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Rockwell - Collins
Bruce Thigpen is named manager, field sales at the Collins General Aviation division of Rockwell Avionics and Communications. Thigpen has 27 years' experience sales experience in the airline business. Colleague Bryan Vester has become manager, original-equipment-manufacturer sales. He was previously manager, regional-airline marketing and, before that, he was regional sales ...
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Antonov An-70 has its public debut at show
The Kiev Aviant plant in Ukraine has started to raise funds to finance a commercial version of the Antonov An-70 four-propfan military transport, the An-70T, according to plant manager Alexander Kharlov. Aviant is collaborating with the Aviakor plant in Samara, Russia, in preparing the An-70 for series production. ...
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Antonov An-140 regional turboprop will fly soon
Antonov's An-140 twin-turboprop regional transport is due to have its maiden flight no later than 10 September, says Piotr Balabuyev, Antonov's general designer. The aircraft is undergoing high-speed ground runs at the Antonov plant in Kiev, Ukraine. The Ukrainian company hopes that the An-140 will replace several hundred ...
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Boeing and Airbus sign Russian deals
AIRBUS and Boeing have both signed deals extending their co-operations with the Russian aviation sector. The European consortium's agreement with the Russian Ministry of Economics covers a range of joint projects in the fields of certification, research and development and production, including assistance with European Joint Aviation Authorities ...
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Kharkov confirms Iran order
The state aircraft production factory of Kharkov, Ukraine, has confirmed that Iran has placed an order for 12 Antonov An-74 transports. At least two have been delivered. Although the factory will not confirm how many will be delivered as the military version, it is known that the first two were ...
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Sukhoi starts radar tests with Flanker
Sukhoi is about to begin flight testing of an Su-27 Flanker fitted with a Phazotron multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar which could be fitted to future batches of Su-27s and, possibly, two-seat Su-30s for China. Phazotron says that it has already delivered the radar, effectively the Zhuk-27, to the Komsolosk-on-Amur ...
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NASA plans for new Hubble instrument
NASA plans to order the $25 million Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) from the University of Colorado, to be installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth servicing mission scheduled to take place in late 2002. The COS will enhance the Hubble's spectrographic capabilities at ultraviolet wavelengths and ...
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Level playing field?
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Canada's quest for a new search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopter has attracted the usual bidders - with a twist. One candidate helicopter used to be operated by Canada, until all examples were sold; two were considered in a previous competition, but rejected; and one was ordered by ...
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Europe's B-RNAV plans in 'chaotic mess'
Julian Moxon/PARIS The attempt to introduce the new basic radio-navigation (B-RNAV) standards into European airspace by January 1998 has been termed a "chaotic mess" by the avionics industry as it faces a last-minute change of specification from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). B-RNAV avionics will ...
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Air UK's ATR 72s
Air UK is in final negotiations with Aero International (Regional) to acquire four ATR 72s, which it aims to introduce into service in early 1998, if the order can concluded soon (Flight International, 8-14 August). The airline is understood to be negotiating to buy the -210 version of the ATR ...
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Plea for the young
Sir - I am amazed that it is almost impossible to become a trainee pilot with so many major UK airlines. I have written countless letters seeking information on becoming a pilot, but each reply, instead of giving me encouragement, has left me downhearted and shaken about pursuing ...
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"Non-addition" Chapter 3 rules
Sir - The editorial "Noise blight" (Flight International, 16-22 July) criticises the European Civil Aviation Conference and the European Commission for drafting "non-addition" rules for aircraft which are hushkitted to comply with Chapter 3 noise-certification standards, adding that the best environmental results will be achieved "-with the co-operation of the ...
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InVision
Frank Baldwin has been appointed director of operations, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for InVision Technologies, manufacturer of automated security screening machines. Previously managing director of Eagle Crest Project Management, he has spent the last few years working closely with airlines and airport operators in developing security screening for complex ...
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Aerotech
Robert (Bob) Madden, former managing director of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (UK), has joined information-technology marketing-support company AeroTech Marketing in the UK. Based in Oregon, in the USA, Madden will represent both AeroTech Marketing and AeroTech Business Services. Source: Flight International
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Air Malta
Eric Gerada has been appointed by Air Malta as group head, northern European development, taking over from Philip Pullicino, who has returned to Malta to become Air Malta's group head, commercial. Gerada will focus on developing Ireland and Scandinavia as well as the UKmarket. Source: Flight ...
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Falcon Jet
Vice-chairman Frank Wisekal has retired after 17 years with Dassault Falcon Jet. Before 1980, he spent 22 years with Grumman Aerospace, Grumman American Aviation and Gulfstream American. He will continue his involvement in business aviation as a consultant in Florida. Source: Flight International
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Hughes links with ITRI
Hughes-Avicom has formed an alliance with Taiwan's ITRI research institute and Aerovision Avionics, also of Taiwan, to develop and market in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems. ITRI surprised the industry in 1996 with its new Taiwan Air Vision IFE demonstrator. Source: Flight International
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Satellite plans
India is planning to develop two advanced remote-sensing satellites, called the CartoSat 1 and the ResourceSat 1, costing a total of $120 million, to be launched on the national Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The country is also planning an astronomical space observatory carrying ultra-violet, infra-red, X-ray and gamma-ray instruments. ...
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Innotech goes west
Montreal-based Innotech Aviation has teamed with Airpro Interior Products of Abbotsford, British Columbia, to offer business-aircraft refurbishment in western Canada. Innotech's Vancouver maintenance base has been authorised to service Dassault Falcon 10/100, 20/200 and 50 business jets. Source: Flight International