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Key free-flight tool evaluated
Evaluation of a conflict probe which, promises to be a key element of the future US "free-flight" air-traffic-management system is under way at Indianapolis. The prototype conflict probe, named the user-requirement evaluation tool (URET), has been developed for the US Federal Aviation Administration by Mitre's Center for Advanced Aviation System ...
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Beech T-1 Jayhawk
The T-1 is a military training version of the Beechcraft 400A, itself derived from the Mitsubishi Diamond II. Source: Flight International
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Hawker 800
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force has taken delivery of its first U-125A search-and-rescue aircraft, based on the Hawker 800 business jet, and plans to procure 27. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force already operates four U-125 flight-inspection aircraft. The USAF operates six similarly equipped Hawker 800s, designated C-29As. ...
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Beech JPATS
Beech won the USAF/USN Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition in 1995 with this development of the Pilatus PC-9. JPATS plans call for production of 712 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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AAR refinishes
AAR is to refinish the exteriors of between 70 and 100 American Eagle Aero International (Regional) ATR 42s and Saab 340s at its Oklahoma City maintenance centre over 24-36 months, beginning in late October. AAR will also overhaul landing gear and flap-carriage assemblies, of 12 Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747 ...
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Portuguese F-16s
The US Department of Defense intends to provide Portugal with 25 surplus US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, plus spare engines, overhaul work and spare parts, worth an estimated $258 million. Source: Flight International
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Heron tests
The Israeli defence forces are to begin testing long-endurance, high-altitude, unmanned air vehicles for missions, which are now carried out by crewed aircraft. The tests will involve the Israel Aircraft Industries Malat Heron being operated with payloads such as surveillance radars, long-range oblique cameras and electronic-warfare packages. The Heron is ...
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Thomson & Hughes JV
Thomson CSF-Airsys and Hughes Aircraft will set up a company to respond to NATO's Air Command and Control System requirement, aimed at replacing the existing NATO Air Defence Ground Environment. The jointly owned company will be called Air Command Systems International. Source: Flight International
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Vantage roll-out
The proof-of-concept prototype, of the VisionAire's all composite Vantage business jet, will be rolled out on 8 November. The six seat, single-engined design, is being completed by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, at its plant in Mojave, California. Production examples will be assembled at a new plant in Ames, Iowa. The ...
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K-C completion
K-C Aviation has completed the interior installation of its first Canadair Challenger 604. The aircraft, which is owned and operated by FMC, was completed within 18 weeks. K-C Aviation has six more Challenger 604s in completion, which are scheduled for delivery in 1997. Source: ...
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Combs buys
AMR Combs is acquiring certain assets of Air/Lyon's executive-aviation-services business at John Wayne/ Orange County Airport in Santa Ana, California. The deal includes the fixed-base operation, the hangar site and the flight-operation programme at the airport, which have been operated under the name Martin Aviation since 1923. Air/Lyon will retain ...
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Dragonair delays
Dragonair of Hong Kong is to postpone its planned public listing on the local exchange until the end of 1997, reportedly to give the airline more time to improve its profit growth. It had originally been intended to float part of Dragonair's stock early in 1997 as part of the ...
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DRS echo
Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems' (DRS) Precision Echo unit has received a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $8 million, to supply 8mm cockpit video-recorder systems for Fairchild A/OA-10As. Precision Echo supplies similar systems for the McDonnell Douglas F-18 and AV-8B. Source: Flight International
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Starsem expects
The Russian space agency, Samara, Aerospatiale and the Stasem Arianespace consortium, which is marketing the Soyuz booster, expects to sign its first launch with Globalstar 'soon', say sources. Source: Flight International
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Spaceport first
The first launch from Spaceport Florida's refurbished launch pad No 46 at Cape Canaveral is scheduled for September 1997, when a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV 1) will carry NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter into space. After the failure of the maiden flight of the LMLV 1 in 1995, NASA had ...
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Marconi win
Matra Marconi Space has won a $10 million contract to provide a network of ship-borne, mobile and central-hub satellite-communications terminals, called the SISCOMIS, to the Brazilian armed forces. They will use the X-band terminals on the Brazilsat B1 and B2. Source: Flight International
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Slow progress
Cash shortages have delayed yet another Russian space launch. The Progress M33 tanker, which was to have been launched on a Soyuz U rocket on 15 October to supply cargo to the Mir 1 space station, has been grounded until early November. Budget cuts have reduced the annual production of ...
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Tyrolean heads-up
The first operational Category IIIa landing of a head-up display (HUD)-equipped Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet was performed by a Tyrolean Airways flightcrew at Graz, Austria, on 10 October. The Flight Dynamics HUD was certificated for use on the Austrian carrier's Regional Jets in April, allowing landings at runway visual range ...
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Airports demobbed
Four former military airbases in the USA, have been enrolled in a federal grants programme, designed to convert former military airfields into civil airports. Funding of $26 million has been put up in fiscal year 1996 for the Military Airport Programme. The plan includes disused airfields at Williams AFB, Bergstrom ...