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Hartzell upgrades
Hartzell has received certification for two-bladed, aluminium-hub propellers on the Piper PA-23 Apache, to eliminate inspection requirements under an airworthiness directive on the original steel-hub propellers. Source: Flight International
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Malaysia closes on Avro stake
Paul Lewis/LANGKAWI British Aerospace has signed a potentially wide-ranging agreement with the Malaysian state-owned investment house Kazanah Nasional Berhad. It could lead to Kazanah taking up to a 50% stake in the UK company's Avro International aerospace division and producing locally parts for the Avro RJ regional-jet range. ...
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Spaceball camera makes debut on Columbia
NASA's first test flight of the $3 million spherical Aercam Sprint robotic camera has been completed from the Space Shuttle Columbia STS87. Like the German-built Inspector craft which will be evaluated outside the Russian Mir space station this month, an uprated version of the Sprint will be used during International ...
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Dornier signs new deal to supply Airbus parts
The Dornier division of Fairchild Dornier has signed a five-year contract with Airbus covering parts manufacture for the consortium's entire product line. Fairchild Dornier says that the contract is worth some DM500 million ($285 million) to the company, and covers the delivery of parts for 1,400 aircraft up to ...
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RB.211 in Seattle
Rolls-Royce has completed certification flight testing of the latest variant of the RB.211, the RB.211-524G/ H-T. R-R expects that the Federal Aviation Administration will certificate the engine on the Boeing 747-400 during January 1998. The G/H-T uses the high-pressure module from the Trent 700. This provides a 2% fuel-consumption improvement, ...
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Netherlands begins search for new airport site
Studies into a new location for Amersterdam's noise-limited Schiphol Airport are being stepped up as the Netherlands Government attempts to placate growing pressure from environmental groups. In a policy decision on 28 November, the Government rejected calls to put an absolute cap on the volume of aviation growth within ...
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Crossair adds more aircraft to
Crossair has finalised plans to boost its fleet, with deals to acquire up to 14 additional aircraft, including Saab 2000s, Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Boeing MD-83s. The Swissair regional subsidiary, based at Basle, operates a fleet of some 65 aircraft, including Saab 340s, Saab 2000s, British Aerospace ...
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P&W plans for hybrid PW4000
Guy Norris/EAST HARTFORD Pratt & Whitney is planning a new family of hybrid PW4000 engines to meet the thrust requirements of widebodies under study by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. News of the development emerged as the company gave its long-awaited commitment to develop a 454kN (102,000lb)- thrust engine for ...
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SEP is interested in space-propulsion link with Dasa
Julian Moxon/PARIS French rocket-engine maker SEP is talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) about a space-propulsion alliance as part of a move by the Snecma division to restructurethe business. According to SEP director-general Jaques Rossignol, who headed CFM International in its formative years, "-we need to assemble space-engine companies ...
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France fo finalise defence group by May
Julian Moxon/PARIS The creation of a major French defence-electronics grouping around Thomson-CSF will be completed by May 1998, say sources close to the restructuring. Completion could open the way for incorporation of other European companies, possibly including Lagardère/Matra. Talks are still taking place over how to proceed with the ...
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Airbus launches more safety aids
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie plans to introduce a variety of new automated functions to all production aircraft from 1998 in a move aimed at improving safety. Coupled with improved pilot feedback and training, the initiatives are aimed at reducing the number of human-error accidents, which Airbus calculates account ...
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Munich Airport joins experiment to use hydrogen in vehicles
Munich Airport is taking part in a project to evaluate the potential of hydrogen as a fuel source, initially using it to power operational ground vehicles from 1998. The move constitutes the first operational use of environmentally friendly hydrogen in the air-transport field. The combustion of hydrogen generates only ...
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Flashjet strips T-45
Boeing has won a US Navy contract to supply a Flashjet paint-removal system to strip T-45 Goshawk trainers at NAS Kingsville, Texas. The system, which combines pulsed-light energy with dry-ice pellets, will be available by mid-1998. Boeing is supplying a Flashjet system to strip US Navy Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions ...
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Canada spotlights SAR capability for maritime patrol
Canada's Department of National Defence and National Research Council (NRC) claim to have developed a "unique" capability to modify maritime-surveillance radars to provide high-resolution imagery. The spotlight synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) system has been developed to upgrade the Texas Instruments radar in the Canadian Forces' Lockheed CP-140 Aurora maritime-patrol aircraft. ...
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Bombardier plans to establish Malaysian centre
Bombardier is planning to establish a new Malaysian-based regional service centre to support the growing number of Challenger, Global Express and Learjet business aircraft which are entering service or are on order for Asian customers. In the longer term, it is also exploring the possibility of a regional fractional-ownership scheme. ...
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Domination fears stir Eurofighter
Award of contracts to begin designing training devices for the Eurofighter EF2000 has been delayed by concerns that the European "superteam" assembled by Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) will dominate the competition. TTS confirms that Eurofighter is trying to force the break-up of its team in a bid to ...
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USAF could contract out F-22 training in bid to reduce costs
The US Air Force is considering handing over training for the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 to industry in a bid to reduce costs. A decision on whether to "contractorise totally" F-22 training will be taken during 1998, says Leo Rickmers, Boeing's manager for F-22 training devices. Boeing, which is ...
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Eurofighter aims for Singapore sale
Eurofighter is scheduled shortly to begin making formal presentations on the EF2000 to the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), to meet the service's requirement for a Northrop F-5E/F replacement. Singapore is understood to have requested an EF2000 briefing as part of its preliminary evaluation of candidate next-generation fighters. ...
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Reflectone wins UKHawk school deal
Reflectone UK hopes to sign a contract by mid-December to build and operate a training school for the Royal Air Force's British Aerospace Hawk T1 trainers. The company has been selected as the preferred bidder for the contract, to be awarded under the UK Ministry of Defence's private-finance initiative. ...
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Westland closes in on Malaysian Lynx
GKN Westland is close to concluding a contract with the Royal Malaysian Navy for the first LHTEC T800 turboshaft-powered version of the upgraded Super Lynx 300 naval helicopter. The Malaysian treasury is understood to be finalising an order with the UK helicopter manufacturer for a small batch of machines. ...