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Malaysia is still uncertain on maritime-helicopter choice
Malaysia may not make a final decision on its choice of a maritime helicopter for its two new-build frigates until the middle of 1997, despite clear indications that a variant of the Westland Super Lynx is favoured. First Admiral Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor, the Royal Malaysian Navy Inspector ...
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Hobart and Mak launch ground-power units
Hobart Aircraft Ground Power has introduced a 90kVA ground-power unit (GPU), driven by a Deutz water-cooled engine. The GPU was launched at the InterAirport '96 show, held in Atlanta, Georgia, in October. The GPU combines an electrically governed Deutz engine with a generator designed by Troy, Ohio-based Hobart. ...
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United picks E-Ticket marketing team
United Airlines has teamed with IBM and British Airways' Speedwing consulting arm to market its E-Ticket electronic-ticketing system to carriers worldwide. United says that more than 30% of eligible customers now use the E-Ticket service introduced a year ago on the US carrier's 4,000 daily domestic flights. United plans to ...
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Langkawi to expand as training school
Langkawi Helicopter Services (LHS) is set to expand following the purchase of 30% of the firm by Amanah Saham Anak Langkawi. Chief executive Mohammad Abdullah says that LHS will set up a helipad and helicopter-training school in Langkawi on land near the airport provided by the Langkawi Development Authority. ...
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Safeguards are needed on reporting
Sir - The leader "No-gain pain" (Flight International, 16-22 October) was interesting reading. It is important to protect the identities of those accused by confidential incident-reporting systems. Most systems make strenuous efforts to protect the identity of accusers, because otherwise the flow of information would dry up. ...
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Anti-Radiation Missiles
Germany's Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik unveiled its Aramis design for an anti-radiation missile (ARM) at the Berlin air show in June. The basic configuration of the dual-mode-seeker, ramjet-powered missile was the result of several collaborative projects with France. This included the SPRINT programme to develop a dual-mode passive-radar/imaging- infra-red seeker. ...
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SECA
Henri-Paul Puel, chairman and chief executive of France's Sogerma Maintenance Centre, has been appointed chairman and chief executive of Sogerma subsidiary SECA. Puel is a replacement for Maurice Bloch, who has held the position since 1990, and was deputy executive officer from 1976. Source: Flight International
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GEC-Marconi is first choice for Chinese FC-1 avionics
China National Aero Technology Import and Export (CATIC) is set to select the GEC-Marconi Blue Hawk radar and avionics for the new Chengdu Aircraft (CAC) FC-1 fighter. A new F-7 variant has also been revealed. CATIC and CAC are expected to choose GEC-Marconi as its preferred radar and ...
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Airbus completes high-altitude landing tests
Airbus has completed a series of high-altitude landing and engine-out take-off demonstrations at China's Lhasa Airport with an A340. The trials at the 11,700ft (3,600m) Tibetan airport included a take-off with a simulated No 1 engine failure at V1 and climb-out of the Lhasa valley to an altitude ...
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GPS venture
Rockwell-Collins has signed a deal with Shanghai Avionics and Shanghai Broadcast Equipment to design, develop and build a global positioning system (GPS) in China. Shanghai Rockwell Collins Navigation and Communications Equipment will supply commercial GPS equipment for local use. Source: Flight International
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China reveals new RPV
China has unveiled a new medium-range remotely piloted vehicle (RPV).The Xian ASN-206 is powered by a single HS-700 four-cylinder pusher engine, rated at 37kW (50hp). It has a maximum take-off weight of 222kg, a wing span of 6m and overall length of 3.8m. According to Xian ASN Technology, the RPV ...
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OSC hit by another Pegasus failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Orbital Sciences' (OSC) Pegasus XL air-launched satellite booster failed in its mission on 4 November for the third time in six flights. The vehicle's satellite payload - Argentina's first spacecraft, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-B), and NASA's High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) - failed to ...
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Russian Mars 96 probe is ready for November launch
Mars 96, Russia's contribution to an international three-craft exploration of the Red Planet, is due to be launched by a Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 16 November. It will follow the US Mars Global Surveyor, launched on 7 November, and the Mars Pathfinder, set for a 2 ...
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Bold venture
Developing the X-33 VentureStar re-usable launcher prototype will present a difficult challenge. Tim Furniss/LONDON "The VentureStar is going to revolutionise the world of space launch-it is going to open up a thrilling new frontier in space - the business frontier", says Micky Blackwell, president and chief ...
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USAir and Emirates boost Airbus
Ramon Lopez/Washington DC and Max Kingsley-Jones/London Airbus Industrie has won two significant orders, securing agreements with USAir for up to 400 single-aisle aircraft and with Emirates for as many as 23 A330-200s. Both deals were won in the face of fierce competition from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. ...
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Australia accepts AlliedSignal runway monitor
Air Services Australia has accepted the AlliedSignal Aerospace precision runway-monitor (PRM) installed at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport. Sydney is the first airport outside the USA to be equipped with the PRM, an electronically scanned, monopulse, secondary-surveillance radar which, enables simultaneous approaches to multiple parallel runways. The PRM scans ...
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Airbus upgrade
Aerospatiale maintenance and overhaul subsidiary Sogerma-Socea has signed contracts with Air France and Air France Europe covering the supply of equipment for Airbus A320s and A340s.The company is to upgrade galleys and crew rest areas for seven Air France A340s. Delivery of the first two ship sets is due in ...
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Polynesian revamp
Following financial restructuring a year ago, Polynesian Airlines has reported a net profit of $720,000 on sales of $25.8 million. The airline, which operates a Boeing 737-300 on regional routes, funded the purchase of a second de Havilland Twin Otter for inter-island routes. Source: Flight International
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US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgrade
US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgradeSource: Flight International
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GAO reports on US airline safety
New US airlines suffer higher accident rates than those of established carriers, Congressional investigators say. Start-up carriers during their first five years of operation were also shown to have higher incident- and enforcement-action rates. The US General Accounting Office says that the analysis highlights the need for better ...