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P&W simulates JSF
Englewood, Colorado-based SymSystems is to supply mission verification benches for both the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstrators to engine supplier Pratt & Whitney. The simulators, incorporating aircraft and associated engine models, will be used to verify mission performance. Source: Flight International
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Alaska picks E&S
Alaska Airlines has selected Evans &Sutherland's ESIG-3350 visual system for a Boeing 737-700/900 full-flight simulator on order from Thomson Training & Simulation. The simulator is scheduled for installation at Alaska's Seattle, Washington, training centre in July 1999. Source: Flight International
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SEOS upgrades United
The UK's SEOS Displays has installed Panorama wide-angle visual displays on three flight simulators - two Boeing 747s and one 757 - at United Airlines' Denver, Colorado, Flight Center. Source: Flight International
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US Airways expands
US Airways is to build an Airbus training centre adjacent to its simulator base at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. The $12 million expansion will provide two new simulator bays. US Airways has three A320 and one A330 simulators on order from CAE Electronics. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety opens low-visibility course for business users
FlightSafety International has launched a training programme for low-visibility operations with business aircraft. The company's first training programme for Category IIIa operations is for the Dassault Falcon 2000 and uses a Teterboro, New York-based Level D simulator equipped with Flight Dynamics HGS head-up guidance system. Installation of the HGS and ...
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CAE earns CRJ-700 contract from Bombardier
Bombardier has selected CAE Electronics to supply a suite of training devices for the Canadair Regional Jet Series 700. The devices will be installed at the Bombardier Training Centre near CAE's plant in Montreal, Canada.The training suite for the 70-seat CRJ-700 will consist of a full flight simulator with CAE ...
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Mobile Service
Eutelsat has finalised an agreement with Italy's Telespazio to assume control and commercialisation of the EMS payload, developed by ESA and carried on the Italsat F2 communications satellite launched in 1996. The EMS voice, fax, data, messaging and positioning service will complement Eutelsat's existing Euteltracs road haulage management system. Source: ...
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Proton gears up for busy year
Russia's ILS International Launch Services Proton K booster - seen launching the PanAmsat 8 from Baikonur on 4 November - will carry at least eight international commercial communications satellites in 1999. These will include the first Hughes-built satellite for ICO Global Services, which will be placed into a ...
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OSC to build two satellites for Japan
Tim Furniss/LONDON Orbital Sciences (OSC) has been selected to negotiate a contract to build two Ka-band direct-to-home broadcast communications satellites for the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite System, an affiliate of the NHK network. The BSAT 2A and 2B satellites will be based on OSC's NovaStar lightweight geostationary orbit (GEO) ...
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Triana camera
Lockheed Martin has been selected by the University of California to design and build the earth polychromatic imaging camera for NASA's Triana mission, the deep space earth observer proposed by vice president Al Gore to return daily images of the globe from the camera, via the Internet. Source: Flight International
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Triana Camera
Lockheed Martin has been selected by the University of California to design and build the earth polychromatic imaging camera for NASA's Triana mission, the deep space earth observer proposed by vice president Al Gore to return daily images of the globe from the camera, via the Internet. Source: Flight International
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Joint project
Argentina and Brazil will jointly build a 350kg environmental observation satellite in 2003. Brazil will also allow Argentina some of its satellite launcher technology to allow it to develop its own booster. Source: Flight International
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Thai Sat
Thailand has placed an initial payment with Spar Aerospace of Canada to proceed with a $7 million contract for the first phase of a planned Thai Remote Sensing Satellite System. The satellite will use Canadian Radarsat technology and a Matra Marconi Space Leosat spacecraft bus. Source: Flight International
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Mobile service
Eutelsat has finalised an agreement with Italy's Telespazio to assume control and commercialisation of the EMS payload, developed by ESA and carried on the Italsat F2 communications satellite launched in 1996. The EMS voice, fax, data, messaging and positioning service will complement Eutelsat's existing Euteltracs road haulage management system. Source: ...
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Tracking system causes Deep Space 1 problems
An error in the star tracking system aboard Deep Space 1, NASA's first New Millennium programme spacecraft, forced the craft to enter a "safe mode" shutdown on 13 November. Engineers brought it back to normal cruise configuration 48h later. Devices to control the deployment of the craft's solar arrays ...
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China Great Wall bags launch contract
Asia Satellite Telecommunications of Hong Kong has selected a China Great Wall Industry Long March 3B booster for the launch of its latest Asiasat communications satellite in 1999. The launch will follow that of the Asisat 3S, which is flying on a Russian Proton, also in 1999. China plans to ...
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Czech Aircraft Works buoyed by float line
Czech Aircraft Works has acquired Zenair's float production line. Tooling has already been shipped from Zenair's Canadian base to the Czech manufacturer's site in Borsice. The sale comes 18 months after Czech Aircraft Works was set up to manufacture, market and distribute Zenair's CH 601-AG and CH701-AG agricultural aircraft ...
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German motorglider nears European approval
Germany's Technoflug has completed flight testing its Carat single-engined motorised glider and is on target for European JAR 22 certification by the end of the year. The all-composite aircraft has clocked up more than 300 flying hours, says the Rottweil, Germany-based manufacturer, and is expected to make its public debut ...
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Navajo gear
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended the US Federal Aviation Administration to require recurrent inspections of Piper PA-31 Navajo inboard door hinge assemblies until they are replaced by a stronger hinge unit. The NTSB's advisory results from a 1997 regional airline incident in which a Cape Smythe ...
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IBES for BBJ
Raytheon Systems has appointed The Network Connection (TNCI) to install its Airview integrated business and entertainment system (IBES) on the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) demonstrator. Work is to start in the next few weeks. According to the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company, IBES will provide telephones, personal computers and faxes, as well ...