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NASA to pick X-33 contractor June
THE X-33 SINGLE-stage-to-orbit re-usable launch vehicle (RLV) contractor will be selected by NASA before the end of June. One of three industry teams selected in 1995 to define concepts for an RLV to replace the Space Shuttle will be chosen to design, manufacture and flight-test an X-33 ...
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Fairchild considers a 'stand-up' Metro
FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT will decide by late July whether to launch a version of its Metro 23 19-seat regional airliner with a "stand-up" cabin. The aircraft would be available 24 months after launch, says chairman Carl Albert. The cabin would be stretched vertically, to give the same 1.8m aisle ...
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Siemens award
Siemens Plessey Systems has won a £37 million ($55 million) contract from Lockheed Martin's Martin Marietta Overseas to manufacture target-acquisition and designation sight/pilot's night-vision sensor subsystems for the British Army's McDonnell Douglas/Westland WAH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters. Source: Flight International
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MDC briefs 11 airline customers on MD-XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) plans to reveal the first technical details of its MD-XX tri-jet derivative family at a conference being held this week in Long Beach, California, to which up to 60 airlines have been invited to attend. "The schedule has accelerated ...
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MAS training
The British Aerospace Flying College at Prestwick, Scotland, has been awarded a contract from Malaysian Airline System to train 32 student pilots over the next 12 months. The first party arrives this month. Source: Flight International
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Terabit business
Evans & Sutherland has formed a Display Systems business-unit around newly acquired Terabit, with products including simulated electronic flight-instruments, and headed by Terabit founder Allen Tanner. Source: Flight International
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Australian courseware
Australia's Stanilite Pacific is to develop courseware for aircrew and maintenance training on computer systems in Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Hercules 2s on order for the Royal Australian Air Force. . Source: Flight International
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Business approval
SimuFlite Training International has received Level D approval for its CAE-built Gulfstream IV-SP simulator, while FlightSafety International has received Level D certification for a Raytheon Beech 1900D simulator Source: Flight International
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Dornier training
Dornier has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia Airlines (MAS) for training for aircraft maintenance and overhaul. They will identify areas of co-operation and develop courses for MAS' new aviation academy Source: Flight International
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Litton ties-up DASA
Litton and Daimler-Benz Aerospace have formed a team to compete for the German air force's competition for a new radar-warning equipment (NWRE) for the Panavia Tornado strike aircraft. A contract for up to 120 systems is due to be awarded in the first quarter of 1997. Source: Flight ...
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Precision approach
A US Air Force-led NATO working group has been formed to study future precision-approach requirements. It plans to make its recommendations by the end of 1997. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK are participating . Source: Flight International
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Propeller check
Kent, Washington-based Pacific Propeller (PPI) has received a one-year contract to inspect blade taper-bores on Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion propellers. The Navy is checking all propellers for cracks, corrosion, or other anomalies. Source: Flight International
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CD-ROM service
Aircraft Technical Publishers of Brisbane, California and AlliedSignal Commercial Avionics are combining to produce a CD-ROM library of service manuals for AlliedSignal's Bendix/King and Global Wulfsberg avionics. Source: Flight International
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Derlan deal
Derlan Aerospace Canada has won three new contracts worth a total of $4.3 million. The largest is from General Electric Aircraft Engines, for components for the T700. Derlan will also supply transmission components for Kaman SH-2Gs purchased by Egypt, and manufacture additional landing-gear parts for McDonnell Douglas Canada. ...
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Customer support
The Pratt & Whitney Canada/MTU European Customer Support Centre (CSC) has purchased a 51% share in Anglo-African Automotive, a maintenance company previously jointly owned by Denel Aviation and National Airways (NAC), a Raytheon Aircraft and Bell Helicopter Tex- tron distributor. The company, based a Lanseria Airport near Johannesburg, has been ...
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Turbomeca
Jean-Bernard Cocheteux, formerly deputy general manager of French components-manufacturer Labinal and general manager at engine manufacturer Turbo- m,ca, has been appointed chairman and chief executive at Turbom,ca. He succeeds Sonia Meton, who died in a recent accident. Christine Meton, her daughter and granddaughter of Turbom,ca founder Joseph Szydiowski, joins the ...
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Raytheon
Dick Klass has been appointed to the newly created position of vice-president for Government marketing at Raytheon Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. Klass, a US Air Force veteran, was most recently vice-president at the International Planning and Analysis Center, of Washington DC, and, before that, he was corporate director for the ...
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FAA
J C Johns is named product lead for the US Federal Aviation Administration's global-positioning-system team. With the FAA since 1992, Johns headed the acquisition part of the wide-area augmentation system for more than two years. Susan Kurland becomes associate administrator for airports. She was formerly deputy corporation counsel to the ...
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Simula
Sean Nolen has joined transportation-safety company Simula, of Phoenix, Arizona, as vice-president of finance, chief financial officer and treasurer, succeeding Kevin Clark, who has resigned. Nolen was formerly with the Phoenix office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently as senior manager with responsibility for the Simula account. ...