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INDUSTRY PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range TFT AVIATION HAScomplet- I ed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxil iary fuel tanks. The 15,0001itre auxiliary fuel-system, produced by PATS, was installed in a corporate- configured 767-200ER completed at Jet Aviation's Basle, Switzerland, modification centre. The aircraft's owner has not been identified, but is believed to be the Saudi corporate-jet operator Mid East Jet. The additional fuel enables it to be flown non-stop from Saudi Arabia to California. Columbia, .Maryland-based PATS says that the 767 auxiliary fuel-system was delivered as a com plete kit, including five tanks, installation hardware, wiring har nesses, gauging and control hard ware, and cockpit instrumentation and controls. The company says that die system, which is scheduled to be certificated in January, is also suitable for 767s configured as aer ial-refuelling tankers and airborne warning and control systems. The auxiliary tanks are of dou ble-walled honeycomb construc tion, eliminating the need for internal bladders. When the air craft is pressurised, cabin air con tinuously purges the honeycomb, as well as pressurising tiie tanks to feed fuel to the centre tank. This eliminates the need for transfer or scavenge pumps in the auxiliary tanks, PATS says. tl Concurrent inks Lockheed Martin computer deal CONCURRENT Computer has allied with Lockheed Martin to produce rugged versions of its PowerMAXION real-time computer for military applications. Lockheed Martin plans to use die PowerMAXION in systems for sensor fusion, situational aware ness, route replanning and battle management. An early application will be the US Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate, flight testing of which is to begin in March, in a McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Ap ache helicopter. Under the agreement, Lock heed Martin Federal Systems, based in Owega, New York, will manufacture rugged military ver sions of the PowerMAXION. Concurrent says that this compact format is die key to airborne use of the multi-processor computer. The Ft Lauderdale, Florida-based company says diat it is also working with Lockheed Martin to repack age die PowerMAXION on to SEM-E electronics modules simi lar to diose used in the avionics of die Lockheed Martin/BoeingF-22 fighter and the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter. The PowerMAXION has a Motorola PowerPC 604e micro processor and could be offered to meet emerging requirements for commercial off-the-shelf proces sors to replace military-aircraft mission-computers. J Comparison system detects database differences X IONIX SLMULATION has delivered a navigation-data base comparison system to British Airways. The system allows BA to compare navigation databases to identify differences and isolate errors. It is in use at the carrier's operations centre at Heathrow. BA is using the comparison sys tem to increase die integrity of nav igation databases used in aircraft flight-management systems and in the company's ground-based flight-dispatch computers. The personal-computer-based system allows two navigation databases, from different data sources or update cycles, to be compared. The UK airline says diat tiie sys tem will provide "...more timely and cost-effective [quality assur ance]" of navigation databases used in flight-management and flight- dispatch computers. • First MD-95 empennage shipped to Douglas MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDQ at Salt Lake City, Utah, has completed the first empennage subassembly for the MD-95 100-seat regional twinjet. The empennage has been shipped to the Douglas Aircraft factory at Long Beach, California, where it will be mated with the aircraft's horizontal sta biliser. Final assembly of the first MD- 95 is scheduled to be completed early in 1998, with the first flight due to follow in the second quarter of that year — assuming that the programme survives the planned acquisition of MDC by Boeing. NEWS IN BRIEF U CEGELEC LIGHTS BOSNIA The Airports division of France's Cegelec Projects has supplied 236 airfield light fittings to Banju Luka Airport in Bosnia. The equipment was ordered by a UK Government agency, and delivered using Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C- 130 transport aircraft based at RAF Lyneham in the UK. • MEGGITT ON TARGET Meggitt Target Systems has won contracts worth a total of £10 million ($17 million) from the UK and Romanian armed forces, covering the supply of aerial targets and associated equipment. The UK Ministry of Defence has ordered the Banshee aerial target system, while Rom ania is buying examples of the Banshee, electronic scoring systems, reeling machines, towed targets and the Piranha boat target. • TELEFLEX HOISTS V-22 Bell/Boeing has selected Teleflex Control Systems (TCS) to design and manu facture the engine hoist for the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. TCS says that the hoist design will have manual and electrical power inputs, an overload clutch and an automatic stop mechanism to prevent the accidental un reeling of the lifting cable. • MITSUBISHI NOZZLES Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has purchased two rocket engine nozzles from Volvo Aero, marking the Swedish company's first sale of rocket components to a customer outside Europe. The nozzles will be fitted to the LE-7A, the main engine of Japan's H- 2A launcher. • SPEEDWING PARTNERSHIP Sweden's Intentia is to mar ket Speedwing's MOVEX aviation maintenance sup port software, following a partnership agreement. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 8 - 14 January 1997 19
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