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India confirms remote-sensing satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has finalised its plans for a sequence of five remote-sensing satellite launches up to 2002. The satellites, to be launched on Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles from Sriharikota, near Madras, will provide commercial oceanographic, cartographic and agricultural data to customers worldwide. The first ...
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TRW abandons Odyssey to join ICO
Tim Furniss/LONDON TRW has taken a 7% stake in the international ICO mobile hand-held-telephone communications-satellite project, after deciding that it will not proceed with its own proposed Odyssey satellite system. The Redondo Beach, California-based company had found it difficult to find investors for its system and tried to ...
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First Mars soil samples to be collected
NASA's plans for the Mars Surveyor Orbiter 2 and Lander 2 missions, to be launched in 2001, include the collection of the first samples of Martian soil to be brought back to Earth on a later mission. The Orbiter 2 and Lander 2 missions will follow the Mars Surveyor Orbiter ...
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NASA report warns communicators
A joint NASA-National Science Foundation study of global trends in satellite-telecommunications systems and technology warns that "unless the industry carefully plans some of its more specialised offerings, there may be a costly shake-out due to overcapacity". More than 20 new satellite ventures offering specialised services, particularly the Ku-band, very-high-data-rate ...
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Air Madagascar aims to replace 747
Air Madagascar will phase out its Boeing 747 in April, and replace it on international routes with a Boeing 767. The national carrier has been operating the 747, a -200 Combi configured in an all-passenger layout, on routes to Europe since 1979. Fortis Aviation has been contracted to remarket the ...
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Rotary Revolution
Russian helicopter design bureaux Kamov and Mil are attempting to pull together their respective associated manufacturing plants. Mil, and the Ulan-Ude, Rostov, and Kazan production sites are planning to form Mil Helicopters. Kamov, meanwhile, is in discussions with the Arseneyev and Kumer-Tau factories to establish a joint enterprise. Source: ...
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Plasmatron opened
The von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics in Belgium has opened a new $4 million plasmatron windtunnel for testing high-temperature materials for atmospheric re-entry. The plasmatron consists of a quartz tube to heat the airflow until it becomes dissociated (ionised) at around 10,000K, using a 400kHz electric field. ...
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CASA press
Airbus partner CASA of Spain has ordered a 750t superplastic-forming press from GEC Alsthom ACB of the UK for the fabrication of tailplane leading-edges. Source: Flight International
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A300 brakes
C-S Aviation Services has selected Messier-Bugatti to provide the carbon brakes for its Airbus A300B4 freighter-conversion programme undertaken by British Aero- space Aviation Services. Source: Flight International
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Measured solution
UK National Air Traffic Services has developed a height-monitoring unit which allows the altitude of aircraft flying North Atlantic routes, and subject to reduced vertical-separation minima rules, to be measured to within 9m (30ft) accuracy. Source: Flight International
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AIDC MD-95 empennage
Taiwan's Aero Industry Development (AIDC) has completed the empennage for the first production Boeing MD-95, ready for delivery to Boeing's Long Beach, California, assembly plant in mid-January. Source: Flight International
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Lancair books 150TH
Lancair says that orders for its Columbia 300 piston-single have passed 150. US certification of the four-seat aircraft is scheduled for April, with first deliveries beginning in the second half of 1998. Source: Flight International
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Signature expands
Signature Flight Support has purchased Anchorage Air Center, at Alaska's Anchorage International Airport, to expand its chain of fixed-base operations, already the largest in the USA. Source: Flight International
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Air Methods flies flag
Air Methods has signed a three-year contract to provide helicopter medical-transport services for Arizona's Flagstaff Medical Center. Services will begin in February with a Bell 206L-3, until replaced by a 407, with a second helicopter available when needed. Source: Flight International
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EMS S-76C+ delivered
AirEvac of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has taken delivery of the first Sikorsky S-76C+ configured for emergency-medical-service missions, which it operates on behalf on Hillcrest HealthCare System. The S-76C+ can carry two patient litters, or one litter and five medical attendants. Source: Flight International
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Kuwaiti buys A319CJ
Kuwaiti conglomerate Mohamed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi has become the first announced customer for the Airbus Corporate Jetliner. Powered by International Aero Engines V2527s, the A319CJ will be configured to carry 30 passengers. Source: Flight International
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FLIR buys Agema
Oregon-based FLIR Systems has completed the acquisition of Sweden's Agema Infrared Systems, and its French, UK and US subsidiaries, from Spectra-Physics Holdings. Source: Flight International
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Shuttle takeover
US Airways has completed the purchase of the US Airways Shuttle from a consortium of US banks. The carrier previously held a minority interest. The Shuttle will continue to be operated as a seperate company. A new service between Boston and Washington DC will be added to its Washington-New York ...
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Training fails test
The oversight of pilot and flightcrew training by the US Federal Aviation Administration must improve, says a US General Accounting Office (GAO) report. It states that accident rates can be reduced by improved pilot training. The study examines the relationship of airline pilots' performance to accidents, and the FAA's system ...
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Collins for America
American Airlines has selected Rockwell-Collins as the primary avionics supplier for its new fleet of Boeing 737s and 777s. The ten-year agreement, worth $200 million, allows for guaranteed acquisition pricing and provides for maintenance and logistics support, and includes the GLU-920 multi-mode receiver, traffic-alert collision-avoidance system and WXR-700X forward- looking ...