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DC-10 misses Frankfurt runway - by 300km
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON A NORTHWEST AIRLINES McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 carrying 241 passengers from Detroit to Frankfurt missed its intended destination by 300km (160nm), landing at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. The pilots of Flight 52 only realised their error when they ...
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USAir Express launches Magellan GPS/ACARS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA USAIR EXPRESS HAS become the launch customer for Magellan Systems' CNS-12 communication/navigation/surveillance system. USAir has ordered systems to equip around 100 de Havilland Dash 8s and Dornier 328s operated by subsidiaries Allegheny, Jetstream International and Piedmont Airlines. Magellan says that it plans to ...
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Honeywell lands Moscow GPS order
HONEYWELL IS TO install a satellite-based landing-system at Moscow's Zhukovsky airfield for use by Russia's Department of Air Transportation to establish certification and operational procedures for precision approaches using the global-positioning system (GPS) and its Russian equivalent, GLONASS. The US company will supply its SLS-2000 differential-GPS (DGPS) ground ...
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Speech-recognition success
A "flight-worthy" speech-recognition system has achieved a 98.5% word recognition success rate while in operation in a noise and vibration environment representative of the cockpit of a Westland Lynx helicopter, according to the UK Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA). The DERA is working with GEC-Marconi Secure Systems to introduce ...
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Space Station funding passes major milestone
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE US HOUSE of Representatives, has cleared a hard fought Bill, authorising NASA to spend $13.1 billion on the international space station over the next seven years, during which time, construction of the base is scheduled to be completed. The unprecedented financial forward ...
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Identified flying object
THIS IS ONE FLYING SAUCER which can be identified. It is the Wake Shield free-flying spacecraft seen after deployment during the Space Shuttle Endeavour/STS69 mission in September. Control problems and overheating reduced the craft's production of ultra-thin semiconductor films in the pure vacuum created in the wake of the Shuttle's ...
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Kamov fits Zvezda anti-radiation missile to single-seat Hokum
RUSSIAN HELICOPTER manufacturer Kamov is carrying out integration of the Zvezda Kh-25MP (AS-12 Kegler) anti-radiation missile (ARM) with its Ka-50 Hokum single-seat attack helicopter. A Ka-50 displayed during the MosAero show in August had its port inboard stub-wing pylon converted to carry the Kh-25MP, with the missile on ...
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Grob fears for Strato future funds
GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Burkhart Grob says that its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft programme is being threatened by the refusal of the Government to hand over outstanding funding for the project. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology has still not paid the DM46.75 million ($31 million) ...
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Czech bank offers Let funding to certificate GE-powered L-610G
CZECH REGIONAL manufacturer Let Kunovice has been offered funding to complete certification of its General Electric-powered L-610G turboprop. The money - understood to be CKr450 million ($17 million) - is being provided by Czech bank Komercni Banka as a long-term loan. Let now believes that it can complete ...
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Ayres considers Dual Pac power for new types
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FRED AYRES, developer of the Ayres Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft, is designing a series of new types - ranging from a fire fighting tanker to a utility freighter - using the Soloy Dual Pac with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As as the power plant. ...
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Raytheon modifies its plans for advanced Hawker 1000
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has slashed the development budget of a proposed stretched Hawker 1000 upgrade, and is now considering a more modest improvement to the aircraft than originally planned. The next-generation Hawker could be unveiled at the 1996 National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) ...
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Saab postpones SK60 debut flight
THE FIRST FLIGHT of Saab's re-engine SK60 jet trainer has been deferred by around two months because of compatibility problems with the engine and airframe. The first aircraft to have its Turbomeca Aubisque turbojets replaced by the Williams-Rolls FJ44-1C is now undergoing ground test engine runs. ...
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Air India takes wet-lease route to expansion
AIR INDIA IS to wet-lease five 200/250-seat aircraft to advance its expansion plans. With effect from December, two long-range Lockheed L1011-500 TriStars and one Airbus A310-300 will be leased from Antigua-based Caribjet, and two more A310-300s from Air Club International, of Montreal, Canada. The new ...
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Cirrus on tour
Cirrus Design has begun a 20-city US demonstration tour with the SR20 light aircraft. The prototype has been flown for 200h since its first flight in March, and a second SR20 will be flown later this year. Certification is planned for early 1997. Source: Flight International
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Anglo-Tunisian venture to develop cargo trade
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE ANGLO-TUNISIAN all-cargo airline, North African Airlines (NAA), has received the first scheduled air-cargo licence in Tunisia. In partnership with the Tunisian Government, which has granted the airline important fiscal advantages, including waiving corporation tax for ten years, it has been charged with the ...
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Europe searches for unity
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S AEROSPACE industry signaled a new sense of urgency in its long-term efforts to restructure, as politicians and corporate heads gathered in London for the launch of the Association of Aerospace Industries (EAAI) on 29 September. The EAAI, essentially a replacement for the ...
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Hong Kong and USA agree bilateral treaty
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AND the USA have finally reached an agreement on a new bilateral air-services treaty, which will extend beyond the colony's 1997 hand-over date to China and promises to open up new routes in Asia and North America. The deal comes at ...
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Sabena pursues share in proposed Zairean airline
BELGIAN AIRLINE Sabena has confirmed its interest in taking a majority share in a new Zairean airline scheduled to take over from the defunct Air Zaire. Sabena has sent a letter of intent to Kinshasa (Flight International, 20-26 September, P14). The African Government had proposed that ...
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Atlantique wins trophy
A French navy crew from 23F Flotilla flying a Dassault Atlantique ATL2 has won this year's International Maritime Patrol Aircraft Symposium contest. Aircrews from the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Norway and France took part in the contest, which was held at the US Navy's Brunswick naval base in Maine. ...
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Ethiopian Airlines signs understanding for Fokker 50s
NATIONAL FLAG carrier Ethiopian Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding for the acquisition of five Fokker 50 turboprops to replace its two 46-seat ATR 42-300s and some 18-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. Delivery of the new aircraft, which will be acquired on a ten-year finance ...