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Rockwell steady
Rockwell-Collins claims that its new AHS-3000 attitude-heading reference system is the first application of digital-quartz-gyro technology developed by Dystron Donner, which promises ten times the life of fibre-optic gyroscopes. Source: Flight International
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Courtauld centre
Courtaulds Aerospace has opened a new 24h quick-response service centre for surface treatment near Durham, in the UK, allowing European airlines to make rapid unscheduled maintenance and livery changes. Source: Flight International
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Varig defibrillator
Physio-Control of Seattle has won an order from Varig of Brazil for 45 on-board LIFEPAK 500 defibrillators and Biolog 3000 monitors. Micromedical of Australia, which produces the Biolog 3000s, is worldwide distributor for both systems. Source: Flight International
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Space Shuttle Mir mission is delayed
The launch of the penultimate Space Shuttle Mir mission, the STS89/Endeavour, will now be delayed by about a week from 15 January as the result of a the request from Russia. Two cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station, with US astronaut David Wolf, need to complete three spacewalks and ...
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Thiokol go-ahead
Thiokol has been given US State Department approval to supply Castor IV solid-rocket boosters to Japan and Spain. Castor IVA-XL boosters will be used as strap-on motors for the Japanese H2A satellite launcher, while Castor IVB motors will act as the first stage of the Spanish Capricornio three-stage satellite launcher, ...
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Fastrac test
The low-cost ($1 million) Fastrac liquid-oxygen/ kerosene-burning, 265kN (60,000lb)-thrust engine which will power the Orbital Sciences X-34 re-usable launch vehicle technology demonstrator air-launched spaceplane has undergone critical-component tests at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, says NASA. The X-34 is to begin a series of 25 flights, reaching Mach 8 ...
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Seventh Proton blast-off Khrunichev figures
Tim Furniss/LONDON Khrunichev's Proton K/DM booster had its seventh commercial launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 3 December. The Russian company says that it hopes to earn $850 million from its Proton satellite launcher business, covering 22 flights in the five years between 1996 and 2000. The launch mirrors ...
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Closure threatens to isolate Munich
Munich could become the only major city in Europe inaccessible to light aircraft if local politicians carry through plans to close Neubiberg airfield by the end of this year, says the Munich Flying Club (FCM). Although the regional government has promised to provide an alternative site for the FCM, ...
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Pathfinder 21 flight tests to begin
Soloy's Pathfinder 21 modification to the Cessna Caravan 208B is set to begin flight- testing in January following US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification of the 1,000kW (1,330shp) Soloy Dual Pac, which combines two Pratt & Whitney PT6-114As driving a single-propeller shaft (Flight International, 3-9 December). Flight-testing will ...
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Reims nears decision on single-engine Cessna assembly
Reims Aviation has still not decided whether it will restart licence-manufacture of Cessna singles for the French market. The company, which has exclusive rights to sell Cessna turboprops in France, says that it is now close to making a final decision, but it "-depends on whether it is better for ...
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Lynton snaps up GEC's Magec
GEC has sold Magec Aviation to UK corporate- aircraft charter and management company Lynton Group, ending more than five months of speculation over the fixed-based operator's future. Completion is expected within 30 days. The UK defence-electronics and power-engineering company began looking for buyers for Magec in July, following its ...
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Passenger boom
UK airport owner Regional Airports (RAL) plans to quintuple passenger throughput at London Biggin Hill Airport by 2000, following the opening of its new £500,000 ($850,000) terminal in November. Passenger numbers are expected to increase from 20,000 to 100,000 a year. RAL is holding discussions with several undisclosed airlines over ...
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Columbia for SJ30
Columbia Aircraft Sales of Groton, Connecticut, has been appointed as the distributor for the Sino Swearingen Aircraft SJ30-2 business jet for the north-eastern USA. Columbia has ordered nine SJ30-2s, with deliveries running from the fourth quarter of 1999 to the end of 2001. Source: Flight International
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New AASI factory
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) plans to start building its 18,600m2 (200,000ft2) factory at Long Beach Airport, California, by the end of the year, from where the single-engined Jetcruzer Propjet and twin-engined Stratocruzer 1250 will be manufactured. The $7 million building, which will also house the company's design, engineering and ...
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Floats certificated
An inflatable emergency flotation system made by California-based Apical Industries has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification for use on the Boeing MD 600N helicopter. Boeing has received one firm order for a float-equipped version of the MD 600N which was certificated in May 1997. Source: Flight International
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US Navy records SLAM-ER success
A US Navy Boeing Stand-Off Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) successfully hit a target on San Nicolas Island in the Point Magu Sea Test Range off the California coast on 10 December. The test flight, launched from a Boeing F/A-18C/D, was the third and most complex yet in the ...
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Multiple engine failure blamed for An-124 Irkutsk accident
Alexander Velovich/Moscow Multiple engine failure immediately after take-off caused the fatal crash of a Russian air force Antonov An-124 Ruslan on 6 December in Irkutsk. The investigation commission says that, based on data from flight recorders, "-between three and 11 seconds after the take-off, engines number three, two ...
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Indonesia will get upgraded F-5s in early 1998
Sabca expects to complete flight-testing of two upgraded Indonesian air force Northrop Grumman F-5E prototypes by the end of the year and return them to Asia by mid-February 1998. The Belgian company has modified a single F-5E and a tandem-seat -5F under a contract which was concluded in 1995 ...
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Italy ponders AMX disposal
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA The Italian air force is considering selling off some of its Alenia/Embraer AMX fighter aircraft as it struggles to rationalise the number of variants of the type in the fleet and to improve its poor availability. The AMX disposal option has emerged from the highest echelons ...
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Seaspirtes arrives in New Zealand
The Royal New Zealand Navy has taken delivery of four ex-US Navy Kaman SH-2F Seasprite anti-submarine warfare helicopters. The first aircraft was delivered to the navy flight at Hobsonville in November, with the remaining three arriving in early December. The SH-2Fs will provide an interim anti-submarine warfare capability, replacing the ...