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Alcatel satellites
US company WorldSpace has raised $650 million capital to purchase three communications satellites from Alcatel Espace, to provide worldwide digital radio programming. The satellites, called the AfriStar, CaribStar and AsiaStar, will be launched in 1998-9. Source: Flight International
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Iridium offer
After it's aborted $300 million debt offering, Motorola's Iridium world wide, hand-held mobile telephone, satellite-system organisation has invited individual countries to take a direct ownership stake in the venture. Source: Flight International
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Australian bid
The Australian Space Council has proposed to its Government an A$94.6 million ($68 million), four-year space plan, including the development of a commercial spaceport. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin wins
Lockheed Martin is to upgrade the visual systems on simulators used to train US Air Force special-operations crews. The upgrades are part of the US company's new five-year, $146 million, Mission Training Support System (MTSS) contract for the special-forces training centre at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. Four Lockheed Martin Compu-Scene ...
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Gripen decision
Saab has selected Silicon Graphics (SGI) and SEOS Displays to supply the visual system for an engineering simulator to be used in development of advanced and export versions of the JAS39 Gripen lightweight fighter. UK company SEOS will supply a 3m-diameter dome display, while Saab has selected SGI's "next-generation" image ...
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Chinese training
McDonnell Douglas has signed a letter of intent with China Northern Airlines (CNA) for assistance in setting-up and operation of a new 3,000m3 flight-crew-training centre in the city of Dalian in northeast China. Source: Flight International
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Horizon presentation
Senior NATO representatives have attended a flight demonstration of Eurocopter's Horizon battlefield surveillance system, based on the AS.532 Cougar helicopter at Marignana, near Marseilles. NATO is considering purchasing such a system. The first of two Horizon systems is due to be delivered to the French army early in 1996. ...
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Hawkeyed decision
The French National Assembly's defence committee has defeated a finance committee proposal to cancel a planned Fr1.8 billion purchase of two Northrop Grumman E-C2 Hawkeye early-warning aircraft for use by the French navy. The finance committee had recommended the purchase of an additional one or two Boeing E-3F Sentry airborne ...
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X-31 crash
A NASA mishap-investigation board has concluded that an accumulation of ice in or on the unheated pilot-static system was the root cause of the crash of its X-31 experimental aircraft at Edwards AFB, California, on 19 January. The NASA board says that the build-up of ice blocked the small tube ...
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Shuttle docking
The Space Shuttle Atlantis, making its 15th flight on mission STS 74, docked successfully with the Russian space station, the Mir 1 on 15 November, three days after its launch from the Kennedy Space Centre. Source: Flight International
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Indian murder
Thakiyudeen Abdul Wahid, managing director of India's largest private airline, East West Airlines, was killed on 13 November in Bombay in a gangland-type shooting. Source: Flight International
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Consolation prize
Cathay Pacific has signed a deal to purchase a further two Rolls-Royce-powered Airbus A330s to add to the nine aircraft already on order. A further boost is likely from Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines, which is in talks with Airbus Industrie over the lease up to seven more A310s, to add to ...
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Oman Jaguar package
The Omani air force is discussing a possible upgrade package for its fleet of 18 Sepecat Jaguar aircraft, including procuring a laser-designator capability for the aircraft. The air force is understood to be considering the purchase of around six laser-designator pods for its Jaguars. The GEC Marconi Thermal Imaging Airborne ...
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Discount fuel
Raytheon Aircraft Services has introduced a fuel-incentive programme at its network of 18 US fixed-base operations. The MaxPower scheme provides discounts, which increase with the number of litres purchased at each refueling and with the amount of avgas or jet fuel bought annually. General-aviation aircraft based at Raytheon sites are ...
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Certification delay
Bell Helicopter Textron says that certification of the Model 430 intermediate twin-turbine helicopter has been pushed back by a month, to mid-January, to allow on-schedule certification of the light single-turbine Model 407 in mid-December. Both aircraft will have their public debuts at the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore on 6-11 ...
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Navigation panel
Garmin International has introduced new panel-mounted navigation/communication systems, which combine a global-positioning-system receiver with a 760-channel VHF transceiver - the visual-flight-rules GNC 250 and the instrument-flight-rules GNC 350. Source: Flight International
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Eva to Central America
Taiwanese carrier Eva Air will launch a new route on 13 December, linking Taipei with Los Angeles and Panama City. The Los Angeles-Panama City connection will be the only non-stop service between the two cities and the first direct flights between Asia and Latin America by a Taiwanese airline. The ...
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Guernsey jet upgrade
Jersey European Airways is upgrading its four daily turboprop services between Guernsey and London Gatwick. The airline intends to put one of its two newly leased 99-seat BAe 146-200s on the route in March, replacing the 52-seat Fokker F27-500 and virtually doubling capacity. The second aircraft has been put on ...
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Westland VIP EH101 to tempt Saudi forces
WESTLAND Helicopters is looking to use a VIP variant of the Westland/Agusta EH101 medium-utility transport as a "door opener" for sales of military-utility and anti-submarine-warfare (ASW) variants of the helicopter in the Gulf region. The company is offering VIP variants to meet a Saudi Arabian requirement for transporting ...
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Bombardier offers a hybrid version of CL-415 to Lebanon
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE is offering to Lebanon a hybrid version of the Canadair CL-415 amphibian, to meet its requirements for forest fire-fighting, search and rescue and surveillance. The aircraft would combine the fire-fighting capabilities of the existing CL-415 turboprop with the basic configuration of the proposed CL-415M maritime-patrol variant, ...