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Litton
Donald Lepore has been elected, a corporate senior vice-president of advanced electronic, defence and information systems company Litton, of Woodland Hills, California. He joined Litton's Airtron division in 1959. James Benham has been promoted to president of the Electron Devices division, of San Carlos, California. Benham, who succeeds John Middaugh, ...
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Three spacecraft will soon be launched
Three spacecraft will soon be launched to Mars to continue exploration ofthe "red"planet Tim Furniss/London The "life on Mars" hysteria which swept the world's media in August has added a touch of spice to the launch of three new missions to the Red Planet in November and December ...
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Northrop Grumman aids Russian ATC
Northrop Grumman has participated in a Russian air-traffic-control (ATC) demonstration in which remote radar data were digitised and transmitted via satellite to the Vladivostok area control-centre. The October feasibility demonstration was conducted by Primoraerocontrol, the ATC organisation for the Primorski Krai region, in conjunction with Japanese authorities and ...
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CAE Electronics prepares to equip India's FANS centre
CAE Electronics is preparing to deliver a future air-navigation system (FANS) workstation to India, for installation in the Calcutta air-traffic-control centre. The workstation will enable India to offer fuel-saving routes over the Bay of Bengal to airlines operating Boeing 747-400s with FANS-1 avionics. The workstation is similar to ...
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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 ...