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Leeds Bradford
Ed Anderson has been appointed a director of Leeds Bradford International Airport, following the resignation of managing director William Savage. Anderson will run the airport until a new managing director is appointed. Source: Flight International
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Any one for IRIS-T
LIKE THAT OF THE RAFAEL Python 4, the German-led IRIS-T development programme, which also involves Canada, Greece, Italy, Norway and Sweden, focuses on the close-in air battle, rather than the extended within-visual-range engagement which was the original driver behind the Matra BAe Dynamics ASRAAM. Prime contractor Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik ...
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African agility
South Africa's Kentron is continuing to work on both the U-Darter and what it describes as the A-Darter fifth-generation dogfight air-to-air missile. The U-Darter, an improved variant of the Darter, is now said to be in service with the South African Air Force. The U-Darter was tested as ...
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Russian designs
Russian missile-design house Vympel is believed to be continuing work on a improved variant of the R-73 (AA-11 Archer, possibly carrying the in-house designation K-74). Although Vympel has never released an image of what is also referred to as the R-73M, the picture clearly shows two differently sized and shaped ...
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Extended engagement
The Royal Air Force's requirement for a future medium-range air-to-air missile (FMRAAM) has been addressed in two 12-month risk-reduction studies of the competing Hughes and Matra British Aerospace Dynamics-led bids, the results of which had been expected to be released in March. The procurement, however, like several others, has been ...
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Barry wins cabin-noise deal for Northwest DC-10s
Barry Controls Aerospace's Active Tuned Mass Absorber (ATMA) has been selected by Northwest Airlines to reduce cabin noise in its 173 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9s. The system has been on trial with the airline for two months and was selected after a competitive evaluation against a noise-suppression system ...
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GE move for Greenwich puts plans for China site in doubt
Proposals under consideration by Greenwich Air Services to establish an engine-overhaul-and-repair capability in China have been thrown into doubt by General Electric's planned takeover of the company. Greenwich Air confirms that it has been looking at the possibility of investing in a joint venture in Asia. It adds, ...
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Orbital transfer
Orbital Sciences' Fairchild Defense division has been contracted by Boeing North America to develop the data-transfer device for the Rockwell B-1B bomber Conventional Mission Upgrade programme. The deal is valued at $5.6 million. Source: Flight International
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Skywash cleaner goes into service with Lufthansa
Lufthansa Engineering and Operational Services (LEOS) has put the first fully operational Skywash computerised aircraft-cleaning system into service at Frankfurt Main Airport in Germany. LEOS claims that the truck-mounted Skywash is capable of cleaning a Boeing 747-400 in 3h, compared with the 10h needed to clean the aircraft manually. The ...
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BFG standby approved
BFGoodrich (BFG) Avionics Systems' GH-3000 electronic standby-instruments have won US Federal Aviation Administration approval to replace previous standby attitude, airspeed, altitude and navigation instruments. Source: Flight International
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Parker hydraulics
Parker Aerospace has been selected to supply the complete hydraulic system for the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet Series 700. The aircraft is due to have its first flight in 1999, and gain certification the following year. Source: Flight International
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Pegasus XL launches Spanish MiniSat
Orbital Sciences (OSC) air-launched its fifteenth Pegasus booster over the Atlantic Ocean on 21 April, placing Spain's first science satellite, the MiniSat, into low-Earth orbit. It was only the tenth fully successful Pegasus mission. Since 1990, there have been six successful and two partially successful launches of the ...
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Polyot commercial flight fails by red tape
A Russian Cosmos 3M booster carried a military navigation satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 17 April without its commercial payload, the US-built Faisat 2V. Polyot, of Omsk, Siberia which markets the Cosmos for commercial launches, had failed to produce the necessary documentation to the Russian ...
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Arianespace power battle continues
The board of Arianespace has partially bowed to pressure from the French Government and space agency CNES to appoint as its new supremo Jean-Marie Luton, director-general of the European Space Agency. The company's own choice would have been its chief executive, Francis Avanzi (Flight International, 9-15 April). Charles ...
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Military Space Shuttle missions may resume
The Space Shuttle may be used to deploy two US Air Force Defence Support Programme (DSP) missile-early-warning satellites as part of a NASA/US Air Force programme which is designed to save costs and share technology. The two organisations will study the feasibility of flying the TRW-built DSP satellites ...
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PakSat contract
Pakistan will award France's Alcatel a $220 million contract to build and deliver to orbit a domestic and regional telecommunications satellite, the Paksat. Source: Flight International
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Soyuz crew
The crew of the Soyuz TM26, to be launched to the Mir 1 space station on 6 August, has been named as Anatoli Solovyov, Pavel Vonogradev and France's Leopold Eyhart, who will fly a 21-day commercial mission. Solovyov and Vonogradev will remain for 200 days. Source: ...
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Sea launch loan
The World Bank will guarantee a $100 million loan to Russia's Energia company for its participation in the Boeing-led Sea Launch venture to market commercial-satellite launches using the Ukrainian/Russian Zenit booster from an offshore platform in the Pacific. Source: Flight International
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Sounding off
India has launched its first Rohini RH-560 Mk2 sub-orbital sounding rocket from Sriharikota carrying a 100kg science payload to an altitude of 450km. It is the most powerful Rohini version to be developed by the Indian Space Research Organisations' Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre at Thiruvanabthrapuram. Source: ...
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S-TEC brings kitplane autopilots to market
Texas-based S-TEC has introduced a series of single- and two-axis autopilots for kitplane owners and other general-aviation users. The S-TEC System Twenty is a roll-axis flight-control system, providing roll stability, turn-command capability, heading preselect and heading hold, as well as en route and approach-navigation tracking. Extras on the ...