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Koliber II is fast, but not that fast
Sir - I refer to the flight test of the Koliber II (Flight International, 7-13 June, P112). I was not a little surprised to read that the Koliber can reach speeds of between 170kt (315jm/h) and 260kt (and this with the cockpit canopy not completely closed), which to ...
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C-12 order
Raytheon Aircraft has received a contract for almost $53 million for an additional 14 Beech C-12R utility aircraft (military King Air B200Cs) for delivery to the US Army Reserve between July 1996 and August the following year. Source: Flight International
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Hawkeye delivery
Taiwan's air force has taken delivery of its first two Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. Designated as E-2Ts, they have been completed to the latest Group II configuration, including an improved AN/APS-145 radar. The final two E-2Cs are due to shipped to Taiwan by the end of ...
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Beech training support
Beech Aerospace Services, Madison, Mississippi, has been awarded a fixed-price US Navy contract worth as much as $325 million for maintenance and logistical support services for T-34 and T-44 training aircraft based at Naval Air Stations located at Whiting Field and Pensacola, Florida, and Corpus Christi, Texas. If all options ...
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Cimber co-operation
Danish regional airline Cimber Air has joined with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) to offer additional flights between Copenhagen and Karup and Aarhus and Aalborg from 29 October. The increased frequencies will be flown, by a mix of SAS and Cimber Air aircraft, with the latter using, 46-seat ATR 42-300 turboprops. ...
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Air India re-assesses
Air India's plans to wet-lease three 400-seat aircraft to replace Boeing 747-200s appear to have run up against an unexpected problem of unavailability. Instead, the airline has short-listed six companies offering to meet a requirement for 250- to 300-seaters with Airbus A310-300s and McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The wet-lease option has ...
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Shorts support
Shorts has secured two support services contracts worth £74 million ($115 million). The contracts, awarded by the UK Ministry of Defence for Royal Air Force Linton-on-Ouse and by a Middle East customer, cover the provision of a range of services including first, second and third line aircraft maintenance. The company ...
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Kaman honour
Kaman founder and chairman Charles Kaman has received the US Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal, its highest award for a non-career civilian, for "exceptionally distinguished service" as an inventor and pioneer in rotary-wing flight. Source: Flight International
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Endeavour launch
The much-delayed launch of the Space Shuttle STS 69/Endeavour took place from the Kennedy Space Center on 7 September. The 11-day STS 69 mission, with a five-man crew will feature the deployment and retrieval of the Spartan and Wake Shield free-flying spacecraft and a 6h space walk to practice space-station ...
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Pakistan favours Mirage
Pakistani air force chief Gen. Mohammed Abbas Khattak has declared himself in favour of purchasing 32 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. "We have no choice but to buy French aircraft, even though they are very expensive," he told Pakistani newspaper Dawn. The country is unable to buy Lockheed F-16s, as its ...
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Spares in Budapest
Aerospace Industries has opened a warehouse and distribution centre at Budapest Ferihegy Airport. Trading as Aerospares Budapest, the centre will service Aerospares Shannon's customers and represent aircraft manufacturers in the region, and will hold a $6 million spare-parts inventory. Source: Flight International
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Siemans goes ballistic
Siemens Plessey Systems has picked up a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract for a ballistic-missile defence technology-demonstrator programme. Siemens says that the work will "...extend experience gained through earlier projects" which used the MoD/ Siemens-funded multifunction electronically scanned adaptive radar. Source: Flight International
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Crew comfort
AMI Industries is delivering flight attendant and cockpit seats for the Avro RJ regional-jet family, with factory installations beginning on Crossair's fleet of Avro RJ100s. The attendant seats will be based on those already supplied by the Colorado, USA based company for the Airbus A330 and A340. Source: ...
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Vibration monitor
Endevco has been selected to provide engine vibration monitoring units for the Cessna Citation X business jet. Endevco, part of the Meggitt Aerospace group, will also supply piezo-electric transducers for the aircraft's Allison AE3007 turbofan engines. Source: Flight International
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Dowty sale
TI Group has sold Dowty Aerospace's ram-air-turbine product line to Sundstrand for £5.5 million ($8.5 million) in cash. The sale includes manufacturing equipment and related repair and overhaul activities in the UK and USA. Source: Flight International
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Dasa buy-out
In a state-supported deal to preserve jobs, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has handed over part of its former Munich-Neuaubing production site to a company formed by ex-DASA employees. The new company, Advanced Integral Structures (ADIS), has taken over 40% of the original site, which was threatened with closure by DASA's 1993 ...
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AirTran spin-off
AirTran shareholders have approved the spin-off of the company's fast growing AirTran Airways (ATA) charter subsidiary. Formed in October 1994 with two Boeing 737-200s, Orlando, Florida-based ATA will operate eight 737-200s by the end of 1995. AirTran also owns Meseba. Source: Flight International
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Space FUSE
Orbital Sciences has won the $37 million contract from John Hopkins University to build the NASA Far Ultra-violet Spectrograph Explorer (FUSE). The FUSE will be launched, in 1998 by a yet to be assigned, Med-Lite programme booster. Source: Flight International
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New pad
The launch pad used to launch the now-cancelled Energia heavy-lift booster and Buran space shuttle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will be modified for launches of Soyuz boosters carrying manned Soyuz and unmanned Progress spacecraft. Launch-pad processing buildings will be used to prepare space-station modules for the Alpha programme. ...
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More Orions
Orion Network Systems has signed a tentative agreement with Matra Marconi Space for the purchase of the Orion 2 and 3 satellites. The Orion 2 will become the second Atlantic satellite, while the Orion 3 will serve the Pacific region (Flight International, 1 December 1994-3 January, 1995). Source: ...