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Satellite work propels ELOP into orbit
ELOP Electro Optical Industries is well known for its work on small spaceborne real-time high resolution cameras. It is small for a very good reason. Eytan Reis, ELOP's marketing and business development manager explains: "Any satellite launched from Israel has to be launched to the west, not the east, ...
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IAI converts technological advantages to record profit
Steve Nichols Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) saw a 26% increase in sales last year which was "unprecedented in IAI's history", says Moshe Keret, the company's president and chief executive. Shimon Eckhaus, vice-president of Marketing at IAI, says these results are the product of steps taken by IAI to ...
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Derco signs with Honeywell
Derco Aerospace has been appointed distributor for Honeywell Hardware Products Group (HPG) range of military aerospace parts and expendable supplies. Under the agreement, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Derco says it will use Honeywell HPG inventories and buying power to supply products from more than 150 hardware and expendables manufacturers. Paul McBride, ...
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Face the Facts with...Cesare Gianni
Eurofighter International president Cesare Gianni talks to Tim Ripley about the company's plans to sell its 4th generation combat aircraft Q: Why was Eurofighter International formed last November? So the partner companies decided they needed a more focused effort and regional attention in the countries where the consortium had ...
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ITT selected for $300m Bowman programme
ITT selected for $300m Bowman programme ITT Industries has been selected to provide $300 million worth of VHF tactical radios for the British Army's Bowman radio programme in a tight competition with Racal Defence Electronics. Archer Communications Systems (ACSL), the prime contractor and systems integrator for the Bowman ...
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USA threatens UK over bilateral
US lawmakers have again threatened to pursue "legislative solutions" should there be no progress on a new US/UK air services bilateral. Republican Congressman Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, wants to revoke US airport slots held by UK carriers, ban British Airways Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde flights and renounce ...
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NASA promises more Shuttle support
NASA will hire 1,850 more engineers in the next five years to concentrate on improvements to the Space Shuttle main engines, auxiliary power units and cockpit avionics. The move follows an independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel assessment which concluded that NASA's manned spaceflight team is too small and too ...
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Proton on course for Zvezda launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON The prospects for a launch of the Russian Zvezda service module to the International Space Station (ISS) in July were raised on 12 February by the successful lift-off of a four-stage Proton DM booster from Baikonur. The rocket carried the Asia Cellular System (ACeS) Garuda 1 mobile ...
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MIR hopes
MirCorp, established last year to fund the continuation of operations of the Russian Mir space station, says it has paid Russian company Khrunichev about $30 million to keep the orbiting base in space until the summer. The company needs to raise $40 million more from investors. Meanwhile, Russian scientists propose ...
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Engine agreement
Boeing's Rocketdyne Power division has finalised a long-term agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on design and development of a new liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper- stage engine for next-generation expendable launch vehicles. Full-scale development of the new engine, the MB-XX, began in January 1999. Source: Flight International
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Reusable Fregat proves concept with return flight
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Tim Furniss/LONDON The Fregat upper stage was tested successfully for the first time on 9 February attached to a Soyuz booster. The Soyuz-Fregat placed into orbit and returned to Earth a dummy payload weighing about 110kg. The Fregat is a reusable module which has a unique ...
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Express A satellites set for launch
Russia's Intersputnik has confirmed plans to launch two Express A communications satellites during the first half of this year as part of a programme to modernise the country's ageing communications satellite fleet. Express 6A will be launched by a Proton booster in March and will be followed by Express 3A ...
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NASA consents to Contour after Eros lift
NASA has approved the start of development of the Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) spacecraft, which will be launched in 2002 to fly past up to three comets between 2003 and 2008. Contour, which is managed by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland, which also built the ...
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CAE supplies Schreiner
Schreiner Aviation Training has ordered a Boeing 737-800 Level D full-flight simulator with MaxVue Plus visual from CAE Electronics, for installation in the third quarter at its Amsterdam flight simulator centre. Source: Flight International
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RAF Chinook training due to start after six-month delay
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCCAE's Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility (MSHATF) is expected to start training UK Royal Air Force Boeing CH-47 pilots in mid-March, more than six months later than planned. Visual system problems and difficulties tuning the flight characteristics of the CAE-built Chinook and Aerospatiale Puma simulators delayed the ...
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Low-fare JetBlue takes off with 30 cities in its sights
Low-fare carrier JetBlue Airways, which lifted off on 11 February with two leased Airbus A320s, expects to be serving 11 US destinations by the end of the year and has set its sights on 30 US cities within three years. Meanwhile, it has emerged that talks about JetBlue becoming ...
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JAT is cleared for take-off
Igor Salinger/BELGRADE Yugoslav flag carrier JAT is poised to relaunch full operations following the formal lifting in mid-February of its ban from flying into European Union (EU) countries. JAT says the three months from 25 March will be the most crucial for it to regain its presence on European ...
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Ilyushin gauges interest in turboprop to replace An-2
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The Ilyushin design bureau is completing detailed design of its proposed new regional turboprop, the Il-100, which is to be built by MAPO. The twin-engined 12-seater was announced this month at a convention of polar airlines in Archangelsk in north-west Russia (Flight International, 8-14 February). During the gathering, ...
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IAI takes on more work on 428JET
Israel aircraft Industries (IAI) is increasing its participation in the Fairchild 428JET programme, which will see it taking on the design and manufacture of additional components. IAI has an agreement to design and manufacture the fuselage, as well as undertake final assembly of the 44-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Emery nears update decision
Emery Worldwide expects to reach a decision "quite soon" on replacing its 27 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-60/70s and 29 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. US cargo carrier Kitty Hawk is also considering a fleet update. Speaking at a cargo conference in Florida earlier this month, company vice-president and chief financial officer Mike ...