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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 ...
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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 ...