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Phalcon may fly over China
CHINA AND ISRAEL are understood to be in the final stages of negotiating a $200 million deal covering the purchase of up to four Israel Aircraft Industries Phalcon airborne early-warning (AEW) aircraft - although China is already pursuing an AEW project with GEC-Marconi of the UK. IAI's original ...
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NASA astronaut 'too tall' for Soyuz
NASA ASTRONAUT Scott Parazinsky's departure from the Russian cosmonaut centre at Star City, after training for a planned 143-day flight aboard the Mir 1 space station in August 1997, has exposed a potentially serious deterioration in relations between the two countries in the build-up to the Alpha space station. ...
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Russia's Cosmos forms launcher link with Australia
RUSSIA'S COSMOS group is to link with Australian industry to develop a new liquid-propellant satellite launcher, called the Seagull, capable of placing 1,000kg payloads into low-Earth orbit after launches from a base in either South Australia or northern Australia, says Australian space minister Chris Schacht. Development and marketing ...
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Irreplaceable Aardvark?
The capability gap emerging as US Air Force F-111s are retired highlights the aircraft's unique abilities. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FAR-FETCHED IT MAY SEEM, but it is feasible that the US Air Force could be flying electronic-warfare versions of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 early next century. ...
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Boeing awards NAL first Indian research contract
BOEING HAS awarded a research and development (R&D) contract worth $130,000 to India's National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), under which it will investigate aircraft damage-tolerance. Bangalore-based NAL says, that the contract, which follows a preliminary proposal, which it submitted to Boeing in 1994, is the first to be awarded ...
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British World retains Black Gold route in the Shetlands
BRITISH WORLD Airlines (BWA) has won a fierce contest to renew a five-year deal to ferry oil-industry workers between Aberdeen and Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands. The £50 million ($88 million) contract awarded by Shell UK Exploration and Production, is also believed to have been fought for, by Newcastle-based Gill ...
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Loral shows visual-telemetry system
LORAL TEST & INFORMATION SYSTEMS has unveiled its next-generation visual-telemetry system for applications such as satellite monitoring, missile testing and development, space exploration and flight-testing. The VTS 200 is a Windows-based software package designed to support data acquisition, processing, archiving, display and the distribution of data on networks of personal ...
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Olympic in talks with Qatar
OLYMPIC AIRWAYS, the Greek national carrier, and Qatar Airways are discussing a possible co-operation to counter each other's geographical weaknesses. Olympic's president Prof. Rigas Doganis had preliminary talks with Qatar Airways' vice-president Saeed Suliman on 12 October. The discussions focused on some form of code-share or block-space agreement, ...
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France may go for E-3 AWACs over Hawkeyes
FRANCE'S PURCHASE of four Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early-warning (AEW) aircraft is coming under fire from an influential parliamentary committee, which recommends buying additional Boeing Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft instead. The finance committee wants the Hawkeye purchase to be dropped and has adopted an ...
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Embraer delivers 300th Brasilia
EMBRAER HAS DELIVERED its 300th EMB-120 Brasilia, the third for one of Brazil's newest airlines, Interbrasil Star. The company is the regional-branch airline of Transbrasil: it started operations on 3 July and now flies three EMB-120s on routes out of the capital Brasilia and Sao Jose do Rio Preto in ...
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Germany to participate in Helios 2
GERMANY IS ON the brink of joining France, Spain and Italy in the $2 billion development of the two-satellite Helios 2 optical reconnaissance-satellite programme after months of uncertainty. German technology minister Jurgen Reuttgers, speaking at a European Space Agency meeting in Toulouse on the 18-20 October, said: "It ...
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Aircrews to fight new flight-time regulations
AIRCREW groups both sides of the Atlantic are preparing to fight pilot flight-time limitation (FTL) proposals which are due to be significantly advanced during November, on the grounds that they could lead to dangerous levels of pilot fatigue. The draft proposals from the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), ...
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SAS ups 737 buy to 41
Scandinavian Airlines System has increased its Boeing 737-600 launch order to 41 firm orders and 35 on option, an increase in six firm orders over the initial announcement. The first 737-600s will be delivered to SAS in August 1998. Source: Flight International
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Jet Aviation names date for shared-scheme start
Basle, SWITZERLAND-based Jet Aviation will begin operating its new Corpavia Club shared-aircraft scheme at the beginning of 1996, using two Beechjet 400As: it has options on a further ten. Corpavia Club members do not buy shares in aircraft: each pays a joining fee, an annual subscription and a ...
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Dassault eyes Thomson-CSF stake
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DASSAULT AVIATION IS considering taking a stake in Thomson-CSF, the French defence-electronics giant, which is due to be privatised in 1996, but the company has ruled out an alliance with Aerospatiale. "I've no interest in buying into Aerospatiale," says chairman Serge Dassault, claiming ...
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New Ansett holding company is set up
NEWS CORPORATION and TNT have set up a new holding-company structure for the Ansett group, opening the way for fresh investment, possibly by a new partner. Talks are still in progress with Air New Zealand over its ambitions to take a stake, although issues of price and control remain to ...
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United fined after 747 breaks noise limits
UNITED AIRLINES HAS been fined A$15,000 ($11,000) for violating Sydney's new noise-limiting flight-paths, after a United Boeing 747-400 diverged 2km (1nm) off a designated corridor in April, also crossing the approach path of another runway. AirServices Australia says that it is "...investigating, with a view to prosecution, a ...
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CAL crash relatives to sue
RELATIVES OF VICTIMS killed in the 1994 China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash, in Nagoya Japan, were expected to file claims against the carrier and aircraft manufacturer on 1 November. Lawyers representing 138 Japanese and Taiwanese families are to sue CAL and Airbus in the Nagoya District ...
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US Marine Corps will abandon Cobra replacement programme
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US MARINE CORPS intends to abandon its replacement for the Bell UH-1N and AH-1W, dubbed the Marine Observation and Attack Aircraft programme, in favour of a $3 billion upgrade of both helicopters, keeping them in service after 2020. The USMC's acquisition strategy ...
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Military aircraft of the world
Flight International provides the latest data on the world's military aircraft. Douglas Barrie/Jennifer Pite/ Martin Fendt/LONDON Flight International's 1995 military-aircraft directory provides details on the major military fixed-wing aircraft now in service or underdevelopment. To provide a comprehensive guide in one volume, turbine-powered military ...