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Spacewalk capture
Two STS87/Columbia astronauts captured the Spartan free-flying solar observatory satellite during a spacewalk on 24 November after the satellite had been deployed without receiving a computer command to switch from an idle mode. Source: Flight International
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SAS Commuter looks to Dash 8-300X to replace Saab 2000s
Ramon Lopez/TORONTO SAS Commuter underlined plans to standardise on the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 family for its regional-fleet needs at the unveiling ceremony of the new 70-seat Series 400, when it revealed that it will dispose of its 50-seat Saab 2000s when their leases expire early in the ...
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SIA is set to become star in the East
The Star Alliance looks set to gain a seventh member as Singapore Airlines (SIA) officially broke away from its long-standing alliance with Swissair and Delta Air Lines on 25 November in favour of a wide-ranging partnership with Star-founder Lufthansa. Lufthansa chairman Jurgen Weber, speaking after the signing in Singapore ...
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Airbus ponders its A3XX systems role
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Airbus Industrie is considering passing responsibility for the integration of avionics on the proposed A3XX to a specialist, allowing companies outside the consortium to bid for the work. Speaking at the 1997 ERA Avionics Conference in London on 19 November, Michel Comes, director of systems at ...
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Soloy Dual Pac receives FAA STC
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Soloy a supplementary type certificate (STC) for its 1,330shp (1,000kW) Dual Pac, which uses two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines to drive a single propeller. A special condition specifies that the powerplant should continue to run if one side loses power, which ...
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Dow-UT improves resin-transfer moulding process
Dow-United Technologies Composite Products (Dow-UT) has improved its advanced resin-transfer moulding (AdvRTM) process to enable production of more complex carbonfibre parts. The improved process uses shaped unidirectional-fibre preforms to fill the gaps where two or more sections are moulded together. When using conventional RTM, these gaps would fill ...
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Future avionics architecture is proven
A group of major European avionics manufacturers has designed an avionics architecture for future aircraft which will vastly reduce development and support costs and improve interoperability between aircraft and systems. The Industrial Avionics Working Group (IAWG) has completed a risk-reduction study into software techniques for integrated modular avionics (IMA) ...
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Europe's FAA?
Alan George/BRUSSELS The European Commission (EC) is preparing to push radical new proposals to set up a European AviationSafety Authority (EASA) at a meeting of transport ministers later this month. The new agency, which will have sweeping powers, could be operational by 2000 according to well-placed sources in Brussels. ...
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Dasa plans commercial Eureca
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is planning to launch a commercially funded industrial-applications mission using the free-flying, retrievable Eureca space platform from the US Space Shuttle in 2000. A European Space Agency-funded flight of the German-built Eureca, equipped with 71 different experiments, was conducted in 1992-3 after deployment ...
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NASA millennium
NASA has chosen the second Earth-orbiting mission in its New Millennium project to develop and demonstrate new technologies. The $15 million Space-Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment (Sparcle) will be flown aboard the Space Shuttle in 2001 to give precise measurement of wind speed, direction and vertical profile. Source: Flight International
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WRC agrees Ka-band frequencies for Teledesic, Skybridge, Celestri
The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 1997 in Geneva has agreed to allocate Ka-band frequencies to the Teledesic, Skybridge and Celestri high-speed multi-media satellite systems. The decision to allow the Skybridge and Celestri to compete with the $9 billion US Teledesic multi-satellite system planned by Microsoft's Bill Gates and entrepreneur ...
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X-38 orbital and re-entry test planned for 2001
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's X-38 crew-emergency-return vehicle (CERV) for the International Space Station (ISS) will have its first orbital and re-entry flight test in 2001. The vehicle prototype is undergoing atmospheric flight tests from a NASA Boeing B-52 operating from Edwards AFB, California, (Flight International, 18-24 June). Glide flights ...
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Yakhont for China
China and Russia are discussing including the NPO Mashinostroenia Yakhont supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons fit for the Chinese navy's Sovremenny-class destroyers now on order, say Russian press reports. The Sovremenny class is already fitted with the Raduga 3M-80 supersonic anti-ship missile, but the Yakhont offers up ...
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Japanese launch
Japan successfully launched its fifth H2 booster from Tanegashima on 28 November, carrying the national Engineering Test Satellite 7 and the NASA/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. Source: Flight International
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UK noise curb attempt
The UK Government has launched another attempt to reduce the noise limits at London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports to below international standards. The new proposals would lower the current limits of 97dBA (day) and 89dBA (night) to 94dBA and 87dBA, although "Stage 2" aircraft approved for gradual phasing out ...
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Delta ousting
Leo Mullin, Delta's new president and chief executive, has made his first major management change at the nation's third-largest airline. Thomas Roeck, Delta's chief financial officer, has retired "to pursue other professional interests". A search has been launched to recruit his replacement from outside Delta. Source: Flight International
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FAA contract
Lockheed Martin can expect to earn $1 billion as the US Federal Aviation Administration's National Airspace System Implementation Support Contractor (NISC II). The contract, one of the agency's largest support programmes, includes an initial four-year contract worth $350 million and three two-year options. Source: Flight International
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Aerospatiale cash call
Aerospatiale urgently needs new investors to shore up its limited cash reserves, according to a French Parliamentary report on the state of the defence industry. The report says that the group needs an extra Fr10 billion ($1.7 billion) for reserves, which started the year at only Fr4.8 billion. It concludes ...
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Boeing/CSA team
Boeing and CSA Czech Airlines have formed a joint-venture company in Prague to acquire a stake in Aero Vodochody. Owned 90% by Boeing and 10% by CSA, the venture will invest CKr950 million ($30 million) to acquire 34-40% of Aero. Boeing is co-operating with Aero on development of its L-159 ...
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Sabena optimistic
Sabena president Paul Reutlinger believes that the airline's 1997 financial results will be better than the predicted BFr1.5 billion ($43 million) loss after a strong traffic performance during the first ten months of the year. Passenger numbers have grown by one-third and load factors on the core European network are ...