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Corporate crash
Four Australians, including two senior executives from one of Papua New Guinea's most prominent companies, were killed on 9 December when their corporate Piper Navajo crashed and burned while approaching Papua New Guinea's Porgera gold mine. One passenger survived with severe burns. Source: Flight International
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Saudi Arabian centre
Saudi Arabian Airlines has consolidated most of its flight training at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida. Saudia, which says that its need for pilots, will double with the acquisition of 61 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft, is sending each student to Embry-Riddle for 12 months, to receive 320h flight ...
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The definition of 'insurgency'
Sir - According to Hornby's Oxford Student's Dictionary of Current English, the word "insurgent" means either the adjective "rebellious", or the noun "rebel soldier". While this definition fits perfectly well the Tadjikistan anti-Government forces, I fail to correlate the inclusion of the word "Muslim" in the Alexander Velovich ...
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Garuda sells
Garuda is planning to dispose of five McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s and six MD-11s, as part of its fleet-rationalisation plan. Source: Flight International
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Screw loose
A loose 6mm screw caused the jamming of the outer-airlock door of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS80 mission, leading to cancellation of two space-walks scheduled to practise International Space Station assembly procedures. The screw was found embedded in the door's gearbox. ...
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MMS contract
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been awarded a contract from international satellite-communications organisation Intelsat to supply the Intelsat K-TV satellite, which will operate over the Asia-Pacific in 1998. Source: Flight International
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Zero-time 2000
Crossair has received approval to carry out zero-flight-time pilot-conversion training using its Flight Safety International Saab 2000 simulator. The first pilot conversion is scheduled to be completed, at the end of January. Source: Flight International
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Simcoms's Beech unit
Simcom International has installed a Beech Baron simulator at its Scottsdale, Arizona, training centre along- side Beech King Air and Cessna 300/400 simulators. Source: Flight International
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Citation X gets level C
Flight Safety International's (FSI) first Cessna Citation X simulator has received Level C certification at its Wichita, Kansas, training centre. A new Level D Canadair Challenger 601-3A simulator will be delivered to FSI's Tucson, Arizona, centre this month. Source: Flight International
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Colleges go for wings
Singapore Flying College, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines and Simuflight, a training organisation in Auckland, New Zealand have both bought, Wicat's Wings computer-based ab initio flight training courseware. Source: Flight International
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B-52/B-1 training
McDonnell Douglas has won a five-year, $15.5 million, USAir Force contract to support Boeing B-52H and Rockwell B-1B aircrew training, providing instructors and developing courseware. Source: Flight International
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Common ground
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems are to supply reconnaissance and intelligence ground stations to the US Department of Defense under contracts, which include potential future squadron and unmanned-air-vehicle ground stations. Source: Flight International
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PFP briefed on DGPS
The US Government has briefed the nine Partnership for Peace (PFP) nations, on its proposals for a standard landing system, to be adopted by NATO by the end of 1997, to replace precision-approach radar by 2010. Source: Flight International
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Taiwanese avenger
The US Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $63 million contract to supply 74 vehicle-mounted Avenger fire units to Taiwan. The Foreign Military Sale also includes Raytheon Stinger surface-to-air missiles to be used with the Avenger system. Source: Flight International
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Japanese decoy
The Japan Defence Agency is reported to be at an "advanced stage" of negotiations to buy an air-launched missile decoy system from Israel Air Industries (IAI). Japan is interested in the IAI Improved Tactical Air-Launched Decoy (ITALD) system, originally developed by Brunswick, for its fleet of McDonnell Douglas/Mitsubishi F-15J and ...
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The case for use of secondary radar
Sir - It seems incredible that aircraft using the same airspace still have altimeters calibrated in differing units and that "international" airports do not have secondary radar. Insurers do not seem to be interested, especially, given the large claims involved when, for example, there is a mid-air collision. ...
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F-22 protege
A small US firm has been approved to produce composite parts for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter, under a "mentor-protegé" programme initiated by the Pentagon. Philadelphia-based C A Spalding, has been qualified to produce forward-fuselage components using resin-transfer moulding (RTM). F-22 prime-contractor Lockheed Martin and Dow-UT, which is producing RTM ...
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AI(R) composite
Aero International (Regional) is test-flying an ATR 72 featuring an all-composite empennage, which will become standard on the ATR 42/72 in 1997. Source: Flight International
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BDA to be tested on BAT
The US Army, is to fit a Northrop Grumman Brilliant Anti-armour (BAT) submunition, with a down-looking camera and video datalink and flight-test it in battle-damage-assessment (BDA) trials. Source: Flight International
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Eurocopter France
Eurocopter France (ECF) has been awarded ISO 9001 certification by the German Association for Certificating Management Systems. The certification comes after 18 months of work by ECF, setting up a quality system complying with ISO 9001 standards in design, manufacture and after-sales support. Source: Flight International