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France may join UK's Skynet
France is considering joining the UK's Skynet 5 military communications satellite programme, rather than continuing working with Germany in the Trimilsatcom project, from which the UK pulled out last month. Armand Carlier, chairman and chief executive of Matra Marconi Space (MMS), which leads one of the teams bidding for ...
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NASA looks at X-38 and VentureStar mixture
NASA and Lockheed Martin are studying the use of the X-38 International Space Station (ISS) crew return vehicle with the proposed VentureStar single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane. The work, which is at a conceptual stage, is aimed at providing an alternative to the Space Shuttle as an ISS transporter. The X-38, a ...
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Sea Launch programme may carry dummy
Tim Furniss/LONDON Failure of a Russian/ Ukrainian Zenit 2 booster during launch on 10 September, with the loss of 12 Globalstar mobile communications satellites, may force Boeing to carry a dummy payload rather than a commercial satellite on its first flight of the Sea Launch booster. The launcher is ...
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Routes
-Aer Lingus is to launch services from Dublin to Los Angeles via Shannon in June 1999, using an Airbus A330-200. -Singapore Airlines will suspend indefinitely services to Sendai, Japan, and Cairns, Australia, from 1 October. -Emirates Airlines is to provide South African Airlines with Johannesburg-Dubai services through an extension of ...
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Lucas in control
Lucas Aerospace has been selected by Airbus for contracts to supply the trimmable horizontal-stabiliser actuator and rudder servo control actuator for the primary flight controls and the slat system for the secondary flight controls for the Airbus A340-500/600.The company is also to supply thrust reverser actuation for the aircraft. The ...
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Standard Controls
Hamilton Standard has been selected to supply upgraded full authority digital engine control units for the US Air Force Rockwell B-1B's General Electric F101 engines (a total of 450 units) and the Northrop Grumman B-2's GE F118 engines (120 units). The Windsor Locks, Connecticut-based company also supplies environmental and other ...
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Finavitec deliveries
The first rear fuselage for the Embraer ERJ-135/145 range to be produced by Finavitec of Finland has been delivered to Sonaca of Belgium, which has been manufacturing the sections since 1994. The work is being undertaken under subcontract from the Belgian company. Finavitec will deliver its first centre fuselage in ...
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PAL losses
Philippine Airlines' (PAL) losses quadrupled to 2.2 billion pesos ($50.2 million) in the first three months of the year ending June, compared to the 1997 first quarter. A 22-day pilot strike, foreign exchange losses and higher interest charges all contributed to the loss. The airline says it will shortly unveil ...
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Engine venture
Woodward Governor and Lockheed Martin Control Systems have formed a joint venture to develop , build and support aero-engine control systems. The company, called AESYS, is already developing an actuation control system for an unnamed large turbofan engine. Source: Flight International
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In a Jam
Raytheon Systems' high speed anti-radar missile (HARM) has been modified to attack air defence radars and jammers on the battlefield. The Block V development contract was awarded in 1995. The continued evolution of the HARM is made possible by software changes which can be added in the field to AGM-88C ...
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Advanced Seekers
Raytheon Systems has received an $11 million contract from the US Navy to develop uncooled focal plane array seekers for direct attack weapons. Now a jointly funded advanced technology demonstration programme, the direct attack munition affordable seeker project's goal is to demonstrate a low-cost, imaging-seeker upgrade kit for guided weapons. ...
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V-22 fuselage shipped
The first production Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor fuselage was shipped from Boeing Helicopters to the Bell Helicopter Textron facility in Arlington, Texas, for final assembly. The aircraft, Osprey No 11, is the first of five Lot 1 low-rate initial production aircraft. Following operational testing, the aircraft will go to ...
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Curtiss-Wright
Curtiss-Wright has teamed with GEC-Marconi Aerospace to produce the trailing edge flap drive actuation system for the Ayres Loadmaster. Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based Curtiss-Wright flight Systems will provide its Power Hinge rotary actuator and a power drive unit. Source: Flight International
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Sextant/Smiths win
The second-generation flight management system (FMS) being jointly developed by Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries for the Airbus A320 and A330/A340 families has been selected by several airlines for their existing fleets and future orders. The airlines are Air France, America West, Asiana, China Northwest, China Southwest and US Airways ...
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TAPO brakes RJ
The Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO) of Uzbekistan has agreed to manufacture under licence complete airbrake assemblies for British Aerospace Regional Aircraft's Avro RJ family. TAPO already produces cockpit floor beam assemblies for the RJ. Source: Flight International
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TEAC purchase
TEAC America is to acquire Palo Alto, California-based Merlin Engineering Works by October. TEAC will call combine Merlin's expertise in the processing of digital data for its airborne video and data recording devices, which TEAC claims are fitted in more than 75% of the world's military aircraft. Source: Flight ...
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Joint venture
AAR and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) have formed a joint venture, called AIMCO, to lease rotable parts to airlines. GECAS will provide the financing while AAR will manage the programme, which aims to save an airline money by allowing it to sell its active rotables inventory to the venture ...
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Fairchild Aerospace names 728JET risk share partners
Fairchild aerospace has admitted that, after months of talks with potential subassembly manufacturers on the 728Jet regional aircraft, it may end up having to build the aircraft structure itself. Despite that, the company was able to reveal several of its risk sharing partners in the programme at the show. ...
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Boeing goes to the limit as it examines 777X growth
Boeing is studying an increase in the weight of the 777X to close to the ultimate design limit as it struggles to find a launch customer and stick to its late 2002 entry into service target. News of the weight boost option emerged as General Electric reversed policy and ...
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Testing ground
Peter Henley/WICHITA Bombardier Aerospace boasts that its flight test centre at Wichita in Kansas is undertaking more development and certification flight testing than any other company worldwide. Since Bombardier acquired Learjet in 1990, the personnel headcount of the flight test centre has grown from 20 to about 500 - ...