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Money no object
BOEING'S PURCHASE of Rockwell's defence business underlines - if any extra emphasis were needed - just how rapidly the major US aerospace prime contractors continue to consolidate. It also provides an embarrassing reminder of how far the European industry - hidebound by the legacies of state ownership and national politics ...
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Engines should be treated separately
Sir - Recent news suggests that civil organisations do not seem to share their safety-related views. I was amazed to find that an airline could conduct the same maintenance task, simultaneously, on both engines of a twin without a test before flight. Surely, if there is a need, for example, ...
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European capsule splashes down
THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S (ESA) Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator (ARD) capsule is pictured with two stabilisation balloons, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily, following its 18min descent-and-recovery test. After being dropped from a stratospheric balloon at 82,000ft (25,000m) and making a 33,000ft free-fall, its one drogue and three ...
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Agena is Lockheed Martin EELV choice
LOCKHEED MARTIN Astronautics has selected an upgraded version of the Agena upper-stage rocket engine for its entry into the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) competition. Team Agena 2000, consisting of Atlantic Research and Aerojet, is to provide a modified Agena storable-propellant main axial engine to ...
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Maintaining success
European maintenance company FLS Aerospace is to undertake heavy maintenance on three Boeing 747-100Fs belonging to US freight operator Polar Air Cargo. The programme will be performed "nose to tail" at the FLS hangar at Stansted in the UK, starting on 11 August. The Danish-owned company has also secured a ...
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Farnborough '96 Preview
Aerospace is flooded with air shows, but the Farnborough '96 organiser promises an "essential"event this September Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH THE AEROSPACE calendar awash with air shows, Farnborough '96 show organiser The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is keen to promote its biennial show as ...
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Airtran
AirWays, of Orlando, Florida, parent company of AirTran Airways, has appointed its chairman and chief executive, Robert Swenson, president and chief executive of AirTran, following the retirement of John Horn. Swenson was chief executive of AirTran Corporation from 1978 to September 1995 and is a former treasurer, vice-chairman and chairman ...
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John Fozard
John Fozard, chief designer of the British Aerospace Harrier from 1965-78, died at the end of July. Among the many titles and positions he held, was marketing director at BAe Kingston-Brough division from 1978, and president of the Royal Aeronautical Society during 1986-7. Since his retirement from BAe in 1989, ...
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C-130/helicopter clash explained
Sir - You published my letter "Keeping out of helicopters' way" (Flight International, 31 July-6 August, P46), about the RAF Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules being flown at low level through intense helicopter activity south-east of Silverstone, near Milton Keynes, UK, on 14 July, British Grand Prix day. I ...
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Civil and military helicopter directory
Douglas Barrie, Max Kingsley-Jones and Jennifer Pite/LONDON DESPITE THE recent gloom in the civil-helicopter business, the manufacturers are now more confident that a recovery is within sight, and have been bullishly developing new models. In 1995, US-manufactured new civil helicopter shipments totalled 314, a slight improvement ...
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Oxford gives operators a Neu-SIGHT into corrosion
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN INSPECTION tool using neutron radiography will allow non-destructive testing for corrosion in aircraft structures to be carried out more quickly and effectively than with X-ray or ultrasonic techniques, according to developer Oxford Instruments. The tool, called the Neu-SIGHT, uses a high-intensity beam ...
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Gyro damages
A February jury decision that Honeywell illegally monopolised the laser-gyro market has been upheld by a US court, but its award of $234 million damages to Litton has been rejected. A new trial on damages has been ordered. Source: Flight International
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Scouting for success
The first Japanese indigenously designed military helicopter is poised for its first flight. Paul Lewis/TOKYO JAPAN'S FIRST INDIGENOUSLY developed helicopter, the Kawasaki OH-X scout, is scheduled to have its maiden flight within a few days. The new military machine has been designed specifically for Japan's ...
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DHL eyes widebody freighters for European operations
DHL AIRWAYS is targeting late 1997 or early 1998 to introduce widebodied freighters on to its European network, as it seeks to modernise and upgrade its fleet. The US-based package carrier operates some 50 aircraft on its European cross-border network, including 24 Stage 3 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. Two more -200Fs ...
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FAA moves ahead with local-area GPS teams
FOUR TEAMS HAVE received contracts to support US Federal Aviation Administration development of the local-area augmentation system (LAAS) which is needed to provide Category II/III precision-approach capability using the global-positioning system (GPS). The delayed contracts awarded to Harris, PRC, Raytheon and Wilcox pre-qualify the teams to bid on task orders ...
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NTSB urges increase in inspections of JT8D fan-hubs
INCREASED inspection of Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200-series fan hubs has been urged by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), following July's uncontained failure of an engine on a Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine hub disintegrated, sending debris ...
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Midwest nines
Midwest Express Airlines has acquired two ex-Garuda McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32s, and agreed to purchase a third, taking its fleet to 26 aircraft. The DC-9s will be equipped with Stage 3 hushkits and delivered in 1997. Source: Flight International
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QNC completes 707 hushkit tests and prepares DC-8 for flight
QUIET NACELLE (QNC) has completed flight-tests of a Stage 3 hushkit for the Boeing 707, and is awaiting supplemental type-certification (STC). The hushkit was installed on a Pratt & Whitney JT3D-powered US Air Force Boeing WC-135B (the military 707) for acoustic testing at Moses Lake, Washington. Miami-based QNC ...
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SLAM ER tests
Captive flight-tests of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Stand-Off Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) have been completed on a US Navy MDC F-18. Separation tests begin in early August, leading to the first SLAM ER flight, scheduled for February 1997. Source: Flight International
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China backs US gyroplane
US GYROPLANE developer Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) has signed a letter of intent covering licence-assembly of its aircraft in China. Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) plans to buy 200 H2X three-seat commercial gyroplanes with which to establish an air-taxi company in China, and for corporate transport around congested Shanghai. SECC ...