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Corporate Tay 727
Dee Howard is re-engineing an Australian-based executive Boeing 727-100 with Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans to meet Stage 3 noise limits. It is the US firm's first conversion for a passenger 727 and is based on the 727 Quiet Freighter developed for United Parcel Service. The US-registered aircraft is being re-engined under ...
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Grob Strato 2C takes shape
GROB HAS COMPLETED the airframe of its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, with the aircraft now in final assembly. A first flight is now scheduled for this year. The German Company has been seeking additional funding from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology to complete the project. The twin-engine ...
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Helidyne fits Bell 230 for news
HELIDYNE SYSTEMS HAS EQUIPPED a Bell 230 to allow it to be operated as an electronic news gathering helicopter, with video-production capabilities, for the Korean Broadcasting System. The helicopter, with a crew of six, can carry two independent microwave receive-transmit systems with deployable skid antennae for simultaneous aerial broadcast and ...
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Genesis I goes with the flow
GROUP GENESIS OF MARION, Ohio, says that its all-composite Genesis I Standard Class racing sailplane is displaying laminar flow past 50% chord-wise of the wing top-surface and past 90% on the underside. The picture shows NASA flight research engineer Einar Enevoldson, best known for his work on spin-analysis and recovery ...
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Kentron Pointer
South African missile manufacturer Kentron, has received the cardinal-points specification, for the UK Ministry of Defence's Staff Requirement (Air) 1236, for a conventional stand-off missile. Source: Flight International
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Liquid-Crystal Contract
Litton will supply EASI liquid-crystal engine instruments to Bell for the new Model 407 light-turbine helicopter, providing a tenfold increase in reliability over conventional engine instruments. Source: Flight International
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Chrysler Tacamo Work
Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems has won a $95.5 million contract to modify six EA-6 TACAMO aircraft to EA-6B configuration. Source: Flight International
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Norsk ousts Helikopter in North Sea
NORWEGIAN helicopter operator Norsk Helikopter has won a lucrative transportation contract with Phillips Petroleum, displacing former monopoly Norwegian North Sea operator Helikopter Services. The deal covers transportation to the Ekofisk field, from 1 September, when the existing deal with Helikopter Services expires - one of the company's largest ...
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Singapore Success
Singapore International Airlines has selected the Rockwell-Collins Series 900 avionics for 17 Airbus A340-300s and 19 Boeing 747-400s on order, plus 20 A340-300s and 11 747-400s on option. Source: Flight International
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SEXTANT avionics
Sextant Avionique says that its Avionique Nouvelle (AN) series of helicopter avionics has been selected for the Eurocopter EC.120, EC.135 and future EC.165. The AN series, consists of liquid-crystal multi-function displays, dual-screen vehicle- and engine-management display, global-positioning navigation system and air-data computer. SFIM, will supply the automatic flight-control system. ...
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Caribbean Start-Up
Start-up Caribbean regional carrier, Carib Express, is to begin services on 15 February, employing 100 staff. The first of its British Aerospace BAe 146s was due to arrive on 10 February, permitting daily services between Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. The second and third aircraft are due ...
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Continental Cuts
Continental Airlines cut its average daily departures, from 2,283 to 2,115 on 10 January, in line with previously announced capacity cuts aimed at saving $150 million a year. The cuts included commuter division Continental Express and low-cost operation Continental Lite. Source: Flight International
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Bavaria Fluggesellschaft
German leasing company Bavaria Fluggesellschaft has ordered two Boeing 737-700s, worth a total of $80 million, with orders for two more "subject to later confirmation". The deal takes orders for the -600/-700/ -800 series to 91. Source: Flight International
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Biman Bangladesh
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has signed for two Airbus A310-300s, with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 turbofans, for delivery in the second and third quarters of 1996. It is the first order for the type in more than a year. Source: Flight International
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Euro Trio
Three European astronauts have been selected to fly on the 1996 Space Shuttle STS 75, which will attempt to deploy the Italian Tethered Satellite. The first attempt during the STS 46 mission in August 1992 was thwarted by technical faults. The astronauts are, Claude Nicollier of Switzerland and Italians Maurizio ...
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Ukraine Satellite
The first Ukrainian national satellite will be launched from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in June. Called Sich 1, the spacecraft will be a modification of the remote-sensing satellite which was formerly flown under the Soviet Union guise of Okeon O. The Sich launch will also carry Chile's FASat Alpha micro-satellite, built ...
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Atlas Lift-Off
Martin Marietta Commercial Launch Services launched its second Atlas booster in 18 days from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 28 January, carrying the US Navy's Ultra High Frequency, UHF F4 communications satellite. It was the sixth launch of an Atlas 2 model. Hughes has a $1.7 billion contract to build ten ...