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Russia approves the TPE331 for An-38 use
Russia approves the TPE331 for An-38 use THE RUSSIAN Interstate Registry's Aviation Committee has approved the AlliedSignal TPE331-14GR/HR turbo- prop for the Antonov An-38, clearing the way for certification of the 26-passenger twin-turboprop with the US engine in early 1997. The An-38 is undergoing certification test-flights ...
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MDC sets October date for MD-XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to begin offering its MD-XX, the MD-11 tri-jet derivative, to airlines as early as October and "-will launch as soon as possible after that, probably in early 1997", says Walt Orlowski, MDC vice-president and general manager of the programme. ...
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New Pan American poised for take-off
THE NEW PAN American World Airways is awaiting final US Department of Transportation (DoT) approval to start low-cost, long-haul scheduled services. On 20 August, the resurrected Pan Am gained tentative approval, but interested parties were given 15 days to comment on the DoT's decision to let the carrier begin services. ...
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Clinton stakes claim for security money
David Learmount/LONDON MASSIVE FUNDING for higher levels of security at US airports has been demanded by US President Bill Clinton, following initial recommendations from Vice-President Al Gore's Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. The US Federal Aviation Administration has to implement the recommendations. Demanding that Congress ...
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Defence strength lifts BAe
A SOLID performance in the defence sector and increasing demand for Airbus wings helped British Aerospace to a first-half pre-tax profit of £215 million ($333 million), up by 38% on a year ago. The loss-making Commercial Aerospace business continued to be adversely affected by the poor performance of ...
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Alitalia urges Air Europe
ALITALIA IS PUSHING for the charter operations of Air Europe Italy and Eurofly to be merged into a single airline, in an effort to prevent a damaging fare war between the two carriers. The move has been prompted by Eurofly's plans to enter long-range charter markets served by ...
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Saab sounds out potential partners for new regional
Andrzej Jeziorski/LINKOPING SWEDISH REGIONAL-turboprop manufacturer Saab Aircraft is in the early stages of talks to find a partner for a successor programme to its current range, the 35-seat Saab 340 and the 50-seat Saab 2000. According to Saab Aircraft president Hans Kr_ger, the company aims to ...
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BAe's plans for STN Atlas purchase falter
THE GERMAN DEFENCE ministry has blocked an attempt by British Aerospace to form an Anglo-German consortium to buy German defence-electronics company STN Atlas. BAe was hoping to team up with Daimler-Benz Aerospace for a joint bid, until the ministry intervened, saying that it wanted the company to go ...
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ValuJet aims for 16 September restart
VALUJET AIRLINES is poised to resume flight operations the week of 16 September, initially operating seven aircraft between Atlanta and four as-yet-unnamed US cities. The airline will be able to build its fleet to 15 aircraft and extend services to 17 destinations within 45 days. The Atlanta-based airline ...
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Sound of silence
THE UK GOVERNMENT has decided that the absolute noise limits for airliners leaving London's three major airports should be reduced by up to 3dBA. This action, it says, will reduce noise for airport neighbours at little cost to the airlines - "only" 12% of departures of the heaviest-laden Boeing 747s ...
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Crazy Hawk RC-7Bs go to South Korea
TWO HEAVILY MODIFIED US Army de Havilland RC-7B airborne reconnaissance aircraft have been deployed for operations in South Korea. The aircraft have been fitted with the Crazy Hawk ARL-M (airborne-radar low-multi-function) radar system derived from the Hughes-made HiSAR high-resolution ground-mapping radar. In conjunction with California Microwave, ...
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RAAF rejection fails to halt F124/T45
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ALLIEDSIGNAL AND McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are to continue with a planned flight-test programme of the F124 turbofan in the T-45A Goshawk, despite being dropped from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) lead-in fighter competition. The decision to reject the US aircraft leaves only the ...
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Boeing scours world for engineers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESand Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING IS STEPPING up a massive worldwide recruitment drive in an effort to find engineers to cope with a record number of commercial-, space- and military-product developments. "We're hiring everybody we can get," says the company, which is searching for up ...
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Eurocopter embargo payment judgment due in October
A FRENCH Commercial Court will judge on 3 October on whether Eurocopter should pay an international arms dealer for allegedly arranging the sale of 50 Super Pumas to South Africa during the United Nations arms embargo to the country (Flight Inter- national, 1-6 May). The ...
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Swedish merger
Saab and Ericsson are to combine their defence-electronics activities into a new joint-venture company. Ericsson Saab Avionics will consist of Ericsson Microwave Systems, Saab Dynamics Airborne Equipment and the electrical-environment department of Saab Military Aircraft. The concern, which has its main interest in work on the Saab JAS39, will have ...
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France reveals plans to shake up DGA
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S DEFENCE minister Charles Millon has revealed plans for a massive shake-up of the DGA (direction generale de l'armament) arms-procurement agency as part of the overall restructuring of the nation's defence industry. The minister says that the costs and development time for new weapons ...
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Air-conditioning duo test regional system
KATSUHIKO HAMADA, ENGINEERING STAFF manager at Sumitomo Precision Products and leader of the Japanese company's 100-seat regional-jet air-conditioning system co-development team (left), and Greg DeFrancesco, Hamilton Standard's chief engineer and co-development team leader, prepare an air-conditioning pack for testing at Hamilton's Connecticut, US site. Hamilton and Sumitomo are developing the ...
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Pros and cons of low/mid wings
Sir - The concept of the omnibus owes more to tradition than to talent; if a design works, there is no need to change it. Airbus Industrie aircraft - and Boeing airliners - are low-winged, so Airbus, with its A3XX, abjures the main advantage, which a clean-sheet approach has over ...
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Air-breathing technology
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Advanced Space Transportation office, in Huntsville, Alabama, has selected five industry teams to develop the much-vaunted but yet operationally unproven technology for air-breathing rocket engines. This could be the next step towards new propulsion techniques to take the agency into the next century and could ...
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Base records
The British Aerospace Systems and Equipment (BASE) SCR500-660 combined cockpit-voice/flight-data recorder has been selected for the Sikorsky S-92 multi-purpose helicopter. The unit can store 1h of voice and 10h of data. The SCR500-120, meanwhile, which holds 2h of voice, has been picked by Aero International (Regional) for its Avro RJ ...