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Austrian MIG
Russia is offering Austria Mikoyan MiG-29s as part of an effort to reduce its debt to the Central European State. A Mikoyan delegation was recently in Vienna offering 24 single seat and six trainers. Source: Flight International
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Countdown to Alpha
T-2 years and counting: the first hardware has been built for the Alpha International Space Station. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC THE ALPHA INTERNATIONAL Space Station "...isn't a paper programme anymore", says Wilbur Trafton, director of NASA's Space Station programme. "We're talking launches just round the corner." ...
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Kyrgyzstan crash
A Mil Mi-8 helicopter chartered by Canadian mining company Cameco crashed in early October in the Tien-Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, killing the 12 passengers and two crew. The aircraft was en route from the Kumtor gold mine to the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek. Wreckage was found at 12,500ft ...
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Westinghouse's windshear radar gains approval
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has awarded Westinghouse a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for its MR-3000 predictive-wind-shear radar. Award of the certificate, which clears the way for installation aboard civil aircraft, follows extensive evaluations conducted by the FAA and Westinghouse over a two- year period. The ...
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Air Macau starts
Air Macau has started commercial operations, launching its first services to Beijing and Shanghai on 9 November. The new carrier has taken delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A321 and is due to receive its second 178-seat aircraft at the end of November, under a lease agreement with International Lease ...
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Hull-loss accident rate climbing
COMMERCIAL JET HULL-loss accident rates are increasing, according to Boeing's chief of systems engineering, Earl Weener. If the trends are sustained, the number of hull losses per million departures will be higher than it was 20 years ago, Weener told a Flight Safety Foundation seminar in Seattle on 6-9 November. ...
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Austflight signs Shanghai manufacturing venture
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian ultra-light aircraft manufacturer Austflight has signed a joint venture agreement with the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to build the Australian-designed Drifter SB582 two-seat ultralight aircraft in Shanghai. Under the agreement, the joint venture also plans to offer to supply components, to two other ...
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Crandall attacks liberalisation progress
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN ANOTHER FIERCE attack on the lack of progress being made in UK-US liberalisation, American Airlines chairman Bob Crandall says that he is against any deal which falls short of giving the carrier an equal footing to that of British Airways at London Heathrow. ...
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Inconsistency in BALPA policy
Sir - The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) commends the letter from Chris Darke, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) on licence validations within the European Union (EU) (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). The IPA is also concerned that licence validations have been issued to non-EU ...
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The first assembly missions
Flight 1A/R Nov 1997 Russia Russian Functional Energy Block (FGB) launched on the Proton, to provide propulsion, guidance, communications, 3.2kW electrical power and thermal control. One front-docking system, with forward and lower ports, and one rear docking system. Flight 2A Dec 1997 USA STS88/Endeavour ...
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An inside story
Swiss fixed-base operator Jet Aviation has carved a niche in the customised-interior market. Julian Moxon/BASLE YOU ARE THE OWNER of a corporate jet, and you want the ultimate in airborne opulence. Perhaps, if you are also the owner of a golf course, you would like a game ...
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Messier-Dowty plans to lower cost of landing gear for Airbus
Andrew Doyle/LONDON MESSIER-DOWTY AIMS to slash the cost of manufacturing Airbus landing gears by 20-40%, while increasing commonality of parts across the product range and reducing the cost of ownership for airlines, says Geoff Smith, managing director of the Anglo-French joint-venture. According to Smith, a ...
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China's Long March to have Asiasat test
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA'S COMMERCIAL-satellite-launcher business goes on trial on 28 November, with the launch of a Long March 2E booster from Xichang, carrying the Asiasat 2 communications satellite. The 2E has suffered two catastrophic failures in five launches, in 1992 and 1995, and a third loss will ...
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Indian Space Research starts evaluation work on Oceansat
THE INDIAN SPACE Research Organisation plans to operate an oceanographic-monitoring satellite, the Oceansat, and is developing instruments for the spacecraft, which will be evaluated on missions to be performed by future Indian remote-sensing (IRS) satellites. The IRS-P3, to be launched on the third Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) ...
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Spacelab workers demonstrate Alpha work
Astronaut mission specialist Catherine Coleman (left) and payload specialist Fred Leslie work inside the Spacelab US Micro-gravity Laboratory 2 during the 16-day STS73/Columbia mission, as a demonstration of a typical shift aboard the Alpha International Space Station. Construction of the Alpha will begin in November 1997. The Columbia's next mission, ...
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GE American applies for Star licence
GE AMERICAN Communications has filed an application to the US Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate a nine-satellite, worldwide, high-power, Kaband satellite system, called GE Star. The company aims to provide a broad array of high-data-rate digital-communications services. Other US companies which are proposing competing geostationary-orbiting systems ...
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Briton for Mir
NASA astronaut Michael Foale, the UK-born veteran of three Shuttle flights, will replace Scott Parazinsky for the STS84 mission in May 1997. He will be delivered to the Russian Mir 1 space station for a planned 143-day stay. John Blaha will now fly the ST79 mission in August 1996 and ...
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Air-traffic-controller strikes blamed for European delays
Julian Moxon/PARIS STRIKES BY AIR-TRAFFIC controllers and the shortage of airport and airspace capacity are being blamed for a serious increase in departure delays in Europe during the July-September period. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) describes as "appalling" the figures for the three months, in ...
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Munich on defensive as Asian airlines pull out
INDONESIAN CARRIER Garuda and Japan Airlines (JAL) have withdrawn from services to Munich Airport, leaving the airport management company, Flughafen Munchen (FMG), defending its growth record. According to the airport authorities, JAL pulled out over a question of traffic rights, while Garuda's decision was part of an overall ...