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Lockheed
Dr Hugo Poza has been appointed executive vice-president of Lockheed Martin company Sanders, of Nashua, New Hampshire. He succeeds Richard Reed, who is to retire. Dr Ehtisham Siddiqui takes over from Poza as vice-president and general manager of the Sanders avionics division. Poza, with Sanders since 1988, was previously a ...
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GE F414 qualification
General Electric has received preliminary flight qualification for the F414-400 engine, clearing the way for the first flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F in December. Two 98kN (22,000lb)-thrust F414s have been installed in the first F-18E. GE's $741 million development contract includes eight ground-test and 21 flight-test engines. Source: ...
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Lockheed simulation
Lockheed Martin has won a five-year $146 million contract to support US Air Force special-operations training at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The company has also won a US Army contract, potentially worth $500 million over five years, to develop distributed simulation technology. Under the USAF Mission Training Support ...
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Beech Scandanavian sale
Scandinavian regional Air Express has ordered a Raytheon Beech 1900D for delivery by the end of 1995, with an option for a second aircraft. The Norrkoping, Sweden-based airline operates Beech King Air 300s and Embraer Bandeirantes. Source: Flight International
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L-1011 replacement
Delta Air Lines chairman Ron Allen says that the carrier is "looking at" the Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 twinjets as potential replacements for its 56 Lockheed L-1011 tri-jets. He admits that Delta is experiencing reliability problems with the L-1011, introduced in 1972. Source: Flight International
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EVA order signed
Eva Air of Taiwan has formally signed a contract to purchase six McDonnell Douglas MD-90s. The previously announced deal calls for the delivery of the first aircraft in October 1996 and the final two by the first quarter of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Right Royal bid
Royal Aviation has made an improved, C$63 million ($45.9 million) take-over offer for Montreal-based Transat AT in a bid to create Canada's largest charter carrier, with a 19-aircraft fleet. Transat rejected Royal's original C$52.5 million offer. Source: Flight International
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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Europe remains a player
It was close, but Europe will have a place on Alpha, the international space station. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Perhaps it was the fabulously opulent setting of Toulouse's seventeenth century town hall that stimulated the eleventh- hour release of sufficient funds to guarantee Europe's future aboard the Alpha international space ...
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Brunei plans to expand
THE BRUNEI Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) is drawing up a three-phase expansion plan to develop the country's airport into a regional hub. Brunei wants to develop the airport following the formation of the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA), formed between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Under the ...
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GE works to cut CF6 emissions
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES GENERAL ELECTRIC IS studying the possible development of a dual-annular combustor (DAC) for its CF6 engine family, building on low-emissions technology developed for the GE90 and CFM56. The company is considering the CF6 DAC as part of a broad-based attempt to take the ...
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CL-415 launched on 180-day world tour
BOMBARDIER HAS launched a 180-day, 21-country sales tour with the Canadair CL-415 amphibian. The Quebec Government-owned aircraft was despatched on 23 October from the Rome Ciampino Airport base of Alitalia subsidiary SISAM, which operates four CL-415 waterbombers, and which will assist with operations and maintenance during the tour. ...
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USA calls for disclosure of pilot work records
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is to examine airline rights of access to pilots' previous employment history, following the investigation of a 1994 regional-airliner accident which killed 15 people. The NTSB, which blames the pilot of the Flagship Airlines ...
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Emergency power
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Kohler a five-year, $87 million contract for emergency power systems. The diesel and propane generators will provide back-up power at air-traffic-control centres all over the USA. The power units replace back-up systems installed between the 1950s and the early 1970s. The National Engine ...
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P&W tests Russian rocket
THE FIRST PHASE of US testing of a flight-qualified Russian-built RD-120 rocket engine was completed on 25 October with the third and final test firing of an RD-120 by Pratt & Whitney and NPO Energomash (NPO-EM), the engine's developer. The tests were said to confirm the reusability and ...
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Trade route
The promising markets of the Middle East will be reflected at Dubai '95. Kate Sarsfield/LONDON THE FOURTH DUBAI International Aerospace exhibition will take place against a growing background of optimism in the Middle East, following the progressive peace accord between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and the Israeli Government. ...
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Better control for aircraft instability unstable aircraft
Andrew Doyle/LONDON ADVANCED, INHERENTLY unstable delta-canard combat aircraft could be easier to control and have a longer structural fatigue life than conventional designs through the use of active-structural-mode-control (AcSMC) technology, according to a study carried out by Lancaster University in the UK. The British Aerospace Military ...
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The new dawn of the Apache
According to McDonnell Douglas, its Longbow Apache is a lot more than an upgraded attack helicopter. Guy Norris/MESA, ARIZONA THE CLAIM BY McDONNELL Douglas that its AH-64D Longbow Apache can be used in an expanded role over its predecessors is lent weight by the "add-ons" which allow ...
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A better pace-setter
Harry Hopkins/OBERPFAFFENHOFEN SINCE IT FIRST ENTERED service, the Dornier 328 high-speed turboprop has been the subject of a great many detail refinements, not least to its aerodynamics, its propellers and systems. So extensive are these changes that the designation of the current production version has been changed from ...