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E&S buys into the training-device market with Xionix
VISUAL-SYSTEM Supplier Evans & Sutherland (E&S) have acquired training-device manufacturer Xionix Simulation in a move to expand its airline-training business. Dallas, Texas-based Xionix will be operated as a separate unit within E&S' commercial-simulation business. Salt Lake City, Utah-based E&S says that growing airline demand for visual-equipped ...
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CAE Electronics wins German Tornado simulator contract
CAE ELECTRONICS HAS received a $54 million contract to upgrade seven Panavia Tornado full-mission simulators for the German air force and navy. The work will be performed by CAE's German subsidiary. The upgrade includes new computers, instructor consoles and mission-debrief stations, and real-time radar simulation. Upgraded ...
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USA targets South America
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES will offer flights between Newark (New Jersey) and Lima in Peru, via Bogota in Columbia, and American Airlines will increase services to Brazil, under liberal new bilateral agreements secured by the USA with Peru and Brazil. Continental is the third US carrier to serve Peru, but ...
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Chinese A320 boost
Airbus Industrie has ordered an A320 flight simulator from Thomson Training and Simulation for use at its new integrated China support centre, under construction at Beijing Capital Airport. The $15 million A320 simulator is the first of two systems planned for the Beijing site. It is scheduled for installation by ...
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Strong results encourage SIA
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) turned in another strong profits rise over the first half of its financial year and is "cautiously optimistic" that the improvement will continue, helped by signs of an upturn in passenger traffic. Group net profits for the six months to the end of September were ...
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Finnish deal
Israel's Tadiran has won a contract to supply the advanced air-defence command-and-control system of the Finnish air force. Under the $10 million deal, its Advanced Technology subsidiary has already begun to install the system. Siemens, Hughes, Alcatel and Thomson-CSF were among the companies, which competed for the contract. ...
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Finance problems threaten Turkish upgrade programme
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE ISRAELI-LED $600 million upgrade of the Turkish air force's McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms is in jeopardy because of problems over financing. Although a framework agreement has been signed covering the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)-driven project, the deal is being threatened by the ...
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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