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FlightSafety
Tim Fallon has been appointed to the newly created position of regional marketing manager for maintenance training by Flushing, New York-based FlightSafety International (FSI), based at Tucson, Arizona. He was previously an accounts manager at the FSI customer-support organisation at Flushing. Don Roney becomes manager of the FSI Learning Center ...
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United
John Pinkstone has been named regional sales manager for the Middle East, Sri Lanka and Pakistan for United Airlines' Atlantic division. Previously sales executive at London Heathrow Airport, he will be based at United's London Atlantic division headquarters. Source: Flight International
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Magellan
MAGELLAN Satellite-navigation company Magellan Systems, of San Dimas, California, has named Ralph Fisch national sales manager for aviation products. He was international sales manager with Garmin International. Bob Rutkowski becomes aviation regional sales manager. He was previously with global-positioning-system company Tropic Aero & Loran. Source: Flight ...
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Leasing power
Greenwich Air Services has won contracts worth more than $33 million to provide lessors of Airbus A300B4s owned by ING Aviation Lease with "cost-per-flight-hour" maintenance of General Electric CF6-50s, and to maintain Pratt & Whitney JT8Ds on Vanguard Airlines' Boeing 737-200s. Source: Flight International
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Socata gear change
Socata has developed a trailing-link landing gear for its fixed-gear TB9, TB10 and TB200 piston-single training aircraft, to reduce operating costs, improve ride quality and increase access to unimproved airstrips. Source: Flight International
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Japanese logger
Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha will hand over the first Kaman K-MAX for a Japanese customer on 10 July, following Japanese certification of the external-lift helicopter. Japan Royal will use the helicopter for heli-logging in the Yoshino area of Nara Prefecture. Source: Flight International
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Nigerian crash
All 12 people aboard a Gulfstream II business jet were killed on 20 June when it hit a mast on approach to Jos Airport, Nigeria. The aircraft was operated by NAMCO, a Dantata Group company. Source: Flight International
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Falcon service
Dassault Falcon Jet has authorised Kal-Aero Aircraft Service Center of Battle Creek, Michigan, to service Falcon business jets, including performing modifications to meet new reduced vertical-separation minima. Source: Flight International
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AFLEX success
Japan's Automated Landing Flight Experiment (AFLEX) craft had its first flight on 6 July, simulating the landing of the proposed Hope unmanned spaceplane. The AFLEX, a one-third-scale Hope model, was released from a helicopter at 4,900ft (1,500m) altitude and reached a maximum speed of 155kt (290km/h) during the glide flight ...
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Thuraya bids
United Arab Emirates Telecommunications plans to develop and launch the $1 billion Thuray mobile communications-satellite system. It has invited bids from contractors including Aerospatiale, Alcatel and Matra Marconi . Source: Flight International
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Korolev tribute
Russia's city of Kaliningrad, home of the manned-spaceflight mission-control centre, the "Star City" cosmonaut training establishment, and the manufacturing hub of the Khrunichev organisation, has been renamed Korolev, in memory of the space designer Sergei Korolev. He masterminded the development of Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles, the first Sputnik satellite, the ...
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Cluster OK
The European Space Agency has approved the manufacture of a Cluster science satellite to fly a mission in 1997 to conduct some investigations planned for satellites lost in the failure of the first launch of the Ariane 5 on 4 June. Source: Flight International
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Australian teaming
Hughes Aircraft has teamed with Australia's Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems to bid for the Royal Australian Air Force's Project Air 5333, to upgrade the country's air-defence command-and-control system. A tender is expected in September. Source: Flight International
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Shadow contract
Lockheed Martin has received a $15 million US Navy contract to supply airborne datalink terminals enabling information collected by ES-3A Shadow electronic-surveillance aircraft to be transmitted in real time to ships and ground stations. Source: Flight International
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Alliant Torpedo
Alliant Techsystems is to develop the US Navy's Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo, a replacement for the Mk46 air-droppable torpedo. Alliant and teammate Hughes Aircraft will produce engineering-development models by 2001. Source: Flight International
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Block 50 upgrade
The US Air Force is to equip Block 50/52 Lockheed Martin F-16s with digital-terrain systems. Orbital Sciences' Fairchild Defense division is to supply 42 data-transfer cartridges which store and process digitised map data using British Aerospace terrain-matching software. Source: Flight International