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Too close for comfort
The TCAS 2 mandate is being met as the FAA pushes the TCAS 1. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC For the past year, all civil airliners with more than 30 seats operating in or into the USA have been equipped with the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). ...
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European spies
Europe will make its space-surveillance debut when the Helios satellite is launched in 1995 Tim Furniss/LONDON The French Matra Marconi Space (MMS) Helios 1A satellite, to be launched by an Ariane 4 before the end of April, will provide Europe with the world's fourth military-surveillance capability, ...
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In praise of excellence
Winners of the Aerospace Industry Awards will be revealed at the Paris air show. Should your company be among them? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Aerospace, more than any other industry, has thrived on a constant stream of innovation. Yet there are few enough opportunities to applaud those who ...
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PNG begins shut-down of aviation infrastructure
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS PAPUA NEW Guinea has begun the progressive withdrawal of major elements of its aviation infrastructure because of a lack of funding. The closures could eventually result in a complete shut down of the country's airways system and its airports. Air-traffic-control (ATC) services ...
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Interstate signs GPS landing deal
INTERSTATE Electronics and Airport Systems International have combined to develop ground-based landing systems based on global-positioning-system (GPS) technology. Interstate will supply the differential-GPS (DGPS) system while Airport Systems will provide the datalink radio, installation hardware and services. Anaheim, California-based Interstate, which has developed GPS receivers and tracking systems ...
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Spain decides in favour of USNavy F-18s
SPAIN PLANS TO buy 24 McDonnell Douglas F-18As from the US Navy, to fill a gap in its fighter force until the Eurofighter EF2000 enters service. The country has rejected a US Air Force offer of secondhand Lockheed F-16s. The Spanish air force has sent a letter of ...
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Back to basics
Airline pilots have, for years, been warning over the growing threat of a mid-air collision in African airspace. On 13 September they appear, unfortunately, to have been proved right, with the apparent en route collision of a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and a German air force Tupolev Tu-154 ...
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GEC HUMS passes design review
THE AIRBORNE-SYSTEM critical-design review for the GEC-Marconi Defence Systems-developed Integrated Health & Usage Monitoring System (IHUMS II) has been completed successfully. The IHUMS II is scheduled for certification on the Sikorsky S-76C+ this year. The system uses high-speed computer processing to diagnosis engine, transmission and rotor-system health. ...
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Antonov An-70: heir apparent
Antonov's An-70 had its maiden flight in December, but funding shortages threaten its development. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A large crowd of workers, designers and officials received an early, but welcome, Christmas present at Svyatoshino airfield, Kiev, on 16 December, 1994, when the Antonov An-70 took off for ...
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Kawasaki presses JDA for transport-launch cash
Paul Lewis/TOKYO KAWASAKI HEAVY Industries (KHI) is pressing the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) to fund the development of the proposed indigenous C-X transport aircraft as a replacement for its C-1A. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) has a requirement for a new, long-range, medium-size, military transport ...
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China loses satellite following fuel loss
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA'S FIRST three-axis stabilised, advanced 24 C-band, communications satellite has been declared a loss in geostationary orbit (GEO) after all its reserves of attitude-control propellants were prematurely exhausted (Flight International, 11-17 January). The 1,000kg satellite failed to reach its planned operational station, having reached ...
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Atlas launches Intelsat 704 comsat
The year's first satellite launch took place from Cape Canaveral on 10 January, when a Martin Marietta Atlas 2AS rocket carried the Space Systems/Loral Intelsat 704 communications satellite (comsat) into an initial orbit en route to geostationary orbit. The international satellite communications organisation, which has 134 countries as ...
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Helicopter share deal gets under way in UK
Kieran Daly/LONDON A UK COMPANY is setting up a fractional-ownership scheme for helicopters, which it claims can reduce the total cost of rotary-wing ownership by as much as 87%. Privately owned Heli-Network, trading as First Heli-Network (FHN), envisages operating as many as 14 machines within two ...
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Lockheed to start work on revived SR-71s for US Air Force inventory
Lockheed Advanced Development expects to receive the first of three SR-71s by the end of February for maintenance work before the aircraft re-enters the US Air Force inventory. The US Congress ordered the Pentagon to re-activate three SR-71s and it earmarked $100 million in fiscal year 1995 to ...
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SABCA chosen to carry out Indonesian F-5 upgrade
INDONESIA has chosen SABCA of Belgium as a systems integrator to upgrade 12 Northrop F-5E/F fighters. A contract is to be finalised shortly. SABCA, together with Smiths Industries, was shortlisted in December after a year-long evaluation (Flight International, 21 December, 1994 - 3 January, 1995, P16). Other companies ...
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R-R wins China Yunnan 767 deal
CHINA YUNNAN Airlines is to become the second operator of Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 767s when it takes delivery in May 1996 of the first of three aircraft on firm order. The subsequent RB.211-524H-powered -300s will be delivered in June 1996 and January 1997. Until Yunnan's order, only British Airways ...
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FAA acts on PW2000 icing in Boeing 757
US OPERATORS of Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 757s are being required to perform engine run-ups in cold weather to remove ice which may form in the compressor. The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness-directive (AD) following incidents in which ice broke loose from low-pressure-compressor stators ...
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Bombardier Global Express definition team homes in on detailed-design requirements
BOMBARDIER'S GLOBAL Express joint-definition team is winding down as detailed design of the long-range business jet gets under way. Definition will be completed by the end of this month and wing developer Mitsubishi has reduced its Montreal-based design team from 60 to 15 people and is expected to ...
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FAA promises extra action on Robinson
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is to take more action on the Robinson R22 and R44 light helicopters, but has rejected another National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) call to have the machines grounded. Following more accidents involving in-flight break-up, the NTSB says that ...
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Grob aims to regain Strato 2C financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is expecting a decision to be taken this month on further Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, which has overshot budget estimates. The company says that the programme requires DM30 million ($19.5 million) extra cash from ...