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 ...WORLD NEWS
Shuttle
flight
extended
KENNEDY S.C.
Nasa expects the Shuttle/
Spacelab 2 mission to achieve
90-95 per cent of its scientific
goals, following a decision to
extend the flight by a ...
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 ...SIMULATION SPECIAL
The race for realism
Simulators today are as much a part of the aviation scene as the aircraft they replicate. Helped by phenom
enal advances in computer processing
power, they ...
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 ...Pitts biplanes or their derivatives (above) are spectacular in display, but some
competition pilots think judges prefer the clearer silhouette and smoother
manoeuvring of monoplanes. The Sukhoi Su-2...
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 ...TECHNICAL: AIR TRANSPORT
Lockheed eyes L-100 freighter
Lockheed has developed a commercial version of the
C-130 with a side loading door
to improve productivity.
Dubbed the L-100F, it was
shown ...
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 ...i Jugoslavs overturn Zagreb judgement A COURT order issued in Jugoslavia has quashed the conviction of Gradi-mir Tasic, the controller imprisoned after the September 1976 Trident/
DC-9 collision over...
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 ...AIR TRANSPORT
SAA chief urges government protection
HILKA BIRNS/CAPE TOWN
SOUTH AFRICAN Airways (SAA) chief executive Coleman
Andrews has urged Pretoria to cut
jet fuel prices and use regulatory ...
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 ...JUNE 9, 1938. FLIGHT. 563
AIN
vald Race at 148
e Day Posponements
The scene (right) on and
beyond the tarmac at
Hatfield before the
machines were taxied
out to the starting line.
The change in the
wea...
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 ...Nasa prepares next Shuttle
Flames that appeared between
the Space Shuttle Orbiter
Discovery and its external tank
90sec after launch on
September 29 were caused by
the reverse flow of hot gases ...
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 ...Mountain flying poses a set of problems
centreing on psychological effects, aircraft
performance, and meteorological phenom
ena. Under the first heading comes
vertigo, caused by flying over cliffs...
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 ...LETTERS
short service commissions, or
even at the 38/16-year point.
Maintaining flying squadrons
of the RAuxAF would enable
such aircrew to be kept avail
able to the Service in a
number of wort...
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 ...nystagmus theory and demonstration of
Marangoni convection, but many others
are equally important.
Caloric nystagmus concerns the eye
movement that occurs when the human
body reacts to a perceive...
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 ...nw>w..-V."
Lined up for a formation take-off, the Pik-23 shows some sideview likeness to Valmet's L-70 Miltrainer
As we levelled off from the climb only a
light stick force showed itself—typical of...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Europe offered mini-spacelab
PRESTON
A space recovery vehicle
(SRV) based on General Elec-
tric's US photo-reconnais
sance film re-entry capsule is
being marketed to micro-
gravity u...
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 ...AIR TRANSPORT
Japan
shares
7J7's
risks
TOKYO 7
Japan's major aerospace
companies are to take a 25 per
cent equity stake in Boeing's
proposed 7J7 propfan-
powered aircraft in return for
pumpi...
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 ...TECHNICAL: AIR TRANSPORT
747 auto-balance
system certificated
The US Federal Aviation Administration has certifi
cated an electronic weight and
balance measuring system (WBS)
on the Boeing 747-4...
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 ...TECHNICAL: PROPULSION
Burbank hushes HeavyLrft 707s
The first Boeing 707 to be fitted with a Burbank Aero
nautical II (BAC II) engine
hushkit has arrived at the
company's California factory to
u...
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 ...OPERATIONS: AIR TRANSPORT
Wind rotors could
have caused crash
BY DAVID LEARMOUNT
IN WASHINGTON DC
The meteorological phenom enon known as rotors, wind
tumbling around a horizontal
axis in the l...
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 ...1844 FLIGHT International, 17 June (978
Who's selling what
What's new
Ferranti (Gem Mill, Chadderton,
Oldham 0L9 8NP) has announced a
new radar video generator, the Cirrus
100. Applications can ...
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 ...Can Peacekeeper survive?
Building a missile accurate enough to destroy Soviet ICBM silos seems a relatively easy task. Finding a home
for the missile that is both militarily and
politically accepta...
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 ...AUGUST 5, 1937- FLIGHT. 139
Holland Displays Her Wares : A Good Show by
Germany : Few Novelties
INDIGENOUS products form the backbone of the Avia show staged in the new "Houtrust" exhibition
hall ...
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