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Brazil nears first VLS satellite launch
Brazil's first satellite is due to be launched within the "the next few months" aboard the Veiculo Lancador de Satellites (VLS), says the country's president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The three-stage, solid-propellant VLS vehicle, with four strap-on boosters, will place a national environmental data collection satellite into low-Earth orbit ...
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Japan's Adeos eyes the world
Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, the 3,500kg Adeos, the largest craft built by the country, has started its surveying mission despite a problem with one of two sets of attitude control system thrusters which has failed. The Adeos is equipped with a suite of five national and two NASA instruments, ...
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Eurocopter pessimistic
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROCOPTER SAYS that it faces stagnation in the helicopter market "for the next five years", with a virtually no-growth forecast in military business until well into the next century. Military sales account for the largest element of the Franco-German consortium's balance sheet, but ...
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Safety audit grounds Rich International
RICH INTERNATIONAL Airways has become the latest US carrier to be grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration after a safety audit uncovered alleged deficiencies in crew training and maintenance. The emergency suspension was ordered after an inspection prompted by allegations that the Miami-based operator did ...
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Kuwait to buy armed UH-60L Black Hawk
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC KUWAIT IS EXPECTED to complete the purchase of an armed version of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60L helicopter within the next several months, say industry officials. In 1994, the Pentagon offered Kuwait 16 McDonnell Douglas Helicopters AH-64A Apache gun-ships, plus 500 Hellfire laser-designated-anti-tank ...
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UH-60Q Dustoff under development
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT hopes that a UH-60Q medical evacuation helicopter two-year qualification programme will lead to the purchase of more than 300 UH-60Q Dustoff rotorcraft lasting through to the end of the century. In February, The US helicopter maker won a $14.6 million Phase II contract from the US ...
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Luftwaffe Tornado ECRs to lose IIS reconnaissance mission
THE GERMAN AIR force's Panavia Tornado ECRs are to lose their secondary reconnaissance capability as their Honeywell infra-red imaging system (IIS) is transferred to new reconnaissance pods. The ECR variant's primary defence-suppression mission is too demanding to allow an additional, secondary, reconnaissance role, according to German air force ...
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TWA bomb evidence mounts up
SUSPICIONS THAT A BOMB brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on 17 July have been reinforced by additional traces of explosive residue and a Boeing analysis of a centre fuel-tank explosion. Accident investigators and federal law-enforcement officials still cannot say, that the TWA Boeing 747-100 was downed by a ...
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British Airways expects 777 ETOPS in October
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH BRITISH AIRWAYS is expected to be cleared for inaugural transatlantic services with the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 in October, pending final approval by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The engine/airframe completed extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) testing on 31 July, and US Federal ...
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Swissair caution
Swissair has made a slight downward adjustment to its year-end profit forecast, adding to the cautious outlook among Europe's airlines. The adjustment came after the group revealed a SFr51 million ($42.5 million) loss in the first half of the year. The result is nevertheless an improvement on the SFr86 loss ...
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Looking at dwell-cracks in CF6-50
Sir - Further to my letters "Solving problems in development" and "Development problems continue" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P44 and 13-19 March, P37), I note a statement in the June issue of the Royal Aeronautical Society journal which says that following two uncontained compressor-disc failures in General Electric CF6-50s, the ...
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Sukhoi Su-37 display steals the show
Not content with introducing the "Cobra" manoeuvre into the display vocabulary, Sukhoi has gone a step further with an even more stunning manoeuvre from its thrust-vector-modified Su-27M. The aircraft, dubbed the Su-37, stole the show with a display which saw it entering a Cobra-like manoeuvre, only to continue beyond the ...
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Three shafts: the basics
Most turbofans have a low- and high-pressure spool, whereas the R-R engines have three: a high, intermediate and low spool. R-R believes that this is more advantageous because each spool can be better optimised aerodynamically and, therefore, works more efficiently. The fan and booster run together on the LP spool ...
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SatCom for NATO
Siemens Plessey Systems is to supply NATO with a transportable telemetry and control terminal for NATO communication satellites. The S-Band Transportable SATCOM Ground Terminal will be located, initially, in the UK. The system can be transported by sea, air or land and can be set up by a four-man team ...
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Colourful display
Belgian visual-systems supplier Barco has revealed a new generation of "ruggedised" flat-panel displays. Based on its colour-active liquid-crystal display technology, the panels are sized at 250, 325 and 400mm diameter and, for the first time, a real-time window can be displayed while another application is running. Source: Flight ...
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BA to phase out its ageing 747-100s
British Airways says that the recent order/reconfirmation of 14 Boeing 747-400s will enable the ageing fleet of 15 747-100s to be phased out over the next four years. "These aircraft have more than earned their investment", says chief executive Bob Ayling. BA has not yet decided on the destiny of ...
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Pakistan bilateral
The USA and Pakistan have tentatively agreed a new bilateral aviation accord that will greatly expand services between the two nations. Pending final approval, the two governments have already begun to open up access. US carriers, which were previously restricted to Karachi, now have free access to destinations and to ...
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ILFC leases
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed two International Aero Engines-V2500-powered Airbus A321s with Air Macau for delivery, in February and April 1997 on seven year leases. The aircraft will join two A320s and two A321s already leased from the US lessor. ILFChas also placed a Rolls-Royce Trent 772-powered Airbus A330-300 ...
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Daewoo starts pre-production KTX-1
DAEWOO OF SOUTH KOREA HAS BEGUN construction of a pre-production KTX-1 prototype at its Changwon plant. The fifth and final test aircraft, powered by a 700kW (950shp) Pratt & Whitney PT6A-62 turboprop engine, is scheduled to be flown in early 1998. The improved aircraft will incorporate the various aerodynamic refinements ...
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MDC brings YC-15 out of the desert
THE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) YC-15 is being brought out of mothballs, after almost 15 years of desert storage, to act as an advanced-technology test bed for the US Air Force and MDC. Likely uses include advanced flight- and propulsion-control technology. The aircraft went into storage at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona, ...