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MDC steps into Delilah programme
ISRAELI DEFENCE manufacturer TAAS and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are to collaborate in developing a series of variants of the former's Delilah standoff decoy unmanned air vehicle. The prime objective of the move will be to produce stand-off-weapon derivatives of the Delilah, according to one source. Neither company is ...
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New broom sweeps Nigeria Airways
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE NIGERIAN Government has sacked the entire management team, at loss making Nigeria Airways and dismissed the chief executives and other senior managers at the Federal Civil Aviation Authority and the Nigeria Airports Authority. Aviation minister Air Cdre Nsisak Eduok has announced that the ...
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Joining the FANS club
Qantas has been proving FANS equipment and refining procedures. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES AIRLINE PLANNERS AND civil-aviation authorities understand the long-term benefits of future-air-navigation-systems (FANS) technology. Early unease among pilot unions over reduced separation standards and other aspects, however, suggests that some line crews may have been kept ...
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Raytheon's first
Raytheon Aircraft is claiming a breakthrough in business-jet design with the launch of its Premier I. Graham Warwick/WICHITA RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new Premier I light business-jet is not a Beech, nor a Hawker. It is the first all-new aircraft to carry the Raytheon name and, for the year-old ...
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Crystaloid aims to improve LCD readability
A PROCESS SAID, to improve the readability of avionics displays and tackles the so-called "white-shirt effect", often encountered by pilots, has been developed by Crystaloid, of Ginsbury, UK. The firm says that the process relies on a technique called "thin-film index matching" to achieve improved uniformity between indium/tin ...
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Training: two sides of the coin
Sir - I read the article "UK schools angry at US training plan" (Flight International, 13-19 September, P20), in which the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association's (GAMTA) chief executive, Graham Forbes, expresses his members' concerns over what they perceive as unfair competition. I do not expect the ...
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RoSEC predicts leap in engine-control quality
Andrew Doyle/DERBY ROLLS SMITHS Engine Controls (RoSEC) is developing a next-generation electronic-engine-control (EEC) unit, which, it claims, will offer a 20% improvement in "functionality" and weigh significantly less than the device it has already completed for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engine. Functionality is defined as the ...
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Logistics merger
Raytheon is to merge the aviation-services operations of Raytheon Aircraft and E-Systems' Serv-Air subsidiary. The merger of Serv-Air's Greenville, Texas, unit with Raytheon Aerospace, formerly Beech Aircraft Services, will create a logistic-support company with 4,300 employees worldwide. Source: Flight International
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Gull heads For Russia
Parker Bertea Aerospace's Gull Electronic Systems division is to help Russia develop the infrastructure for flight inspection of navigation aids, including definition of the interface between Gull's automatic flight-inspection system and Russian aircraft. Source: Flight International
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DRA completes initial VCS display assessment
THE UK DEFENCE Research Agency (DRA) has completed initial flight tests of a visually coupled system (VCS) helmet-mounted display fitted to one of its experimental Westland Lynx helicopters. The tests are being carried out to assess the potential for using such a system for tactical flights at night ...
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3-D model used for F-22 testing
A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) computer-generated "ballistic vulnerability analysis model" of the Lockheed/ Boeing F-22 next-generation air-superiority fighter is being used to determine the aircraft's ability to withstand weapons damage. The model was developed by the Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Vulnerability Team to show which sections of the aircraft are vulnerable ...
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Edgley Aeronautics takes the floor to build prototype glider
Andrew Doyle/LONDON EDGLEY AERONAUTICS has developed a "revolutionary" method for fabricating light aircraft, using Fibrelam structural sandwich panels, the standard material for commercial-aircraft flooring made by Ciba Composites. The UK company has employed the technique to build its prototype mid-performance glider - the EA9, backed ...
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Rockwell signs up for uncooled-IR deal
ROCKWELL'S ELECTRO-Optical Center has signed a licence agreement with Honeywell, involving the transfer of Honeywell's uncooled microbolometer infra red (IR) technology for production by Rockwell. Rockwell, Inframetics, Honeywell and the New Jersey institute of Technology plan to demonstrate uncooled focal-plane arrays (FPAs) in Inframetics' commercial systems. The two-dimensional ...
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Aerojet to test NK-33
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AEROJET PLANS TO test-fire a Russian-produced NK-33 rocket engine at its Sacramento, California, plant on or about 4 October. Two engines were received in August under an agreement between Aerojet and NK Engines of Samara, Russia. The NK-33 is the baseline engine for ...
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NASA starts on New Millennium project
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA PLANS TO launch three interplanetary space missions before 2000, as part of a $100 million-a-year New Millennium space-technology validation effort. The first to be launched in 1998, will be built by Spectrum Astro at a cost of about $30 million. It is ...
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Four bid for Shuttle contract
BAMSI, BOEING, McDonnell Douglas, and the United Space Alliance of Lockheed Martin and Rockwell have informed NASA of their interest in becoming prime contractor for Space Shuttle operations. The statements of interest will be evaluated by the space organisation and a draft request for proposals (RFP) issued in ...
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Aerospatiale wins EDEN contract for Neurolab
AEROSPATIALE HAS signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop and manufacture the instruments for the ESA portion of the Space Shuttle Spacelab Life Sciences 4/STS89 Columbia mission, called the Neurolab, which will be the highlight of NASA's Neuroscience research programme, in March 1988. Called ...
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Euromir 3 mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) will propose a third Euromir mission to the Mir 1 Russian space station in 1998, at the Council of Ministers meeting in Toulouse on 18-20 October. The second Euromir mission, carrying German astronaut Thomas Reiter, was launched aboard Soyuz TM22 from Baikonur on 3 September. ...
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Pakistan K-8 deliveries
The Pakistan air force is to take delivery of a further six Nanchang K-8 Karakorum jet trainers from China. An initial six were handed over in late 1994, for evaluation. The aircraft are among a first production batch of 15 AlliedSignal TFE731-2A-powered K-8s produced by Nanchang Aircraft. Source: ...
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SIA expands 777 options
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has widened its "Y aircraft" evaluation of the Boeing 777 to include the longer range -200 B-market and -300 stretch variants. The 777 is competing against the Airbus Industrie A330/340 for an SIA order for up to 17 aircraft. A final selection was due ...