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STAe is back in the black
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) managed to show a modest profit for the first half of the year, boosted by strong growth from its restructured maintenance businesses. The group ended the half year with a profit of just under S$7 million ($5 million), turning round a loss of $47 ...
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Fourth Japanese H2 sends the Adeos into polar orbit
JAPAN'S ADVANCED Earth-observing satellite, the Adeos, and an amateur radio satellite, were successfully launched into 800km circular polar orbits by the fourth H2 booster from Tanegashima on 17 August. The 3,500kg Adeos, has a suite of five national and two NASA instruments, and one French instrument. It is ...
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Russia sends back-up crew
THE SOYUZ TM24 was launched on a Soyuz U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 17 August, carrying a crew of three people to the Mir 1 space station. The crew consists of the first French woman in space, Claudie Andre Deshays, flying the 16-day, $13 million, Cassiopiae ...
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MDHS reveals MD600N design change
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has begun flight testing a series of modifications to the MD600N eight-seat civil helicopter following the crash of a prototype earlier this year. The changes are aimed at increasing the clearance between the main rotor blades and ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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Cargo and Catering departments face Sabena axe
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PLANS to shed its cargo and catering departments, with the possibility that they will be merged into the larger operations being run by the carrier's alliance partner and effective owner Swissair. Paul Reutlinger, who was brought in as Sabena president by Swissair ...
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Dollar rise takes toll of SAS profit
SAS HAS BECOME the latest of the northern European carriers to suffer a slump in operating profits, largely blamed on the rise of the US dollar. The Scandinavian carrier ended the first half of the year with operating profits down by nearly 40% at SKr930 million ($142 million) ...
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A sticky problem
THE WORLD'S LARGEST and most profitable airlines are facing an all-time-great dilemma as the Farnborough Air Show approaches. Should they bow to Boeing's pressure and sign now for its new stretched 747-500/ 600, or should they await the Airbus A3XX? If they buy the Boeing now, they ...
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Alaska spurns MDC for Boeing
ALASKA AIRLINES is negotiating for a fleet of new-generation Boeing 737s, following an apparent decision to sell off its large McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet and become all-Boeing by 2000. If confirmed, the move will mean the end of MDC's long-running battle with Boeing to supply Alaska with new ...
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Mi-28N roll-out
Mil has rolled out the first prototype of the Mi-28N all-weather night-attack derivative of its Mi-28 Havoc attack helicopter. The helicopter is fitted with a mast-mounted radar, which operates in the millimetre and centimetre wavebands. An imaging-infra-red system is mounted in the nose. The helicopter has also been fitted with ...
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Boeing fights airline doubts in bid for 747-X go-ahead
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS MOUNTING an intensive last-minute push to launch the Boeing 747-500/600X growth derivatives at the Farnborough air show, which starts on 2 September, but the US manufacturer is struggling to win sufficient airline support - partly caused by the $230 million price ...
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Yeovil electronic developments
Yeovil Electronic Developments will show its DATAIR-400 battery-powered, hand-held ARINC-429 data monitor, designed for testing data-transmission systems in aircraft. Data are displayed on a four line x 16-character liquid-crystal display, in user-definable formats. "The equipment is aimed at the avionics technician who needs to be able to display ARINC-429 data ...
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Aero Tec laroratories
Aero Tec Laboratories (ATL) Europe's new Unmanned Vehicle Fuel Cell division is displaying its ultra-lightweight, bladder-type fuel tanks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ATL says that it is focusing on development of low-cost, non-exploding fuel cells, and can make complex fuel-cell shapes and sophisticated scavenging devices to optimise available space ...
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Data sciences
Data Sciences is exhibiting its Sigma-M full-motion flight simulator, the latest development in the company's technology- demonstrator programme for cockpit trainers. The Sigma-M will be integrated with a low-cost, 6¡-of-freedom motion platform designed by Intersim, with high-resolution, out-of-cockpit views provided by Simis. The Sigma-M is available "at a fraction of ...
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Catching the international spacebus
Aerospatiale's Spacebus has broadened its horizons outside Europe. Tim Furniss/LONDON AEROSPATIALE'S FIRST Spacebus 3000 satellite, the Arabsat 2A, was launched on 9 July. Although the 3000 made a big impact on the international market in 1995, its progress came to an abrupt halt in 1996, partly ...
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Skyhigh healthcare
Airlines are finally considering fitting telemedicine equipment. Patrick Hook/LONDON DESPITE THE HUGE costs involved every time a scheduled service is diverted from its route to off-load a sick passenger, airlines have always demonstrated a reluctance to fit their aircraft with telemedicine equipment which might improve ...
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Ageing-airliner census 1996
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THIS YEAR's Flight International census of ageing airliners shows a growth of 6% (to some 8,200) in the number of jet-powered and turboprop aircraft more than 15 years old in active service at 1 January, 1996. The number of jet-airliners in existence, which ...
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Fleet wins wing deal
CANADA'S FLEET Aerospace has won an initial C$40 million ($55million) contract from Hyundai Space and Aircraft to supply wing components for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. Deliveries will begin in 1997. South Korea's Hyundai is developing the wing for the 100-seat MD-95 as a risk-sharing partner. Toronto-based Fleet will ...
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ILS opens free-access stolen-parts database
INVENTORY LOCATOR Service (ILS) is to provide free access, via the Internet, to its database of stolen aircraft-parts. Previously, the database was available only to customers using the company's "electronic marketplace" to buy and sell aircraft parts. ILS created the database after a 1989 industry conference estimated that ...
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MMS wins contract for Columbus
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has awarded Matra Marconi Space (MMS) the contract for the development of a data-management system for the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF). The system records and processes the laboratory's operational data, and scientific data gathered. DASA is the prime contractor for the COF, the European section ...