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NASA tests probe
An air-data probe developed by Rosemount Aerospace has had initial flight tests on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Boeing F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft. The advanced L-probe air-data-integration trial proved that two probes can be operated at an angle of attack of up to about 70í and provide sideslip from the ...
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Virtual prototypes
Boeing will back Virtual Prototypes of Montreal, Canada, in developing its automatic C-code software generator, CCG/Lite, which allows interactive environments to be developed for real-time, embedded systems. Source: Flight International
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UK invents welding innovation
Ian Sheppard/CAMBRIDGE The UK Welding Institute (TWI) has developed a means by which previously "unweldable" aluminium alloys, such as the 2000 and 7000 series, can be joined. It had previously been impossible to weld harder aluminium alloys because heating would cause the heat-treated metal to revert to its previous, softer, ...
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An operational frequency needed
Sir - Having read the Comment "Back to basics" (Flight International, 24-30 September), I would suggest that someone in authority organises replacing the single VHF 126.9MHz band for exchanging operational information. This would be a quick and simple solution to an urgent problem. It could be years before ...
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VLM
Christian Heinzman has been named director-general of Antwerp-based Belgian regional airline VLM, with effect from 1 October. He was chief executive of Sabena-owned charter airline Sobelair before becoming director-general of Constellation International Airlines, a privately owned Belgian charter carrier. He will assist present VLM director-general Freddy Van Gaever, who will ...
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The right product at the wrong time
Sir - In your Comment "Missing the bus" (Flight International, 17-23 September), British Aerospace's reluctance over regional aircraft is defended. Besides the fact that most of it applies also to larger airliners, however, it would have been fair for BAe to have declared its reluctance to its partners ...
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Sabena
Marc Petit has been appointed executive vice-president of finance at Belgian national carrier Sabena with effect from 20 October. He is to succeed Peter Ramel, who will take up other responsibilities within the SAIR Group. Petit was general manager of Eridania Oilseeds division of the Eridania Behin-Say Group of Ravenna, ...
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Air London
UK charter broker Air London, of Crawley, Sussex, has made several promotions within its management. Mike Guina, who is overseeing development of the company's new US operation, Air Partner, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been named director of corporate strategy. Alan Marler has become director of operations, with particular responsibility ...
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Iridium half-way
Thirty-eight Lockheed Martin Motorola Iridium worldwide mobile communications satellites are now in orbit after the launch of a Boeing Delta 2 on 26 September, carrying five satellites from Vandenberg AFB, California. The $2.6 billion Iridium system will be declared operational in 1998, when 66 satellites will be in orbit. Twenty ...
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Error mars India's space hopes
Tim Furniss/LONDON India launched its first fully operational satellite on an indigenous booster on 29 September, but a leak in the fourth stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) caused a 113kt (210km/h) velocity underperformance, which resulted in the craft being placed into the wrong orbit. ...
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Boeing expects to cut ISS
Ramon Lopez/FLORIDA Boeing estimates that it can generate $25 million in annual cost savings through consolidation of International Space Station (ISS) activities. The efficiencies are made possible by Boeing's acquisitions of McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International's space unit, which were major subcontractors, says John McLuckey, president ...
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Proton first
A Russian Proton booster will be used to launch an Intelsat communications satellite for the first time. ILS International Launch Services will sign a contract to launch the Intelsat 901 satellite. Source: Flight International
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OSC plans Orblink launch for 2002
Orbital Sciences (OSC) plans to launch seven Orblink communications satellites into medium-Earth orbit in 2002 to provide global broadband services, including electronic mail, Internet access and imagery transmission. The company has applied to the US Federal Communications Commission to operate the $900 million Orblink constellation from 9,000km circular ...
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Operators invited to bid for Rascom
International communications-satellite manufacturers and operators will be invited in November to tender preliminary proposals to build, launch and operate the Regional African Satellite Communications Organisation (Rascom) system. The $1.2 billion project is the result of the 1994 Rascom convention signed by 41 African countries. Each nation is required ...
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NASA picks X-33 sites
NASA has named one launch and three landing sites for the flight-testing of the X-33 advanced technology demonstrator being built by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. The X-33 will be launched from a site close to Haystack Butte on the eastern portion of Edwards AFB, California. The three preferred ...
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Classroom revolution
Paul Lewis/Beijing Chinese civil-aviation has been transformed since the country began to open up in the early 1980s. China's monolithic state carrier and its antiquated Soviet hardware have gone, replaced by a proliferation of international, regional and provincial airlines, operating the latest in Western designs. More recently, there ...
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Boeing struggles with Super Hornet wing-drop problem
Boeing is examining modifying the wing on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in an attempt to solve a wing-drop problem, having exhausted options to resolve this with software changes. The problem is centred on what the company describes as "uncommanded sudden wing drops during manoeuvring flight" which have come ...
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Bombardier is foiled by Embraer 50-seat scoop
Karen Walker Two regional jet manufacturers; two $1billion dollar contract announcements; and the same customer. But the atmosphere at each press conference yesterday could not have been more of a contrast. American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle's decision to purchase its 50-seat regional jets from Embraer and ...
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Il-76/747 collision: who was to blame?
Sir - In response to the letter from Capt F W Pike (Flight International, 13-19 August, P48), and other previous statements about the Chimkentavia Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 freighter mid-air collision with a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B near Delhi, India, in November 1996, I must comment on the quick reaction ...
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The lost art of airmanship
Sir-I agree with John Laming (Letters, Flight International, 3-9 September) suggesting that two captains up front would answer the dreadful failures we are witnessing associated with a lack of airmanship on the part of many in command of big aircraft. Under the terms of the Chicago Convention, the ...