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Bombardier starts Dash 8-400 assembly
Final assembly of the first Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 is now under way at the Canadian company's Toronto site. The fuselage section, constructed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, arrived at Toronto on 30 April, and has been mated to the nose assembly, which is built by de Havilland. The first ...
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General Electric picks composite fan platforms
General Electric has decided to replace the aluminium-hybrid fan platforms on the GE90 turbofan with advanced composite structures produced by Dow-United Technologies Composite Products (Dow-UT). The 22 platforms provide a flowpath surface between the fan blades and, in their original form, were responsible for some of the delays ...
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Boeing eyes paintless JSF
BOEING HOPES TO cover one of its two Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrators with plastic film, rather than paint, following successful flight-testing under the Joint Paintless Aircraft Programme (JPAP). Boeing and 3M were awarded a contract in 1996 to demonstrate the feasibility of replacing paint with appliques - ...
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P&W to decide on 445kN engine
US engine maker Pratt & Whitney expects to decide on 15 May whether to offer its PW4098, at a 445kN (100,000lb)-thrust rating, for the proposed ultra-long-range Boeing 777-200X and extended-range -300X. The future direction of the PW4000 series growth, and possibly the loyalty of some major Asian P&W-powered-777 ...
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TAP chooses Collins MMR for Airbuses
TAP-Air Portugal has selected the Collins GLU-920 multi-mode receiver (MMR)to equip its recently ordered fleet of 16 Airbus A319s and six A320s. The MMR is a single unit designed to ease precision approaches using the instrument-and microwave-landing-systems, and the global-positioning system. The 22 aircraft, deliveries of which start ...
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CNES takes control
At the heart of the French space effort is its space agency, CNES, which has now had to take its turn at being re-organised fundamentally to ensure that France does not fall behind in the race to maintain its front-line technological abilities. Nobody doubts that Europe today finds itself in ...
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Looking at Chek Lap Kok charges
Sir - It has been mentioned that "Chek Lap Kok fees create conflict" (Flight International, 23-29 April, P14). The article says that the Hong Kong Legislature's 1997/8 budget debate indicates that, "-although the charges will be nearly double those at Kai Tek, it will still keep the airport in the ...
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The role of the flight engineer
Sir -The advantages perceived of a flight engineer's potential input to a new-generation automated flightdeck gives me concern. The concept of these aircraft was to exclude the flight engineer. The checklist philosophy (be it the engine-indication and crew-alerting system or electronic centralised aircraft-monitor) generated is the backbone of ...
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First Iridium satellites are launched
A McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Delta 2/7920 two-stage booster launched the first five Motorola Iridium satellites into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 5 May. It was the first lift-off of a Delta 2 since the 17 January explosion of a three-stage booster after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, ...
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Kuwait satellite
The Kuwait Government is seeking investment from national businesses to develop an $800 million communications satellite and ground system. Kuwait has been allocated a position in geostationary orbit by the International Union of Telecommunications. Source: Flight International
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Europe's X-Ray telescope is on schedule
The X-Ray Multi-Mirror space telescope, Europe's largest science satellite, is on budget and on schedule for a launch aboard the Ariane 5 on 2 August, 1999, mission managers and scientists reported at a quarterly project review at the Matra Marconi Space (MMS) factory at Filton in Bristol, in the UK. ...
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NASA decides on Mars aero-braking
NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have agreed a strategy for placing the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) into its operational orbit, using an aerobraking technique which it is hoped will not further damage one of the craft's solar panels, which did not fully extend after launch in November 1996. ...
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Gulfstream wins deal to supply VIP aircarft
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has won a $69.9 million US Air Force fixed-price contract to provide two Gulfstream V long-range business aircraft for members of Government and Congress. The company beat a bid from Boeing Business Jets for the C-37A competition, part of the VC-137 replacement programme. The C-37As will ...
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STOVL promise lifts JSF
EMPHASIS ON THE short-take-off/vertical-landing (STOVL) variant of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is increasing. Progress with the JSF concept-demonstration phase is leading programme and service officials to speculate that the STOVL variant planned for the US Marine Corps and the Royal Navy could find applications with the US Air ...
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Paris '97: a preview
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL Flight International will provide full editorial coverage throughout the build-up and duration of the show, starting with a comprehensive guide to the show in the Paris Show Special issue (11-17 June). First News will be published in the 18-24 June issue, followed by a full Show Report (25 ...
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Single-minded
FLIGHT TESTING OF the VisionAire Vantage single-engined business jet is demonstrating the high- and low-speed performance necessary for the aircraft to be competitive and safe, says its developer. VisionAire says that the proof-of-concept (PoC) aircraft, built and flown by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, is achieving cruise speeds equivalent to other ...
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Future change
Terrazoni: "We think Airbus should be the vehicle for integration of the European civil-aircraft industry" Aerospatiale has expanded its presence in the regional-aircraft field considerably through the ATR 72 By far the largest component of France's civil-aircraft industry is built around the Airbus Industrie consortium, which ...
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Philippines spells out maritime needs
The Philippine air force has begun drawing up its requirement for six new long-range maritime-patrol aircraft (MPAs), as part of a recently approved 15-year defence-modernisation programme. A replacement fleet of MPAs represents the air force's next procurement priority after the acquisition of new multi-role fighters and surveillance radars. ...
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Broad horizons
To many of the pilots who were trained by the UK armed services during the 1950s and 60s, the de Havilland Chipmunk is no more than a basic trainer with a tailwheel. To a team of senior Royal Air Force flyers in 1997, however, it is the vehicle for a ...
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Flying the Five
The large Honeywell primary flight displays show numerous perameters without clutter. The Gulfstream V wing is larger and holds more fuel than its predecessor on the GIV At a glance, the Gulfstream V looks much like its predecessor, the GIV, but closer investigation reveals it to ...