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Jet services Learjets
Singapore-based Jet Maintenance, part of the Jet Aviation Group, has become the Pacific Rim's first authorised Learjet service centre. Source: Flight International
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Chinese develop new navigation pod
China is developing a low-altitude navigation pod to provide strike aircraft with all-weather terrain following and target-identification capability. The 200kg Blue-Sky pod is being developed by the China Leihua Electronic Technology Institute (CLETRI), and is believed to have been test-flown already. The pod is fitted with radar and ...
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Rising star
Despite annual sales of around $20 million and a rating as one of the fastest-growing space companies in the USA, Spectrum Astro's success had gone relatively unnoticed until NASA awarded it the contract to develop the first craft in the space agency's New Millennium programme. Spectrum Astro, of ...
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AD could ground 727 freighter conversions
US CARGO CARRIERS are bracing for a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD) which could severely restrict the payload of Boeing 727 freighter conversions. The AD had been anticipated in late December 1996, but the FAA says that it now plans to begin discussions with aircraft modifiers and operators in ...
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NATSwill introduce North Atlantic ATN
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is pushing on with the implementation of the aeronautical telecommunications network (ATN), clearing the way for the debut of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) on North Atlantic routes. An upgrade of the Oceanic Control Centre at Prestwick, Scotland, being planned ...
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Boeing offers airlines 767-400ERX stretch
BOEING IS NOW formally offering the stretched 767-400ERX to airlines. Authority to offer was given at the beginning of January, and the company expects a formal launch early this year, leading to a first flight in 1999 and certification and first delivery in 2000 (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P5). ...
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Light moves
Time did not stand still for the big light-aircraft manufacturers while they sought and gained product-liability reform. This ultimately allowed them to re-enter their former markets, but by that time, US production had dropped from its early-1980s peak of about 70 light single- and twin-engined aircraft a day, to a ...
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Australian Dash 8 will carry a laser coastal depth-sounder
BOMBARDIER HAS SOLD a de Havilland Dash 8 Series 200B to an Australian company which plans to equip the aircraft for hydrographic surveys of shallow coastal waters (Flight International, 1- January, p4). Adelaide-based LADS is to equip the aircraft with a laser airborne depth-sounder (LADS) and offer its shallow-water surveying ...
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Grand Canyon tourists to have wings clipped
TOURIST FLIGHTS over the Grand Canyon are to be limited, and the phasing out of noisier aircraft has been proposed, in a bid to restore natural quiet to the US national park. From 1 May, new "flight-free" zones will be established, others will be modified and curfews will ...
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UPS is first to have all-Stage 3 fleet
UPS AIRLINES HAS become the first major North American carrier to operate an entire fleet complying with Stage 3 noise limits, with the re-engineing of the last of its 51 Boeing 727-100QF freighters. The package carrier says that it has complied with Stage 3 regulations three years ahead ...
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PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range
JET AVIATION HAS completed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks. The 15,000litre 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 ...
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FSI's Boeing 777 receives Level C approval
FLIGHTSAFETY International's (FSI) first Boeing 777 full-flight simulator has received Level C training approval. The FSI-built simulator is now in service at the company's Seattle training centre. A second 777 full-flight simulator is now being built by FSI's Simulation Systems division for delivery to Malaysian Airlines in the second quarter ...
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What's on
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com RAeS Events January: D F McIntyre Lecture: Prestwick Airport Reborn 13 January; Gordon ...
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Airbus Industrie and Wicat join in A310/A300-600 training upgrade
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS improving pilot training for the A300-600 and A310-300, with the help of Wicat Systems, to match that available for the A320, A330 and A340. Wicat is supplying new computer-based training (CBT) courseware and is developing a "free-play" trainer for the A310/A300-600 flight-management and -guidance system (FMGS), similar ...
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TTS unveils new-design simulator
THOMSON TRAINING &Simulation (TTS) has delivered the first of its new-design full-flight simulators to the ATR Training Centre (ATC) in Toulouse, France. The new design was evolved following TTS' acquisition of Rediffusion and includes features from the UK company's Concept 90 simulator. The first new-design machine to enter ...
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Japan plans its first space-docking experiment
Japan will become the third space nation, after the USA and Russia, to conduct a rendezvous and docking in space. The Engineering Test Satellite, ETS7, to be launched with the US/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite by a national H2 booster in the middle of 1997, will consist ...
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Russian programme in crisis
Russia may have to abandon its manned space programme this year because of a severe shortage of funds, Yuri Koptev, director-general of the Russian Space Agency has warned the Government. It has been planned that the country's Mir 1 space station will be the base for several international ...
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TI tilt rotor deals
The TI Group has secured two separate deals to provide the landing gear and flight controls for the new Bell Boeing 609 corporate tilt-rotor. Dowty Aerospace Wolverhampton is to design and develop a complete suite of fly-by-wire control actuators in a deal reckoned to be worth in excess of $100 ...
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Cargo crash
US cargo carrier Airborne Express suffered a fatal accident on 22 December, 1996, when one of its McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63s (N827AX) crashed into high ground near Narrows, Virginia, during a test flight after maintenance. It is believed that all three crew and three ground engineers on board were killed. ...
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Appointments
Philip Chen will succeed Simon Heale as deputy managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways from mid-March. Heale takes up the position of finance director at Swire Pacific. Stanley Hui will replace Chen as Dragonair's chief executive from 1 February 1997, while Hui's role as chief operating officer of Air Hong ...