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MD-95 takes shape
Alenia has completed the first fuselage sections for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, and shipped them to the US manufacturer's Long Beach, California, final-assembly plant. The Italian manufacturer has completed the first shipset 17 months after beginning design work on the fuselage when the programme was launched in late 1995. Korean ...
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Raytheon poem
Raytheon Cossor has won a $15 million Eurocontrol contract to supply a pre-operational European Mode S (POEMS) secondary-surveillance radar system, as part of the European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation Improvement Programme. The POEMS system will be used to validate Eurocontrol's specification for a Mode S ground station, including full networking ...
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China pins hopes on latest Long March
The launch of a Long March (LM) 3A booster from Xichang towards the end of April is regarded as critical to the future of the country's commercial-launcher aspirations, following a series of commercial failures. The failures, climaxing with the loss of the first LM3B in February 1996, has ...
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Titan DMSP launch
A US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) weather satellite was launched by a Titan 2G booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 4 April. It was the first launch of a DMSP by a refurbished Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, called the 2G, which has replaced the retired Atlas E. ...
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Ray Hillman...
Head-up-guidance-system specialist Flight Dynamics has appointed Ray Hillman director of products and customer services - a newly created job. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, he will be responsible for product line management, field service, technical manuals and the Portland repair station. Hillman's career has included work for British Aerospace, Smiths ...
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R-R, Boeing to draw up -524HT test plans
Rolls-Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing covering the formulation of a flight-test schedule for the RB.211-524HT "hybrid" turbofan, although the timing of the programme remains uncertain as the UK manufacturer works to locate a suitable testbed aircraft. The -524HT, which uses the core of the ...
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Jersey European may add larger aircraft to cope with expansion
JERSEY EUROPEAN Airways is considering options for the expansion of its fleet, which could see the airline introduce new larger aircraft in 1998. The regional airline, which flies 12 British Aerospace 146s, four Fokker F27s and two Shorts 360s, has experienced 25% annual growth over the past six ...
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Crossair modifies LF507s on Avro RJ85s and RJ100s
Crossair is now half way through the process of making the engine modifications needed to improve unsatisfactory dispatch reliability on its AI(R) AvroRJ85/RJ100 fleet in a bid to (Flight International, 16-22 October, 1996). President Moritz Suter confirms that the Swiss regional airline has had "serious problems" with the ...
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Saab signs up to A3XX
Saab has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airbus to join the study phase of the A3XX programme, and is understood to be interested in taking a risk-sharing stake of around 5%in the project. Airbus has also signed an MoU with Finland's Finavitec, to add to deals with Belairbus ...
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TWA 800 inquiry
The public hearing on the July 1996 Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100 crash near Long Island, USA, is to start "in late summer", says the US National Transportation Safety Board. It adds that an explosion definitely occurred in the centre-wing fuel tank, but the cause is still not known and ...
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Delta JT8D fan finding
Failure of inspection techniques at manufacture, assembly and in service were responsible for the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 fan-hub failure which killed two passengers on a Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88 in July 1996, according to findings from a US National Transportation Safety Board hearing. A minor flaw caused ...
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Korean airspace talks collapse
Talks between North and South Korea officials on opening the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) to international flights have again collapsed over the form of a communication link between the two countries' air-traffic-control authorities. Three days of discussions in Bangkok, Thailand, brokered by the International Civil Aviation Organisation ...
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Two weeks of RVSM confirms pilot fears over TCAS alerts
Airline pilots have reported frequent, long-duration, "nuisance" traffic advisories (TAs) from their traffic-alert and collision-avoidance (TCAS) systems in North Atlantic air space during the two weeks since the implementation of reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) in the area. RVSM is a procedure for operating with vertical separations of 1,000ft ...
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USA signs Singapore in open-skies push
The USA has continued its push for new open-skies deals with the signing of its new aviation agreement with Singapore, which is the first fully liberalised pact within the key Asia Pacific region. "The signing of this agreement-represents an important step toward ending restrictions on aviation services in ...
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RADA identifies $2.5 billion test market
A $2.5 billion market for airliner automatic test equipment over the next 20 years has been forecast by RADA, Israeli manufacturer of the Commercial Aviation Test System (CATS). The prediction is based on Boeing's recent market outlook, which estimates that the world's commercial airlines will add 16,160 new ...
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Russia invests $140 million in reservation-system upgrade
Russia is to buy a $140 million airline management and computer reservation system (CRS), aimed at giving Russian and other CIS airlines access to the latest Western technology. The system, called the Sirena 3, will be developed by a consortium which includes US companies AT&T, IBM, AMR's Sabre ...
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Airmanship is still a crucial element
Sir - The reported comment of the UK Civil Aviation Authority in the article "Pilots can expect harder tests, CAA warns" (Flight International, 19-25 March, P31), to the effect that European Joint Aviation Requirements will demand higher academic standards for flightcrew licensing, is another symptom of how this body is ...
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Concerns on Chapter 2 restrictions
Sir - In the comment "Bad promises" (Flight International, 19-25 March), concerns were rightly expressed about the growing restrictions which operators of Chapter 2 aircraft are facing within Europe. The term "airport system" is defined in the Market Access Regulation, and the Annex to the Regulation provides that ...
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Force multiplier
FAR FROM viewing the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a possible cheaper alternative to the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22, the US Air Force believes that deployment of the F-22 air-superiority fighter is a prerequisite for development of the multi-role JSF. "If we fail to deliver and deploy sufficient F-22s, ...
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March satellite launch log...
March satellite launch log NoDateSpacecraftTypeLauncher(*)Country(*)Launch site(*) 91 MarIntelsat 801ComsatAriane 4 (2)>Europe (2)Kourou (2) 104 MarZeyaResearchStart (1)>Russia (3)Svobodny (1)+ 118 MarTempoComsatAtlas (2)>USA (5)Canaveral (3) * Indicates total number of orbital launches by this launch vehicle, country and launch site in 1997. > Ariane 44P (1), Start 1 (1), Atlas 2A (1) ...