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Honeywell demonstrates first Epic elements
Honeywell has started pilot demonstrations of the control-display system (CDS) designed for its recently launched Primus Epic next-generation integrated avionics. The CDS incorporates large flat-panel liquid-crystal displays developed in co-operation with Mitsubishi Electric, as well as a cursor-control device (CCD). The Primus Epic has been selected by Raytheon ...
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Fairchild Dornier reveals plans for corporate 328JET model
Fairchild Dornier has unveiled plans to offer a corporate version of the 328JET regional airliner now under development, but declines to comment officially in the lead-up to the US National Business Aviation Association show, on 23-25 September. The company is already believed to have reserved "several" early-delivery slots ...
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Raytheon steps up Horizon drive
Raytheon Aircraft is to step up marketing of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet with the unveiling of a full-scale mock-up at the NBAA. The company has booked "about a dozen" orders for the $14.6 million aircraft since its 1996 launch. In contrast, Raytheon expects to book ...
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Operators restart Puma flying
David Learmount/London The high-speed gear-shaft has become an early focus of investigators' attention into the crash of a Helikopter Service Eurocopter AS332L1 Super Puma on 8 September, says the Norwegian civil-aviation authority. The CAA emphasises, however, that this is a starting point following recovery of most of the ...
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Uprated SJ-30-2 flies
Sino Swearingen Aircraft has begun flight testing its prototype SJ30-2 light business jet re-engined with uprated Williams-Rolls FJ44-2A turbofans. The first flight with the 10kN (2,300lb)-thrust engines was completed on 4 September. The prototype SJ30-2 will be at the US National Business Aviation Association show at Dallas, Texas, on 22-25 ...
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Delivery delays hit Boeing again
Boeing has been forced to delay delivery of 12 aircraft from this month to the fourth quarter, as it struggles to keep pace with ambitious plans to increase production to 43 aircraft a month by early 1998. The delays are blamed on a combination of inexperienced new workers, ...
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EC urges European majors to restructure to challenge USA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission(EC) is poised to weigh into efforts to accelerate consolidation among Europe's aerospace companies, and restructuring of Airbus Industrie, with the publication of a policy document, which contains stark warnings over the consequences of failing to build cross-border civil and military groupings capable of ...
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Embraer launches 37-seater
Graham Warwick/ Washington DC Embraer expects to book firm orders for its new EMB-135 37-seat regional jet by the end of 1997. The Brazilian manufacturer has formally launched development of the EMB-135, with a first flight planned for mid-1998, leading to certification and first delivery in the ...
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Emirates 777 Trent engine fails during take-off
A Trent 800 engine from an Emirates Airlines Boeing 777 which suffered a catastrophic engine failure during take-off is being examined by Roll-Royce. The take-off was continued and the crew shut down the engine and returned to Dubai, where the aircraft was landed safely. Emirates declines to comment, ...
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Spinetta proposed to succeed Blanc
The French Government has proposed ex-Air Inter boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta to be president of Air France, after the resignation of Christian Blanc. He is expected to be confirmed in the position on 24 September. Others, including Marc Rochet, head of British Airways' French subsidiary, TAT, had declined the offer. ...
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Iraq 'gains Russian missile-guidance system'
Iraq is claimed to have acquired covertly guidance elements from the Russian RSM-50 (SS-N-18 Stingray) submarine-launched ballistic missile in support of its own attempts to develop intermediate-range ballistic weaponry. RSM-50s are being scrapped as a result of US/Russian Start arms-reduction agreements. Iraqi front-companies have successfully acquired guidance subsystems ...
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MISTI 2 misses Mir as resident crew take refuge in the Soyuz TM
The 168kg US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's Miniature Sensor Technology Integration satellite, the MISTI 2, came within 1,000m of colliding with the Russian Mir 1 space station on 15 September. It was the closest known unplanned encounter between a manned spacecraft and another, unrelated, satellite in orbit. US ...
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Crashes hit us DoD
Crashes hit us DoD The US Department of Defense (DoD) halted flying training for a day on 18 September, to review flight-safety procedures following a spate of crashes, led by the 14 September loss of a USAir Force Lockheed Martin F-117 when an outer wing-panel separated at an ...
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Royal Saudi Air Force nears SAR helicopter deal
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) is near to concluding a L600 billion ($340 million) order for 40 Agusta Bell AB412EP helicopters for a search-and-rescue (SAR) requirement. Details of the pending deal became apparent during the visit of Saudi Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, ...
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Military-transport losses raise African mid-air collision fears
David Learmount/London A mid-air collision in African airspace was predictable, says the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA), following the simultaneous disappearance of German and US military transport aircraft off Namibia on 13 September. IFALPA warned in 1996 that African air traffic control (ATC) suffers from inadequacies ...
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Lockheed Martin picks Alliant
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Alliant Techsystems has been selected to produce composite engine-inlet ducts for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator aircraft using fibre-placement technology. The company's Magna, Utah-based Space and Strategic Systems Group has received a $6.2 million contract from Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works to ...
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LEDline shows the way at airports
Hil-Tech International's LEDline is a new, low-energy lighting product designed for runway and taxiway markings. It is made from extruded light-emitting diodes, enclosed in tough thermoplastics. The markings are intended to improve safety at airports in poor visibility. The LEDline system has already been installed at New York Kennedy International ...
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Precision signs for Japanese business
Precision Castparts of the USA has signed three-year agreements with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya Guidance and Propulsion Systems Works to manufacture structural and airfoil castings for the Pratt & Whitney PW4000, PW4084, PW4090, PW4098, PW4168, and International Aero Engines V2500 powerplants, with a potential value of more than $37 million. ...
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'Hypercomputing' may revolutionise aircraft design
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Massively parallel computing, or "hypercomputing", methods which are expected to revolutionise the design of future aircraft and missiles, including the next-generation high-speed civil transport (HSCT) and the US Tomahawk land-attack-missile replacement, are now being developed. NASA's Conceptual Design of Air Vehicles Hypercomputing and Design ...
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Detecting smoke
Airbus Industrie is offering a new tamper-proof lavatory smoke-detector grill to its operators, following cases where air-extraction ducts on some of its aircraft have been blocked with debris by passengers. Source: Flight International