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Caracas fails to fill vacuum
While Caracas prevaricates over how to re-allocate Viasa's international routes, foreign airlines are racing to fill the vacuum left by the flag carrier's demise. This leaves any Venezuelan carrier eventually granted the dormant route authorities with the daunting challenge of having to establish itself in a market dominated chiefly by ...
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Looking at glideslope deviation
Sir - You published a letter of mine in November 1990, which proposed a system of radar surveillance to give visual warning of glideslope deviation on the controller's display, so that the controller could query the deviation with the aircraft concerned. A second (unpublished) letter expanded this concept ...
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Expolsive versus combustive flame
Sir - I have been following the investigation into the TW800 accident with great interest, and the two letters on the subject from Capt Pike and Mr Gambardella (Flight International, 13-19 August, P48) prompt me to draw attention to a passage in Lightning Protection for Aircraft (Fischer & Plumer, NASA ...
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Hughes
Roxanne Austin has been named chief financial officer of Hughes Electronics, of Los Angeles, California. Austin, previously senior vice-president, treasurer and controller of Hughes, replaces Charles Noski, who has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of United Technologies of Hartford, Connecticut. Source: Flight International
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HAI
The Helicopter Association International (HAI), of Alexandria, Virginia, has made additions and promotions to its staff. Patricia Willibey is the new executive assistant to the president. Stephanie Minor becomes executive assistant to HAI's executive vice-president. Kimberly Newell has been promoted to sales manager. The association's new exhibits manager is Deborah ...
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Lockheed
Dr Mark Albrecht is to become vice-president, business development with Lockheed Martin's Space and Strategic Missiles sector, of Bethesda, Maryland, with effect from 2 September. He is now a senior vice-president at Science Applications International, responsible for co-ordinating space-business activities. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Zhang Xianlin, vice-president of China National Aviation (CNAC), has become the CNAC's new board member of Cathay Pacific Airways. He replaces the corporation's former board representative, Yao Shaoxian. Source: Flight International
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Bosman controls
Dutch manufacturer Bosman Powersource Support has been awarded a contract by MTU of Munich to manufacture the active clearance-control system for the low-pressure system of both the International Aero Engines V2500 and Pratt & Whitney PW2037 engines. Source: Flight International
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New inertial range
Inertial Aerosystems of Surrey, UK, has launched a range of solid-state fibre-optic gyroscopes. The Autogyro Navigator and Navigator Plus can be interfaced with a global-positioning-system receiver in a "continuous positioning system" which corrects gyro-drift. Source: Flight International
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Indestructably smooth
The UK's National Physical Laboratory has successfully tested Indestructable Paint's new inorganic-diffusion coating, which has withstood 2,000h of cyclic salt-spraying following heating to 750íC - significantly better performance and yielding a smoother finish than that of pack aluminised coatings says Indestructable. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia flies FARAWAY
Daimler-Benz Aerospace company NFS of Ulm, Germany, has flown its NFS-5000 flight-management- system demonstrator on an Alitalia Boeing MD-80. It will be tested for six months as part of the European Union-supported fusion of radar and automatic-dependent-surveillance data through the two-way-data- link (FARAWAY) programme. Source: Flight ...
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Early warning
A Russian Proton K booster carried a Prognoz early-warning satellite into orbit on 15 August, after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Source: Flight International
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CTV test
The European Space Agency has conducted the first automatically guided descent and landing of a parafoil test vehicle to support the Crew Transfer Vehicle programme for the International Space Station. The vehicle, carrying a 1,700kg payload and a global-positioning system, was dropped from an aircraft at 1,800m altitude. ...
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Korea rocket
The Korea Sounding Rocket 2 has been launched on a 6min 27s sub-orbital flight to 128km altitude, carrying a 150kg science payload , as part of the country's quest to build a national satellite launcher capable of placing 700kg payloads into low-Earth orbit. Source: Flight International
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Overberg launches
The Houwteq division of South Africa's Denelis negotiating with several foreign countries to provide low-Earth-orbit satellite-launcher services at Overberg, near Bredasdorp, 160km (100 miles) south-east of Cape Town. Houwteq would provide satellite and launcher-preparation services, and manage the launches. Source: Flight International