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Asiana engine bidders await decision
Competing power plant manufacturers are hoping for a decision from Asiana Airlines in November on the selection of engines for its planned fleet of 20 Boeing 777-200/300 and 28 Airbus A330-200/300 wide-body aircraft. According to local sources, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are now into the ...
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Lockheed Martin hopes for F-22 export approval soon
Lockheed Martin is hoping to receive US Government approval shortly to begin offering a foreign-military-sales (FMS) version of its F-22 air-superiority fighter to selected allied countries, including South Korea. According to Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems president Dain Hancock, the US Government is expected to give the ...
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Korean Air unveils helicopter mock-up for first time
Korean Air's Aerospace division has publicly unveiled, for the first time, a mock-up of an armed scout-attack variant of its planned Korean Multi-purpose Helicopter (KMH). Sikorsky has provided assistance with conceptual design of the KMH, and some aspects bear a strong resemblance to the US manufacturer's S-70 Black ...
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South Korea delays KTX-2 funding
Discussion of pending defence contracts dominated as South Korea staged its first international air show at Seoul's Sungnam airbase on 21-27 October. Paul Lewis reports. THE SOUTH KOREAN Government has again delayed any decision on launching full-scale development of the planned Samsung/Lockheed Martin KTX-2 advanced-trainer/ light-combat aircraft for ...
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Koreans join 747X
Boeing 747 subcontractor, Northrop Grumman has signed memoranda of understandings with Korean Air and Samsung Aerospace to supply structural components for the planned new 747-500/600X derivatives. The two South Korean companies are discussing supplying parts for the new aircraft's fuselage and empennage. Korean Air already builds the 747-400's flap tracks, ...
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Daewoo receives the first of Sokols
Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has taken delivery of its first Sokol W-3A helicopter and is due to receive another two by the end of the year. Two of the Polish machines will be added to the company's own helicopter fleet, and the third sold to a local buyer. ...
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Mars Global Surveyor Launch: 6 November, Cape Canaveral, Delta 2
The $54 million Lockheed Martin Mars Global Surveyor is the first in a planned series of orbiters and landers that will be dispatched to Mars during each two-year launch window, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004. The Mars Global Surveyor is basically a reflight of six of the eight experiments lost ...
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Pathfinder/Sojourner Launch: 2 December, Cape Canaveral, Delta
The Mars Pathfinder is the second mission in the Discovery Programme, a NASA initiative for planetary missions, developed in three years for $150 million. The mission is regarded by NASA as an engineering demonstration of key technologies for future Mars landers. The Pathfinder will be used to investigate ...
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Four-seat Katana plan
Diamond Aircraft hopes to fly a four-seat derivative of its popular Katana DA20 "within 36 months", says the Canadian-based company. A second line is already being built to meet demand at the London, Ontario factory. The company says that it has around 280 orders, and production for the rest of ...
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Smiths' work on Beech MkII
Sir - Peter Henley gives a very positive view of the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System-winning Raytheon Beech MkII trainer in his flight test (Flight International, 2-8 October, P30). Our only regret is that Smiths Industries' contribution is not mentioned - the programme will provide us with $100 ...
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The exiles return
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australia, which exported several hundred pilots, mainly to Asia and the Middle East following their mass resignation during the 1989 pilot's dispute, is again facing an upheaval. Qantas pilots are becoming increasingly restless over perceived inequities in pay and conditions between short-haul (ex-Australian ...
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ANA buys Wicat A320
All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan has become the latest carrier to purchase an Airbus Industrie A320 flight-management and guidance system (FMGS) "free-play" trainer from Wicat Systems. The ANA trainer consists of a cockpit replica with simulated primary-flight and navigation displays, multi-function control/ display unit, flight-control unit, thrust ...
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FAA warned over PC training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US Federal Aviation Administration has been urged to delay an advisory circular permitting use of personal computers (PCs) for flight training, after research questioned the extent to which learning by computer transfers to the cockpit. The FAA plans to grant credit for up ...
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SAS and JAL pick CAE simulators
Scandinavian airline System (SAS) has ordered two full-flight simulators from Canadian manufacturer CAE Electronics, which has also gained other new business from Japan Airlines (JAL) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). CAE will deliver a Boeing 737-700 simulator, convertible to -600 and -800 configurations, to the SAS ...
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Thomson advances low-cost imagery
Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) is building the first flight-simulator visual system to provide calligraphic image-generation capability using a commercial graphics-workstation. The simulator will be delivered to Aerospatiale in 1997 for use in aircraft development. The system has a Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine2 low-cost image-generator, running TTS' Space ...
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More meteosats
The European Space Agency (ESA) will purchase two further Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites from Aerospatiale on behalf of Eumetsat, the European meteorological satellite organisation, it was announced on 16 October (Flight International, 25 September-1 October). The MSG 1 will be launched in 2000 and MSGs 2 and 3 in ...
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China takes Russian cosmonaut training
A group of Chinese doctors is to attend the Russian cosmonaut training centre in 1997 as part of a $1 million contract to take the first step towards a manned Chinese space flight. The doctors will be trained as cosmonauts to study Russian methods of selecting and training ...
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Powerful Proton M will enter commercial launch market
Tim Furniss/LONDON ILS International Launch Services will offer the up-rated Russian Proton M booster for commercial launches to geostationary orbit (GEO) in 1999. With a 50% increase in payload capability, the rocket will be the most powerful on the commercial market. The Proton M, which ...
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Rockwell wins USAF deal
Rockwell International, teamed with Lockheed Martin, has won a $179 million contract to build the first satellite in the proposed US Air Force space-based infra-red system (SBIRS), to upgrade US missile early-warning capabilities. The experimental low-Earth-orbit-based (LEO) satellite will be used to demonstrate space-based and ground technologies. ...
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US NTSB hearing on ValuJet DC-9 crash
The 11 May crash of the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 into the Florida Everglades will be the subject of a US National Transportation Safety Board five-day public hearing, scheduled to begin on 18 November in Miami. The DC-9 was operating a flight from Miami to Atlanta, and crashed ...