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Eurocopter
Gerard Chauvallon has been named chairman of American Eurocopter, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He replaces Guy Eissautier, who has retired. Chauvallon was most recently vice-chairman of American Eurocopter and chief operating officer of Eurocopter France. Source: Flight International
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Heat Rejection
Loral Vought has been awarded a $13.3 million extension-contract to redesign six heat rejection system radiators for the international space station. The 1,000kg, 3m-long radiators will extend to 25m in orbit and will be capable of releasing 11kW of excess heat using a pumped liquid ammonia heat transfer system. ...
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Space Walk Tank
NASA has signed a $34 million lease/purchase agreement with McDonnell Douglas to acquire land and buildings at Clear Lake, near the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, where a new and larger neutral buoyancy laboratory will be located to train astronauts for space station space walking operations. NASA operates neutral-buoyancy tanks ...
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Scanning Alternatives
The Israeli navy is to decide this year whether to upgrade its Sea-Scan maritime-patrol aircraft or replace it with a turboprop. The Sea-Scan, an Israeli Aircraft Industries Westwind 1124 executive jet converted to serve in the maritime-surveillance role, is expensive to operate and, says the navy, is too fast for ...
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Kaman Cuts Loss
Kaman, more than halved its losses in 1994, to the end the year, with a $13.2 million deficit. Sales also edged up to $820 million, helped by the group's diversification into non-defence industrial-technology markets. Founding chairman Charles Kaman welcomes the Pentagon's initiative in urging the US forces to use commercially ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, now a British Airways franchise carrier is adding four per week services to the Spanish destinations of Valencia and Murcia in the northern summer. Source: Flight International
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is beginning services from Vienna to Beijing and Almaty, while Austrian rival Lauda Air is starting a daily Salzburg-London Gatwick service. Source: Flight International
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Air Engiadina
Air Engiadina of Switzerland is transferring its Berne-London service from London Stansted to London City Airport using the Dornier 328. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Air Canada is increasing its transatlantic and transpacific capacity for the northern summer by 18%. Toronto-Tel Aviv and Toronto-Montreal-Brussels are new services. There are capacity and frequency increases on routes to Madrid, Osaka, London, Glasgow, Zurich, Berlin and Vienna. Source: Flight International
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PW4000 for USAF Bid
Boeing has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine to power military versions of the 747-400F being proposed in the company's bid for the US Air Force's Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft (NDAA) programme. The NDAA is a wide-body commercial or military aircraft, which will augment the Lockheed C-141 fleet and provide ...
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Slam Ship Test
McDonnell Douglas is to conduct a ship-launched flight-test demonstration of the Stand off Land Attack Missile (SLAM) to the US Navy under a $3 million contract. Two missiles will be fitted with ship-launch boosters used on Harpoon anti-ship missiles and fired from a test ship. One will be controlled by ...
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Clear As Glass
PPG Industries and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have signed an agreement enabling operators of MDC aircraft from the DC-8 and DC-9 onwards to have PPG-manufactured glass-cockpit windshields to be repaired by PPG. The firm has already reached a similar agreement for Boeing aircraft. Source: ...
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Cold Comfort
Elberta Industries of Elberta, Alabama, has placed an Expeditor self-propelled de-icing/anti-icing vehicle with United Airlines at Chicago O'Hare Airport for customer demonstrations. The Expeditor has four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and a long-reach boom with remote-control nozzle. Source: Flight International
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GTE Airfone Success
GTE Airfone is to install GenStar passenger-telephone systems on six Boeing 777s to be operated by China Southern Airlines, the first Chinese carrier to offer such a service. Calls will be transmitted via satellite. The first GenStar-equipped aircraft will be delivered in November. Source: Flight International
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SIA Avionics Supply
AlliedSignal Commercial Avionics Systems is to supply Singapore Airlines with equipment for up to 67 Airbus A340-300s and Boeing 747-400s, including RDR-4B wind-shear-detecting radar, Mode S transponders, solid-state flight-data recorders, ground-proximity-warning systems and aircraft condition-monitoring-system data-management units. Source: Flight International
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ELISRA PAWS
Israeli electronic-warfare specialist ELISRA has developed a passive airborne missile-approach warner system (PAWS) for helicopters and transport aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream Expands
Gulfstream Aerospace is planning to build an 18,580m2 (200,000ft2) expansion to its aircraft-service site at its Savannah, Georgia, headquarters to serve Gulfstream V customers. The centre will be able to accommodate 12 Gulfstream Vs and be used for other models. Source: Flight International
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Falcon 2000 In Service
Flicape of South Africa has become the first operator to put the Dassault Falcon 2000 into service following its certification in the USA and Europe this month. The AlliedSignal/General Electric CFE738-powered corporate-jet was handed over in Paris. on 16 February. Source: Flight International