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Alliant Systems picks up TUAV
ALLIANT SYSTEMS has beaten eight other competitors to the contract to produce the Pentagon's Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV). The UAV Joint Project Office on 2 May awarded prime contractor Alliant Techsystems a $52.6 million contract to provide TUAV systems for a two-year advanced concept-technology demonstration. ...
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UNC divests to clear way for Garrett deal
UNC IS TO SELL its AlliedSignal TFE731 overhaul approval to Sabreliner to comply with anti-trust conditions applicable to its acquisition of Garrett Aviation Services. Garrett will retain its authority to service the widely used business-jet engine. UNC now hopes to complete the acquisition of Garrett during the second ...
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Separate expense
Julian Moxon/PARIS BUSINESS-JET OPERATORS are becoming increasingly concerned about the costs of upgrading older aircraft to prepare them for the new reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) rules, recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and due for introduction on the North Atlantic in early 1997. Owners ...
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New entrant
Tim Furniss/LONDON A NEW ENTRANT in the commercial-launcher market will have its debut on 25 May with the lift-off of Europe's Ariane 5. The first flight will carry four Cluster science satellites, on the first of two European Space Agency-funded demonstration flights. When it enters service ...
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The precision- and non-precision-approach debate
Sir - I refer to "Why a precision approach is safer" (Letters, Flight International, 17-23 April, P62), in which Dimitris Vourdoubas and Capt John Raby argue the pros and cons of attempting to fly a non-precision approach to a constant slope. Unfortunately, non-precision approaches vary, not least in ...
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BA's franchising goes offshore
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced its first offshore franchise deal, with Sun-Air of Scandinavia. The UK carrier expects the deal to be the first of similar international agreements. The link with Sun-Air is effective from 1 August, and will provide the carrier with a ...
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IFE delivery delays hit BEA profits
THE IMPACT OF DELAYS to deliveries of its interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems caught up with BE Aerospace (BEA) in 1995, leaving the group showing a net loss of $83 million. BEA, which has been waiting to cash in on its growing backlog of IFE orders, announced in ...
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Regional repercussions
Regional jets headline this year's US Regional Airline Association show, with the debut of Embraer's EMB-145 and the debate on turboprop safety. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA MORE THAN 18 months after an American Eagle ATR 72 crashed near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board, repercussions of the accident ...
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Dusseldorf is re-opened to regionals as ban is lifted
EUROPE'S REGIONAL airlines have forced Germany's Dusseldorf Airport to drop a ban on all turboprop flights after the airport authority conceded in court that it would have more capacity available within a month (Flight International, 1-7 May). The court directed that all turboprop aircraft must be allowed back ...
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MD900 Explorer faces IFR delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Ajoint McDONNELL Douglas (MDC)/AlliedSignal effort to develop an instrument flight-rules (IFR) package for the MD900 Explorer has been delayed because of "greater-than-expected complexity". The IFR package, announced at Heli-Expo in February, was due to be certificated by the end of April. MDC ...
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Harness hitch adds three-month delay to F-16 test programme
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE OPERATIONAL TEST and evaluation of three Lockheed Martin F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU) aircraft has been put back by around three months while the manufacturer reworks wire harnesses which are "below specification." The wiring problem, which is related to uneven solder used ...
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Boeing schedules September delivery for first F-22 wing
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS ON schedule to deliver large sub-assemblies for the first pre-production F-22 air-superiority fighter to its partner Lockheed Martin in September, amid rising confidence that the first flight will take place on time in late May 1997. Boeing's two biggest sections of ...
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BFGoodrich strikes with new Stormscope thunderstorm detector
BFGOODRICH Aerospace has introduced the WX-950 Stormscope thunderstorm-detection system, billed as the only lighting detector with two modes of operation. In cell mode, the WX-950 uses a ranging algorithm to map thunderstorms. In strike mode, the system records and displays individual lightning strikes. While cell mode was developed ...
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Transasia Delays Float
Taiwan's third largest carrier TransAsia Airways has postponed until early 1997 its planned public listing, after a 88% plunge in its net profit for the last financial year. Its net profit fell to NT$55 million ($2 million), mainly as a result of large capital expenditures. Source: Flight International
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GPS Certification
Rockwell-Collins' GPS-4000 global-positioning-system (GPS) sensor, has been certificated on the Learjet 60 business jet. The 12-channel GPS receiver is also approved on the Canadair Challenger 604 and Raytheon Beechjet 400A. Source: Flight International
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Leisure International selects Airbus A321
UK CHARTER CARRIER Leisure International Airways (formerly Air UK Leisure) has selected the Airbus A321-200 rather than the Boeing 737-800 for its future fleet needs. LIA declines to comment on the selection, although it confirms that an announcement "is imminent". The airline has replaced its fleet ...
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Lockheed Martin streamlines procurement
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S aeronautics sector has implemented procurement changes, which are projected to reduce operating costs by $410 million by 1999. The company has consolidated procurement for its Fort Worth, Texas, and Marietta, Georgia, aircraft plants at the Aeronautics Material Management Center in Fort Worth. The centre was established ...
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ANZ plans twice-weekly Australia-Shanghai flights
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), plans to use up its remaining Australian fifth-freedom rights, by flying twice weekly between Australia and Shanghai. The carrier says that it will "probably" operate the services from Sydney, but has not ruled out using its Brisbane hub. General manager sales and marketing international ...
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NASA will use OSC Pegasus booster for Trace craft satellite
NASA HAS EXERCISED an option to use an Orbital Sciences (OSC) Pegasus XL booster under the Small Expendable Launch Vehicle Services (SELVS) contract to launch the Transitional Region and Coronal Explorer (Trace) satellite in 1997. The deal is worth $12 million. This is the fifth launch to be ...