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IL-96 update
Ilyushin is still aiming to fly the first production Pratt & Whitney PW2000-powered Il-96, the Il-96T freighter, before the end of 1996, despite the cash problems, which are hindering the project. The supply of parts from some Russian vendors has been prevented because the design bureau, and its partner the ...
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Dassault service
Dassault Aviation has named Hawker Pacific as its authorised Falcon service centre in Singapore. Its Seletar Airport site will provide after sales service and support for Dassault's range of business aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Groen signs to supply China with gyroplanes
Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) has signed a contract potentially worth $40 million, to supply 200 Hawk III gyro planes to Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) of China. SECC plans to establish an air-taxi company using the three-seat auto gyro. The contract is contingent on GBA receiving Chinese certification ...
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SLAM dunk for P-3C
A LOCKHEED Martin P-3C was used to successfully launch a McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) in a test conducted off Point Mugu Naval Air Station, California in September. The P-3C co-pilot controlled the SLAM for the firing and guided it on to a target on ...
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AirNet wraps up more same-night freight
AIRNET SYSTEMS, a US air-freight carrier specialising in same-night delivery of cancelled cheques, documents and packages, has acquired Dallas, Texas-based regional air-courier Midway Aviation for $3 million. The deal adds 8,000km (4,300nm) and ten cities to AirNet's 137,000km network. The acquisition includes ten aircraft. Separately, Columbus, Ohio-based AirNet ...
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JPATS production
Raytheon Aircraft has received a $31.1 million contract for six production Beech/Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainers for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System programme. The services have so far ordered nine of 711 planned production MkIIs and one prototype. Source: Flight International
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Simulator helps students
A LOW-COST simulator, aimed at helping aeronautical- engineering students understand the mechanics of aircraft flight, is being used at London's City University, in the UK. The MP520-T, developed by UK-based Merlin Products, includes an enclosed, single-seat cockpit mounted on a three-axis hydraulic, or two-axis pneumatic, motion system. ...
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United begins autonomous-landing flight tests with 727
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A United Airlines Boeing 727-200 equipped with the first autonomous landing guidance (ALG) system was expected to be flown from Mojave, California, as Flight International went to press, marking the start of a three-month pilot evaluation programme. The aircraft has been fitted with ...
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Rafael's agile constrictor
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Douglas Barrie/LONDON RAFAEL'S DEBUT in the air-to-air missile (AAM) arena was hardly auspicious. The Shafrir 1 was in service from 1964 to 1969, including the six-day war in 1967, but the AAM was not credited with a single kill. One of ...
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Lockheed Martin details advanced design studies
Graham Warwick/MARIETTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is nearing completion of a study into upgrading the US Air Force's C-5A/B Galaxy transports, and believes that there is "significant interest" in proceeding with the programme. The company has also revealed details of the New Strategic Aircraft (NSA) it is studying to replace ...
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Jet Aviation expands to run USA's biggest charter fleet
Jet Aviation has completed the purchase of K-C Aviation's Transportation Services (KCTS) and Jet Professionals businesses, establishing it as the largest corporate-aircraft charter company in the USA. The West Palm Beach, Florida-based aviation-services company expects to fly 30,000 charter hours in the USA in 1997. The acquisition of ...
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Power shares
Engine manufacturers had a successful 1996, with orders picking up and new programmes unveiled Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON WITH THE AEROSPACE industry firmly out of recession, orders have finally picked up for aero engine manufacturers during 1996. This year has also seen ...
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Arianespace will order extra Ariane 4s after Ariane 5 delay
Tim Furniss/LONDON ARIANESPACE HAS been forced to order up to another six Ariane 4 launchers to compensate for further delays in the introduction of the Ariane 5 vehicle to commercial service. The first flight of the European Space Agency's (ESA) new booster failed on 4 June, ...
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Cathay Pacific boss heads for Ansett Australia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways managing director Rod Eddington has been named as the new executive chairman at Ansett Australia, charged with seeing through a major shake-up at the loss-making carrier. The announcement, which comes in the wake of the Air New Zealand (ANZ) acquisition of ...
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Documentation shortfalls force IPTN to delay certification N250
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has been forced to delay the maiden flight of its first N250-100 certification prototype, as the result of component documentation falling below US Federal Aviation Administration requirements. The second prototype N250, had been due to fly in May, but ...
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Dragonair boosts fleet for China
Dragonair of Hong Kong is to increase its fleet of Airbus A320s and A330s to expand the airline's regional service and take advantage of recently approved new routes into China. The airline has placed orders for two International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered A320s and concluded the lease for a ...
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NASA starts work on Space shuttle privatisation plan
NASA BEGAN a new era in Space Shuttle operations on 1 October with the formal award of a six-year, $7 billion space-operations contract to the United Space Alliance, a partnership of Rockwell and Lockheed Martin. The privatisation will consolidate ground processing and in-flight operations with a single company, ...
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Japan sounds off with fifth TR-1A launch from Tanagashima
JAPAN'S NATIONAL SPACE Development Agency launched the fifth TR-1A solid propellant sounding rocket from Tanegashima on 25 September, carrying 750kg of science experiments to an altitude of 100km (55nm) during a sub-orbital flight in which they were exposed to 6min of micro-gravity conditions, to qualify technology for use on the ...
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RKBM Rybinsk Engine-Building Design Office
The RKBM Rybinsk RD-600 turbo shaft will power the Kamov Ka-62 twin-turbine helicopter which is due to have its first flight before 1997. GE T700/CT7s, LHTEC CTS800s and R-R Turboméca RTM322s are being offered as alternatives to the 955kW RD-600 Source: Flight International
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South Aeroengine Company
South Aeroengine, formerly Zhuzhou, is developing the WJ9 turboprop for China's HAMC Y-12 twin-engined short take-off/landing multi-purpose transport, and possibly other indigenous Chinese aircraft. Source: Flight International