-anticipated L-159 combat-aircraft programme. The development agreement completed on 7 April committed the Republic's defence ministry to funding some 25% of the development costs of the programme, ...
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Boeing expects flat year despite victories
A DROP IN deliveries, added to high levels of research-and-development (R&D) funding, hit Boeing's first-quarter net earnings, which fell by 38%, compared with 1994, to $181 million. A total of 59 aircraft were delivered, compared to 82 a year earlier, when deliveries," ...substantially exceeded the nominal production rate ...
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Northwest Deal
Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) has signed a contract with Air China to provide Boeing 747-200/400 and 767 pilot training. The flag carrier is the sixth Chinese airline to sign a training contract with the Minnesota based company. Source: Flight International
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Boeing places drawings on-line
AIRLINE ENGINEERING departments are to gain, for the first time, direct on-line access to a Boeing technical-drawings database covering all its aircraft from the 707 onward. Called REDARS (reference engineering-data automated-retrieval system), the subscription-based system gives maintenance engineers on-line access to "...the technical drawings and parts-lists needed for ...
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ERS 2 in orbit after Ariane success
The European Space Agency's (ESA) ERS 2 remote-sensing satellite was safely placed into a 770 x 797km, Sun-synchronous polar orbit on 21 April, after launch by an Ariane 40 from Kourou. Following a three-month commissioning phase, the ERS 2 - which has a predicted operational lifetime of 30 ...
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Dassault launches Falcon 50EX
DASSAULT AVIATION has launched an extended-performance variant of the Falcon 50 business jet. The aircraft, which is to be known as the Falcon 50EX, is scheduled to have its first flight in the first quarter of 1996. The French aircraft builder is replacing the three AlliedSignal TFE731-3 turbofans ...
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Successful seventh flight trial of India's medium-range Akash
India has successfully carried out the seventh flight trial of the locally developed medium range surface-to-air missile, the Akash, at the Chandipore test range on April 21. The missile uses ramjet propulsion and is part of an integrated guided missile development programme being undertaken by the Defence Research ...
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MDC forms industry team to develop electronic-warfare F-18
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has formed an industry team to propose a variant of the F-18E/F Hornet to replace the US Navy's Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare (EW) aircraft early in the next century. The F-18 Command and Control Warfare (C2W) variant is based on the two-seat F-18F and ...
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Northrop Grumman starts Tiger avionics testing
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has begun test flights of its F-5E Tiger IV advanced-avionics demonstrator aircraft at Edwards AFB, California. The aircraft made the short hop from Los Angeles International Airport on 20 April after being refurbished at the company's adjacent El Segundo plant with new avionics and some discrete ...
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F-22 weight increase agreed
THE US AIR FORCE and Lockheed Martin/Boeing have agreed to allow the F-22's empty weight to increase by 610kg, or 3%, to avoid pushing costs up. The growth comprises a 385kg weight-budget increase and a further 225kg allowance for uncertainty. The F-22's projected empty weight has increased from ...
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Sextant tests 3-D sound on helmets
Sextant Avionique is experimenting with a three-dimensional (3-D) sound system incorporated into a helmet-mounted display (HMD) to improve threat localisation. Tests are being carried out at Sextant's Bordeaux plant in co-operation with the US Department of Defense, using six pilots from each country's air force. If successful, a ...
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Philippines air force to spend $577 million on new equipment
The Philippines air force is to spend 15 billion pesos ($577 million) on new equipment over the next five years, as part of the country's recently approved defence modernisation plan. The supplementary budget covers the first five years of a planned 15-year programme to restructure and re-equip the ...
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CAAC caution holds up Sichuan A320 handover
An agreement for International Lease Finance (ILFC) to supply three Airbus Industrie A320's to Chinese domestic operator Sichuan Airlines, is being delayed by the failure of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to approve the deal. ILFC, under an agreement signed in March with China Aircraft Supplies ...
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Ansett NZ is crucial to Tasman future
The future of loss-making New Zealand domestic carrier Ansett New Zealand may be one of the last issues for resolution as Air New Zealand positions itself to take up News Corporation's 50% stake in Ansett Australia for an estimated A$50 million ($36 million). Air New Zealand has reportedly ...
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UAE Panthers will have 'self protection'
THE SEVEN Eurocopter AS.565 Panther anti-ship helicopters ordered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to be fitted with the Thomson-CSF Agrion maritime-patrol radar and what the company terms "a new helicopter self-protection system." The system incorporates wide-band signal reception, instantaneous frequency-measurement and a system-control capability. Patrick Henin, ...
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FAA changes pilot pairing regulations...
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has tightened its rules on air-transport pilot pairing to prevent low-time pilots being rostered together. The rule changes, which take effect in four months for major airlines and at the end of the year for regional carriers, result from several accident investigations in ...
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PW150 for Dash 8-400
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW150 to power the planned de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The company received board approval on 24 April to offer the 70-seat aircraft to airlines and is aiming for a June launch. First flight of the Dash 8-400 is ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...
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Kaman Aerospace's first-quarter results ...
Kaman Aerospace's first-quarter results were boosted by a $31 million contract to refurbish ten SH-2G helicopters for the Egyptian navy, with the total value expected to exceed $100 million. The company reports first-quarter net earnings of $5.6 million on revenues of $210 million, up from $4.2 million and $1988 million, ...