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Creating/maintaining APALS databases
BEFORE THE APALS CAN be used, an approach database must be created. This is accomplished by flying the approach with the APALS in data-collecting mode. The radar collects SAR images of the terrain either side of the approach path. These are combined with aerial photographs and ground surveys to identify ...
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FAA approves Saab wingtip
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has granted full certification, for the Saab 340B Plus extended wingtip programme, enabling the introduction by American Eagle, of 25 of the new type. American Eagle already operates more than 100 Saab 340Bs. Extended wingtips were certificated late in 1995 by Transport Canada ...
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JPL engineers fit key flight hardware to Cassini craft
NASA JET PROPULSION Laboratory (JPL) engineers at Pasadena, California have completed installation of key flight hardware aboard the Cassini spacecraft, which will be launched towards Saturn, by a Titan 4/Centaur booster in October 1997. The craft's attitude- and articulation-control subsystem was integrated, together with the power and pyrotechnics ...
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Lucas
Aerospace-systems supplier Lucas Aerospace has appointed Glenn Brown general manager of its North American customer-support operations, based in Englewood, New Jersey. Brown, with Lucas since 1987, is now director of business-development activities for North America. Source: Flight International
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Fairchild
Tad Jakes has been appointed director of after-market sales for Australia and Southeast Asia at regional-aircraft manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft of San Antonio, Texas. Juan Garza is named regional-support manager for Asia. With the company for 15 years, he was formerly a Fairchild senior technical representative. Source: Flight International
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America West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Stephen Johnson senior vice-president of legal affairs. Johnson, who has been with America West since 1995, was formerly senior vice-president and general counsel for Irish leasing company GPA Group of Shannon. Bernard Han becomes vice-president of financial planning and analysis. He was ...
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New York
Gerald FitzGerald has been named director of aviation at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. FitzGerald, with the Authority for more than 32 years, has been deputy director of aviation and chief operating officer of John F Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark International Airports. Source: ...
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Arianespace
Francis Avanzi, formerly CFM International chairman and chief executive officer and previously Snecma vice-president in charge of CFM56 and GE90 programmes, has been named Arianespace's chief operating officer and executive vice-president. He served as an officer in the French navy before joining Snecma Group in 1976, where he acquired experience ...
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In-trail-climb testing inadequate
Sir - In the article "New members join in-trail-climb club" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P16), Ken Peppard of the US Federal Aviation Administration is quoted as saying that "...pilots, controller and ARINC operators feel comfortable with the procedure". The US Airline Pilots' Association (ALPA) believes this to be an ...
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World first
The world's first lightweight, high-strength graphite epoxy composite cryogenic tank designed for flight has undergone testing at NASA and will be installed aboard the McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper Experimental Advanced (DC-XA) single-stage-to-orbit technology demonstration vehicle, which will make its first test flight from White Sands, New Mexico in about June. ...
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World first
Matra Marconi Space has delivered the Vehicle Equipment Bay for the first Ariane 5. The brain of the vehicle, the bay includes a new autonomous hydrazine attitude-control propulsion system, which ensures roll control of the vehicle during the boost phase after separation of the solid-rocket boosters. ...
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Lap-top-planet
The US Comsat Mobile Communications company has introduced a 2.7kg lap-top-sized personal satellite telephone, called the Planet 1, which can be used anywhere in the world, via the new Inmarsat 3 communications satellites, the first of which will be launched in March. The Japanese NEC-built, $3,000 receiver will enable calls ...
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Old spaceman
NASA astronaut Story Musgrave will in November become the oldest person in space (at 61) as a mission specialist on the 16-day, STS80/Columbia mission. He will also be making his sixth Shuttle flight since 1983, equaling the space record held by John Young on two Gemini, two Apollo and two ...
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Flight tests begin on CFM56-7 turbofan
Guy Norris/MOJAVE CFM INTERNATIONAL'S CFM56-7B turbofan, destined for the new Boeing 737 family now under development, has been flown for the first time on board General Electric's Boeing 747-100 test-bed at Mojave, California. Five flights lasting around 25h had been accumulated by 25 January, nine ...
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FAA plans to extend turboprop icing rules
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is introducing new flight-operations rules in icing conditions for a range of turboprop regional airliners. The agency has not, however, demanded any design changes similar to those already required for the ATR 42 and 72. The aviation ...
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Landing by radar
Lockheed Martin calls it radar pilotage - a way to land in reduced visibility without help from ground systems. John Wiley and Graham Warwick/ALBUQUERQUE LOCKHEED MARTIN'S autonomous precision-approach and landing system (APALS) offers airlines the ability operate in reduced visibility free of any dependence on ...
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USA reports increase in GA accidents
US GENERAL-AVIATION (GA) accidents increased slightly in 1995, causing concern that efforts to improve safety have reached a plateau. The US National Transportation Safety Board says that there were 408 fatal GA accidents in 1995, compared with 402 in 1994. Safety has been steadily improving since the ...
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Russia schedules its first civil GEO launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON A PROTON BOOSTER, is scheduled to be launched, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 28 March, marking Russia's entry into the commercial geostationary satellite launcher market. The payload will be a Hughes HS-601 spacecraft, the Astra 1F, built for the Luxembourg-based Soci,t, Europ,ene des Satellites. ...