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Russia sends back-up crew
THE SOYUZ TM24 was launched on a Soyuz U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 17 August, carrying a crew of three people to the Mir 1 space station. The crew consists of the first French woman in space, Claudie Andre Deshays, flying the 16-day, $13 million, Cassiopiae ...
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Ireland launches scheduled services
IRELAND AIRWAYS STARTED OPERATIONS on 16 August, using a 24-seat Shorts 330, on scheduled services between Dublin and Donegal. A Dublin-Sligo service, using a soon-to-be-acquired 44-seat Fokker F27, may be added in October. Ireland Airways, was formed by Dublin-based charter company EI-Air Exports, which aims to create Ireland's third major ...
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Israel/Turkey deals put at risk
DEFENCE CONTRACTS between Israel and Turkey, potentially worth up to $1 billion, are being jeopardised by the recent election of a Muslim Government in Turkey and its rapprochement with Iran. A recent planned visit of David Ivry, director-general of the Israeli defence ministry to Turkey, was postponed ...
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Passenger/baggage matching system planned
MICRON Communications has signed a co-operative research-and-development agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop a prototype positive passenger-baggage matching system. The objective is for the system to recognise automatically when baggage has been placed on an aircraft without the associated passenger, says Boise, Idaho-based Micron. ...
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Space landing
Menasco is to supply the nose and main landing gear for the Lockheed Martin X-33 reusable-launch-vehicle technology-demonstrator and the planned VentureStar operational single-stage-to-orbit launcher. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company will deliver two shipsets of demonstrator gear to system-integrator AlliedSignal in 1998. The first flight of the X-33 is due in ...
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Relative safety
Europe is joining the USA in pressing less-powerful nations to put aviation safety at the top of their national-budget priorities. David Learmount/LONDON THE EUROPEAN UNION decision to join the USA in invoking its own aviation-safety assessment rules will raise the pressure for the less- powerful nations of ...
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MDC wraps up new Longbow deal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE US ARMY and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have followed up on their December 1995 initial AH-64 Ap-ache modification contract by signing a five-year, $1.9 billion agreement. The new deal covers the remanufacture of a total of 232 AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters. MDC ...
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Pratt & Whitney proposes to introduce F100-229A improvements
PRATT & WHITNEY hopes to win approval from the US Air Force by the end of this year to flight-qualify the F100-229A, a radically improved version of the -229. The US engine builder says that the $40 million qualification effort would allow a large-scale retrofit programme of McDonnell Douglas F-15Es ...
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MDHS reveals MD600N design change
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has begun flight testing a series of modifications to the MD600N eight-seat civil helicopter following the crash of a prototype earlier this year. The changes are aimed at increasing the clearance between the main rotor blades and ...
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Seoul Air calls a halt to turboprop operations as BAe reclaims aircraft
SEOUL AIR International has ceased its turboprop-aircraft operations amid serious financial difficulties, and most of its aircraft have been returned to lessor British Aerospace. The South Korean airline acquired two ATPs and one Jetstream 41 in early 1995, directly from Jetstream Aircraft. Two used Jetstream 31s were also ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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NASA advances GA engine design
NASA PLANS TO AWARD contracts in October under its general-aviation propulsion (GAP) programme to develop power plant technology for next-generation light aircraft. The GAP programme aims to reduce the price of "intermittent combustion" (IC) engines by half and small turbine engines by a factor of ten. The ...
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Dunlop aims brake-by-wire at airliners
Andrew Doyle/LONDON DUNLOP AVIATION is targeting large civil airliners as the next application for its dual-redundant "brake-by-wire" (BBW) and anti-skid technology, which the company has developed for combat aircraft. The latest version of UK-based Dunlop's BBW landing-gear control system, combined with carbon/carbon composite brakes, has ...
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Raytheon alters JPATS/GBTS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT, prime contractor for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS), has revamped the selection process for the accompanying ground-based training system (GBTS). The company now plans to choose two finalists, not one, from the shortlist of four, possibly ...
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Chile supports UN operation in Iraq
FIVE CHILEAN AIR FORCE BELL UH-1Hs have been brought into operation in Iraq, in support of the United National Special Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, charged with ensuring that Iraq has no chemical or nuclear weapons. The UH-1Hs have replaced two German army helicopters and are based at ...
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Carlyle will acquire Textron aerostructures business
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON TEXTRON HAS AGREED to sell its aero-structures division to the Carlyle Group for $180 million. The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions in the US aerospace/defence market by Carlyle, the investment firm established by former US defence secretary Frank Carlucci. ...
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Government is urged to sell further stake in Thai Airways
AN IMPROVING financial performance from Thai Airways is raising calls for the Thai Government to press ahead with a further sale of shares in the national airline. Thai transport minister Wan Mohammed Nor Matha is on record as urging the country's finance ministry to sell some of its ...
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Century ready to build 'full prototype' of single-engined business jet
CENTURY AEROSPACE says that it has funding in place to complete the first prototype of its Century Jet single-engine business jet, which was unveiled at the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Oshkosh show held in early August. The Columbus, Ohio-based company says that it will not build a proof-of-concept ...
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Wingtip zip
LoPresti Speed Merchants, of Vero Beach, Florida has certificated drag-reducing composite Zip Tip replacement wingtips for Piper Seneca, Lance and PA-28/ 28R-series light aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Air France looks to year-end for US link
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE has set the end of the year as its preferred deadline for a commercial alliance with a US airline. The French state-owned carrier says that a deal is the final priority in its restructuring plan, which is otherwise coming close to completion, although ...