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PZL set to complete simulator upgrade
Poland's ETC-PZL Aerospace Industries expects to complete the modernisation of its full-flight simulator for the PZL-Mielec I-22 Iryda military trainer by mid-September. At the same time, the I-22 is being upgraded to the revamped M-96 standard for the Iryda. The simulator has been located at the Polish Military Institute of ...
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USAF streamlines training bids
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Air Force is preparing to make the first award under a contracting vehicle designed to streamline the acquisition of training systems. The air force has qualified five companies to bid for contracts worth up to a total of $486 million to be let ...
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FedEx prepares for Loadmaster training
FedEx has selected Pan Am International Flight Academy to provide training for the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster. The Academy will build a training centre at FedEx's Memphis, Tennessee, hub to house a Level D full-flight simulator for the turboprop-powered feeder freighter. FedEx has 50 Loadmasters on order and 50 more ...
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From Seattle to Miami
FlightSafety Boeing Training International is moving a Boeing 767-300ER simulator to its Miami, Florida, centre, fromSeattle. Its first training contract in the new location is with LanChile. Source: Flight International
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Wicat adds Boeing to training device portfolio
Wicat Systems has seen sales of its flight training devices increase as airlines move to reduce the amount of expensive full-flight simulator time used for transition and recurrent training. Recent sales of flight management and guidance system trainers (FMGST) for Airbus types include six to Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO, A320), ...
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Lockheed Martin to test missile warning systems in laboratory
Lockheed Martin is to modify the USAir Force's Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) to allow laboratory testing of missile warning systems. The AFEWES is a "hardware-in-the-loop" simulator which is used to evaluate the effectiveness of aircraft self-protection systems and techniques. The modified simulator will be used for dynamic testing ...
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Next stop Mars
The Mars Polar Lander craft, part of NASA's Mars Surveyor 1998 programme, is pictured at its proposed touchdown site, scheduled for January 2000, close to Mars' south pole. The Lockheed Martin lander is to be launched on a Delta II on 10 December. Its robot arm is designed to pass ...
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Boeing to build Delta IV pad
Boeing is to spend $250 million on restoring a launch site at Cape Canaveral for its Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). All that is left of Launch Complex 37 (LC37) is the stand. Although eight early versions of the Saturn 1 rocket were launched from LC37, starting ...
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Shuttle threat
The US Clinton Administration is willing to cancel planned non-International Space Station (ISS) shuttle flights to absorb cost overruns on the ISS, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. Only one non-ISS Shuttle flight, to deploy the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, is scheduled for 1999, when a ...
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Sea Launch security scrutinised
Tim Furniss/LONDON Boeing managers are working to tighten security on sensitive technology going into the international Sea Launch vehicle. The move came after the US State Department suspended licences allowing Boeing to work with its Russian and Ukrainian partners on the multinational commercial satellite launcher project. The suspension took ...
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SpaceDev accused over NEAP claims
SpaceDev has been criticised by US financial watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for making unrealistic predictions about the worth of its proposed, privately funded Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) mission. The SEC also claims that NASA has approved use of its Deep Space Network to support the ...
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Saywell expands
RF Saywell, the UK spares supplier, has acquired the Fokker F27 spares inventory of KLM uk, which shed its last F27 in April, and the British Aerospace 748 inventories of UK companies FlightSpares and Aerocontracts. Peter Saywell, owner and managing director, says the company's airline-related spares business is now larger ...
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SIM bid
Lockheed Martin has proposed linking with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and implement the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), a major observatory in the space agency's Origins programme. SIM will measure the positions of stars using two sets of telescopes arrayed along a 10m boom, creating a resolution equivalent to ...
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X Plane progress
The first wing assembly for NASA's Orbital Sciences-built X-34 spaceplane technology demonstrator has been completed in a major milestone towards the first air-launched flights next year. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, meanwhile, has invited proposals for Future X vehicles as part of the continued series of demonstrators to validate technologies ...
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Senate boost
The US Senate has approved a bill giving the US Government regulatory authority over private reusable launch vehicles and could also result in NASA and the Government buying more domestic space transportation services. Source: Flight International
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India delays
India reports that the first launch of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle is unlikely before late next year, while the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flight carrying the Insat P4 remote sensing satellite will be pushed into the first quarter of 1999. Source: Flight International
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Orbcomm launch
Orbital Sciences has launched eight more proprietary Orbcomm mobile data communications satellites aboard a Pegasus XL booster air launched from the company's Lockheed L-1011 at 17.24 GMT on 2 Augustover the Atlantic Ocean. Source: Flight International
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Cessna training
Cessna has begun shipping its computer-based instruction course for a private pilot's licence to Cessna Pilot Center flying schools. The course, developed jointly with King Schools, includes "virtual" flight lesson previews using digital full-motion video. Source: Flight International
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Cirrus testing
Cirrus Design has completed certification flight testing of the airframe parachute system for the SR20 light aircraft. Deployment was demonstrated at stall and manoeuvring speeds and one turn into a spin. Descent rate at maximum gross weight and 8,000ft (2,400m) altitude was 27ft/s (8.2m/s), equivalent to 24ft/s at sea level. ...
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Heico drops PTM deal
Heico reports that it has completed its $43 million acquisition of the McClain engine parts business, but has walked away from its $15 million cash deal to buy privately owned PTM, saying that all talks have ended. Last month Heico announced that it was unable to gain control of French ...