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Eurofighter complications
Sir - The latest debacle over workshare on the Eurofighter programme illustrates once again the inevitable complexities of such a high-technology, multi-national project (Flight International, 4-10 October, P28). It is now too late for British Aerospace even to consider acquiring the management lead, as the flight and development ...
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Sammi upgrade aimed at networks
KINESIX HAS UNVEILED Sammi 4.0, the latest version of its Dynamic Data Visualisation Tool (DDVT) for command and control applications. Sammi is already widely used in the aerospace industry for applications such as air traffic and spacecraft control. Customers include Aerospatiale, Alenia, Eurocontrol, the European Space Agency, NASA, ...
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Launch set for new Shuttle-Mir mission
Tim Furniss/LONDON The STS74/Atlantis, the second Shuttle mission to dock with the Mir 1 Russian space station, is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 11 November. The primary mission is the installation of a docking module on Mir to improve clearance ...
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Virtual combat
Sophisticated simulation technology is being used to train US Air Force crews for covert operations. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ALBUQUERQUE, NEW Mexico - this year's venue for the annual convocation of the simulation industry - is home to probably the world's most advanced flight-simulation centre. The 58th Special Operations Wing ...
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Invisible HALO
Douglas Barrie/LONDON LIKE MOST OF its equivalents, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) likes to flatly deny the existence of sensitive programmes - rather appositely in the case of stealth projects Nevertheless, the inadvertent disclosure of its High Agility Low Observability (HALO) programme during an unclassified ...
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Comanche tail rotor tested
THE ANTI-TORQUE TAIL-ROTOR system for the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter is being tested at Sikorsky's "whirl stand" in Stratford, Connecticut, USA. The planned test programme includes a 100h endurance run ahead of this month's first flight of the prototype Comanche. The eight-bladed "Fantail" is designed to provide increased protection from ...
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Asiasat 3 satellite planned
ASIA SATELLITE Telecommunications is to purchase a third satellite, the Asiasat 3, to be launched in 1997, and placed into a geostationary orbit slot at 122¡E. It will complement the Asiasat 1 and 2 spacecraft, offering total Asia beam coverage, including India and China. The Asiasat 1 was ...
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Ice cold in orbit
THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S (ESA) Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is scheduled for launch on 10 November aboard the Ariane V80/44P mission from Kourou, French Guiana, two years later than planned after the project ran into some development difficulties. The Aerospatiale-built 5.3m-tall ISO, is akin to a giant vacuum flask, filled ...
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Martian lander
A Mars Surveyor Lander, to be launched by NASA in 1998, will soft-land in a polar region of the planet for the first time. These regions appear to consist of alternating layers of clean and dust-laden water and carbon-dioxide ice, holding the "...key to understanding what appear to be quasi-periodic ...
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Locator rule irks Australian AOPA
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL-aviation pilots are trying to block a new Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requirement for all light aircraft to carry aircraft-mounted emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). The Australian Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) says that while over three-quarters of its membership agrees that ELT carriage should ...
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Prithvi deployment will test control rules
THE IMPENDING deployment of India's Prithvi short-range ballistic missile, along with Pakistan's response, is being viewed as a litmus test of the effectiveness of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). India had been expected to deploy the Prithvi by the middle of this year, but a mix of ...
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Sri Lanka close to Kfir purchase
SRI LANKA and Israel are finalising the $50 million purchase of eight former Israeli air force Kfir C2 fighter aircraft. The sale of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)-built fighter has been approved by the US administration - clearance was required because the aircraft are fitted with the General ...
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Israeli air force to re-engine Cobras
THE ISRAELI air force is planning to re-engine its 40 Bell AH-1G/S Cobra attack helicopters with the General Electric GE T700 engine. A prototype of the re-engined helicopter is being prepared by Mata, the helicopter division of Israel Aircraft Industries, which won a contract to perform the programme. ...
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Arkia lease deal
Arkia, the Israeli private airline, has signed a purchase/lease-back deal with Canadian Airlines International. The Israeli airline has purchased six Boeing 737-200s from the Canadian airline and leased them back for a six-year period. Canadian will pay $624,000 a month for the lease of the aircraft. The 737s cost Arkia ...
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Powered Texas JSOW flight-tested
THE POWERED VARIANT OF Texas Instruments' Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) has had its first free-flight test. The JSOW, which is being offered to meet the Pentagon's Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile and the UK's conventionally armed stand-off missile, is powered by the Williams WJ-24 engine previously used in target drones. ...
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Sargent Fletcher develops probe-equipped tank
A DROP FUEL TANK which doubles as an aerial-refuelling tanking system is entering the development phase, says its maker, Sargent Fletcher. The hybrid aerial-refuelling tank/system (ART/S) consists of a retractable fuel probe mounted in an otherwise standard-looking wing-mounted fuel tank. The ART/S is mainly aimed at expanding interoperability ...
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Road to Damascus
Lord Hesketh, the charismatic chairman of British Mediterranean Airways, celebrates the airline's first anniversary in style. Guynter Endres/BEIRUT and DAMASCUS BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways' charismatic chairman Lord Alexander Hesketh might not be the archetypal airline boss, but he has achieved success in one of the ...
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Military simulator directory
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS has provided a lifeline to military-simulator manufacturers over the past 12 months as individual domestic opportunities have failed to materialise as expected. Delays in programme starts and contract awards have continued to plague the industry, making planning and forecasting difficult. Industry consolidation ...
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Galaxy advice
Astra Jet has formed an operators advisory committee to provide input on the design, operation and support of Israel Aircraft Industries' Galaxy business jet, now under development. The first quarterly meeting took place in October in Pearl River, New York. The committee will work with IAI, and its marketing arm ...