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Speedwing partnership
Sweden's Intentia is to market Speedwing's MOVEX aviation maintenance support software, following a partnership agreement. Source: Flight International
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Mitsubishi nozzles
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has purchased two rocket engine nozzles from Volvo Aero, marking the Swedish company's first sale of rocket components to a customer outside Europe. The nozzles will be fitted to the LE-7A, the main engine of Japan's H-2A launcher. Source: Flight International
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What's on
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 RAeS Events January: D F McIntyre Lecture: Prestwick Airport Reborn 13 January; Gordon ...
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PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range
JET AVIATION HAS completed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks. The 15,000litre auxiliary fuel-system, produced by PATS, was installed in a corporate-configured 767-200ER completed at Jet Aviation's Basle, Switzerland, modification centre. The aircraft's owner has not been identified, but is believed ...
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First MD-95 empennage shipped to Douglas
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) at Salt Lake City, Utah, has completed the first empennage subassembly for the MD-95 100-seat regional twinjet. The empennage has been shipped to the Douglas Aircraft factory at Long Beach, California, where it will be mated with the aircraft's horizontal stabiliser. Final assembly of the first MD-95 ...
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Cegelec lights Bosnia
The Airports division of France's Cegelec Projects has supplied 236 airfield light fittings to Banju Luka Airport in Bosnia. The equipment was ordered by a UK Government agency, and delivered using Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130 transport aircraft based at RAF Lyneham in the UK. Source: ...
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Concurrent inks Lockheed Martin computer deal
CONCURRENT Computer has allied with Lockheed Martin to produce rugged versions of its PowerMAXION real-time computer for military applications. Lockheed Martin plans to use the PowerMAXION in systems for sensor fusion, situational awareness, route replanning and battle management. An early application will be the US Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's ...
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Comparison system detects database differences
XIONIX SIMULATION has delivered a navigation-database comparison system to British Airways. The system allows BA to compare navigation databases to identify differences and isolate errors. It is in use at the carrier's operations centre at Heathrow. BA is using the comparison system to increase the integrity of navigation ...
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Deja vu with age-60-years ruling
Sir - A US Federal Appeals Court panel will rule shortly on whether the US Federal Aviation Administration can continue to bar pilots of 60 years old from commanding US passenger aircraft. The general consensus seems to be that the "Age 60" rule is not based so much on medical ...
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Flying lab benches
Spectrum Astro is building three MightySat Phase 2 small satellites for the US Air Force Phillips Laboratory, which is managing its own version of NASA's New Millennium project . The work resumed in March 1996 after a suspension following the withdrawal of a bid protest by CTA Space Systems. The ...
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Sabena
Valere Croes has been appointed president of Belgian national airline Sabena. He succeeds Jan Huyghebaert, who is to retire. Croes is also president of ASLK Bank and a member of the board of Société Générale, Metropolitan Bank, Tractebel and Fortis. He has been a member of the board of Sabena ...
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FSI's Boeing 777 receives Level C approval
FLIGHTSAFETY International's (FSI) first Boeing 777 full-flight simulator has received Level C training approval. The FSI-built simulator is now in service at the company's Seattle training centre. A second 777 full-flight simulator is now being built by FSI's Simulation Systems division for delivery to Malaysian Airlines in the second quarter ...
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Airbus Industrie and Wicat join in A310/A300-600 training upgrade
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS improving pilot training for the A300-600 and A310-300, with the help of Wicat Systems, to match that available for the A320, A330 and A340. Wicat is supplying new computer-based training (CBT) courseware and is developing a "free-play" trainer for the A310/A300-600 flight-management and -guidance system (FMGS), similar ...
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MDC T-38 training device has new display system
McDONNELLDOUGLAS (MDC) is to use an innovative visual display on training devices to be produced for the US Air Force's NorthropT-38 avionics-upgrade. The company's Visual Integrated Display System (VIDS) will also be used to upgrade USAF MDC F-15 training devices. The VIDS is a low-cost display system which ...
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Frasca downunder
Australia's largest privately owned flight-training school, General Flying Services based at Moorabbin Airport in Victoria, has purchased a Frasca Model 242 twin-engine flight-training device with Frasca FVS-200HR visual system for use in its commercial pilot's course. Source: Flight International
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TTS unveils new-design simulator
THOMSON TRAINING &Simulation (TTS) has delivered the first of its new-design full-flight simulators to the ATR Training Centre (ATC) in Toulouse, France. The new design was evolved following TTS' acquisition of Rediffusion and includes features from the UK company's Concept 90 simulator. The first new-design machine to enter ...
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Japan plans its first space-docking experiment
Japan will become the third space nation, after the USA and Russia, to conduct a rendezvous and docking in space. The Engineering Test Satellite, ETS7, to be launched with the US/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite by a national H2 booster in the middle of 1997, will consist ...
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Chinese astronauts
Chinese pilots Wu Tse and Li Tsinlung have begun training at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Centre and will return to China to prepare for a national manned space flight in 1999 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the People's Republic of China. Source: Flight International
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Russian programme in crisis
Russia may have to abandon its manned space programme this year because of a severe shortage of funds, Yuri Koptev, director-general of the Russian Space Agency has warned the Government. It has been planned that the country's Mir 1 space station will be the base for several international ...
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NASA completes X-33 initial design review
NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works have completed the final preliminary-design review (PDR) for the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle technology-demonstration programme. This PDR was for the operations and ground segment at Edwards AFB, California, where construction of a 10Ha (25 acre) launch area will begin in October. The ...