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Italian range
The Italian air force has selected BGT's range independent Flight Profile Recorder air combat training and debriefing system, becoming the sixth NATO country to order the equipment. The order includes 40 airborne instrumentation pods with an option for a further 18, 10 ground stations and an option for a datalink. ...
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Predator Feed
Boeing has tested combined operations with an E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar system (JSTARS) battlefield surveillance aircraft and a Predator unmanned air vehicle (UAV) using the company's Aviation Information Service antenna. The system fed the video information from the UAV via a satellite to the E-8 to enhance JSTARS ...
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Escape route
Reducing the number of cabin exits to accelerate emergency passenger evacuation sounds like a contradiction in terms. That is, however, what Airbus Industrie is arguing as it tries to persuade European and US regulators to change the certification rules which affect the exit layout for its stretched A340, the -600 ...
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Tailboom launch
Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters is the launch customer for performance-enhancing tailboom strakes, developed by Boundary Layer Research for the Bell 206 series. The Las Vegas, Nevada-based air tour operator has ordered 22 shipsets for delivery as soon as they are certificated. Flight tests have begun on the 206BJetRanger and 206L ...
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Bristow venture
Bristow Helicopters has formed a joint venture with the Turkmenistan civil aviation authority, Turkmenhovayollary, to supply an integrated aviation and logistical support service to the region's oil and gas industries. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon first
Hainan Airlines has purchased a Beechjet 400A and a Hawker 800XP for charter operations, the first business jets Raytheon Aircraft has sold into China. The Beechjet entered service in February and the Hawker will follow later this year. A Hawker 800XP operated by Macau-based Jet Asia is due to enter ...
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UK contract
Space Innovation of the UK - a subsidiary of US-based SpaceDev - has been awarded a contract from Australia to build the FedSat spacecraft bus. The 58kg (130lb) FedSat is scheduled to be launched in 2001. Source: Flight International
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Astrotech expansion
Astrotech, the Spacehab-owned commercial spacecraft processing facility at Titusville, Florida, which supports Kennedy and Cape Canaveral launch operations, will double its payload capacity in anticipation of the increase in Florida's spaceport business. Astrotech processes about $1.2 billion-worth of spacecraft hardware a year. Source: Flight International
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Landsat Delivered
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania has delivered the Landsat 7 remote sensing spacecraft to NASA for launch aboard a Delta II from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 15 April. The primary Landsat 7 payload is the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus, built by Raytheon. Source: Flight International
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Bond contract
Bond Helicopters has won a £10 million ($16 million) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to provide helicopter support to the Royal Navy, using two Eurocopter SA365s. The helicopters, based at Plymouth Roborough Airport, will be used in Fleet Operational Support Trials (FOST), and will be military registered, but ...
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Finland TRIGAT
Finland and Norway have completed a three-week trial of the multinational Euromissile TRIGAT missile system, as part of a binational programme to select a new medium range anti-armour weapon. The trials included field handling, training, surveillance and firing. Source: Flight International
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C-295 avionics
CASA has selected Sextant Avionique's Topdeck avionics for its new C-295 light tactical transport aircraft. Topdeck consists of four liquid crystal displays and control units, an integrated standby instrument, flight management system module, two multifunction control and display units and two attitude and heading reference systems. The new avionics suite ...
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Marconi drone
Marconi Flight Systems has rolled out the first MQM-107E subscale aerial target, the first of 100 production target drones for the US forces, with options for a total of 208. Marconi will produce two variants of the high subsonic speed system, one for use by the US Army, for ground-to-ground ...
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ASPJ tests begin
Lockheed Martin has begun testing the first South Korean F-16 to be equipped with the ITT/Northrop Grumman ALQ-165 Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ). After anechoic chamber testing, the aircraft will be ferried to Edwards AFB, California, for several months of flight testing. The remaining F-16s scheduled for the ASPJ upgrade will ...
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Marketplace
Augsburg Airways has moved on plans to order Bombardier Dash 8Q-400s, with a deal for five aircraft, including two options (Flight International, 17-23 February). Deliveries will take place in mid-2000. Alitalia regional subsidiary Alitalia Express has ordered three ATR 72-500s for delivery between July and December, to replace ...
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Mergers
US handling specialist Ogden Aviation has taken a non-controlling stake in Lebanese cargo carrier Trans Mediterranean Air- ways. Ogden will use the stake - acquired in conjunction with Sovereign Air Services - to expand activities in the Middle East. Ogden has also acquired Flight Services Group of the USA, a ...
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Routes
Belgian low-cost, long-haul airline City Bird and Congolese national carrier LAC have signed an agreement to co-operate on the Kinshasa-Brussels route. Initially, City Bird will serve the route once a week with a Boeing 767-300ER. This may soon be stepped up to a twice-weekly service to meet demand. The Belgian ...
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Satellite lost after gas escape
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite was lost on 8 March, four days after launch. The spacecraft entered orbit safely aboard an Orbital Sciences (OSC) Pegasus booster after an air launch on 4 March, but soon went into a 60rpm spin. The $73 million WIRE, ...
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The need for MEADS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Andy Nativi/ROME Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Scepticism and budget cuts threaten an international missile projectUS defence officials hope that "critical" negotiations over the next two months will allow the USA, Germany and Italy to continue joint development of the Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS). But a backlash has ...
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'Irregularities' ground flying college
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) grounded China Southern's flying college near Perth, Western Australia, on 27 February, following the resignation of the college's chief pilot/chief flying instructor (CFI). The safety authority says that, although the college had nominated a new CFI, the authority had delayed its approval of ...