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State-of-the-art systems cut costs
Steve Nichols SITA is showing airshow visitors how its latest IT and telecommunication systems can cut aircraft operating costs and increase operating efficiencies. The company (Hall 1, Stand D37) is using Farnborough to demonstrate its AeroNet intranet service and launch its publicly-accessible web site (www.sita.net). Designed as ...
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Ground control error led to SOHO hiccup
Tim Furniss The mysterious loss of contact with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) last June was caused by mistakes by ground controllers, ESA reported yesterday. The highly successful SOHO had been providing excellent data about the sun for over two years from its ...
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Dash 8 passengers hear the difference
Passengers boarding Dash 8 aircraft are being treated to a remarkable demonstration and manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace is talking loudly about its quiet revolution. The three Dash 8 aircraft at Farnborough '98 - the 200, 300 and the latest 400 - all now have the Q designation. Q is for ...
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Atlantic Research develops new Agena engine
Tim Furniss Atlantic Research has released details at the Show of its new Agena 2000 rocket engine for the Lockheed Martin fleet of US Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELVs). The 15,000lb thrust nitrogen tetroxide-monomethyl hydrazine engine will power a storable upper stage that can be fitted as ...
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AlliedSignal first
AlliedSignal has delivered the first prototype combined cockpit voice/flight data recorder to Eurocopter for the EC155 helicopter, a modified and stretched variant of the AS365 Dauphin medium twin. The solid-state recorder provides 1h of cockpit audio and 10h of flight data, and weighs only 4kg (9lb). Source: Flight International
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X-38 contract
GenCorp Aerojet has been awarded a $16.4 million contract to provide a de-orbit propulsion stage for the International Space Station X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV). The technology demonstrator will make an unpiloted re-entry and landing test flight from the orbiting Space Shuttle in 2000-1. The contract includes an option for ...
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Sloane training
Sloane Helicopters has become the first Robinson Helicopters approved external training centre. The UK distributor will provide six-day engineering courses which will "-give engineers a factory-recognised qualification". Technical training will also be available to the Sywell, Northamptonshire-based training school students and Robinson aircraft owners and operators. Source: Flight International
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Sale wrap-up
Gulfstream completed its $250 million acquisition of KC-Aviation on 19 August. The Kimberly-Clark subsidiary's completion and maintenance centres, which are based in Texas, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, will immediately assume the Gulfstream name. Source: Flight International
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Ice shield approval
B/E-SMR Technologies, the recently acquired Florida-based unit of B/E Aerospace, has received supplemental-type certificates (STCs) for its newly developed Ice Shield pneumatic de-icing system on the Piper Navajo series and Raytheon Aircraft Beech King Air 200. The system incorporates new edge sealing and tapered-edge design technology . Source: Flight ...
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BWIA links up with Continental for revamp
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC BWIA International Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding on a code-share agreement with Continental Airlines as part of a three-year strategic revamp to make the Caribbean carrier profitable. Talks have also been held with Delta Air Lines, but Continental "-is the preferred option", BWIA says. ...
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JAL debates global alliance
Paul Lewis/Singapore Japan Airlines (JAL) is putting the final touches to its new code-share agreement with American Airlines, but is still debating the merits of joining British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas to form a planned new global alliance. The two carriers are due to sign an ...
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Hong Kong tackles long haul rostering
The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (CAD) is planning pioneering new rules on maximum permissible flight hours and minimum stand down periods, which will require Cathay Pacific Airways to overhaul crew rostering for long haul flights. Cathay has until 30 November to submit its response to the CAD 371 ...
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Sporty Games
So British Airways has at last placed an order with Airbus Industrie, some 30 years after the European consortium was conceived with the primary aim of building an aircraft for BA's predecessor, British European Airways (BEA). The fiercely fought battle between Airbus and Boeing for this much prized order ...
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Japan lines up ramjet-powered ASM launch
The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is planning to launch initial development of a new integrated ramjet-powered supersonic air-to-surface missile (ASM) as a successor to the Mitsubishi Type 93 ASM-2. Tentatively designated the ASM-3, the new missile will be powered by a combined-cycle rocket motor during launch and acceleration, and ...
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V-22 carries record load at speed during trials
A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor unofficially broke a rotorcraft record on 20 August by carrying a 4,550kg (10,000lb) external load at 220kt (410km/h) in trials . The maximum payload lift, by a Marine Helicopter Support Team, was made on the V-22's aft external cargo hook. "This is the ...
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Back to basics
Paul Lewis/SEOUL & SINGAPORE Asia's embattled aerospace industry will likely reflect on 1998 with utter dismay. Once-bold Asian aeronautical ambitions to be a global player have been confined to the scrapheap after a series of setbacks. The focus is now on a post mortem examination to determine if and ...
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Helicopters for business
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON As the global helicopter industry emerges from one of the worst recessions in recent years, manufacturers are launching new machines and technologies and aggressively targeting their products at burgeoning markets, including offshore, news gathering and emergency medical services operations, in an effort to boost their order books. ...
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Seeking quiet
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Airport noise regulations worldwide are becoming ever stricter, putting airframe and engine manufacturers under increasing pressure to deliver quieter aircraft. In the USA, NASA's Advanced Subsonic Technology (AST) programme is a joint government-industry research effort which names aircraft noise reduction as a primary objective. Running since ...
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Sensing safer skies
Guy Norris/SEATTLE The aviation industry's continual search for safer skies is reaching "crusade" status as the chilling implications sink in of predicted traffic growth on accident rates. The US Federal Aviation Administration, for example, expects "a serious accident" every week by 2015 unless some radical changes are made. That ...
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Orbital timebomb
Tim Furniss/LONDON Safety concerns are mounting over the de-orbiting of the Mir space station next June and an international debate has now begun on how to dispose safely of the flagship of Russia's aerospace industry. While Russia embarks this month on reducing Mir's orbit from its present 450km, ...