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Uganda buys MiG-21s: IAI to upgrade
Uganda has purchase several Mikoyan MiG-21s from Poland in a deal that includes an upgrade package being undertaken by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). The ex-Polish Air Force fighters have been transferred to the facilities of IAI's Lahav division, in Tel Aviv, where they will be upgraded. IAI helped ...
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Northrop Grumman/Schweizer team reveals vertical take-off navy UAV
The US Navy's vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (VTOL UAV) competition includes a bid from a Northrop Grumman Ryan Aeronautical Centre-led team which utilises a modified Schweizer Aircraft Model 330turbine-powered light helicopter. The modified rotorcraft, which has successfully completed a 41-mission, 38h manned flight test programme at ...
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Satellite imagery
Space Imaging Middle East will be selling 1m-resolution satellite imagery of the Gulf region supplied by the Ikonos satellite by the end of this year. The Dubai-based company has the rights to produce and distribute satellite imagery from the Ikonos, which was launched in September, throughout the region. Source: Flight ...
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LHT Middle East
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is aiming to announce a maintenance, repair and overhaul operation in the Middle East in conjunction with a local airline by the end of the year. The operation would be similar to AMECO Beijing in China, which is a joint venture with Air China. Source: Flight International
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Saudi radar
Alenia Marconi Systems has been awarded a contract to supply radar systems for the Saudi Arabian airports King Abdul Aziz in Jeddah and King Khalid, Riyadh. The £7 million ($11.6 million) contract involves an ATCR 33/S solid state primary radar integrated with an SIR-M secondary radar for Jeddah and an ...
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Stapp dies
John Stapp, the aerospace research pioneer who became his own test subject during high g rocket-sled experiments in the 1950s, has died aged 89. His work led to the development of safer aircraft ejector seats. Source: Flight International
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AB609 trainer
Bell is proposing a wet lease of Bell Agusta 609 tiltrotors as part of its proposal to the US Marine Corps to use the nine-seat tiltrotor as a trainer for the Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey. Bell's proposal would allow the USMC to operate AB609s without straining tight US acquisition budgets, ...
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Kenyan Cessna
A Cessna Citation Bravo air ambulance has entered service with Nairobi, Kenya-based Phoenix Aviation. The aircraft is equipped with dual stretchers, but can be converted to a corporate interior for charter operations. Source: Flight International
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Indigo charter
Scheduled charter operator Indigo is to offer a weekday service from its Chicago Midway Airport base to Teterboro, New Jersey, early next year, using three nine-seat Dassault Falcon 20s. Source: Flight International
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Marconi contract
Canadian Marconi has won a $4 million order from MD Helicopters for its integrated display system for the MD Explorer helicopter. Deliveries are to begin in October next year and continue until June 2003. Source: Flight International
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Autopilot approval
Century Flight Systems has won US approval for its Century 2000 altitude-based, single-axis autopilot. It will be aimed at Cessna's 172R Skyhawk operators, who, until now have been limited to AlliedSignal's Bendix King KAP140 autopilot as an option on their piston singles. Source: Flight International
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Emergency Bond
Bond Air Services began helicopter support operations for the East Midlands, UK-based, County Air Ambulance charity in Derbyshire and Leicestershire on 8 November. The self-proclaimed pioneer for helicopter air ambulance support in the UK will deploy modified twin engine Eurocopter BO105DBs, as well as pilots and engineers, from East Midlands ...
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Space co-operation
India has urged countries in the Asia-Pacific region to pool their resources in the joint development and use of space technologies. As a first step, India and China plan to explore the possible joint development of satellites dedicated to provide early warning systems of earthquakes and cyclones. Source: Flight International
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ICO approval
ICO Global Communications reports that bankruptcy courts have approved $150 million in interim debtor-in-possession financing, led by Craig McCaw and his affiliated companies, Teledesic and Eagle River Investments. McCaw and ICO have agreed an eventual $1.2 billion new financing package. Source: Flight International
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Polar pioneers
The two piggyback microprobes aboard NASA's Mars Polar Lander (MPL) have been named Amundsen and Scott after the famous first South Pole explorers early this century. The microprobes, flying the second Deep Space mission in NASA's new Millennium programme, will smash into an area close to the Martian south pole ...
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World Air Forces listing A-B
AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan has been wracked by war for decades. The Islamic Taliban controls about two-thirds of the land-locked, mountainous country. Areas in the north are held by an alliance led by General Ahmad Shah Masoud. Fierce fighting frequently breaks out in and around Kabul, in the north-eastern provinces of Takhar, ...