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Olympic will buy 737-800s
Julian Moxon/paris Olympic Airways is to acquire a fleet of Next Generation Boeing 737s and Airbus A340s. The airline is close to resolving its long-running dispute with the European Commission (EC), which has held up payment of the last two tranches of its state aid. Resolution of the ...
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Successful launch of Long March booster
China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) successfully launched the second Long March LM3B, its most powerful satellite booster, from Xichang on 19 August, carrying the Space Systems/Loral-built Agila 2 communications satellite into geostationary-transfer orbit (GTO) for Mabuhay Philippine Satellite. The launch of the first LM3B failed on 14 February, ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce presses Bonn to finance Tu-334
Andrzej Jeziorski/MOSCOW German engine manufacturer BMW Rolls-Royce has appealed to the Bonn Government to give financial backing to the Tupolev Tu-334 102-seat regional jet. "We believe that some of the financial assistance and credit which the German Government is giving Russia for commercial projects should be ...
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United buys time for regional-jet deal with Atlantic Coast Airlines
United Airlines has agreed to reimburse the aircraft-lease and flight-crew costs for Atlantic Coast Airlines' (ACA) Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ) until the end of the year, giving the carrier more time to reach an agreement with its pilots . ACA had planned to begin an independent regional-jet ...
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Alcore in Japan
Maryland-based Alcore has licensed its phosphoric-acid anode (PAA-CORE) technology to Showa Aircraft Industry of Japan. PAA-COREis a flexible aluminium honeycomb material with anti- corrosive properties. Source: Flight International
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Boeing studies composite primary-wing technology
Guy Norris/Los Angeles Boeing Commercial Airplane Group is drawing on expertise at the former McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Phantom Works to study composite primary wing structures. Before the recent merger, Boeing and MDC were separately involved in NASA's $130million Advanced Composites Technology (ACT) effort. MDC focused on ...
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Volga-Dnepr signs up for Il-96T
Ilyushin has signed an agreement with Russian cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr covering the sale of four Il-96T freighters, with two options. The aircraft manufacturer's chief designer Igor Katyrev says the agreement does not constitute a firm contract at this stage, although Volga-Dnepr has scheduled the first delivery for 1999. ...
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Transavia
Cor Vrieswijk has been promoted to senior vice-president operations for Dutch-based airline Transavia. He replaces Daan Meyer, who is moving to KLM as head of technical services. Vrieswijk studied at Nijmegen University before joining KLM. In 1996, he was made head of technical services at Transavia. Source: Flight ...
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Beriev prototype crashes at show
Beriev's Be-103 prototype crashed on 18 August during a familiarisation flight over the Zhukovski aerodrome in Moscow just before the start of the show. The twin-engined multi-purpose Be-103 amphibian was first flown on 15 July and had had a further 18 flights during the first month of testing. ...
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MiG-ATgoes to war
MIG MAPO has unveiled the combat-capable variant of its MiG-AT jet trainer at MAKS '97. The MiG-ATC, the second prototype to be built, has already been flown. It is capable of carrying a variety of air-to-air and air-to-surface weaponry including laser-guided bombs. The MiG-AT will be fitted with the Phazotron ...
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MiG-MAPO looks at new fighter
MIG-MAPO is working on single- and twin-engined design proposals for its future lightweight frontal Ìghter (LFI), with a Ìrst ßight of the aircraft projected for around 2005. The Russian concern has previously made only general allusions to its work on a smaller, Ìfth-plus-generation, Ìghter to supersede its moribund Article 1.42, ...
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Myasishchev forms a US joint venture for Gzhel production
The Myasishchev Design Bureau has formed a joint venture with Cartwright Aviation of Virginia, aimed at eventual US production of the M-101T Gzhel light turboprop aircraft. According to the Russian concern, the US Ìrm will assemble M-101Ts for the USmarket from parts made and supplied by the Sokol ...
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UAE considers Panzir
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is in talks with Russian state arms agency Rosvvorouzhenie over the possible purchase of the Panzir point defence short-range air-defence system. The Panzir is a combined missile and gun air defence system offered in both mobile and pallet transportable variants. Source: Flight International
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GosNIIAS signs up to produce Collins TCAS modules
Rockwell Avionics & Communications has signed a co-production agreement with the Russian State Research Institute for Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS), for the production and testing in Moscow of components for the Collins traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). Under the agreement, GosNIIAS will produce key modules of the Collins TPR-900 ...
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NPO completes Yakhont anti-ship missile flight tests
Russian missile design house NPO Mashinostroyenia says that it has successfully completed flight-testing of its Yakhont rocket/ramjet-powered anti-ship missile, although there are no orders for it yet from the Russian defence ministry. The Yakhont, which may carry the Russian navy designation Onix, has been in design and development ...
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Shuttle lands after deployment mission
The Space Shuttle Discovery/STS 85 landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 19 August after an 11-day science, technology and Earth observation mission, which included the deployment and retrieval of the German-built Crista-Spas free-flying satellite (pictured). The Daimler-Benz Aerospace spacecraft carried instruments to study the atmosphere. Source: ...
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Japan's Comets satellite launch is delayed
The launch of the Japanese National Space Development Agency's Comets communications and broadcasting engineering satellite aboard an H2 booster has been delayed by six months to January-February 1998. This will allow more time to assess the cause of the failure in June of the Adeos Earth observation satellite ...
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ESA astronaut qualifies as Soyuz TM commander
Tim Furniss/LONDON Thomas Reiter, the European Space Agency's German air-force astronaut, has become the first foreigner to qualify to command a flight of the Russian three-crew Soyuz TM. Reiter, a veteran of a 179-day shift aboard the Mir 1 space station in 1996, which included two ...
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Fastrac test
The 27,200kg-thrust liquid oxygen-kerosene Fastrac rocket engine for NASA's X-34 technology demonstrator has been tested at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. A series of up to 25 flight tests will begin in 1998, with the X-34 eventually reaching Mach 15, to demonstrate technologies including composite structures, re-usable propellant ...