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Dutch air force flies Fokker 60U
The first flight of the Fokker 60U military utility-transport aircraft on order for the Dutch air force took place successfully on 2 November. The Fokker 60U, a stretched derivative of the Fokker 50, has been fitted with a defensive-aids suite, including wingtip-mounted ALR-69 radar warning receivers (right) and pylon-mounted Per ...
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Lockheed
Ed Phillips has been appointed vice-president for operations at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, of Marietta, Georgia. He replaces Bill Bullock, who moves to Fort Worth, Texas, to become executive vice-president for Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems. Phillips, who joined Lockheed in 1960, was most recently director of operations for the ...
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Sukhoi share sale
Shares in Russia's Sukhoi design bureau will be put up for auction on 17 November, although the sale is being limited to a minority stake of only 25.4%. Russia's privatisation committee had originally envisaged the sale of a controlling stake in the military design bureau, but senior Russian defence officials ...
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Novel design
Peter Henley/NORTH WEALD A MERE GLANCE at the Grob 200 reveals its designer's novel approach to his task. The airframe is constructed of composite materials, its engine is mounted behind the cabin (driving a three-bladed pusher propeller which lives on the end of a long tailcone), directional stability ...
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Dan dares
NASA's administrator Daniel Goldin has taken the US space organisation into a "faster, better, cheaper" era. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC DANIEL GOLDIN HAS taken NASA by the scruff of its neck and brought it out of the post-Challenger doldrums into a new international era, with a "faster, better, ...
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Catching up
Large numbers of personnel and aircraft are no compensation for the Chinese air force's lack of modern technology. Paul Lewis/BEIJING THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China has attracted considerable international attention in recent years. Reports of large-scale purchases of Russian arms, underwritten by double-digit ...
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Egyptian airline takes Metros
ORCA AIR, a new Egyptian airline based at Sharm el Sheikh on the tip of the Sinai peninsula has ordered, two 19-seat Fairchild Metro 23s and taken options on four more. The aircraft will be the first 23E models, incorporating an electronic flight-instrumentation system (EFIS) cockpit. The first ...
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Dash for growth
Bombardier Regional Aircraft landed a double coup at the show, confirming an order from Great China Airways of Taiwan for six de Havilland Dash 8-400s, with options on a further six. The aircraft will replace Dash 8-300s operated by the Taiwanese carrier. The second deal is with Japanese carrier Ryuku ...
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UAE carries on Rafale evaluation decision date slips for UAE
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS A DASSAULT RAFALE multi-role fighter is to be flown to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Tanagra air force base for evaluation, immediately after the Dubai air show ends on 16 November. The continuing evaluation of combat aircraft is the clearest indication to date ...
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Boeing's stretched 747 will not fit in at UK airports
Sir - Guy Norris refers to the probable stretching of the Boeing 747 in his article "Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year" (Flight International, 11-17 October, P5). In the fifth paragraph, he suggests that a span of 79m (260ft) would permit existing 747 gates and stands ...
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Flight of fancy?
The debate about free-flight air navigation continues. In the USA... Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration and the civil-aviation community "...stand at the threshold of a great opportunity to safely re-order the [nation's] air-traffic system". This statement supporting "free-flight" air navigation is taken ...
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Shaping the future
New companies using new technologies are challenging established light-aircraft manufacturers. Karen Walker/ATLANTA A TYPICAL light aircraft's shape most likely to come to mind is almost cruciform - a squarish wing across a squarish fuselage. Now think of a modern yacht and its smooth, curvaceous, outline. While the ...
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Southern star
Korean Air president Yang Ho Cho explains the airline's success. Paul Lewis/SEOUL EACH OF ASIA'S national airlines has a rich and varied past. While some have their roots in post-war independence movements, others were created by the endeavours of individual entrepreneurs. Korean Air (KAL) and ...
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Columbia returns
The US Micro-gravity Laboratory 2 mission came to a successful conclusion at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 November, with the landing of the Space Shuttle STS73/Columbia, after a 15-day, 21h flight, the second longest in the programme's history. Source: Flight International
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US airlines move to end passenger-liability limits gathers pace
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US AIRLINES HAVE become the latest to put their signature to an inter-carrier agreement which should see the scrapping of all passenger-liability limits within the next year. Under the new agreement, which was endorsed at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general ...
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Titan 4/Centaur launches Milstar
THE US AIR FORCE'S second (and last) Milstar Block 1 Development Flight Satellite was launched into geostationary orbit by a Lockheed Martin Titan 4/Centaur booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 6 November (Flight International, 1-7 November). Four Milstar 2 Series satellites, will be launched by Titan 4/Centaurs, between 1998 and ...
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Canada launches radar satellite
Tim Furniss Martin Hindley/LONDON CANADA HAS launched the world's first operational radar satellite, which it will use to monitor the Earth's surface, particularly ice movements in the North- west Passage and Beaufort Sea, both strategic shipping routes. The Radarsat I, a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite, ...
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Bidders line up for Kenya Airways stake
KENYA AIRWAYS IS close to selecting a strategic airline-partner, with KLM understood to have joined front runners British Airways and South African Airways (SAA) among the final bidders. Submissions were handed in on 3 November, with a winner due to be selected, on 30 November, at a meeting ...
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Chinese engine training
UK aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has begun construction of its new China aviation training centre at Tianjin. It will be run jointly with the Civil Aviation Administration of China and will offer engine type training for technicians, mechanics and managers. The training centre is due to open in late 1996. ...
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Litton will demonstrate USAF seeker processor
LITTON HAS BEEN selected to demonstrate a laser-radar smart-weapon seeker in- corporating a high-speed, low-cost, optical processor for automatic target-recognition. Litton and Lockheed Martin were competing for the US Air Force development contract, worth almost $2 million. Litton's Data Systems division will integrate its optical processor, with a ...