All news – Page 7382
-
News
Balancing act
BALANCE IS A term used repeatedly by the F-22's designers when describing what they have achieved, and balancing lethality, survivability, supportability and affordability - and several other 'ilities' - has proved a formidable task. Driving the design was the requirement to combine stealth with speed and agility, in ...
-
News
GEC weighs into the Thomson-CSF...
Further controversy over the privatisation of French defence and professional electronics giant Thomson-CSF has been generated by a last-minute "offer" from UK counterpart GEC to take over the Government's 58% stake. French moves to prevent one of its largest defence contractors from falling into foreign hands appear likely ...
-
News
IAE studies latest V2530-A5 failure
International Aero Engines (IAE) is working to determine the cause of a third incident of high-pressure compressor (HPC) damage occurring to a V2530-A5 turbofan operated by Lufthansa on its Airbus A321 fleet. The latest discovery followed an engine stall and rejected take-off on 25 March. HPC blade damage ...
-
News
BGTlooks to pilot low-cost fly-by-wire for Tu-204
German systems house Bodenseewerk Gerätetech-nik (BGT)has launched a feasibility study with Tupolev over fitting future versions of the Tu-204 twinjet with its low-cost, advanced, digital fly-by-wire (FBW)flight-control-system (FCS) technology. The contract with Tupolev comes as BGT steps up efforts to secure applications for its FBW technology, which it plans to ...
-
News
NASA names its Hyper-X team
NASA has awarded a $33.4 million contract to a team led by MicroCraft to build four experimental aircraft which will be used to demonstrate hypersonic propulsion technologies as part of the Hyper-X project. The other team members joining Tullahoma, Tennessee-based MicroCraft are Boeing North American, GASL and Accurate ...
-
News
Slipring win
Air Précision, part of the UK's Cobham group, has won a contract to supply electrical sliprings for the main and tail rotors of the NH Industries NH90 helicopter. The sliprings transmit electrical power for the de-icing and folding of the rotors. Source: Flight International
-
News
Pavement R&D test site under construction
GROUND has been broken for the world's first full-scale airport-pavement test site, to be located at the US Federal Aviation Administration's technical centre in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The National Airport Pavement Test Facility is a co-operative project between the FAA and airframer Boeing. It will be used ...
-
News
Information on impulse de-icing...
Following publication of the article "Electro-impulse de-icing is selected for Premier I" (Flight International 1-7 May, 1996, P24) Peter Hartman, of Bombardier Regional Aircraft, Ontario, Canada, requested information (Letters, Flight International, 17-23 July, 1996) about developments in the field of electric-impulse de-icing systems (EDIS) being undertaken, he believed, in Russia. ...
-
News
Ill fated ambitions
The Romaero Rombac BAC One-Eleven programme is rooted in former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu's ambitions to make Romania independent of the Soviet Union. As a maverick among the former Communist Bloc leaders, Ceausescu had refused to take part in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and later exploited initially good ...
-
News
International Space Base
The name Kourou has become synonymous with that of Arianespace, but the European launcher organisation is only a user of the launch site. The CSG is operated by the French space agency CNES but was developed with funds from the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA). ...
-
News
A3XX in favour
Sir - Recent coverage (Flight International, 2-8 April, P4) has been favourable to Airbus Industrie's decision to proceed with its A3XX, while Boeing's decision not to go ahead with a "super-jumbo" appears to be very much the voice of Boeing finance. Decisions to launch new aircraft have always been risky. ...
-
News
plane handling...
UK-based Plane Handling opened its 45,000ft2 (4,200m2) warehouse at Manchester Airport in March. Building the warehouse - which includes three floors of offices - took just four months. Pictured at the opening (from left) are cartoonist Chris Lea, who caricatured guests at the opening, Plane Handling operations director Pat Heslop ...
-
News
James Sdoia...
Online parts and services finder Inventory Locator Service (ILS) has named James Sdoia vice-president for marketing and sales. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, he will take responsibility for ILS services worldwide. He is from the Global Financial division of Alltel, where he was senior vice-president and general manager for Asia. ...
-
News
Cirrus design
Cirrus Design, of Duluth, Minnesota, has named Cecil Miller vice-president of manufacturing. He will take charge of developing Cirrus CR20 production. He comes from Raytheon Aircraft, where he was vice-president of operations. Source: Flight International
-
News
Lunar prospector construction complete...
Construction and assembly of the NASA Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been completed by Lockheed Martin in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 24 September, on a mission to obtain the first complete compositional and gravity maps of the moon. The $63 million, low-cost, Discovery mission will carry ...
-
News
Manned soace flight log update
NoCountry(*)DateSpacecraftType/Crew Flight time 193USA 11019 NovSTS 80/ColumbiaScience/517d 15h 53m^ 194USA11112 JanSTS 81/AtlantisSMM /6+10d4h 55m 195Russia 12>10 FebSoyuz TM25Mir ferry/3In flight 196USA 11211 FebSTS 82/DiscoveryService/79d23h 37m * Indicates total number of launches by this country since 12 April 1961 > Former ...
-
News
GOES IS GO...
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, the GOES K, will be launched on the last Atlas 1-series booster operated by ILS International Launch Services from Cape Canaveral, on 24 April. It is the third of a $1 billion fleet of five new-series satellites. ...
-
News
Kapustin Yar is revived for launches
Russia's launch base at Kapustin Yar, in the sparsely populated area close to the Caspian Sea, will end 12 years of retirement when it is used again as a satellite-launch station in 1999. The base was first used for a missile launch in 1947 and its first orbital ...
-
News
British Midland selects Airbus A320 family for fleet renewal
British Midland Airways (BM) expects to sign a $1 billion firm order with Airbus Industrie for A320s and A321s in May, having concluded an initial memorandum of understanding in early April for up to 20 aircraft. The airline, which selected the Airbus single-aisle family over Boeing's 737-800 and ...