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Mitsubishi advances regional ambitions with windtunnel test
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to begin initial windtunnel testing shortly of a scaled-model of a proposed new 90-seat regional jet which it is studying with Bombardier. The Japanese manufacturer is understood to be negotiating with the country's National Aerospace Laboratory to use its windtunnel from August. The ...
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Raytheon launches fractional ownership
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT is to offer fractional ownership of its business aircraft through a new subsidiary. Raytheon Travel Air will begin operations in August and will have an initial company-owned core fleet of nine aircraft - three Beech King Air B200s, three Beechjet 400As and three Hawker 800XPs. The operation already ...
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Socialists may stop French sales
The election of a socialist Government in France has thrown doubts on the privatisation of state-owned aerospace giants Aerospatiale and Thomson-CSF, and raised the possibility that the entire process will be delayed or even cancelled. Further uncertainties have been raised by the appointment of a communist at the transport ministry ...
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Garrett completes F28 upgrade
Garrett Aviation Services' Los Angeles division has recently completed the upgrade of a Colombian air force Fokker F28 Mk1000 executive aircraft, which included the installation of a Rockwell-Collins four-tube electronic flight-instrument system and new flightdeck avionics, upgraded interior and exterior repaint. The avionics upgrade includes the installation of Collins TCAS ...
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Boeing tests F-22 life support
BOEING HAS completed safety-of-flight testing on the life-support system for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22, due to be flown in mid-June. The system includes the "integrated ensemble" of clothing to be worn by pilots during flight testing of the F-22. The US Air Force says the ensemble is the ...
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Orbital will launch hypersonic vehicles
ORBITALSCIENCES IS to produce four modified Pegasus air-launched boosters for NASA's Hyper-X hypersonic test programme. The Hyper-X is a small, unmanned, research vehicle powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) and designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 10 and altitudes of up to 100,000ft (30,500m) after launch ...
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Oxygen first
Equipements Respiratoires à Oxygene de Secours (EROS) has become the first company to have its emergency-oxygen equipment and masks certificated by Russia and the CIS countries. The CIS Aviation Register and the Federal Aviation Service of Russia issued the certification on 3 June. New Russian aircraft such as the Tupolev ...
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TRW's MMW camera will offer low-visibility landing capability
ATRW-LED team is preparing for flight tests of a passive millimetre-wave camera which could allow low-visibility operations with commercial and military aircraft. System checkout will begin later this month and 60h of flight testing is scheduled to start in September, using the US Air Force's Boeing C-135CSpeckled Trout testbed. ...
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Licences cannot be given away
Sir - In his letter "Should licence rules be adapted?" (Flight International, 28 May-3 June, P66), Mark Crane writes on the subject of the European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment and qualification for the issue of an aircraft-maintenance basic licence (AMBL). Currently licensed or ...
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Hanging in the hover
Military helicopters The past two years could hardly be described as "vintage" for European military-helicopter programmes, with Eurocopter (chalet 156B/B) having to battle with politicians for orders for its Tiger attack and NH90 naval/tactical helicopters, and GKN Westland (2C/15) and Agusta (external 38) having to grapple with prototype-losses on ...
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Regional power struggle
It has been bubbling away for years, but the regional-jet market is finally exploding into action. More than a dozen regional-jet types are either under intense study, in development, or in production. The increased tempo has sent the engine makers into a flurry of activity, and the cut-throat ...
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Europe's long-range twin
Austrian Airlines will in August 1998 become the first European operator of the A330-200 The A330-200 shares flightdeck commonality with the other Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft Emirates is replacing its fleet of A300-600Rs and A310-300s with R-R Trent-powered A330-200s The first wingbox being manufactured by ...
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Jumbo challenge
If Airbus Industrie sticks to its timetable for the A3XX, the first example of the 560- to 660-seat long-range giant will be undergoing flight demonstrations for the first time in public at the 2003 Paris air show. What visitors to the show will see circling over the famous Le Bourget ...
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A wing and a prayer
If the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) programme does not get the go-ahead soon, its advocates will argue that an opportunity akin to the original launching of Airbus Industrie will have been missed, while its detractors will take it as confirmation that the project is one which defence budgets cannot sustain. ...
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Act of faith
A full-scale model of Russia's 20t Functional Cargo Block (FGB) module and its Proton launcher will be among the highlights of the space displays at the Paris air show, demonstrating that the International Space Station (ISS) programme is still alive. The real FGB will be the first ISS ...
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Dull, dirty and dangerous
They fly and they crash, but defence ministries keep on pouring cash into unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), despite a litany of programme failures and embarrassing flops. Defence ministries in general, and the US Department of Defense (DoD) in particular, continue to fund UAV programmes because they are on the cusp ...
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Growth markets
While the prime focus at the last major European air show, Farnborough in September 1996, was on the dog-fight between Boeing and Airbus Industrie to launch a 747 successor, the duel has now regrouped around longer range, and/or increased capacity derivatives of the two rivals' existing products. Airbus ...
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Cuts and thrust
The USA is facing significant order cuts, Europe is arguing about project launches, and Russia is in chaos, with procurement at a halt. That is situation normal for military-aircraft manufacturers in the 1990s. This year's Paris air show will once again be dominated by discussions of problematic programmes, ...
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Meteor in holding pattern
With the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) decision effectively to defer its choice of medium-range air-to-air missile (MRAAM), opting instead for two 12-month studies, Hughes (chalet 273/B) and Matra BAe Dynamics (2/A20, B20 chalet 198B/B) will use Le Bourget to set out their respective stalls. At stake is not just ...