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Bombardier grows
Bombardier's aerospace division, which includes Shorts and Learjet, has expanded rapidly, posting sales of C$4 billion ($2.9 billion) in its financial year to January 1997. Pre-tax profits nearly doubled to C$258 million. Source: Flight International
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An-38-100 ticket
The Antonov An-38-100 27-seat regional/utility turboprop has received type certification from the Russian authorities. The aircraft, equipped with AlliedSignal Engines TPE331 engines and Hartzell propellers, is now in series production at NAPA in Novsibirsk, with first deliveries scheduled to commence in the second half of 1997. ...
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AVIC/Airbus sign AE31X agreement
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA) have signed a framework agreement covering the joint development of the proposed AE31X family of regional jets, formerly known as the AE-100/A318. The memorandum, signed in Beijing on 15 May by French president Jacques Chirac and Jian Zemin, ...
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EC Commissioner warns of curbs on 'exclusive' deals
Europe's competition commissioner, Karel Van Miert, has warned that curbs will have to be placed on Boeing's use of "exclusive" aircraft deals as the price of approval for the group's planned merger with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Van Miert says that the European Commission (EC) will present Boeing and ...
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MMS wins $600 million LEO deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been awarded a $600 million contract by Constellation Communications of Reston, Virginia, to be prime contractor for the space segment of a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system, including delivery in orbit and insurance. The 12-satellite system, operating in 2,000km equatorial orbits, will provide voice, ...
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Long March boosts China
A Long March 3A booster carried China's Dongfanghong 3 domestic communications satellite into geo- stationary-transfer orbit after launch from Xichang on 9 May. The successful launch - the third by the 3A model - boosted China's commercial-launcher hopes after two failures dented its reputation in 1996 (Flight International, 16-22 April). ...
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Power loss delays PanAmSat 6 launch
The launch of the Space Systems/Loral-built PanAmSat PAS 6 communications satellite, due to take place on 13 May aboard the Ariane V96, has been cancelled and delayed for at least three months after a power loss was experienced on a similar satellite. The Loral-built Tempo 2 lost 15% ...
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Battle stations
The new UK Labour Government's space minister will be John Battle, who also has responsibilities for telecommunications, science, technology, energy and the environment. Battle replaces the Conservative, Ian Taylor, one of the UK's most successful space ministers. Taylor influenced reforms of the European Space Agency, formalised a new UK space ...
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Surrey Satellite to build US Air Force spacecraft
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) of Guildford, in the UK, has been awarded a $5.1 million contract to build a microsatellite spacecraft bus for the US Air Force. It is the first contract to be awarded by the US Government to the UK concern. The spacecraft, to be called ...
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Rotormotion
Philip Amadeus has become managing director of UK helicopter-charter operator Redhill Aerodrome-based RotorMotion, which started operations in April. Amadeus, who spent four years ßying Boeing 737s for UK carrier Dan-Air, was most recently marketing manager for Aeromega, of Stapleford, Essex. Source: Flight International
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AI(R) defers engine choice for new regional-jet programme
The rapid rise of the regional jets at the top end of the market and the intense competition between engine makers seeking to power them dominated debate at this year's Regional Airline Association convention in Reno, Nevada, on 12-14 May. There was also spirited defence of 19-seat aircraft at the ...
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Chirac's Chinese visit reaps a harvest of civil orders
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has placed a $1.5 billion order for a second batch of 30 Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, further strengthening the European consortium's growing presence in that country. It is the biggest of three deals announced during the visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Beijing in ...
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SilkAir selects engine
SilkAir has selected the International Aero Engines V2500-A5 for its planned new fleet of Airbus Industrie A319/A320s. The Singapore-based airline is to order a mix of eight A319s and A320s to replace its two Fokker 70s and Boeing 737-300s (Flight International, 14-20 May). SilkAir will also take options on another ...
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'Safer' B-2 paint stripper takes the stage
Northrop Grumman is introducing an "environmentally safe" method for stripping paint from B-2 stealth bombers, which uses wheat starch as the blast material. The US manufacturer says that the dry alternative eliminates vapour emissions and produces less-hazardous waste than that associated with conventional, solvent-based paint strippers. The process is also ...
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Canpolar seeks help for ice-test system
Canpolar East, a Canadian machine-vision company based in St Johns, New- foundland, is looking for partners to develop a laser-based system able to measure ice accumulation on aerofoils. The technology, developed by Canada's National Research Centre (NRC), could form the basis of a hand-held sensor for use in wing de-icing, ...
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Blast-resistant container is set for tests
A composite/aluminium-hybrid blast-resistant cargo container for aircraft, developed by New Jersey-based Galaxy Scientific, has successfully passed two US Federal Aviation Administration screening processes and is to be prepared for field tests in July. The trials may lead to certfication in the third or fourth quarter of 1998. The ...
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Tupolev buys CADD 5
Computervision has sold $1.1 million-worth of electronic product-definition software to Tupolev Aviation, including CADDS 5 solid-modelling, CAMU electronic-mock-up and Optegra data-management products. The CADDS 5, meanwhile, is now available for use on Windows NT computers. Source: Flight International
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P&W plans demonstration of new JSF engine diagnostics
PRATT &WHITNEY plans to demonstrate pro-active diagnostic technologies planned for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engine. "Prognostics" will be able to detect impending failures, increasing powerplant reliability in the single-engined fighter, the company says. "Single-engine safety is paramount in the JSF," says Frank Gillette, P&W director of advanced ...
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'Superjumbo': why bother with a new design at all?
Sir - How good it was to see the letters from Noel Falconer and David Connolly (Letters, Flight International, 23-29 April, P64) about the Airbus Industrie new "super jumbo". It seems that, thanks to the accountants, we are to get not a state-of-the-art large aircraft, with refined aerodynamics, ...
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RVSM: cost must be allowed for
Sir - The extreme enthusiasm for reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) demonstrated by United Airlines' Mark Hurston (Letters, Flight International 16-22 April, P40) is by no means universal. Has the cost of qualifying certain aircraft types for RVSM been included in his, or anyone else's, projections? Just before ...