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Vibro tests Ariane systems
VIBRO-METER IS USING high-temperature ovens to simulate the operating conditions experienced by the engine- instrumentation system on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket. The Swiss company has developed for example, an accelerometer designed to operate at a temperature of 730°C on the exhaust nozzles of the launcher's Societe ...
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UK impounds 737 as rudder fault echoes US accidents
David Learmount/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) is launching a full-scale Inspector's inquiry into an incident involving a British Airways Boeing 737-200, which suffered violent roll oscillations during a test flight following maintenance. In the test flight on 22 October ...
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Vega awarded UK training deal
UK SOFTWARE Company Vega has been awarded a £1 million ($1.55 million) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the development of a computerised air- craft-training system (CATS) for the Royal Navy. The Welwyn Garden City, UK-based firm will deliver 63 computer workstations and associated software ...
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Learjet 45 prototype flutter flight-tests get under way
A SERIES OF FLUTTER tests of the Bombardier Learjet 45 prototype has begun at the company's site in Wichita, Kansas. Following its fifth flight, the aircraft was fitted with flutter exciters on the wingtips and horizontal stabiliser. The devices, resembling small spade-like surfaces, were first tested on 7 ...
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Atlantis lands after Mir docking
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE SPACE SHUTTLE Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center on 20 November after its successful eight-day mission to perform the second docking and joint flight with the Russian Mir 1 space station as part of the Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM) programme. The ...
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Rocketdyne pulls out of Atlas 2AR contest
OPERATIONAL RUSSIAN NK-33 or RD-180 rocket engines will be used to power the first stage of the Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AR satellite launcher, following a decision by Rocketdyne to pull out of the competition. The firm felt that its proposed new MA-5A engine could not meet the production ...
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UK expands defence-satellite network
THE UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE IS TO ORDER a sixth Skynet 4 military-communications satellite from Matra Marconi Space (MMS) in 1996, to be launched in 1999. Skynets 4D and E are also being built by MMS and will be launched by Delta 2 and Ariane 4 boosters in 1997 and ...
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Ariane to launch new Eutelsat
ARIANESPACE HAS WON a contract from European satellite-communications organisation Eutelsat to launch three new spacecraft: two Eutelsat 3s and the Hot Bird 4, to be launched by Ariane 4s or 5s. Three Eutelsat 3s are on order from Aerospatiale, with an option for four more. The Hot Bird 4 is ...
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Space lease
The Russian Gals 2 communications satellite, launched by a Proton K booster, from Baikonur on 17 November, has been leased by the Land Group of China for $9 million a year to the US Global DBS company. Source: Flight International
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MD-11 delivery
McDonnell Douglas has delivered the first of two MD-11s bought direct by VASP Airlines. The delivery to the Brazilian carrier, which also operates four leased MD-11s, brings the total of the type in service to 142. The company has also handed over the first of up to five MD-82s to ...
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BA raises Middle East capacity
BRITISH AIRWAYS is to increase its capacity to the Middle East by 15% as a result of the introduction of the Boeing 777 to its fleet. Its first 777 finally took off on its delayed inaugural service to Middle East destinations Dubai and Muscat on 17 November. The ...
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Macau awards two new licences
EVA AIRWAYS and TransAsia Airways have been given the green light to fly to Macau, while Eva will also gain 16 flights a week from Taiwan to Hong Kong. TransAsia plans to begin twice daily Airbus A320 or A321 flights on 8 December - although the launch could ...
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A310 finds favour in Israel
Airbus Industrie's A310 has emerged as the preferred non-US platform for future Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) airborne early-warning (AEW) and aerial-refueling aircraft. The Bedek division of IAI is already negotiating with Airbus about the transfer of engineering data required for the conversion of the wide body civil aircraft ...
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French domestic traffic boosted
THE ARRIVAL OF competition on French domestic routes has resulted in a dramatic increase in traffic originating at two of the busiest airports in the country. In the nine months to the end of September, passenger traffic at Marseilles-Provence Airport increased overall by 5.9%, following a growth of ...
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Delta profitable on the Atlantic
DELTA AIR LINES says that its transatlantic services made a modest profit for the year to the end of September, marking the first profitable year since the group acquired the transatlantic operations of Pan American World Airways in 1991. The result was assisted by a record performance in ...
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Cobham acquires
Cobham, the acquisitive UK aerospace group, has continued its growth with an agreement to buy Westwind Air Bearings for £75 million ($116 million). Westwind, based in Poole, Dorset, has been growing strongly and is forecasting operating profits of £8 million on rising sales of £25.8 million for 1995. Cobham, formally ...
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P&W targets UAE development offsets
PRATT & WHITNEY (P&W) is to establish an advanced-technology development centre in Abu Dhabi to support its bid to supply engines for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fighter programme. P&W's F100-229 engine is being offered on the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D and McDonnell Douglas F-15E in competition with the General Electric ...
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Projects face guillotine in French revolution
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE NEW HEAD OF the French armed forces has warned industry that forthcoming cuts in the defence budget will entail the cancellation of several major programmes. Gen. Jean-Philippe Douin admits that "painful choices" will have to be made by French president Jacques Chirac, ...
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Board approves DASA cuts
Julian Moxon/PARIS GERMAN UNIONS have reacted angrily as Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) received approval from its parent company to press ahead with plans to cut almost 9,000 jobs under the Dolores (dollar-low rescue) plan. DASA says that it remains "open to negotiations", but that the target of ...
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Globespan buys Excalibur
UK CHARTER CARRIER Excalibur Airways has been sold to a Scottish long-haul tour-operator, Globespan, virtually completing the recent spate of vertical integration taking place within the industry. No price is given for the sale of the East Midlands-based airline, which was owned by its five directors, together with ...