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Engines should be treated separately
Sir - Recent news suggests that civil organisations do not seem to share their safety-related views. I was amazed to find that an airline could conduct the same maintenance task, simultaneously, on both engines of a twin without a test before flight. Surely, if there is a need, for example, ...
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European capsule splashes down
THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S (ESA) Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator (ARD) capsule is pictured with two stabilisation balloons, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily, following its 18min descent-and-recovery test. After being dropped from a stratospheric balloon at 82,000ft (25,000m) and making a 33,000ft free-fall, its one drogue and three ...
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Agena is Lockheed Martin EELV choice
LOCKHEED MARTIN Astronautics has selected an upgraded version of the Agena upper-stage rocket engine for its entry into the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) competition. Team Agena 2000, consisting of Atlantic Research and Aerojet, is to provide a modified Agena storable-propellant main axial engine to ...
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Castparts acquires
Precision Castparts has acquired AE Turbine Components (AETC) from the UK's T&N group for $63.6 million. AETC produces investment castings for gas-turbine blades and vanes and will be part of the US company's Airfoils division. Source: Flight International
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Air-defence team
Raytheon, Hughes and Kongsberg have all teamed formally to offer the Hawk-AMRAAM medium air-defence system, which combines Raytheon's Hawk surface-to-air-missile system with Hughes' MPQ-64 radar, Kongsberg's Norwegian advanced surface- to-air missile-system fire-direction centre and the Hughes/Raytheon surface-launched advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles. Source: Flight International
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Learjey handling
Avcon Industries, of Newton, Kansas, has installed the first production set of Avcon Fins on a Learjet 35A owned by the US National Collegiate Athletic Association. The delta-shaped fins, fitted to the rear fuselage, improve low-speed handling. Source: Flight International
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Italian waterbombing
Bombardier has delivered two more Canadair CL-415s to Italy's Department of Civil Protection, taking its fleet of firefighting amphibians to six CL-415s and five CL-215s. The company says that Italy needs six more CL-415s. Source: Flight International
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Phase one
Japan's National Space Development Agency completed the third and final Phase 1 flight in its Automatic Landing Flight Experiment programme at Woomera, in South Australia, on 24 July. The scale-model prototype of the unmanned Hope spaceplane was dropped from a helicopter and it landed automatically. Source: ...
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Low cost boost
NASA has selected 15 proposals for contract negotiation in its Low Cost Boost Technology project, to develop innovative, off-the-shelf, launch-system technologies which could reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit. The proposals include propellant-delivery systems. Source: Flight International
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BION approval
The NASA advisory council has approved the experiments to be performed on board the international, Russian-led, 14-day Bion 11 and 12 orbital-research missions, after complaints that they did not meet animal-welfare and science standards. Source: Flight International
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Korry wins
Korry Electronics of Seattle has won an AlliedSignal Government Electronic Systems contract to supply active-matrix liquid-crystal-display (AMLCD) backlights for US McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Apaches and Lockheed C-141 Starlifters. Korry's night-vision-compatible backlight is designed to illuminate AMLCDs uniformly, allowing them to be read from a wide viewing angle and in direct ...
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ITT radars
ITT Gilfillan is to supply MPN-14K radar-approach-control systems worth $30 million to Turkey. The equipment will be operated and maintained by the Turkish air force. The California-based company has also won a $14 million contract for three airport-surveillance radar systems, developed with Italy's Alenia, from China's Civil Aeronautics Administration. ...
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Cubic aviods collision
Cubic Defense Systems, of San Diego, California, has received a $1.34 million contract to supply 29 ground-collision avoidance systems to CAE Aviation, for a Canadian Forces Lockheed Martin C-130 update programme. Source: Flight International
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BWIA
Gilles Filiatreault has been named chief executive of Caribbean airline BWIA, of Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. He was formerly chief executive at Liat and, before that, he was founder-president and chief executive of Air Canada regional carrier Air Alliance. Source: Flight International
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Air Jamaica
Albert Chappell has been appointed executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Air Jamaica, of Kingston, Jamaica, in a restructuring of the executive management. President David Taylor has resigned the position with immediate effect, to ease the organisational changes. Source: Flight International
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American
AMERICAN American Airlines, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Frank Morogiello managing director of commercial sales. He succeeds James Marsicano, who has become vice-president for the SABRE Interactive Group. Morogiello was previously American's managing director of field corporate programmes and special sales. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, of Sunnyvale, California, has named Mike Henshaw executive vice-president. He was formerly vice-president for civil space as well as vice-president for business development, advanced programmes and technology. John Dietz is appointed vice-president for business development, advanced programmes and technology. He has been vice-president of data-development ...
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AER Atlantic
Stephan Arthur is named managing director of Irish carrier Aer Atlantic, of Dublin. He has previously held senior positions with Air Atlantique, of Coventry, UK, and Gulf Aviation of Houston, Texas, USA. Source: Flight International
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British Midland
Rick Cooper has been named director of international marketing for the USA for UK carrier British Midland Airways. Cooper, who will be based in Scottsdale, Arizona, was formerly with US carrier United Airlines. Source: Flight International