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Russian Aerospace '97
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com Source: Flight International
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Rockwell
Ed Senen has been named vice-president for sales and marketing of the Air Transport division of Rockwell Avionics & Communications, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He succeeds Shannon Murchison, who is to retire. Senen was formerly director of airline sales and service for Sextant. Source: Flight International
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Embraer
Peter Obeysekere has been named vice-president for Asia, the Far East and the South Pacific for Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. He was formerly a regional director at Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands and, before that, was with British Aerospace in the UK. Source: Flight International
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Nine projects entered in chase for X-Prize funds
The Pathfinder Rocketplane is among nine projects which are in competition for a $10 million prize from the St Louis, Missouri-based X-Prize Foundation, which proposes to award the money to the team which kick-starts development of a privately operated, low-cost, passenger-carrying space vehicle. The prize will be awarded ...
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ISS is placed under new pressure
The decision to delay the first launches to assemble the International Space Station (ISS), because of Russian problems over funding, is putting NASA under renewed pressure from the US Congress to remove Moscow from the programme. Following the eight-month launch delay, to June 1998, NASA is being told ...
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Cessna names piston-singles dealers
CESSNA HAS NAMED the first overseas distributors for its new piston singles. Three sales representatives have been appointed in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in Mexico. All five are Cessna service stations. Perth-based Airflite has been made the distributor for Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia; Australian ...
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Dassault Falcon launches in China
DASSAULT FALCON JET has formed a joint venture with China Xinhua Airlines and Avion Pacific to begin charter operations in China with a Falcon 50 business jet. The Dassault-owned, Chinese-registered aircraft will be based in Beijing and operated by China Xinhua. Hong Kong-based Avion will provide marketing support. ...
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Defensive moves
It is shaping up to be a long, hot, summer for Europe's defence-electronics industry. The pending privatisation of Thomson-CSF has already got strategists busy plotting and rivals initiating pre-emptive manoeuvres, with Europe's other major defence-electronics player, GEC-Marconi, leading the pack. In the last couple of weeks, German industrial ...
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First satellite leaves Svobodny launch pad
The Zeya spacecraft was placed into orbit on 4 March by a Start 1 Rocket after the first lift-off from Russia's new Svobodny commercial-launch centre in the eastern Amur region. The 87kg military-research satellite was placed into a Sun-synchronous, 98¹-inclination, 426km-466km orbit by the five-stage modified SS-25 Topol ...
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Safety seeds
In October 1996, when Capt Tore Granaas heard the news of a third Boeing 757 crash in Latin America in less than a year, he felt that something had to be done. The Latin American/Caribbean area as a whole does not have a good safety reputation. There are ...
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Aerospatiale reports improved results
France's biggest aerospace manufacturer, Aerospatiale, returned to profit in 1996 and saw its work backlog increase by 61%. Performance of the state-owned manufacturer, which is likely to be privatised at the end of the year as part of its forthcoming merger with Dassault Aviation, was considerably improved compared ...
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Russian Soyuz TM24 spacecraft returns
The Soyuz TM24 spacecraft landed safely on 2 March, returning cosmonauts Valeri Korzun and Alexander Kaleri, and German researcher Ewald Reinhold from the Mir 1 space station. Korzun and Kaleri were launched in August 1996 and Ewald on 10 February. The crew and the TM25 cosmonauts, ...
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Searching abroad
In November 1996 Elbit, one of Israel's major manufacturers of electronic systems, was separated into three independent companies. Defence operations were transferred to a new company, Elbit Systems (ESL), the operations of which include the development and manufacture of defence systems, and the performance of upgrade programmes. ESL ...
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Policymeeting holds key to FLA future
The European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) project could be caught in the turmoil of a UK general election, and possibly a defence review, unless the FLA Policy Group meeting on 11 March agreed a way forward on the struggling programme. The meeting follows a tri-lateral National Armament Directors ...
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Going Dutch
The third quarter of 1997 will see the first Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNlAF) squadron begin conversion to Lockheed Martin F-16s upgraded under the Mid-Life Update (MLU) programme. The introduction of the MLU aircraft, with its associated weapons and systems, will dramatically broaden the operational flexibility of the almost 20-year-old ...
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Alitalia gets by without Fokkers
Sir - I refer to the article "Alitalia pulls plug on Fokker 70s" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P18). The original order which was placed by Alitalia for Fokker 70s has fallen through because of the well-known bankruptcy of the manufacturer. Fokker was able to deliver only five regional ...
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RAF photographic competition
Royal Air Force Sgt Rick Brewell has won the Flight International air-to-air category of the 1997 RAFPublic Relations Photographic Competition (the winning picture is on the cover of our 19-25 February issue). Douglas Barrie, Defence Aviation Editor, congratulates him. Source: Flight International
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Remote control - Deep Space 1's computer is the nearest thing yet to HAL, the computer star of the famous movie 2001.
NASA is preparing, it says, the "most advanced spacecraft advanced-intelligence software yet developed", for launch aboard its Deep Space 1 (DS1) spacecraft. The computer is the nearest thing yet to HAL 9000, the computer featured in the landmark science-fiction story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in 1968 by Arthur C ...
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R-R is buoyant on future growth
Rolls-Royce has rounded off an upbeat round of financial results from the world's main aero-engine suppliers with a steady performance from its aerospace division, and the promise of further growth this year. Sales from the R-R aerospace division climbed by nearly one-quarter in 1996 to come close to ...
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Low-cost carriers lose out in Haneda Airport slot lottery
Japan's major existing airlines and the country's planned start-up carriers have all signalled their dissatisfaction with the transport ministry's allocation of 40 new slots at Tokyo's overcrowded Haneda Airport. The decision has done little to satisfy competing demands from Japan's three main carriers, and has dealt a major ...