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USN to test upgraded Seahawks
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems (LMFS) is preparing to deliver the first Sikorsky SH-60R Seahawk prototypes to the US Navy and expects to be awarded a low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract in May for five modernised machines. The US Navy has awarded LMFS a $37.2 million contract to upgrade a third ...
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K-Max customers
Kaman Aerospace has announced two new customers for its K-Max external lift helicopter. Heli Air Zagel Lufttransport has taken delivery of a new machine and Wucher Helicopters of Austria will take a second, previously owned, K-Max shortly. The helicopters will be used for heli-logging, as well as ski resort support. ...
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Spread of A320s leads to power struggle among maintainers
The growing influx of International Aero Engine (IAE) V2500-powered Airbus A320s is generating intense competition among powerplant maintenance companies vying for a share of the potentially lucrative after-sales support market. LanChile, TAM and Grupo Taca have collectively ordered 103 A319/A320s and hold options on another 84, all powered by ...
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Gyroscope snags lead to Compton de-orbit
NASA will de-orbit its Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite sometime after 1 June, following the failure of one of its three gyroscopes. The US space agency has decided to de-orbit the Compton, the second in NASA's Great Observatory series - which was deployed from Space Shuttle Atlantis in April 1991 ...
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Raytheon wins data system ground work
Raytheon is to provide the ground network infrastructure for the Faisat satellite-based wireless data system being developed by Final Analysis. The deal includes a "significant" equity investment to be made by Raytheon in Lanham, Maryland-based Final Analysis. Raytheon will be subcontractor to General Dynamics Information Systems, an investor in ...
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Delta II launches IMAGE satellite
NASA's $154 million Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Auroral Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite was placed into orbit by a Boeing Delta II booster after launch from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 25 March. The satellite, operating from an 987 x 45,993km, 89.9°-inclination orbit, will be the first to study how the Earth's magnetic ...
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Overload 'caused Mars failures'
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Flaws in NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" approach overloaded programme management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and contributed directly to the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, says the report by the Mars programme independent assessment team (MPIAT). The US space agency ...
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Baggage space limitations hit DaimlerChrysler A319CJ
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH DaimlerChrysler Aviation has had to remove four of the 48 seats installed in its recently delivered Airbus A319 Corporate Jet (CJ) because there is insufficient space in the cargo hold for passengers' baggage. The Stuttgart-based operator is looking, meanwhile, at the possibility of launching intra-European flights ...
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Air Methods' Mercy adds rescue service
US emergency medical service specialist Air Methods is to acquire the St Louis, Missouri-based Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals (ARCH) air ambulance service. The deal expands the Denver, Colorado-based company's turnkey medical transport operations. ARCH will be acquired through Air Method's Mercy Air Service subsidiary. Air Methods operates air ...
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Air Harrods stocks twin turboshaft EC135 at Stansted
Air Harrods, subsidiary of the London department store, has taken delivery of a twin turboshaft Eurocopter EC135. The aircraft, completed by Eurocopter UK distributor McAlpine Helicopters, will join the London Stansted Airport-based operator's fleet in September, after receipt of a UK air operator's certificate. Air Harrods has two Sikorsky S-76s ...
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Loral wins MTSAT replacement
Space Systems/Loral has been awarded a contract by Japan's Ministry of Transport to build the replacement for the MTSAT satellite lost in the failure of the national H2 booster last year. The MTSAT 1R will be launched in 2002, but its launcher and launch site have yet to be ...
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Service mission to keep Zarya reliable
The 496-day reliability guarantee for the electronic equipment on the Russian Zarya control module of the International Space Station (ISS) ran out on 30 March. Its life will be extended further with a servicing mission performed by Space Shuttle mission STS101, due for launch later on 24 April. ...
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X-33 deal in renegotiation talks
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NASA and Lockheed Martin are renegotiating their co-operative agreement on the X-33 technology demonstrator and follow-on VentureStar reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The talks are a result of technical problems with the X-33 and the decision by NASA both to delay and open to competition its ...
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Enaer unveils Cessna upgrade
Enaer has taken the wraps off its proposed Cessna A-37 Dragonfly avionics upgrade, while partner Snow Aviation hopes to begin work on re-engining a T-37 demonstrator in August with a new Williams FJ33 powerplant. The Chilean manufacturer has produced a cockpit mock-up of a proposed A-37 upgrade based around a ...
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LMAAS secures breakthrough into commercial market
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina (LMAAS) expects to begin maintenance work on its first Boeing 737-200 by the end of this month, a crucial step in the company's strategy to diversify into commercial repair and overhaul of airliners and civil engines. The second landmark is expected in late September, when ...
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UPS primes 90 aircraft for ADS-B implementation
Guy Norris/SALEM United Parcel Service (UPS) Airlines aims to have 90 aircraft provisioned for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) by the end of 2000. It plans to equip all its 230 aircraft with operational systems by the end of 2002 - the deadline for installing collision avoidance systems in US heavy ...
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FAA looks at LAAS to replace Cat I WAAS
US Federal Aviation Administration officials are considering whether alternatives such as the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) would be a better and cheaper way of achieving Category I approach capability than the troubled Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). WAAS acceptance testing was halted in January because of excessive false ...
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Workshop
Finova Capital has signed an agreement with London Stansted, UK-based engineering consultancy GAMIT to manage the US company's passenger to cargo conversions, base maintenance and engineering requirements worldwide. Lake Forest, California-based Aviation Distributors is to purchase for redistribution rotable parts valued at $51 million from KLM. The 6,400 line items ...
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El Al faces bleak future as plans to privatise slip down Israel's agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIVIsrael has effectively suspended preparation for the privatisation of El Al, causing the flag carrier's president Joel Feldschu to warn that its entire future may be under threat. Feldschu says that while it remains under state control, El Al - which is banned from flying on the Jewish ...
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Delta signs massive CRJ deal
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines has signed a $10 billion, 500-aircraft, regional jet deal with Bombardier which will provide Delta Connection carriers with 40-, 44- and 50-seat versions of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 200, and 70-seat CRJ700s. The yet-to-be launched 90-seat CRJ900 is not included. Delta ...