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Fishbed facelift
A familiar, delta-winged dart descends to a smooth landing at Aerostar's Bacau base, with the Carpathian mountains forming a hazy backdrop to this once improbable scene. It would have been unthinkable as recently as seven years ago that a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO code-name "Fishbed") - the most widely-used fighter the ...
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European commissions
European Aviation Air Charter (EAA) is one of the UK's youngest airlines, but it already employs more than 200 people and boasts a fleet of 15 100-seat aircraft. It has established European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR)-145 approval for its maintenance operation, and, more recently, a pilot-training centre at its Bournemouth ...
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Transylvanian transformation
Brasov is a picturesque Transylvanian town known for its architecture, its location in the Carpathian mountains, and its proximity to the semi-legendary castle now known - for the benefit of tourists - as "Castle Dracula". Although the much-feared, but respected historical leader Vlad the Impaler, in whose memory ...
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Dual operation
Arianespace, Europe's commercial space-launcher organisation, has long intended that its Ariane 5 vehicle will become its workhorse, and that it would be able to retire the long-serving Ariane 4. However, following the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), Kourou, satellite launch site in ...
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Back from the brink
AN AIRFORCE is rarely satisfied with its allotted budget, and many military air wings have fine-tuned the art of pleading poverty into a way of lobbying for extra cash. The Philippine Air Force, however, has been forced to endure more hardships than most. Years of financial neglect have been compounded ...
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Focus on Romania* Predicted 1997...
Focus on Romania* Predicted 1997 inflation: 90%* 70% aerospace directly state-ownedRomania's aerospace industry continues to be restructured following the fall of President Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in the early 1990s. Aerostar upgrades the MiG-21 -page 28 IARs rotary revival ------page 30Source: Flight International
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No turning BAC
Typically for the East European industry, Romaero's base at Baneasa Airport in northern Bucharest consists of pockets of activity interspersed with large areas of empty factory floor. On the one hand, there is the lively Pilatus Britten-Norman Islander assembly line, or the busy section of an otherwise empty production hall ...
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How to build an F-22
Three companies, three locations, three workforces, one aircraft: major sections of the first F-22 take shape in Lockheed Martin and Boeing factories across the USA, in Georgia, Texas and Washington, before coming together on the Marietta final-assembly line This page should hold cutaway poster of the F-22. If yours is ...
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Garrett Aviation teams up to offer RVSM approval project
Garrett Aviation Services of Arizona has teamed up with Atlanta-based Aviation Services Group to develop an operator RVSM (reduced vertical-separation-minima) approval programme, which will allow business-aircraft users a "quick and effortless" way to obtain approval to fly in RVSM airspace. Garrett says that the programme, which is specifically ...
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Express acquisition
Northwest Airlines completed on 24 March the purchase of Northwest Airlink feeder Express Airlines I, which it will operate as a separate subsidiary. The deal includes the airline and affiliate management company Phoenix Airlines Services. Although it had been rumoured that Express Airlines I might become part of Mesaba, "no ...
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Astor bids
The UK Ministry of Defence has asked Lockheed Martin and Raytheon-led teams to submit best and final offers for the £750 million ($1.2 million) airborne stand-off radar (ASTOR) project. Other bidders are understood not to have been invited to submit best and final offers. A decision on the ASTOR programme ...
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Millenium scare?
Sir - The aviation industry depends on computer systems which handle dates, ranging from seat reservations to flight-data processing. Typically, 80% of systems which process dates can not handle the end of the century. There are similar problems in payment systems, building security, test equipment and, possibly, navigation ...
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Living with error
Sir -The propensity for humans to make mistakes is hardly new. So why do so many aviation incident/accident reports begin with an excuse, such as: "I had just done three late shifts-"? Likewise, it is almost always the other driver who is responsible for the car accident. Why ...
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First BR7 15 gearbox
Aerospace Power Transmission, a joint-venture between France's Hispano-Suiza and ZF Luftfahrttechnik of Germany, has delivered the first prototype accessory gearbox for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR715. Source: Flight International
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Lightsar progress
NASA has selected four industry teams to study the potential partner arrangements to implement the LightSAR high-resolution, Earth-observation radar-imaging system. The teams are led by DBA Systems, Lockheed Martin, Vexcel and Research and Development Laboratories. Source: Flight International
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Launch confirmed
The European Space Agency has confirmed as 16 September the target launch date for the second Ariane 5 development launch, 502, (Flight International, 26 March-1 April, P28). The launch campaign will begin on 12 June, shortly after the arrival of hardware at the Kourou launch site. Source: Flight International
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CGWIC Chief drowned
Zhang Tong, the president of China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) was drowned near Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana on 19 March, during a visit to the European Space Agency's Kourou launch site. Source: Flight International
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Finance secure
LOT-Polish Airlines has secured a $225 million loan from Chase Manhattan and Polish bank PKO for the financing of five Boeing aircraft ordered in 1996. Source: Flight International
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First MD-95 wing sections go to Tracor
The first wing halves for the initial McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 test aircraft, T-1, have been shipped to Tracor Flight Systems in Palmdale, California, for joining. The shipset was made by MDC Canada, but the second and subsequent wings are being built by Hyundai Space and Aircraft of South Korea. ...