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BD-10 Crash Cause
Elevator flutter at about Mach 0.9 is believed to have led to the 30 December 1994, fatal in-flight break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10. The right elevator hinge is thought to have failed, resulting in full upward deflection of the left elevator, pitching the aircraft up and causing the right ...
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Dassault Delivers
Dassault Aviation delivered 25 Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 business-jets in 1994, up from 15 in 1993. Deliveries of Falcon 900s increased to 18, from eight in 1993. By comparison, Canadair delivered 25 Challengers, up from 20 on 1993, and Gulfstream Aerospace delivered XX GIV-SPs, up from 26. ...
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Cirrus SR20 First Flight
Cirrus Design plans to fly its SR20 all-composite, four-seat aircraft later this month. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus, is aiming for US certification of the fixed-gear SR20 in 1996. Source: Flight International
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E Prime Boost
The US Department of Defense has appointed a US Air Force liaison team to ensure that E Prime Aerospace of Titusville, Florida complies with the START 1 and 2 treaties in the production and eventual launch of its proposed Eagle series of satellite launchers based on the Peacekeeper missile. The ...
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NASA Flies Lockheed
Lockheed has been selected by NASA to provide the solar transition region and coronal explorer spacecraft to be flown on the next Small Explorer mission, to be launched in 1997. The company will also provide the cryogenic cooler for NASA's wide-field infrared Explorer, to be launched in 1998. ...
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TDRS Lease
TRW has signed a contract with Western Telecommunications of Denver, Colorado, for the lease of one C-band transponder on the NASA-owned tracking and data-relay satellite (TDRS) at 319°E in geostationary orbit, to provide compact-disc-quality music programming to Europe. Source: Flight International
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Indian Acquisition
Indian airline Raj Air, has been taken over by local industrialist, P Rajarathinam. The carrier, was previously owned by Raj chairman, Lalith Seth. Source: Flight International
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Alcatel Satellite
Alcatel Espace and WorldSpace of Washington DC have signed a $500 million contract to build three satellites to establish the world's first global digital-audio broadcast-satellite service by 1998. The French company, leading a consortium including Alenia of Italy, will build the CaribStar, AfriStar and AsiaStar satellites, and invest in the ...
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Universal Approval
Universal Navigation has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its UNS-1M navigation-management system fitted with a 12-channel global-positioning-system receiver. The system has been certificated on the Embraer EMB-120. Source: Flight International
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Battery Back-Up
Avtech of Seattle, Washington has teamed with GEC-Marconi InFlight Systems of the UK to develop a battery back-up unit, which provides power to the cabin file-server during power interruptions. The unit will be used on Boeing 777s fitted with the GEC in-flight entertainment system. Source: Flight ...
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Fedex Increases Capacity
FedEx is to replace two of three McDonnell Douglas DC-10Fs used on daily transatlantic services with higher-capacity MD-11 freighters, one based at London Stansted and one at Paris Charles de Gaulle, and is considering adding a fourth aircraft on the North Atlantic early in 1996. Source: ...
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Beech Deal With Impulse
Australian regional airline Impulse Transportation has ordered two Beech 1900Ds, for delivery by April. The Sydney-based carrier already operates one 1900D and a pre-owned 1900C acquired in 1993, when Impulse became the first Australian operator of the 19-seat twin-turboprop. Source: Flight International
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Rumbold
Philip Bullivant has been named managing director of aircraft-interior Equipment Company Rumbold, of Camberley, Surrey UK. Bullivant, chief executive of the Midland Newspaper Group since 1993, was formerly chief executive of Airborne Logistics, also of the UK. Source: Flight International
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Vickers
James Wehri has been named vice-president and general manager for the systems-monitoring division of the Vickers Aerospace Marine Defense Group of Maumee, Ohio. Before joining Vickers in 1991, he was director of European operations for the Aeroquip Aerospace Group, based in the UK. Source: Flight International
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Simuflite
Dick Wigton has been appointed to the new position of manager of Challenger training programmes at Simuflite Training International, based at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Texas. He was most recently director of operations for Rainin Instrument, of Emeryville, California, and, before that, he was manager of aviation for The Cloux Company, ...
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Duncan
Fred Hensley has become manager of design services at fixed-based operator Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He was most recently director of maintenance at Page Avjet, based at Fort Worth, Texas. Cecil Sloan has been promoted to engine sales representative. Sloan, with Duncan since 1979, was most recently service manager. ...
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ERA
ERA Technology, the UK research-and-development organisation based in Leatherhead, Surrey, has appointed Chris Perks financial and commercial director. He succeeds Keith Sedgwick, who becomes a non-executive director. Perks, was previously finance and information director at Travers Morgan. Source: Flight International