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Are AVIC and Airbus wrong about AE31X?
Sir - I refer to the article "AVIC/Airbus sign AE31X agreement" (Flight International, 21-27 May, P7). The new regional AE31X family, planned to Ìt in below the niche of the Airbus A319, should not have a smaller, five-abreast, fuselage cross-section. This would mean abandoning the Airbus ...
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The X files
Cessna Citation X business jet is the fastest commercial transport in production, yet is designed to be flown from small airfields. Cessna aircraft is responsible for an unusually wide range of types. Its current Citation family consists of six business twinjets - designed to meet the differing ...
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British Airways
Adrian Tighe has been named area manager for central and eastern Europe, and Brian Tickle area manager for Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics, at British Airways. Tighe, who was head of finance for the UK regions and BA regional until 1996, is general manager for the UK, Africa and the ...
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BMW R-R
Gert Reitsma has been appointed head of purchasing at engine manufacturer BMW Rolls-Royce, of Oberursel, Germany. He was formerly vice-president for procurement at defunct aircraft-manufacturer Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands. Before that, he was vice-president and general manager at Interturbine Holland. Michael Corne has been named head of marketing and ...
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AOPA
Thomas Chapman, senior vice-president for government and technical affairs at the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), has been appointed to the US National Park Overflights Working Group, to develop a plan for air-tour operations over the country's national parks. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Swire Group Finance director Peter Johansen has been appointed a director of Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong. Source: Flight International
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Trimble
Satellite-navigation and communications company Trimble's vice-president and chief technology officer, Ralph Eschenbach, has been appointed chairman of the US Federal Aviation Administration's research, engineering and development advisory committee. Eschenbach, who has been a member of the advisory committee since 1995, was formerly Trimble's vice-president of business development and vice-president of ...
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Spar signs
Canada's Spar Aerospace has signed two contracts, worth $85 million, one to supply communications and remote-sensing-satellite components, including antennas and digital products, to Lockheed Martin. The other is for four high-power Ku-band repeater panels for Russia. Source: Flight International
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P&W space
Donald Reed has become vice-president and general manager of USBI, prime contractor for the Space Shuttle solid-rocket-booster (SRB) assembly and a subsidiary of United Technologies, reporting through the Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion unit. Reed, with USBI for 20 years, was formerly vice-president of the company's SRB programmes. ...
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First stage
The main cryogenic stage for the Ariane 502 mission has left Aerospatiale's Les Mureaux factory en route to the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana for the critical test flight due officially for September (Flight International, 23-29 April). Source: Flight International
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Outrider defended as testing resumes
Flight-testing of the problem-stricken Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has resumed, with a strong endorsement from a senior US Department of Defense (DoD) procurement official, despite the threat of cancellation hanging over the programme. The first of the additional flights, which took place on 3 ...
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King Air exhausted
Commuter Air Technology of Scottsdale, Arizona, has developed a streamlined exhaust-gas extractor for the Raytheon Beech King Air 200/B200 series, which it says eliminates "cracking problems" associated with the original design. Source: Flight International
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Innotech expands
Innotech Aviation has announced a C$11.5 million ($8.3 million) expansion of its Montreal business-aircraft maintenance and interior-refurbishment centre. Source: Flight International
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Boeing targets IT
Alan Mullally, president of Boeing Defense and Space Group, says that the company is aiming for one-third of its business to be based in information technology. Boeing has already taken a 10% stake in Teledesic, a joint venture with Microsoft and telecommunications guru Craig McCaw. Source: ...
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Indian separation
Alan Mullally, president of Boeing Defense and Space Group, says that the company is aiming for one-third of its business to be based in information technology. Boeing has already taken a 10% stake in Teledesic, a joint venture with Microsoft and telecommunications guru Craig McCaw. Source: ...
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Missile defence
The US Department of Defense has awarded two $8 million contracts for the concept definition study phase of the National Missile Defense (NMD) Lead Systems Integrator programme. Boeing North American received one award. The other went to United Missile Defense Company, a joint venture involving Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and TRW. ...
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French KC-135R
Boeing has delivered the first of three KC-135Rs to the French air force. The aircraft, re-engined with CFM International CFM56 turbofans, join 11 re-engined C-135FR tankers. Source: Flight International
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Tracor deal
Tracor subsidiary GDE Systems has received a $15.5 million US Marine Corps contract to supply three deployable ground-stations to exploit imagery from the electro-optical reconnaissance system planned for the McDonnell Douglas F-18. Source: Flight International