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FAA approves Boeing antenna
Boeing's phased-array communication antenna has been certificated for operation by the US Federal Aviation Administration, after it was fitted to a corporate Boeing 757 at the Associated Air Center in Dallas, Texas. The antenna is able to receive live television and business data, including stock-market reports and financial ...
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China venture opens
The Xiamen, China-based Lucas Aerospace/Taikoo Aircraft Engineering (TAECO)joint-venture company has become operational, following approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The centre specialises in the repair and overhaul of aircraft engine and flight controls, and power-generation systems. TAECOis owned by Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering, Xiamen Aviation Industrial, CAAC, ...
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Reasons for A3XX wing arrangement
Sir - Airbus Industrie is glad to see the interest that the A3XX is creating among Flight International readers. This is reflected in the recent proposals for the wing arrangement which we have read in your magazine. Since the mid-1980s, during the development of the A3XX, various configurations ...
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Vanguard Variations
The Merchantman's origins lay with the 100- to 140-seat Vickers Vanguard of the early 1960s. The four-engined turboprop was first flown from the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands on 20 January 1959, and entered service with British European Airways (BEA) in December 1960. Although very economical to operate, the design was ...
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MLU kit delivery
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first five production kits for the F-16A/B Mid-Life Update programme to SABCA in Belgium, ahead of schedule. Kits will be forwarded to depots in Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, and the first of 305 European F-16s to be upgraded in the MLU production phase is ...
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British Airways
Colin Matthews has been named managing director for British Airways Engineering, with effect from January 1997. He is now vice-president and general manager for General Electric Hydro, based in Montreal, Canada. He has been with GE since 1988 Source: Flight International
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Aerospatiale to build new Arabsat craft
A new-generation communications satellite for the Arab League, the Arabsat 2-BSS1, will be built by Aerospatiale, with the payload to be provided by Alcatel Espace. Aerospatiale has built three Arabsat 1s and two Arabsat 2s, the second of which was launched on an Ariane 4 on 13 November ...
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ESA sets date for critical Cluster mission meeting
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Science Programme committee is to meet on 28 November to decide whether to endorse a plan to refly the $500 million Cluster mission following the destruction of the four component satellites on board the failed maiden flight of the Ariane 5 in June. ...
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MMS test fires UK-10 ion thruster
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has test-fired the UK-10 ion thruster in a newly commissioned chamber at the company's Portsmouth factory, marking a new milestone in a five-year MMS development programme. This will culminate in the flight of two similar thrusters on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Artemis satellite. ...
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Lockheed Martin wins $1.8 billion SBIRS contract
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.8 billion contract to build the five-satellite geostationary orbit Space Based Infra Red System (SBIRS) missile early-warning fleet, which will be launched in 2006. One ground spare will also be built. The satellites will be based on the Lockheed Martin A2100 spacecraft ...
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Russia will ditch automatic docking system on Soyuz
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian space industry's cash crisis has claimed another victim. Future manned Soyuz TM spacecraft will no longer be fitted with the Kurs S-band automatic docking system. The spacecraft is a key part of the Russian manned space programme and is used to shuttle ...
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Spar Aerospace leads Borealis Group direct-broadcast venture
Canada's Spar Aerospace will be the founding investor in the national direct broadcast satellite (DBS) company, the Borealis Group. Satellite transponder capacity will be offered from orbit in 1998. Spar will link with the USA's CTA International, of Maryland, to build a fleet of lighter and less expensive ...
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Global adventure
Corporate aviation has never seen anything quite like Bombardier's Global Express -the aircraft or the programme. Graham Warwick/MONTREALCutaway drawing by Tim Hall/LONDON When Bombardier conceived the Global Express, it "-wanted to put a stake in the ground beyond anything that existed". As flight-testing of the ultra-long-range business jet ...
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IPTN drops certification plans for PA2 prototype
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE I NDUSTRI Pesawat Nusantara Terbang (IPTN) has abandoned plans to use its second N250 regional prototype as an airworthiness-certification vehicle in a bid to avoid any further postponement of the aircraft's maiden flight. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended using prototype PA2 to begin certification, ...
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Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November,...
Transport Vietnam '96 26-30 November, Hanoi, Vietnam. Contact: Adsale Exhibition Services, 14/F Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; tel: +852 2811 8897; fax: +852 2516 5024. Airport Regions Conference 28-29 November, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Congress Team/Area Travel AGency, PO Box 6 (Päivärinnankatu 1), FIN-00251, Helsinki, ...
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Boeing tests 747-X in UKDefence Agency windtunnel
BOEING IS CARRYING out aerodynamic testing of its proposed 747-500X/600X derivatives at the UK Defence Research Agency's low-speed windtunnel at Farnborough. The tests are primarily aimed at evaluating the performance of the new, larger wing design developed for the 747 growth models. More than 1,000h of wind/tunnel tests have already ...
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Boeing plans tail-strike safeguards for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is developing a series of design changes for the 757-300 to reduce the potentially greater risk of tail-strikes affecting the stretched aircraft. The -300 will be 7m longer than the current -200 production model and is almost exactly the same length as ...
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AI(R) seeks lease financing
PaulLewis/ZHUHAI AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) is asking competing engine manufacturers to provide lease financing for the yet-to-be-launched AIR 70 regional jet, in exchange for being selected to supply the new aircraft's powerplant. The European consortium is asking the three rival engine suppliers to assist with up ...
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ValuJet fire tests begin
Federal air-safety investigators have attempted to re-create the fire which brought down a ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 on 11 May in Florida. Cardboard boxes of oxygen-generating canisters and inflated tyres were loaded into the cargo hold of a fuselage in an attempt to duplicate the accident. Some of the ...
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FSF launches final assault on 'killer' CFIT accident rate
David Learmount/DUBAI THE FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) is this week launching the final phase of its attack on the airline industry's worst killer-accident category, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), insisting that it intends to halve the annual number of CFIT accidents by 1998. Over the last ...