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FDRs ruling unites carriers/airframers
OPPOSITION IS growing to the US proposal to force the retrofitting enhanced flight-data recorders (FDRs) to early-model Boeing 737s and other aircraft. Airlines and manufacturers insist that the proposed installation deadlines are unrealistic and that, in any case, the move is not economically justifiable. The ...
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Lockheed Martin in US Starstreak deal with Shorts
UK MISSILE manufacturer Shorts is about to sign an agreement with Lockheed Martin under which the US manufacturer will promote Shorts' Starstreak air-to-air missile for the US Army's McDonnell Douglas Helicopter (MDH) AH-64 Apache fleet. Shorts is already representing Lockheed Martin in the UK in the latter's attempt ...
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Alitalia selects Fokker 70
ALITALIA HAS selected the Fokker 70 to boost its presence on regional and feeder routes. The Italian carrier has agreed to lease 15 of the aircraft from the Dutch manufacturer. The aircraft will be operated by Avianova, a Rome based regional carrier in which, Alitalia has a ...
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Lockheed Martin displays 3D graphics engine
Lockheed Martin has announced a new low cost, open architecture, real time three-dimensional graphics engine, for use in simulators. The R3D/PRO-1000 is a stand-alone system offering 750,000 textured, shaded, anti-aliased polygons per second, pixel write rates of up to 200 million pixels per second, 60Hz update rates and ...
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Hughes set for last-minute F-16 simulator bid
The link division of Hughes Training is to stage a last-ditch attempt to win Lockheed's F-16A/B mid-life update simulator contract, despite the informal selection of Thomson Training & Simulation for the work. While Thomson declines, to confirm that it has won, saying that the deal - for the ...
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Canadian opens Russian route
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has become the first carrier to use a newly agreed cross over point between Russian and Chinese airspace, which will cut 2-3h off the flight-time between Vancouver and Beijing. Designated ARGUK, the crossing, lies between Khabarovsk in Russia and Haiqing in China. Previously, flights had ...
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Bombardier set to launch jet-share network with AMR
Bombardier and US fixed-base operator (FBO) AMR Combs are planning a business-jet fractional-ownership programme. The scheme will involve Bombardier Learjet 31A, Learjet 60 and Canadair Challenger aircraft, covering the light, medium and large business-jet markets. The venture is likely to be modeled on Executive Jet Aviation's (EJA) ...
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FLS sets up office in Texas
FLS AEROSPACE HAs taken the first step towards possible acquisition of a US maintenance operation, with the setting up of an office in Fort Worth,Texas. Chairman Steffen Harpoth says that one of the objectives of the new office is to "...see if we can establish the foundation ...
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Harsh reality
The civil-aviation industries of Russia and the CIS complain that a lack of state funding, and difficulties in certificating their products in the West, lie at the root of their massive problems. They are wrong, in that those difficulties are only the symptoms of a far worse malaise. The harsh ...
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EU proposes trans-Atlantic bilateral treaty counter-attack
EUROPEAN Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, has warned that, unless the EC is given a mandate to centrally negotiate future aviation agreements with the USA, "we will witness implementation of a policy that is not just America first, but America first, last, both ways across the Atlantic and within ...
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Revamped deal saves Loral ATC
LORAL IS TO BE allowed to continue with major elements of the US air-traffic-control (ATC) modernisation programme, which it inherited from IBM. The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded it a $898 million fixed-price incentive contract to build more than 3,000 display system replacement (DSR) units - automated ...
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US and Australia change single-turbine rules
Australia and the USA are set to amend rules to allow the carriage of revenue passengers in single-engine turbine-powered aircraft under instrument flight rules and at night. The concession is certain to boost sales of single-turbine types and is particularly important to Cessna with its Caravan and ...
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American Airlines
American Airlines will repair America West Rolls Royce RB211-535E4 turbofan engines for the next five years at its Alliance maintenance base near Fort Worth, Texas. The contract will run alongside a similar America West arrangement with Rolls Royce Canada. Source: Flight International
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Vectoring in vogue
Thrust vectoring technology, is close to becoming a deployable reality. Russia's Sukhoi design bureau is working on a pre-production model of its Su-35 derivative of the Su-27 Flanker, equipped with two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles, while in the USA several programmes are under way. Exactly how capable the Su-35 ...
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SR20 builds up hours
Cirrus Design has put more than 50h on its prototype SR20 following its 31 March first flight. Construction of a second aircraft is already underway as the Duluth, Minnesota based company moves towards certification of the type in 1996 and deliveries at the end of the same year. ...
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JAST Contracts
Hughes Aircraft has received three Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) research and development contracts. The three contracts are valued at $9.4 million. The awards include a $3 million contract to develop and demonstrate a very high-resolution radar to detect, identify, designate and track surface targets. Source: Flight International
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Scramble to keep Ramjet alive
At the more arcane end of military-power plant research, ramjet propulsion remains under active consideration, although deployment time-scales remain considerable. In Russia two long-term Mikoyan research programmes into high mach-number combat aircraft have been cancelled. In the US programmes are continuing, albeit with funding on a tight rein. ...
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Florida Authority
The US Air Force has awarded a $2.74 million payment to Spaceport Florida Authority (SFA), formally handing over the Air Force launch pad 46 at Cape Canaveral to SFA for use by commercial launcher companies. SFA has funding from the space industry and the state of Florida (Flight International, 11-17 ...
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Balloons deflated
The balloon, so to speak, has gone down. The RAF's Balloon Operations Squadron has been disbanded. No more will Clarence E Whiteknuckle III, heading for yet another failure of his GFT, have to thread his way past a barrage of Kite Mk IIDs in rural Oxfordshire. Nor, any more, will ...
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Rockwell
Increased commercial-avionics business helped boost Rockwell International's second-quarter earnings (to 31 March) by 26%, to $191 million on sales of $3.4 billion, up by 21% over the 1994 second quarter. Both defence-electronics and aerospace earnings were down compared with a year ago, because of lower sales. ...