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NJS
Adelaide, Australia-based National Jet Systems (NJS) Group has appointed former Qantas executive Mike Grehan general manager. He was previously financial controller for Qantas' Associated Business division, responsible for the oversight of regional airlines, including Qantas Airlink, which operates 11 British Aerospace 146s on a wet-lease basis from NJS. ...
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Saab subscribes
Saab Aircraft is subscribing to Jeppesen's Maintenance Information Service, in an effort to expand the electronic maintenance-documentation services which it offers to operators of Saab 340s and 2000s. The Jeppesen service includes document-viewing software for aircraft-maintenance manuals. Source: Flight International
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Hella aerospce
Hella Aerospace has been formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of motor-industry supplier Hella KG Hueck, to take over the activities of the Lippstadt, Germany-based company's former aviation-technology division. Source: Flight International
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CSE sells simulators
CSE Aviation has sold two Frasca International simulators to the SAS Flight Academy. The Flight Navi- gational Procedure Trainers are to be installed at the SAS schools in Denmark and Norway in July. Oxford, UK-based CSE, which has represented Frasca throughout much of Europe for over 25 years, says that ...
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Airborne 767 upgrade
Training Devices of Englewood, Colorado, is to upgrade an Airborne Express Boeing 767-200 full-flight simulator, recently acquired from All Nippon Airways, to Level C training standard. Source: Flight International
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GIV training expanded
FlightSafety International has added the Flight Visions head-up display to the Gulfstream IV-SP Level D simulator at its Savannah, Georgia, training centre. SimuFlite Training International has introduced GIV maintenance training at Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Skylark at 40
The UK's Skylark sub-orbital sounding rocket became the world's oldest operational space launcher on 13 February when its 40th anniversary was celebrated. A total of 431 Skylarks has been launched since the first Skylark flew from Woomera, South Australia in 1957. The current Matra Marconi Space Skylark 12 model can ...
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Communications study
Auspace of Canberra, Australia, has won a contract from the national defence forces to conduct a satellite-communications feasibiity study, under which satellite-based or unmanned-air-vehicle options to meet communications needs after 2005 will be investigated. Source: Flight International
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Space freezer
Matra Marconi Space has been awarded a $2.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop the Minus Eighty-degree Laboratory Freezer (MELFI) for the International Space Station (ISS). Three flight models will be built for NASA and one for Japan. The MELFI, which will become the first European payload ...
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PNG hides Hinds
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government seems to have acquired a small number of armed helicopters, possibly Mil Mi-24 Hinds, from an Eastern European source for use in the Bougainville secessionist insurrection. It is reported that the aircraft were delivered about two weeks ago in an unidentified large freighter of ...
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Towed delivery
Lockheed Martin Sanders says that it will deliver mass models of a fibre-optic towed decoy (FOTD) by mid-1997, following a successful critical design-review of the Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) programme. The IDECM radio-frequency countermeasures system consists of the expendable FOTD linked by fibre-optic cable to an onboard techniques generator. ...
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Swissair charter
A new long-haul charter division of Swissair, Charter-Leisure, will be set up this year employing 200 people and operating two Swissair Airbus A310-300s. Swissair crews transferred to the low-cost operation will be paid less, but have the chance to become captains earlier. The division will replace its A310s with A330-200s ...
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Longbow
Richard Russell has been named president of the Longbow Limited Liability Company, the Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman joint venture developing and manufacturing the Longbow weapon system. He will also head Longbow International, a joint venture set up for international sales. He was formerly director of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin's Electronics ...
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Sony trans
Irvine, California-based airline-entertainment- and cabin-information-systems provider Sony Trans Com has appointed Fran Waddle director of entertainment and information services. She was formerly managing director for inflight products at American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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GB Airways
Stephen Sturton-Davies has been appointed to the new position of general manager for the Western Mediterranean at UK scheduled carrier GB Airways, of Gatwick Airport. He will be based at the British Airways office in Madrid, Spain. Source: Flight International
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Rolls-Royce aims to clinch RAAF Hawk deal with Adour power
Rolls-Royce is offering Australia a full-authority digital electronic-control (FADEC) version of the Adour Mk871, in a last-ditch effort to swing a deal to power the air force's recently selected British Aerospace Hawk 100 lead-in fighter trainer. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is to make a decision shortly ...
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New Zealand offered temporary Wasp replacements
GKN Westland and Kaman are both offering to supply the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) with interim replacements for its Westland Wasps, until new-build or reconditioned naval helicopters can be delivered. The RNZN had hoped to introduce a replacement for its fleet of elderly Wasps by the middle ...
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Target support
Boeing subsidiary Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA) has been awarded a contract to provide through-life support for the Royal Australian Navy's planned new Tracor MQM-107E aerial target. The system is to enter service in 1998 and will replace the ASTA Jindivik system. ASTA is also looking at manufacturing wings, horizontal ...
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Australia starts AEW&C evaluation programme
Australia has embarked on a 30-month programme to evaluate and select an airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, following the submission of preliminary tenders by three competing consortia led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Wedgetail calls for initial design-activity ...