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Allison-powered Ka-226 utility flies for first time
Kamov's Ka-226 utility helicopter made its first flight at Lyubertsy airfield near Moscow on 4 September. The helicopter is powered by two Allison-250-C20 turboshafts rated at 335kW (450hp) and is equipped with French and US avionics. By the end of this year, two more helicopters are planned to ...
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Boeing outlines five 747 growth options
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCPaul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is discussing with airlines five possible 747 derivatives as it moves towards a decision in early 1998 on which (if any) option to pursue. Airlines are being shown study aircraft with various combinations of capacities for up to 500 passengers and ranges of ...
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Lockheed Martin offers Boeing support
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin is talking to Boeing about a partnership under which it would support the latter's commercial aircraft at its maintenance centres around the world. Aeronautics sector president Micky Blackwell says that Lockheed Martin wants to expand on soon-to-be-acquired Northrop Grumman's role as ...
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PW150A turboprop testing 'is on schedule'
Pratt & Whitney Canada says that the PW150A turboprop, seen here on the company's Boeing 720 flying testbed, is "on schedule for certification by late summer". The large turboprop, rated at 4,840-5,590kW (6,500-7,500shp) will power Bombardier's de Havilland Dash 8 Series 400 regional airliner on its first flight scheduled for ...
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Merger speculation mounts as Rohr holds mystery talks
Nacelle manufacturer Rohr is in merger discussions with an unnamed entity. The deal being discussed values the Chula Vista, California-based company at over $790 million. Rohr reported revenues of $771 million for 1996, and expected to exceed this in its 1997 fiscal year ended 31 July. Speculation over ...
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US Government Commission recommends FAA reform
The US government's National Civil Aviation Review Commission (NCARC) has recommended that US air-traffic-control (ATC) services be removed from the US Federal Aviation Administration and placed with a "performance-based" organisation. The NCARC proposal represents the latest effort to reform FAA financing and management. The Commission - ...
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New machine tools slash Globemaster III costs
PRODUCTION OF C-17 Globemaster III fuselage assemblies at Boeing's plant at Long Beach, California is being enhanced by the use of new machines. A $5.8 million five-axis computer numerically controlled (CNC) Torres Mill, made by Torres of Spain, is used to cut and drill skin panels as large ...
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Dasa tests flight management
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)is beginning a six-month flight-test campaign for a new flight-management system (FMS), the NFS-5000, developed by its Ulm, Germany-based subsidiary Navigation and Flight Guidance Systems (NFS). The system creates flight plans for pilots, who simply have to enter their point of departure and ...
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Greater safety measures are needed for ferry-flight pilots
Sir - My son, Thomas Kowald, was killed on 21 May, 1995, off the coast of Portugal. He wanted to take a Cessna 310Q on a ferry flight from Florida to Austria, and had a fatal accident off the Portuguese coast. I wish to highlight the large number ...
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Low fares or bust?
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Air South's recent bankruptcy has struck a chill note for US start-up airlines. Although the carrier may have been a relatively small player, its demise is dangerously close to home for a low-cost airline sector in which nobody is looking secure. The financial performance ...
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GEAE
James McNerney has taken up the role of president and chief executive of GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) of Evendale, Ohio, having been named for the position in August. McNerney, formerly president and chief executive of GE Lighting, based in Cleveland, Ohio, replaces Gene Murphy, who is promoted to vice-chairman of ...
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Eindhoven
Seen here (left to right) at the prize-giving ceremony for the Second International Ladies' Cup weekend at the Netherlands' Eindhoven Aeroclub Motorßying (EACM) are Gérard van Heugten, EACM chairman; Marjolijn Gal (joint overall winner), from Lelystad; Netherlands minister of transport Annemarie Jorritsma and Jeanette van der Bie (joint overall winner), ...
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Hymatic
Richard Thwaites has been appointed business-development director, and joins the board, of the UK's Hymatic Engineering, of Redditch, Worcestershire, part of the Cobham Group and which specialises in the design and manufacture of cryogenic systems for infra-red imaging, and other applications for aerospace and defence. He was formerly with Ultra ...
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China previews Iridium launch
China Great Wall Industry, which is to launch 11 Long March LM2C boosters in 1998, carrying 22 US Motorola Iridium communications satellites, conducted a unique demonstration flight from Taiyuan on 1 September. An LM2C, equipped with the Iridium Smart Dispenser satellite-deployment upper stage, placed into low-Earth orbit two ...
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Damage to Huygens probe delays Saturn launches
The launch of the $3 billion NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter and its European Space Agency Huygens Titan moon probe has been delayed from 6 October. The Huygens probe has been damaged on the launch pad and the spacecraft have been removed from the Titan 4 launcher and returned ...
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Chiefs plan to fly on final SMM
Tim Furniss/LONDON The chiefs of the US/ Russian Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM) programme plan to fly to the Russian space station on the ninth and final SMM, the STS91/Discovery, due in June 1998. Former cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin, deputy director of the Energia company and the Russian ...
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TRW plans
TRW plans to operate a $3.4 billion, 19-craft, high-speed communications-satellite system in geostationary and medium-Earth orbit, while its plans to operate the Odyssey worldwide mobile-telephone communications system are near collapse after the withdrawal of major investor, Satelindo of Indonesia. Source: Flight International
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Space Station service module stays on schedule
The International Space Station (ISS) project remains on schedule, despite the three-months-late shipment of the Russian Service Module (SM) from manufacturer Khrunichev to Energia in November, caused by the late delivery of components from subcontractors. To make up for the delay, Khrunichev will take over from Energia the ...
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Sponsoring flying training: the debate continues
Sir - I can sympathise entirely with Christopher Stone, who is having difficulty finding an airline to sponsor him to fly. I have been trying since I was 16 (I am now 23), with no success. Despite having spent a fortune on my private pilot's licence, I have ...
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Qatar takes first Mirage 2000s
Julian Moxon/Paris Dassault Aviation has delivered the first three of 12 Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Qatar from its factory in Merignac, Bordeaux, as it continues to battle to win a major order for up to 80 aircraft from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The versions delivered ...