All aerospace news – Page 1992
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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 ...
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Sea Launch joint venture boosted by first payload
THE BOEING-LED Sea Launch joint venture, has been assigned its first satellite payload the Hughes Communications Galaxy 11, which is scheduled to be launched in June 1998. The launch will also carry the first Hughes HS-702 spacecraft bus. Boeing is joined on the $500 million programme by ...
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The politics of safety
Tony Broderick talks on politics, safety and the need for a new funding regime. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS TONY BRODERICK understands better than most the perils which political intervention can put in the path of effective aviation-safety oversight. After nearly two decades at the US Federal Aviation ...
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MDC postpones MD-XX launch to early part of 1997
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is now hoping to launch the MD-XX stretched, re-winged MD-11 derivative at the start of 1997, says president Harry Stonecipher. MDC had been tipped to launch the MD-XX at the Farnborough air show in September, but is expected instead to give detailed briefings to interested airlines, led ...
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Recovered TWA No 2 engine has turbine blades missing
INVESTIGATORS working on the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 crash off Long Island, New York, in July are still searching for conclusive evidence of what triggered the explosions, which destroyed the aircraft. The badly damaged No 2 engine has now been recovered, however, and is understood to have three ...
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USA/Mexico GPS
The USA and Mexico have established technical pacts on satellite-based navigational systems and other navigational services. The two sides can now formally begin co-operative work on future navigation systems involving the global-positioning system (GPS). Also established are specific functional areas of air-navigation services under which co-operative projects may be instituted ...
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Giant Boeing order paves the way for first United 747-600X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has radically revised its large Boeing order, shifting the emphasis away from more 777s to 747-400s and, at the same time, paving the way for its first 747-600Xs. Negotiations for the long-anticipated order were originally based around an additional 17 777s, ...
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AAR
AAR Engine Group, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Vincent senior vice-president and general manager for AAR Engine Sales & Leasing. He was most recently vice-president and general manager for the Pratt & Whitney product line at AAR Aircraft Turbine Center. Source: Flight International
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Fast launch
NASA's Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) satellite is to be air-launched by an Orbital Sciences' Pegasus XL booster over the Pacific Ocean on 16 August. The $45 million FAST satellite will be used to investigate how particles are accelerated in space to create auroras. Source: Flight ...