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Raytheon prepares to produce Horizon fuselage
Raytheon Aircraft is preparing to produce the first composite fuselage sections for its Hawker Horizon mid-size business jet. The Horizon fuselage will be the biggest pressurised structure yet produced using automated fibre placement, the company says. Raytheon selected fibre placement to produce the fuselage of its Premier I light ...
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Hughes clears HS-601 satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes has cleared the Galaxy X and Astra 2A satellites for launch after completing investigations into the failure of space control processors aboard three HS-601 model communications satellites. The failure resulted in the total loss of Galaxy IV and the loss of the primary processor systems on ...
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Japan calls off new attempt to dock orbiting spacecraft
Failure to dock the Japanese Orihime and Hikoboshi spacecraft in orbit on 13-14 August was the result of attitude control difficulties. The cause was either a jammed thruster, software or electronic errors, say officials in Tokyo. The two spacecraft had successfully undertaken rendezvous and station-keeping manoeuvres as part of ...
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Mir docking
The Soyuz TM28 docked manually with the Russian Mir 1 space station on 15 August. Commander Gennadi Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev will stay on Mir until next year, while cosmonaut researcher Yuri Baturin will return to earth on 25 August with the TM27 crew Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai ...
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USAF plans further manoeuvre vehicle tests
Further drop tests in the US Air Force Space Manoeuvre Vehicle (SMV) programme are planned, including a suborbital rocket engine boosted test flight in 2001, following the successful first drop-test of a 6.7m-long flight test vehicle on 11 August (Flight International, 19-25 August). A fully developed operational SMV would provide ...
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Hong Kong move
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals has completed the move back to the airport at Chek Lap Kok of all freight handling operations, after overcoming computer problems. The resumption of full services at the new SuperTerminal One facility ends the emergency use of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, which is now ...
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GV simulator
FlightSafety International's Gulfstream V full-flight simulator has been upgraded to Level D, after the release of high-fidelity flight data which allowed re-certification of the Savannah, Georgia-based device to the highest recognised training standard. Source: Flight International
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Allied Certification
US-based Elliot Aviation has become the first service centre to certificate Allied-Signal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system in the Raytheon Beech King Air 200 and 300 series and Beech 1900. Approvals in the Beech jet 400 series are pending. Source: Flight International
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Rocket rights
SpaceDev, the commercial space exploration company planning to launch the Near Earth Asteroid Prospector spacecraft, has acquired the exclusive rights and intellectual property of American Rocket (Amroc). If SpaceDev is successful in developing a commercial market, it will purchase the technology from Amroc. Source: Flight International
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Spare module
Russia's Khrunichev company has revealed that it has built a back-up Control Module for the International Space Station (ISS) in case the prime module is lost in a launch failure when the ISS programme kicks off with a Proton flight on 20 November. The backup module could be used later ...
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Space link
GE Americom and Lockheed Martin Global Communications have formed a joint venture to deploy a new satellite system to serve the Asia Pacific region. The GE-1A craft - based on the Lockheed A2100 spacecraft bus - will be launched in July 1999. Source: Flight International
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Aero Vodochody flies initial combat version of L-159
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Czech jet trainer manufacturer Aero Vodochody has flown the first single-seat L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft, which is earmarked to become the mainstay of the Czech air force's combat fleet. The aircraft is the second L-159 prototype, but the first in Czech air force configuration, with a full ...
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Alliance agreement
KLM Flight Crew Training Centre and Northwest Aero-space Training (NATCO) have signed an alliance agreement under which NATCO will market training on both organisations' simulators. Norway's Braathens is expected to join the network and talks are under way with other Northwest/KLM partners. Source: Flight International
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Continental upgrade
Continental Airlines has ordered two MaxVue Plus visual systems from CAE Electronics to upgrade its flight simulators. It already has MaxVue Plus-equipped Boeing 737-700 and 777-200 simulators on order. Source: Flight International
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Last men to Mir
Veteran cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev is to command the Soyuz TM29, which will be launched on the final planned manned mission to the Mir space station next February. He will be joined by two commercial cosmonaut guests, one from France (probably Jean Pierre Haignere) and one from Slovakia. The main crew ...
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SOHO responds to ESA
Contact has been re-established with the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Signals sent to SOHO from NASA's Deep Space network in Canberra, Australia, on 4 August were answered by the spacecraft. It later responded to attempts to activate its onboard telemetry data system by sending a ...
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Northrop purchase
Northrop Grumman has agreed pay $55 million for the Inter-National Research Institute (INRI), a privately owned software developer, which specialises in tracking, command and control systems for the US military. INRI employs 500 and will bring sales of around $60 million to Northrop Grumman's growing information technology grouping. That business ...
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X-40A flies
The Boeing X-40A for the Space Manoeuver Test (SMT) vehicle technology demonstrator has made its first flight at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, gliding 9,000ft (3,000m) to earth after release from a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The flight demonstrated the X-40A's navigation, guidance and control system, which activated autonomously upon ...
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UAL/Delta pilot talks
Pilots groups representing Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have begun negotiating the issues concerning their two airlines' proposed marketing alliance, which includes a code-share. The pact does not involve a merger, but must be approved by both pilot groups represented by the Air Line Pilots Association since their contracts ...