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Hughes HISAR is used to monitor German traffic
Hughes Aircraft has teamed with German company Traffic 2000 to market the Hughes Integrated Surveillance and Reconnaissance System (HISAR) for applications in ground surveillance and environmental monitoring in Europe. The synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) was demonstrated in Germany in July during a sales tour with a HISAR-equipped Raytheon Beech ...
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Learjet 20 hushkit
Tracor Flight Systems is awaiting certification of its Stage 3 hushkit for Learjet 20-series business jets, powered by General Electric CJ610 turbojets. Marketed by Ottendorf Aviation, the "double-daisy" hushkit reduces sideline noise by more than 8dB, to around 95dB. Source: Flight International
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UK sale for Vantage
VisionAire has now sold its Vantage single-turbine business jet in ten countries outside the USA, with the first sale to a UK customer. Firm orders for the all-composite aircraft exceed 100, the St Louis-based company says. Source: Flight International
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Alberta goes into Phoenix sales negotiations
Alberta Aerospace is in "serious negotiations" with three major flight-training operations, two in the USA and one in the UK, to sell the Phoenix Fanjet turbofan-powered trainer. The Phoenix, formerly the Promavia Jet Squalus military trainer, is being certificated by the Canadian company for the airline-pilot-training market. Calgary-based ...
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France requires diesel testing
Julian Moxon/PARIS The first flight of the four-cylinder MR250 diesel engine, under development by Socata and Renault Sport, has been delayed until the beginning of December to allow time for an endurance test demanded by the French certification authorities. Trials of the engine in various configurations ...
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Rolls-Royce wins Gulfstream service contracts
Rolls-Royce's Canadian maintenance arm has clinched four service contracts with US Gulfstream operators, including a deal to support engines for the aircraft manufacturer itself. Gulfstream has signed a deal for R-R to repair and overhaul Spey, Tay and BMW R-R BR710 engines under a contract believed to total ...
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777 suffers new engine troubles
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are inspecting their respective PW4090 and GE90 engines for the Boeing 777, after a new series of problems with powerplants on British Airways and United Airlines aircraft. The GE90 suffered a crack in a rotating seal on ...
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BA boosts Gatwick by transferring 777-200s
British Airways is to widen the role of Airline Management (AML), its low-cost joint venture which operates long-haul routes from Gatwick Airport, as part of an expansion which will see BA's capacity from London's second airport increase by 25% from mid-1998. It has confirmed plans to transfer five ...
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Boeing pays the price for production crisis
The full financial impact of Boeing's growing commercial production and delivery crisis has been revealed, with costs estimated at $2.6 billion attributed to late deliveries and recovery plans. The bulk of the costs, some $1.6 billion, are associated with penalty payments for late deliveries in the third quarter, ...
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BAe and Dassault open door to joint venture
Dassault Aviation confirms that it is "moving closer every day" to British Aerospace on joint development of combat aircraft. There is no hint of a merger, but the two are understood to have "opened the door" to a joint venture, building on a memorandum of understanding signed in 1996. ...
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EC will inspect Delta's new Boeing sole-supplier deal
Delta Air Lines has signed a definitive 20-year, 644-aircraft, sole-supplier contract with Boeing, but says that the manufacturer cannot enforce any exclusivity provisions unless permitted by the European Commission(EC). The EC has said that it will examine the contract, which Boeing maintains meets the terms imposed as a ...
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NATS moves to limit 'brain drain' to Eurocontrol
UKair-traffic controllers are seeking to take legal action against moves by their employer, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to head off a potentially crippling drain of staff by preventing its employees getting new jobs at Eurocontrol. Eurocontrol advertised for controllers throughout Europe early this year and received up ...
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737 awaits test
Boeing says that the European Joint Aviation Authorities has not yet defined the nature of the final certification tests for its newly designed overwing exits for the Next Generation 737 series. The JAA has approved the new design under the "equivalent-safety finding" principle, but has demanded tests before final certification. ...
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Defence review hints at helicopter group
The UK Ministry of Defence is considering the creation of a joint British Army and Royal Air Force helicopter group under the Government's Strategic Defence Review (SDR). Senior industry sources say that, as part of the SDR, officials are mooting the setting up of a two-service helicopter-support group ...
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Data Sciences closes on airline order after RAF FEST success
Ian Sheppard/Cranwell Data Sciences is close to securing the first airline customer for its low-cost full-motion Flight Engineering Systems Trainer (FEST), following the launch of the personal-computer-based simulator with the Royal Air Force. FESTproject manager Neil Baker says that "detailed discussions" are being held with a ...
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Orbital surgery
NASA is sponsoring a new US national computation centre at Stanford University, California, which will focus on the use of three-dimensional virtual reality in coping with medical emergencies in space. NASA's Ames Research Center will provide $500,000 a year for five years. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon joins first Premier I
Raytheon is moving ahead with assembly of its first Premier I light business-jet, which has hit delays caused by significant design changes, such as an increased wing chord. Major structural assemblies are being fitted into the first forward and aft fuselage sections, which have been produced with a novel fibre-placement ...
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Rada places Smart Cats in Los Angeles
Israeli test-equipment company Rada is expanding its network of testing sites, with a second US centre, at Los Angeles International Airport, to be established in co-operation with Hong Kong company New Reef. The first US testing station at Miami is now operational, and the two centres will together ...
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FedEx leads orders for rigid cargo bulkhead
FedEx is to replace the nylon nets used in its fleet of older widebody aircraft to protect crew from the hazards of loose cargo pallets, with a new rigid cargo bulkhead from US structures specialist Tolo. The barrier is based on Tolo's patented Grid-Lock technology and is formed ...
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War in the financial dimension
The Royal Air Force faces one of its biggest battles as the UK Government finalises another defence review Douglas Barrie/LONDON What do politicians do when they finish one defence review? They start another one. The UK's armed forces are now bracing themselves for the outcome of what is ...