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INDUSTRY DASA succeeds with anti-radar drone test Deutsche Aerospace (DASA) has sucessfully flight tested the flight-guidance system for its anti-radar drone (DAR). The test was carried out at Meppen, the proving ground of the German armed forces. The guidance system for the delta-wing, two-stroke-engined propeller-driven DAR is a multi processing system with sensors. These are a fibre-optic rate-of- turn sensor, magnetometer, air- data sensor and global-position ing system. During the test flight of over 150km (80nm), the 120kg drone reached speeds of up to 135kt (250km/h) at an altitude of 3,280ft (1,000m). The mobile DAR consists of air vehicles, launcher, ground- control station and power- supply systems. DASA says: "Based on the experience gained during the development of the high-speed CL 289 reconnais sance-drone system, Dornier de veloped an advanced concept for low-speed drones. "The resulting DAR is the first, and so far only, European drone system for anti-radar mis sions," DASA adds. The DASA Command and In formation Systems division at Dornier is the system leader for the DAR, which is being devel oped for the German air force. European aerospace firms get together Europe's five biggest aerospace manufacturers have created what is being billed as a unique alli- COMMON RAIL LAUNCHER ON TRACK The Fraser Nash Common Rai) Launcher (CRL) has undergone what the Airscrew Howden subsidiary describes as a "very successful and concentrated flight-test programme" on a Canadian Forces-Air Com mand McDonnell Douglas CF-18 at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at Cold Lake', Canada. Airscrew Howden says: "The Canadian Department of National Defense is interested in the CRL fitted with the Nobel Tech BOL chaff dispenser as a possible replacement for the LAU-7 Sidewinder Launcher. A CRL configured with a tail-mounted BOL and a nose-mounted 2.6litre gas bottle was supplied earlier this year for flight trials." ance to improve European aero space marketing abilities. The new Toulouse-based Euresas group is essentially a training organisation formed to improve the sales performance of European manufacturers. "Aerospace competition be tween Europe and the United States is fierce and we must not be afraid to challenge the pre conceived notion that Europe is number two," says Euresas chief executive officer Bernard Burel. He admits, however, that, "...there is a certain reluctance among manufacturers to over come their reservations about marketing and sales training being conducted anywhere other than in-house". The initiative was inspired mainiy by Airbus Industrie. The Euresas teachers are drawn di rectly from industry which has seen the advantages of a dedi cated external marketing and sales organisation. Euresas teachers are drawn directly from industry, and remain active in their various companies. El Al puts flight-control system into action Israeli national carrier El Al has started operations with an inte grated flight-planning and con trol-system, which displays graphically the flow of opera tions connected to each flight. The system is also designed to automatically warn the airline's operations-control centre if a problem has arisen. Called Control 2000, the sys tem has been developed by the John Bryce computer software house in Jerusalem. The termi nals are located in the El Al operations-control centre. Control 2000 has replaced separate computerised systems which were combined with a manual tracking system. The new equipment can be used to check every flight plan against the weather conditions along the route and against the ground time during stop-overs. Curfew hours in the destination airports are also fed into the system, in addition to local problems, such as industrial action and any an ticipated problems in mainte nance or refuelling. Cossor wins contract to supply Nimrod GPS The UK Ministry of Defence has selected Cossor Electronics to supply global-positioning sys tems (GPS) for the Royal Air Force's British Aerospace Nim rod MR2 fleet. The £1 million contract will involve the Cossor GPS being integrated with other Nimrod systems to provide improved navigation and high-accuracy global positioning. Under the same contract, some of the existing Cossor sys tems are being upgraded, giving the RAF a cost-effective solution to the navigation upgrade of the Nimrod fleet. SHOULD YOU BE HERE? No of LICENSED ENGINEERS PEMCO Aeroplex s <=> P EF UJ Q. a. a. co < A FAA CAA Nat AIRFRAMES ENGINES SIZE GO "-> LU —J 747 F.28 SPACE CHECKS £ 3 CO z 2 AR G i SS 3 £ MA L CO ETS — CO O-o CC a. o UR B t— 1 60 40 • • Part 2 of the 1993 Flight International Commercial Aircraft Maintenance Directory covers NORTH AMERICA (Canada, Mexico and the USA), and appears in our issue of 14-20 July. If you think your company should be included, please ring Ian Goold on +44 (81) 652 3834. Closing date: 21 May 1993 54 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 20 - 26 January. 1993
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