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BGTlooks to pilot low-cost fly-by-wire for Tu-204
German systems house Bodenseewerk Gerätetech-nik (BGT)has launched a feasibility study with Tupolev over fitting future versions of the Tu-204 twinjet with its low-cost, advanced, digital fly-by-wire (FBW)flight-control-system (FCS) technology. The contract with Tupolev comes as BGT steps up efforts to secure applications for its FBW technology, which it plans to ...
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NASA names its Hyper-X team
NASA has awarded a $33.4 million contract to a team led by MicroCraft to build four experimental aircraft which will be used to demonstrate hypersonic propulsion technologies as part of the Hyper-X project. The other team members joining Tullahoma, Tennessee-based MicroCraft are Boeing North American, GASL and Accurate ...
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Slipring win
Air Précision, part of the UK's Cobham group, has won a contract to supply electrical sliprings for the main and tail rotors of the NH Industries NH90 helicopter. The sliprings transmit electrical power for the de-icing and folding of the rotors. Source: Flight International
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Pavement R&D test site under construction
GROUND has been broken for the world's first full-scale airport-pavement test site, to be located at the US Federal Aviation Administration's technical centre in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The National Airport Pavement Test Facility is a co-operative project between the FAA and airframer Boeing. It will be used ...
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Information on impulse de-icing...
Following publication of the article "Electro-impulse de-icing is selected for Premier I" (Flight International 1-7 May, 1996, P24) Peter Hartman, of Bombardier Regional Aircraft, Ontario, Canada, requested information (Letters, Flight International, 17-23 July, 1996) about developments in the field of electric-impulse de-icing systems (EDIS) being undertaken, he believed, in Russia. ...
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Ill fated ambitions
The Romaero Rombac BAC One-Eleven programme is rooted in former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu's ambitions to make Romania independent of the Soviet Union. As a maverick among the former Communist Bloc leaders, Ceausescu had refused to take part in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and later exploited initially good ...
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International Space Base
The name Kourou has become synonymous with that of Arianespace, but the European launcher organisation is only a user of the launch site. The CSG is operated by the French space agency CNES but was developed with funds from the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA). ...
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A3XX in favour
Sir - Recent coverage (Flight International, 2-8 April, P4) has been favourable to Airbus Industrie's decision to proceed with its A3XX, while Boeing's decision not to go ahead with a "super-jumbo" appears to be very much the voice of Boeing finance. Decisions to launch new aircraft have always been risky. ...
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plane handling...
UK-based Plane Handling opened its 45,000ft2 (4,200m2) warehouse at Manchester Airport in March. Building the warehouse - which includes three floors of offices - took just four months. Pictured at the opening (from left) are cartoonist Chris Lea, who caricatured guests at the opening, Plane Handling operations director Pat Heslop ...
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James Sdoia...
Online parts and services finder Inventory Locator Service (ILS) has named James Sdoia vice-president for marketing and sales. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, he will take responsibility for ILS services worldwide. He is from the Global Financial division of Alltel, where he was senior vice-president and general manager for Asia. ...
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Cirrus design
Cirrus Design, of Duluth, Minnesota, has named Cecil Miller vice-president of manufacturing. He will take charge of developing Cirrus CR20 production. He comes from Raytheon Aircraft, where he was vice-president of operations. Source: Flight International
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Lunar prospector construction complete...
Construction and assembly of the NASA Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been completed by Lockheed Martin in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 24 September, on a mission to obtain the first complete compositional and gravity maps of the moon. The $63 million, low-cost, Discovery mission will carry ...
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Manned soace flight log update
NoCountry(*)DateSpacecraftType/Crew Flight time 193USA 11019 NovSTS 80/ColumbiaScience/517d 15h 53m^ 194USA11112 JanSTS 81/AtlantisSMM /6+10d4h 55m 195Russia 12>10 FebSoyuz TM25Mir ferry/3In flight 196USA 11211 FebSTS 82/DiscoveryService/79d23h 37m * Indicates total number of launches by this country since 12 April 1961 > Former ...
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GOES IS GO...
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, the GOES K, will be launched on the last Atlas 1-series booster operated by ILS International Launch Services from Cape Canaveral, on 24 April. It is the third of a $1 billion fleet of five new-series satellites. ...
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Kapustin Yar is revived for launches
Russia's launch base at Kapustin Yar, in the sparsely populated area close to the Caspian Sea, will end 12 years of retirement when it is used again as a satellite-launch station in 1999. The base was first used for a missile launch in 1947 and its first orbital ...
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NASAselects two satellites to study...
NASA has selected two small, low-cost, satellites to study the distribution of the Earth's forests and the variability of its gravity field under a new Office of Mission to Planet Earth, Earth System Science Pathfinders, programme. The vegetation-canopy lidar (VCL) mission will use a multibeam laser-ranging device to ...
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Engineering dominance
LOOK AT FIGHTER evolution in 25-year steps, and the technological advance which can occur in a quarter-century is obvious. The 1915 Fokker DVII, 1940 North American P-51 and 1965 McDonnell Douglas F-4 were each the dominant fighters of their age, and illustrate the advances that have been achieved. Another 25 ...
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Challenging evolution
WHEN THE US Air Force began defining its requirement for an air-superiority fighter to replace the McDonnell Douglas F-15, the world was a very different place. The Soviet Union still existed and Iraq was just a minor Middle Eastern power. The major regional conflict had not yet replaced superpower confrontation ...
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Integrating information
LOW-OBSERVABLE AIR superiority places severe requirements on avionics that can only be met by the degree of integration evident in the F-22, says Marty Broadwell, deputy avionics team-leader. "We are collecting snippets of information, with minimum illumination, pencil beams, sensors that are passive or barely on. Alone, ...