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 ...tal design
comprises a conventional take-off
and landing high-altitude aircraft,
coupled with an air-launched,
rocket-powered second stage and
re-entry vehicle.
The first-stage vehicle, dubbed
White Knight, is a turbojet-powered
high-altitude research aircraft which
Mojave, California-based Scaled
Composites first flew in August last
year. Powered by twin afterburning
General Electric ...
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 ...697
WHITE
KNIGHT
AND a valiant knight forsooth; even a knight at arms
alone, in a place where no birds sing; but assuredly not
one palely loitering . . .
Our V-bombers are now being turned out with a
...
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 ...r about 70s, at a
70° AoA and a peak descent rate in
excess of 10,000ft/min (51m/s).
Envelope expansion and roll char
acteristics investigation followed,
The SpaceShipOne will be released by the White Knight at 50,000ft
and the lOmin 30s flight con
cluded with a smooth touchdown
at Runway 12 at Mojave,
California, following a last-minute
runway reselection during descent
because of chan...
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 ...ons
since he left his job as Westland test
pilot in 1949. His departure was then
not amicable and he has not courted
popularity since. He is noted for
toughness rather than charm, and if
ever a white knight was needed in a
takeover battle, Bristow's would not
be the name that sprang most readily
to mind, not at least on the colour of
his steed and armorial attire.
When the white knight ...
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 ...empts to secure a share in the
company, through two of the most
theatrical shareholders' meetings ever,
that the temptation has been to see West-
land's only problem as that of finding a
suitable White Knight to save it. In fact,
whether it had been the Sikorsky/Fiat or
the European consortium's rescue plans
that had eventually triumphed was only
half the story. Now Westland faces rough
t...
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 ...EWS ANALYSIS
ELEPHANT, WHITE KNIGHT
Ten years from now, barring further accidents, NASA's
Space Shuttle should gain recog
nition as representing a step for
ward in spaceflight. Today,
opinion is mixed. Launch
frustrat...
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 ...iers and shareholders.
Most of all we would like to thank our staff
who are the true "knights in shining
armour". We look forward to many more
successful years in the future.
"ARTHUR"
BOB
"THE WHITE KNIGHT"
JOHN
"THE BLACK KNIGHT"
HARRY
"MERLIN"
STEVE
"THE SILENT KNIGHT"
TREVOR
BUSINESS FOR SALE
LONG ESTABLISHED AIRCRAFT
and helicopter Air Charter Business with
UK Air Operators C...
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Telephone • Empire 6-0873 .
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697 White Knight
699 Helicopters of the World
709 How Fares the Helicopter?
717 Helicopter Powerplants
721 Helicopters of the World
(cont.)
735 Aberporth in Action
Hatfield's Big SurpriseW
ONDERMENT—somew...
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 ...oled, temporarily at
least, and Piper management is
concentrating on production.
Suma says: "Nobody has
shown the colour of their
money. We are taking the ap
proach that we cannot wait for
the white knight to come in and
Gavilan aims for year-end revival
The Gavilan (Sparrowhawk) 358 light utility aircraft, Co
lombia's first indigenous design,.
has been delayed about six
months by the ...
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 ...elf-inflict-
C rippling fraud and not
the crumbling Wall sealed
Ferranti's fate"
ed wounds to fight. To Plessey, GEC's Lord
Weinstock was an unwelcome predator; to belea
guered Ferranti, he is a white knight.
One thing is certain, Lord Weinstock's plans for
the rationalisation of Britain's electronics industry
are far from complete. Fate may simply have
delivered him Ferranti ahead of sch...
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 ...H EADLINES
USN delays T-45 glass cockpit
BY KIERAN DALY
IN WASHINGTON DC
The US Navy now plans to buy up to 144 analogue-
cockpit T-45 trainers before
switching to a glass cockpit, but
has settl...
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 ...leveland-based Banner In
dustries, which has the con
trolling interest in Fairchild, has
agreed to sell the three com
panies to Matra for $245 million.
Banner stepped in earlier this
year as a "white knight", agreeing
to acquire Fairchild in a deal
valued at about $400 million
including assumed debt. At the
time Fairchild was trying to avoid
the grip of Carlyle Group, a
Washington inve...
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 ...eard the
proposals which involve credi
tors dropping some $400
million-worth of lawsuits in
exchange for a stake in the
new firm. The plans hinge on
Moya Lear and friends being
able to find a "white knight"
to pick up the project—in
which creditors would hold a
share—while avoiding a costly
legal battle. A president has
been suggested for the new
company "but whoever comes
in with th...
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 ...AIR TRANSPORT
UK and
Belgium
liberalise
BRUSSELS ~
Belgian air transport minister
Herman de Croo and his
British counterpart Michael
Spicer announced last week
that they had agreed on radi
c...
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 ...AIR TRANSPORT
White
knight
buys
Spantax
MADRID
Spantax, Spain's largest
independent charter airline,
has been bought by a
Luxembourg-based company,
Aviation Finance Group.
Spantax has debts...
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 ...Scaled Composites
making good progress flight testing its two-stage sub-orbital vehicle Flight
International, 29 ApriM May).
Rutan said at the show that captive testing of the 7,700kg (17,0001b)
White Knight/SpaceShipOne combination began late last month, and that
testing of the second stage's specially developed hybrid rocket motor is pro
gressing well.
"We had one test firing of 45s a co...
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 ...involved in obtaining a licence, only a handful remain. The
extra costs are borne by the people who have to pay the bill. In Europe, if you aspire to a
career in aviation, you either have to find a white knight with deep pockets, or you will
start your career with heavy debts. And what about people who aspire to a career in
general aviation? They have to ask unrealistically high wages to stay ...
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 ... motor,
which uses pressure-fed nitrous
oxide as an oxidizer and hydroxy-
terminated polybutadiene as the
solid fuel.
The rocket motor was fired
shortly after SpaceShipOne was
released from the White Knight
mothership at 48,000ft (14,640m).
Piloted by Brian Binnie, the vehicle
accelerated from Mach 0.55 to
around Ml.2 during the 15s burn
of the rocket. During the initial
acceleration t...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
EXPLORATION GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
NASA tells Mars Spirit to
head for hills via crater
Agency analyses touchdown to plan for landing of second rover on Red Planet this Sunday
...
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 ...rchases,
human resources and organisa
tion, process improvement, and
ICT systems.
RESCUE BRIAN DUNN / MONTREAL
Air Canada hunts for saviour after Li pull-out
Air Canada is scrambling to find a
white knight to save it from liquida
tion after Hong Kong businessman
Victor Li said he is withdrawing his
C$650 million ($495 million)
investment because of the insolvent
airline's financial pro...
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