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AVIC will make Boeing composite parts in China
Boeing is to team with aerospace-materials specialist Hexcel and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to establish a joint-venture composite-parts factory in the city of Tianjin, 120km (75 miles) south-east of Beijing. The three companies are reported to have spent the past two years considering the move, which will create ...
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Nearer Infra-red
Sensors Unlimited of the USA has launched the SU320 infra-red camera, which it claims is the first to be based on a 320 x 340-element indium gallium-arsenide array. Source: Flight International
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Regional brinkmanship
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Brazil and Canada have been brought to the brink of a trade war by a dispute between Bombardier and Embraer over alleged Government subsidies for regional-jet development and sales. Now, representatives of the two countries have until the end of February to resolve the dispute, which threatens ...
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Full control transfers to Russian Agency
The Russian Space Agency (RSA) is to take control of Russia's space industry, including the supply of missiles and other military hardware, according to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The agency's previous role has been confined to controlling the civil space industry. The decision to extend its remit into the ...
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Early Bird remote sensor is lost four days after launch
US company EarthWatch has conceded that its first commercial remote-sensing satellite, the Early Bird, has been lost. The spacecraft, built by CTA, now part of Orbital Sciences, was launched into a 470km polar orbit by a Start 1 booster from the Svobodny Cosmodrome in far-east Russia on 24 December. ...
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Spacecraft explores Earth
This image of the Earth's South Pole and part of South America was taken at a distance of about 640km by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft. The photograph demonstrates the craft's charged-coupled device imager, which was used when the vehicle was flying past the planet at a ...
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Delta 2 problem will not delay launches
Investigations into a potential technical problem on the Boeing Delta 2 launcher will not delay the launch of the first two Globalstar mobile-communications satellites and a new set of five Iridium spacecraft scheduled to be placed into orbit in early February. Although successful, the Delta 7925 flight carrying the ...
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Work halts on manned missions
Tim Furniss/LONDON Work at NASA on advanced planning for potential manned Moon and Mars missions has been stopped. Budget difficulties and anticipated future budget restraint have made it obvious to the agency that nearer-term goals must take priority. NASA centres, including the Advanced Projects office at Houston, Texas, ...
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Israel's Shavit booster suffers a second failure
The Failure of the Shavit booster on 22 January, with the loss of the Ofeq 4 spy satellite, was the second of five Israeli launches which has failed to put a satellite into orbit. The three-stage booster, based on the two-stage Jericho 2 missile, was first flown in 1988 ...
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Robin runs smoothly
Julian Moxon/DIJON Drive out of Dijon on the N71 and, after a few kilometres of winding road, you come to a place called Darois, where you may have to stop, or at least slow down, while an aeroplane is taxied across the road from where it was built to where ...
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Do not pass 'go'
So British Airways' no-frills start-up is "Go"; but will it - and what sort of response will it attract from powerful European competitors like Lufthansa? Even more important, from where will the passengers come to make these no-frills airlines work? The justification for an existing airline to launch a ...
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Dragon goes to sea with USMC
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is to test a maritime variant of the BAI Aerosystems Exdrone unmanned air vehicle (UAV) following positive results during a recent series of exercises. The USMC Warfighting Laboratory is upgrading ten BQM-147A Exdrones to Dragon drones with a shipboard launch and recovery capability, heavy-fuel ...
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Italian debut
Debonair has won a $164 million five-year contract from the Italian regional government of Calabria to operate services from Reggio and Lamezia to Rome, Turin, Florence and Bologna. Source: Airline Business
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Boeing hits 568
Boeing says it finished 1997 with total orders for 568 airliners valued at $42.8 billion compared with 460 firm orders worth $29.6 billion reported by Airbus Industrie. Boeing's net orders, subtracting cancellations and conversions to other models, totalled 502 aircraft worth $39.1 billion. Source: Airline Business
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Las Vegas loser
British Airways has beaten Virgin Atlantic to the last US gateway from the UK under Bermuda 2. The CAA chose BA's London-Denver route over Virgin's London-Las Vegas proposal. Source: Airline Business
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Rwanda rosette
Alliance Air has taken over Air Rwanda's operations and will start services to Kigali on 1 March. The new airline, to be called Alliance Express, will offer a regional network, taking in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, and dovetailing into Alliance Air's international services. Source: Airline Business
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Swiss gets one
Air One has signed a preliminary agreement to sell a large minority stake to Swissair by April, and for greater collaboration between the two airlines. Source: Airline Business
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HK slowdown
The opening of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport is to be postponed by two months until 6 July due to delays in completing a rail link. Source: Airline Business
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London Routes
Over 50 airlines have already committed to attend Routes in London, the 1998 route development forum organised by Airline Business and ASM and sponsored by BAA plc. British Airways is the official carrier for the event, which takes place on September 21-22. Contact ASM on tel +44 161 839 0747, ...
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DOT spotlights fare changes
The US Department of Transportation began publishing its domestic airline fares consumer report in response to an increasing number of inquiries about ticket prices. The first report, for the third quarter of 1996, was released in June last year and the latest report is based on data for the second ...