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Airbus develops cargo lifter
Airbus is developing a novel on-board cargo lifter for its A300-600ST Beluga outsize-freighter as part of its proposal to meet the Royal Air Force Short Term Strategic Airlifter (STSA) requirement. The cargo lifter allows freight to be loaded and unloaded without the need for ground support equipment, says Airbus director ...
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Boeing and Elbit sign MoU to link on Polish helicopter bid
Boeing and Elbit Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to co-operate on upgrading Polish air force PZL-Swidnik Sokol helicopters. Last year, the two Western companies argued over the controversial decision by the Polish Government to award the Israeli company prime contractorship on a deal to upgrade the ...
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Marconi wins laser demonstrator deal for RAF's DIRCM
Marconi Electronic Systems has won a £2 million ($3.2 million) technology demonstrator contract to develop a laser for Northrop Grumman's AAQ-24(V) Nemesis Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM), being fielded by UK forces. Last month, Marconi delivered a mid-infrared wavelength, single-band, solid-state laser to the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency ...
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Israel supports launcher plan
The Israeli Ministry of Defence is supporting efforts to develop a satellite launcher based on a design of Dov Raviv, who was responsible for the development of the Arrow missile. The Israeli Government is not contributing funding to the programme, so Raviv is seeking private investment to start the ...
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Mir August mission likely to be scrapped
The Russian Energia company, which manages Soyuz and Mir missions, looks likely to cancel the Mir mission planned for August, because of funding difficulties. The move comes as Russian President Boris Yeltsin has instructed his space officials to concentrate on the International Space Station (ISS) rather than the Mir. ...
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Detroit Airport pictured by UK satellite
The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology has been buoyed by the success of its first Minisatellite, the UoSat 12, launched aboard a Dnepr booster from Baikonur on 21 April. The spacecraft's latest success has been the return of spectacular 10m resolution panchromatic and 32m multispectral images from low earth orbit, including ...
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Lunar impact
NASA is considering targeting its Lunar Prospector at a specific site on the moon before it makes a natural descent, so that it can investigate the existence of water ice. The controlled crash into the Mawson crater at the moon's south pole in July/August will be observed by telescopes, focusing ...
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Taiwan investors get go-ahead to board K-1 reusable vehicle
Andrzej Jeziorski /SINGAPORE The Taiwanese Ministry of Finance has given several Taiwanese banks the green light to invest in the Kistler Aerospace K-1 reusable launch vehicle. The ministry is understood to support the plan primarily because of commitments made by Kistler to offer parts supply contracts to Taiwanese ...
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VentureStar fails to attract private interest
Lockheed Martin has failed to attract private investment for its proposed VentureStar single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) re-usable launch vehicle. The company says it will need government funding or loan guarantees to allow development. Without this, the project will not go forward, says Peter Teets, Lockheed Martin president and chief executive, who ...
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S Korea's KAISAT-4 will carry Australian payload
South Korea's KAISAT-4 microsatellite, scheduled for launch in 2002, will carry an Australian-developed communications package. This is part of a new two-nation agreement intended to explore common payload applications for remote sensing and space-based rural area communications. The payload is a derivative of a combined UHF, S band and ...
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Provisional date set for Ariane 5 flight
The much delayed first fully commercial launch of the Ariane 5 will take place on 8 July at the earliest, according to Arianespace. Ariane 504 will carry the Asiastar and Telkom satellites for WorldSpace and Indonesia, respectively. Ariane 504 was delayed from late last year by the failure of ...
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UPS boosts II Morrow
United Parcel Service (UPS) has committed new financial and management resources to its II Morrow subsidiary and changed the name of the Salem, Oregon-based company to UPS Aviation Technologies. The former II Morrow's Apollo brand avionics line has been expanded to a full-product system that includes new navigations/communications, a ...
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Mergers
Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG) has acquired Elsinore Airport Services, which provides ground handling at 23 sites in the USA and the Caribbean. ASIG has ground-handling and fuelling operations in 56 cities in North America and Europe. UK engineering group McKechnie is to acquire US aerospace parts company Walker Sky ...
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767-400 engine mounts strengthened
Boeing's design of different engine mountings for the 767-400ER, compared to other members of the 767 family, has been vindicated by a US Federal Aviation Administration proposal to accept the new design under the special conditions clause of its regulations. On 767-200 and -300 models, damage to the aircraft ...
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China order prompts Britten Norman to resurrect Trislander
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Britten Norman (BN) has relaunched production of its 16-seat Trislander commuter aircraft, following an order from China for three aircraft. Shenyang-based China Northern Airlines has selected the tri-piston-powered aircraft to upgrade its regional services, with deliveries due between September next year and January 2001. The ...
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Western company buys Yak-42s for Moldova lease
A new Irish-based leasing company, Corvette Aviation, has bought two Yakovlev Yak-42Ds from Russian financial group Interros. The two secondhand aircraft are on short-term lease to Moscow-based Bykovo Avia. After refurbishment and overhaul, they will be leased to Air Moldova International, with delivery of the first aircraft slated for June ...
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Dispute threatens A318 start
Julian Moxon/PARIS Production start-up of the recently launched 107-seat Airbus Industrie A318 is being threatened by a dispute over workshares in the programme. The argument centres on Aerospatiale's complaint that it is paying more into A318 development than its 37.9% share in the Airbus Industrie consortium. An ...
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Brymon switches to Embraer for jets
Brymon Airways has switched allegiance for its new jet fleet, placing an order for up to 21 50-seat Embraer RJ-145s, rather than the rival Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ). The Plymouth-based UK regional airline, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways, has an all-Bombardier fleet of 16 Dash 8-300 ...
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Better weather helps NATO sortie rate
Improved weather over Yugoslavia has allowed NATO to step up its daily sortie rate to 650-750 in every 24h, about half of which are strike missions. The rest are support flights. NATO is reported to have hit the defence procurement building in Belgrade. The last time the alliance targeted ...
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Kosovo notes
Improved weather conditions have increased Serbian air defence activity. As well as heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire, 33 surface-to-air missiles were launched against NATO aircraft on day 64 (26 May). Maj Gen Charles Wald, vice-director of strategy and policy US Joint Staff, says in the first 57 days of the ...