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Collins
A demonstration flight in Rockwell-Collins' Sabreliner testbed, equipped with a prototype of its Pro Line 21 display for the Raytheon Premier I, illustrates the progress made since the system was launched a year ago. The first impression of the display is of solid colours and crisp symbols against a smooth ...
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Honeywell
Raytheon Aircraft's new Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet, to be unveiled at the National Business Aircraft Association show on 19 November, is the launch application for Honeywell's Primus Epic integrated avionics. Honeywell will be a risk-sharing partner in the programme, integrating equipment from other vendors and supplying a complete ...
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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Dallach provides Fascination
GERMAN KITPLANE MANUFACTURER Dallach is selling a new side-by-side two-seat aircraft, known as the Fascination D.4, in France and Germany. Previous Dallach designs have been open-cockpit mono and biplanes, such as the Sunrise II, in the ultralight and microlight classes. The Fascination is a sleek steel-tube-fuselage airframe with a bolt-on ...
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Air Methods delivers modular medical interior for MD900
Air Methods has delivered its first modular, multi-function, medical interiors to operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopter in Europe and the USA. Boise Life Flight in Idaho, and HSD in Germany, have taken delivery of Explorers equipped with the new multi-role interiors. Denver, Colorado-based Air Methods ...
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Dassault makes progress with Falcon 50EX
Dassault Aviation has flown the first production Falcon 50EX business jet. The aircraft is due to be displayed at the US National Business Aircraft Association show in Orlando, Florida, on 19-21 November, before being delivered to Dassault's Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre for interior installation. French certification of ...
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Raytheon unveils all-new Hawker
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Raytheon Aircraft has launched development of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet to replace the current Hawker 1000. The first flight is scheduled for late 1999, leading to US certification in the second quarter of 2001. Raytheon is planning to build 20-25 aircraft a year. ...
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ST-50 is lined up for February flight tests
The first production prototype of the ST-50 executive aircraft is scheduled to undergo flight tests in February 1997. Israviation, the ST-50 manufacturer, has moved to its permanent production site in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is already working on the two planned production prototypes. Test flights so ...
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Textron Lycoming puts new products on drawing board
Ramon Lopez/WILLIAMSPORT The resurgence of piston-engined general-aviation (GA) aircraft production in the USA has prompted Textron Lycoming to improve existing powerplants and develop new advanced engine models. Officials admit that research and development has remained "stagnant" during the past decade as the GA industry went into ...
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BMW R-R tackles weight of BR710
BMW Rolls-Royce expects to qualify weight-reduction changes to the BR710 powerplant by mid-1997. The manufacturer expects the changes to be incorporated progressively in batches of engines delivered to Bombardier and Gulfstream to power, respectively, the Global Express and Gulfstream V long-range business jets. Both aircraft manufacturers have acknowledged ...
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History of the Hawker 800
The original DH125 WAS first flown in 1962 having been conceived by the de Havilland design team as a six-seat executive twinjet to replace the twin piston-engined DH 104 Dove. The new aircraft benefited from de Havilland's experience as manufacturer of the world's first jet-powered airliner (the DH 106 Comet). ...
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Flanker advances
The Indian Government has approved the purchase of up to 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKstrike fighters. The order is for 20 aircraft with the option to purchase an additional 20. Details of the package remain scarce. Although the Indian aircraft may the first Su-30s to be fitted with canards. A ...
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Saab backs Aerospace Awards
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS become the latest company to sign up as a sponsor of the 1997 Flight International Aerospace Awards. The deal was signed recently by Bjorn Astrand (right), vice-president of sales and marketing at the Swedish manufacturer of the Saab 340 and 2000 turpoprops and Flight International editor Allan ...
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Blanc insists on fleet mixture
Julian Moxon/Paris Air France president Christian Blanc has made it clear to the French Government that he wants to order a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s as part of the flag carrier's fleet-renewal programme. Up to ten of each type are likely to be ...
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Germany delays Eurofighter purchase decision
German defence minister Volker Rühe has been ordered to present parliament with a Eurofighter procurement plan by the end of January before the production investment phase of the programme is approved. Rühe failed to secure 1997's funding for the Eurofighter before the critical 14 November meeting of the ...
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MDC pushes tailless F-15
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NASA, THE US Air Force, McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Pratt & Whitney plan to accelerate the F-15 ACTIVE thrust-vectoring programme to bring forward demonstration of a tailless aircraft, dubbed the F-15 MANX, boosting the likelihood that MDC will offer a stealthy, tailless derivative of the ...
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Fokker rescue plan put on hold
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SAMSUNG'S PROPOSED rescue of Fokker has been put on hold until the South Korean Government and other other local aerospace manufacturers decide whether or not they should back the programme. The deal ran into a last-minute delay when Samsung sought South Korean Government approval ...
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Safety delegates warned on Third World issues
David Learmount/DUBAI EFFORTS TO IMPROVE the world's air-transport safety will fail while the industry continues to ignore the needs of developing countries and the Third World, where most accidents happen, according to Pakistan International Airlines' Capt Amjad Faizi. Delegates from 40 nations attended the combined Dubai ...
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The sequence of events leading to the mid-air collision
The Boeing 747, one of eight Series 168Bs (ie, the -100B) operated by Saudi Arabian, departed New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 18.33 local, and headed on a westerly course (270¹) from the Delhi VOR navigation beacon (DPN). The 747, which seems to have been operating ...
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AEA breaks into robotics market
AEA technology has picked up its first major order for robotics equipment from an aerospace customer, for use in the production of an electro-thermal de-icing system on the leading edges of helicopter blades. Aerospace Composite Technologies has placed the ú500,000 ($795,000) order with the aim of increasing production ...