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R-R plans joint European repair venture
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Rolls-Royce is in discussions with Swissair and Lufthansa to form a new tripartite engine repair and overhaul facility in Europe as plans to establish a similar joint venture with Singapore Airlines (SIA) have slowed in the face of Asia's economic crisis. The UK engine manufacturer is understood to ...
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Airbus/Boeing poser faces Air France
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France is considering the purchase of an initial 15 Airbus A330-200s or Boeing 767-300ER/400ERs to satisfy part of its future long-haul requirement and has asked General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney to come up with offers for both types. Selection is being held up ...
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EC and Italy reach last-gasp airports agreement
The European Commission and the Italian Government have reached a last-minute agreement on a traffic distribution system between Milan's two airports at Linate and Malpensa, where a new hub is to open on 25 October. The deal, agreed in principle, followed a day of intense negotiations on 8 October ...
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Swiss Cougar
The Swiss Government has approved funding in its 1998 defence budget for the purchase of 12 Eurocopter Cougar Mk1 military transport helicopters for the Swiss army. The deal, which is expected to be signed in December, is thought to be worth around SFr320 million ($210 million) and will increase to ...
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BFGoodrich reveals weather radar unit
BFGoodrich Avionics Systems has developed a unit enabling lighting and traffic information to be superimposed on any weather radar indicator. The console-mounted RGC250 radar graphics computer will be unveiled later this month at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The RGC250 will display information from ...
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Improving safety
Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Teams of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) inspectors will move out early next year to begin mandatory safety oversight audits, opening a new chapter in the history of the United Nations agency. The programme of "regular, mandatory, systematic and harmonised safety audits" in all 185 member states was ...
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Airborne early warning competitors are reduced to three
The Greek air force has shortlisted the contenders for its airborne early warning (AEW) requirement to Ericsson Microwave Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Initial screening of respondents to the Greek request for information has pitted Ericsson's Erieye airborne early warning and control system, mounted on an Embraer RJ-145 ...
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USA concerned by fighter bids
US Fighter companies are becoming concerned that the competition for a new front-line fighter for the Greek air force could be hit by increasing disquiet in Washington about the escalation of tension between Greece and Turkey. "There is concern over maintaining stability in the region without escalating [tension]," says ...
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US Navy poised to put HARM
The US navy is about to release a $100 million contract for a precision navigation upgrade for the Raytheon HARM anti-radiation missile, according to German missile company Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik. The upgrade is designed to prevent strikes on friendly radars by allowing the HARM missile to memorise the target position ...
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Kongsberg eyes new seeker for Penguin missile
Norwegian missile manufacturer Kongsberg is considering adapting the passive infra-red imaging seeker which is being developed for the New Anti-Shipping Missile (NSM) for the Penguin missile. There are proposals to improve the Penguin's seeker and navigation systems, although this has not yet formally been requested by a customer. Kongsberg ...
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Bidders gather for Greek jet trainer
Jet trainer manufacturers worldwide have responded to a Greek request for information (RFI) covering a replacement for the Greek air force's ageing Rockwell T 2E Buckeye fleet. Respondents include Aermacchi with the MB339, Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody with the L-159T, British Aerospace with the Hawk and Alenia/Embraer with the new ...
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Ariane logs another success
Arianespace launched Eutelsat's W2 and the Swedish Sirius 3communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit aboard the Ariane 44L/V111 from Kourou at 22:51 GMT on 5 October. The W2 was built by Alcatel (formerly Aerospatiale's satellite division) and the Sirius by Hughes Space and Communications. The launch came just 19 days ...
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Soyuz booked
Space Systems Loral has signed a contract with Starsem, a joint venture of Russia's Samara, Arianespace and Aerospatiale, to launch 12 Globalstar satellites on three Soyuz boosters in 1999. This follows the loss of 12 satellites caused by the failure of a Zenit firing on 10 September, and brings ...
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NASA sets November ISS date
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has set 20 November as the date for the International Space Station (ISS) project finally to get airborne. Six years later than planned when the project was initiated in 1984, Russia's Zarya control module will be the first section launched into space aboard a Proton booster. ...
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Aerospike test
The first successful powerpack test of the Boeing Rocketdyne division's Linear Aerospike Engine for the Lockheed Martin X-33 sub-orbital technology demonstrator was completed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, on 1 October. The test calibrated the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel turbopumps and settings. Source: Flight International
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STEX is launched on third Taurus booster
Orbital Sciences launched its third Taurus booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 3 October, carrying the $90 million National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Space Technology Experiment (STEX) satellite. The STEX incorporates 29 new technologies, including a 5km-long Advanced Tether Experiment. The Lockheed Martin-built 6,985kg STEX is designed to explore new ...
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Fractional divide
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON There is considerable unease among the US fractional ownership community as it braces itself for the outcome of an 18-month investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, which will determine if this burgeoning market sector should continue to operate under current Federal Airworthiness Regulation, FAR Part 91 general ...
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Mid-sized madness
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Business aircraft development today is a matter of finding and filling market niches. The old class distinctions of light, mid-size and large business jets are gone. In their place is a virtual continuum of corporate jets from entry-level to ultra-long-range. Most of this cross-genre blurring has occurred ...
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Loral contract
Loral Space Systems has won a $300 million contract to build two Ka-band communications satellites for KaStar Satellite Communications of Denver, Colorado. The first launch is planned for no later than February 2002. Source: Flight International