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 ... aero clubs.
$ A new company called
France Aero Moteurs (FAM)
is to develop a 140 h.p. engine,
a derivative of the Peugeot/
Renault/Volvo V6 power-
plant.
Rutan
appeals for
money
MOJAVE
The Voyager unrefuelled
round-the-world flight is now
planned for September-
December this year, writes
Norman Lynn. "The
weather window opens here in
September and closes in
December, so that's whe...
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 ...Voyager flexes its wings
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Burt Rutan's round-the-world
Voyager aircraft is in the
second phase of its flight-test
programme. While many tech
nical problems have been ...
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 ...PRIVATE FLIGHT
Voyager
had fuel
to spare
MOJAVE ~
"Fantastic, one of the last
challenges in aviation".
That's how Milton Brown,
US National Aeronautic
Association record secretary
described ...
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Voyager
breaks
record
MOJAVE ~ ~
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager
have made the longest flight
yet in the Voyager aircraft,
exceeding the world closed-
course distance record of
11,...
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Voyager
prepares
to fly
MOJAVE
The Voyager canard aircraft
in which Dick Rutan and
Jeanna Yeager will attempt
the first non-stop unrefuelled
flight around the world s...
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Around the world without refuelling
TWO teams at Mojave, California, are
preparing to attack the ultimate dis
tance record—a non-stop, unrefuelled
flight around the world—and one of
two p...
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Nipper takes
DEC Schneider
Trophy
BEMBRIDGE
Ron Mitcham beat 57 com
petitors to win the Digital
Equipment Corporation
(DEC) Schneider Trophy
race, completing the closed
course...
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Voyagertests
modifications
MOJAVE
Everything is on track in
preparation for Voyager's
globe-girdling unrefuelled
flight around the world,
reports Norman Lynn. This
is targeted ...
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Dutch
balloonists
conquer
Atlantic
SCHIPHOL
The successful Atlantic cross
ing by three Dutch balloonists
last week raises the prospect
of a round-the-world flight,
according t...
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 ...WORLD NEWS
Verdict
given on
Manchester
737 fire
MANCHESTER ~
The inquest into the British
Airtours disaster concluded
last Friday, when the coroner
returned a verdict of acci
dental death on...
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 ...PRIVATE FLIGHT
Time running out for Voyager
MOJAVE
Time was running out late
last week for the Voyager
project in its attempt to fly
round the world this year.
Flight-testing began again
this ...
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 ...WORLD NEWS
SAS may
have
launched
MD-11
STOCKHOLM
"There isn't any doubt at all
[of the MD-11 launch], but
there has to be a formal deci
sion," a spokesman for
McDonnell Douglas tells
Flight...
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 ...WORLD NEWS
Nimrod
'too risky"
LONDON
Boeing's E-3 appeared set this
week to win the UK airborne
early warning (AEW) contest
after the Ministry of Defence
concluded that the risk
attached to t...
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 ...PARIS FIRST NEWS
Boeing
business
booms
Boeing has announced orders
worth a total of $1 • 3 billion for
31 aircraft from the Inter
national Lease Finance
Corporation (ILFC), Air
Europe, and So...
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 ...PRIVATE FLIGHT
Aopa
scores
political
points
WASHINGTON D.C. ~
The US Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association (Aopa) is
seeing the results of several
months of hard work in repre
senting the i...
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 ...Voyager
to fly
Navstar
OLATHE
If it succeeds, Voyager's non
stop round-the-world flight
will establish another first—
the first round-the-world
flight using satellite-based
global positioning...
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Accident
branch
proposes
seat rule
FARNBOROUGH
The UK Department of
Transport Accidents
Investigation Branch (AIB) is
recommending that "Permits
to Fly" issued for aircraft
u...
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 ...YOUR VIEW-Treating
pilots as
lumans
SIR—Thank you for publishing
Capt Hunnable's moving letter
(Flight, May 14). As a repetitive
reader of Fate is the Hunter I
found that, between them, they
h...
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 ...The chances of this happening are real,
for in order to achieve the 28,000-mile
range required for the 12-day trip, system
redundancy has been eliminated to save
every last ounce of weight.
Voyag...
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 ...Jeana Yeager gives close attention to minimising surface drag
Yeager's long hair will be cut short for the
world flight. She has found that it gets in
the way and attracts static electricity.
Pers...
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