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FAA tests IR safety and security device
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is evaluating whether a low-cost infra-red (IR) device can enhance safety and security at US airports. Night Sight IR cameras supplied by Texas Instruments are being tested at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and Washington's Dulles International. They are being used ...
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Flight plan change is over the top
Sir - For the Dutch and Belgian Governments to ask the International Civil Aviation Organisation for changes in flight plan-transmitted data seems a bit over the top (News in Brief, "C-130 crash", Flight International, 30 October-5 November, P18). Assuming that air-traffic control was talking to the Lockheed Martin ...
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AI(R)
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has made two new appointments. Paolo Revelli-Beaumont, who was a participant in the negotiations leading to the creation of AI(R), becomes general secretary and Francesco Giobbe, who was general secretary, leads a new legal directorate. Both positions are directly attached to chief executive Patrick Gavin. ...
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Atlas launches most powerful civil-communications satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Eutelsat Hot Bird 2, the world's most powerful civilian communications satellite, built by Matra Marconi Space (MMS), is heading for its operating position at 13¹E in geostationary orbit (GEO). It was launched by an ILS International Launch Services, Atlas 2A from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on ...
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Hughes confirms its ten-launch H2 deal
Hughes Space and Communications and Japan's Rocket Systems signed a contract on 25 November for ten launches of the up-rated H2A booster, (Flight International, 17-23 July, P17). The contract also includes an undisclosed number of launch options. The ten launches will begin in 2000 and will continue ...
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India cancels order for Russian launch
India will launch its remote-sensing satellite, the IRS 1D, aboard the country's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 1997, and has cancelled its $14 million order for a launch by the Russian Molniya rocket. The PSLV had been declared operational after launching the IRS P3 satellite in March. ...
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Space Station crew switched round
Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Solovyov has been replaced by cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko. Solovyov had been named as the commander of the first Soyuz TM flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in May 1988, flying with Russian flight engineer Sergei Krikalev and US astronaut William Shepherd. Solovyov had featured ...
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What's on
Christmas Show/LMA Winter Exhibition 7-8 December, Yorkshire, UK. Contact: Yorkshire Air Museum, Halifax Way, Elvington, York YO4 5AU, UK; tel: +44 (1904) 608595; fax: +44 (1904) 608246. "Carrying the Torch" Air Show Industry Convention 8-11 December, Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact Rebecca Scullon Eyke:+517 782 2424. ...
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Alitalia fined for anti-competitive actions
Italy's competition authority has fined Alitalia for using unfair tactics in its fight against two new national airlines Air One (formerly Aliadriatica) and Meridiana, which have been attempting to make inroads into the Italian domestic market. The L415 million ($280,000) fine was less than expected because of Alitalia's ...
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Sabena to consider lease of ex-Air France Europe A330s
The ex-Air Inter A330s could soon be flying for Sabena Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Sabena is considering the interim replacement of its three Airbus A310s early in 1997 with three leased ex-Air France Europe/Air Inter A330-300s. The Belgian airline has been examining the A330 and ...
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German EF2000 decision delayed again
EF2000 enters German holding pattern Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government now looks unlikely to make a decision before March 1997 to proceed with the production-investment phase of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, despite pressure from the industrial partners. Within two weeks of admitting that a ...
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Air France Europe shuttle makes good
Air France subsidiary Air France Europe, reports a "successful" first month's operations with its new high-frequency shuttle service between Paris/Orly and Marseille, Nice and Toulouse. The airline introduced the services in October in response to increased competition from independent carriers, even though one, Air Liberté, has since gone ...
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Space telescope
Space-based interferometry technology, which will allow astronomers to study the planets of other star systems for signs of life or for conditions to support Earth-based life, will be demonstrated by the NASA New Millennium Deep Space 2 mission due for launch in about 1999. Source: Flight ...
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Chinese spares
CFM International has opened a spares service centre at Beijing Capital Airport in co-operation with China Aviation Supplies. The 500m2 centre will provide line maintenance for more than 350 CFM56-3 power plants in service with 19 Chinese carriers. It will initially stock 600 parts, increasing to 1,500 line items with ...
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Lufthansa maintains
SAS has awarded an engine maintenance and overhaul contract to Germany's Lufthansa Technik (LHT). The contract, which was signed on 22 November, covers the International Aero Engines V2500-D5 engine, which powers SAS' McDonnell Douglas MD-90 fleet. Source: Flight International
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IL-76 hits mountain
A Russian air force Ilyushin Il-76T, carrying out a commercial cargo flight, crashed into a mountain in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia on 27 November, killing all eight crew and 21 passengers on board. The aircraft had just taken off from Abakan airport, at 20:00 local time, carrying some 30t ...
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Atlantic GPS
United Express regional carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines is to equip its entire fleet of 29 Jetstream 32s and 28 Jetstream 41s with AlliedSignal VHF-datalink/flight-management/global-positioning systems (GPS) beginning in December, with installation to be completed by early 1997. Source: Flight International
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United in Mexico
United Airlines and Mexicana Airlines have announced a code-sharing agreement to begin on 1 May, 1997, pending Government approvals. The deal covers flights between 13 US and 10 Mexican cities. Source: Flight International
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Thai test
Thai air-traffic-control agency AeroThai has bought three ARINC/Magellan CNS-12 global-positioning/data-link units with which to demonstrate integration of automatic dependent-surveillance and radar data for air-traffic management. Two units have been installed in a Cessna 337 for the trials later this month. Source: Flight International
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European wet-lease
World Airways has signed an $18 million wet-lease contract to operate one of its McDonnell Douglas MD-11s for an unnamed European carrier for a minimum of 400h a month from June 1997 to February 1998. Source: Flight International