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Cannon expands on superalloys
CANNON-MUSKEGON is investing almost $5 million to expand its capability to develop and produce superalloys. Its CMSX single-crystal alloys are used in Allison and Rolls-Royce aero-engines. The Muskegon, Michigan-based company says that a new vacuum induction furnace will increase vacuum-melt capabilities, while a new $1.5 million finishing line ...
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Lucas flexible for S-92
Lucas Aerospace is to supply all of the flexible drive-couplings for Sikorsky's S-92 Helibus 19-seat helicopter. A shipset includes two high-speed input-drive couplings, five tail-rotor-drive couplings and one flexible tail-rotor driveshaft. Source: Flight International
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First 737-800s are near to completion
The first three Boeing 737-800s are approaching completion at Renton, Washington. The first example (nearest) is due to join four -700s already in the flight-test programme in July before eventually being delivered to type launch customer Hapag-Lloyd of Germany. A further three -600s will join the programme, beginning early in ...
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Stripper bares metal
McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) has secured its first commercial customer for its Flashjet paint-removal system. Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has purchased a mobile Flashjet for use in stripping Lockheed Martin C-130s and other aircraft. The system uses pulses of high-energy light from a xenon flashlamp to ablate ...
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Denmark develops touchscreen technique
A fully reconfigurable part-task trainer is being developed by Denmark's Riso National Laboratory and Danish company Avitraco. The multi-aircraft training environment (MATE) looks like an ordinary simulator, but the aircraft instruments and controls are all reproduced on flat "virtual-panel" touch-screen displays, giving a representative environment. The innovation, which ...
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Why should Eurotunnel be given financial assistance?
Sir - The recent announcement by Eurotunnel that it is seeking to renegotiate its enormous debt, and that its French shareholders may be disinclined to agree to the banks taking a larger share in return for their co-operation, prompts me to question whether these continuing financial arrangements breach European Union ...
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Boeing/MDC: monopoly game?...
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) serves only the narrow, although legitimate, commercial interests of Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC). For that reason, your position is inappropriate to the extreme and reflects a severe lack of strategic foresight by the author. The commercial-aircraft manufacturing business, unlike ...
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Starring role
Ansett is being propelled on to the international stage, with its strategic partnership with ANZ and SIA Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE When Rod Eddington was approached to head Ansett, the former Cathay Pacific Airways managing director made a tie-up with Air New Zealand (ANZ) a prerequisite condition. After just ...
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The Taiwan connection
Since 1990, Aero Vodochody has been focusing its civil-aviation efforts on trying to push ahead with a single-turboprop utility-transport project known as the Aero Ae 270, now given the name Ibis. The programme has been through various revisions, and a full-size fuselage mock-up has often been seen at ...
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Restructuring industry
In 1994, at the request of the Russian Government, a US Federal Aviation Administration team visited Russia to carry out an audit of the country's civil aviation, and to recommend what was needed to bring it into line with modern international standards. One of the resulting pieces of ...
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Work programme for a major overhaul
BECAUSE OF limited hangarage, most aviaremonts (overhaul centres) firstly strip down an aircraft outdoors before bringing it into a hangar. This involves: removing wings, engines and tailplane; check for damage/wear. A detailed inspection is undertaken and the work needed is listed and discussed with the operator: ...
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Reversal of fortunes
Max Kingsley-Jones/PARIS Embraer emerged from a successful week at the Paris air show facing the enviable task of having to boost EMB-145 production to match its recent booming sales fortunes. During the show, total firm orders for the Brazilian 50-seat regional jet doubled from 65 to 132, while ...
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In HARM's way
Several show debutantes at Le Bourget indicated that defeating air- defence radars remains high on air-force agendas. The USA is working on rocket-ramjet-powered dual-mode-seeker missile designs to provide a successor to the Texas Instruments AGM-88 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) in the defence suppression role. Two potential replacement ...
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Surviving intact
Julian Moxon/PARIS The surprise election of a left-wing government in the recent French elections has left the country's defence industry in a state of uncertainty, with several major programmes, outlined by the previous government in its 1997-2002 Loi de Programmation spending plan, up for review. One ...
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UK NATS
William Semple has been appointed to the board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority as chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) for three years from 1 July. He was formerly director-general of air-traffic operations and chief operating officer, with responsibility for provision of all NATS services. ...
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SouthCentral Air/Raytheon
James Munson, president and chief executive of Alaskan carrier SouthCentral Air (second right), takes the keys of the airline's first Beech 1900C at Reno Cannon International Airport. Seen with him (left to right) are Raytheon Aircraft vice-president for airline sales Mike Scheidt, Skip Gallagher, Raytheon's general sales manager for airline ...
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Crossair receives Saab 2000 Level approval
The Crossair Training Centre in Basle, Switzerland, has been granted final Level D qualification for its Saab 2000 full-flight simulator by the Swiss civil-aviation authority. The system was manufactured by FlightSafety International incorporating visual dis- plays from Hitachi Denshi. The Swiss regional's training centre is the principal school for Saab ...
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Embry-Riddle opens simulation centre
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University's Advanced Flight Simulation Centre has opened at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, equipped with a Raytheon Beech 1900D full-flight simulator built by FlightSafety International. The centre is a joint venture between Embry-Riddle and FlightSafety, and offers training to airlines as well as to the university's students. ...
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US Air Force draws up plans for privately funded F-15 training
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC THE USAIR FORCE plans a contractor-financed and operated aircrew training-system for the McDonnell Douglas F-15C air-superiority fighter. The winning company will be required to fund production of the system, with the Air Force paying for training services once it becomes operational, in March 1999. ...