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Airlines are checking Hamilton propellers propeller checks follow EMB-120 crash
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRLINES ARE inspecting Hamilton Standard propellers on several regional-turboprop types after the 21 August fatal crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia following blade failure (Flight International, 30 August-5 September, P12). On 25 August, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered the ...
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Smiths and Collins link up to offer CNS/ATM upgrade
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SMITHS INDUSTRIES IS licensing its flight-management-system (FMS) software to Rockwell-Collins, allowing the firms to offer an integrated cockpit-upgrade which could be fitted as standard across an airline fleet. By combining the Smiths FMS, already fitted on Boeing 737s, with Collins AVSAT satellite-based avionics ...
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Economic warfare
THE TERRITORIES of the former Warsaw Pact are threatening to become a battlefield once again. This time however, it is going to be a dog fight for market share, rather than a Cold War confrontation. US and European combat-aircraft manufacturers, are excited by new market prospects, in the ...
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Israel/Turkey agree on F-4 improvement
ISRAEL AND TURKEY have finally signed a framework agreement covering a $600 million upgrade programme for the latter's McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms. The upgrade programme will be led by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and covers the upgrade of 54 Turkish air force F-4s. The agreement was signed in ...
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USA tempts Poles and Czechs with F-16 upgrade work offer
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE USA WILL offer the Czech Republic and Poland industrial participation in Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life update (MLU) projects to try to deflect criticism that buying the US fighter could be damaging to the domestic-aerospace industries of the two eastern European countries. According to ...
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UK industry pays £2.5 million for Red Arrows tour
UK DEFENCE AND aerospace companies have committed to provide £2.5 million ($4 million) to support the Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team's winter tour to South Africa and Malaysia. This is the first time that industry has provided financial support for a Red Arrows tour. So far, ...
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Share dividend
With relatively little fanfare, the laboratory directors of the USA's five aerospace giants have signed a landmark agreement giving each easy access to the others' laboratories - not for industrial espionage, but for research and development testing when time-critical projects overload one company's laboratory capacity. It began as ...
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USAfrica returns
USAfrica plans to resume operations later this year, flying Boeing 747-200s or McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s from New York Newark to South Africa via Dakar, Senegal. Launched in June 1994, flying McDonnell Douglas MD-11s from Washington Dulles, USAfrica suspended operations in February 1995 when it ran out of money. The company ...
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Cityhopper fleet
KLM Cityhopper will be replacing its four aging Fokker F28-4000 Fellowships with an equal number of new Fokker 70s from January 1996. A special-purpose company, to be owned by an independent foundation, will be set up to lease the 80-seat aircraft to Cityhopper for an initial period of three years. ...
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Lockheed U-2R crashes at Fairford
A Lockheed U-2R reconnaissance aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Fairford on 29 August. The pilot ejected, but later died from his injuries. The aircraft may have been intended to carry out last-minute reconnaissance of potential targets in Bosnia in the run-up to NATO air strikes launched on the ...
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East meets West
In what must count as one of the most unusual "weapon" configurations ever seen on a McDonnell Douglas F-18, the US manufacturer has mated a variant of Russia's Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) rocket/ramjet with the aircraft. MDC is working under an 18-month, $4.7 million US Navy contract to determine whether ...
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Nomads withdrawn
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is to withdraw its 24 GAF Nomad utility-transport aircraft from service in the light of its inability to meet performance requirements for military operations. The RAAF will instead lease aircraft to fulfil this requirement. Source: Flight International
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Extra extreme
Photographing the Firebird Extra 300's aerobatic capabilities is nothing if not dramatic. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICHMark Wagner/LONDON Flight International photographer Mark Wagner, enthusing about his passenger-seat introduction to the Extra 300, says: "I was taking a couple of shots from the front cockpit, when we went completely berserk. ...
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Modified Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot on show
AN APPARENTLY upgraded variant of the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, using the Su-25TM designation, was unveiled at the Moscow show. The aircraft is fitted with a centreline radar pod, understood to carry the Phazotron Kopyo 25 multi-mode radar. It also carries outboard electronic-countermeasures pods. The exact status of this upgrade project ...
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Computer-aided washing system
LUFTHANSA ENGINEERING and Operational Services (LEOS), of Frankfurt-Main Airport, Germany, will put the first production Skywash automated aircraft washing system into operation before the end of September. Lufthansa Technik subsidiary LEOS claims that the Skywash will slash the time taken to wash a Boeing 747 from 10h to just 3h. ...
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Raduga ramjet missile-testbed unveiled
Pictured above is Russian air-to-surface missile specialist Raduga's large ramjet-powered missile testbed, thought to be intended for developing a next-generation air-launched hypersonic anti-ship missile. The missile, understood to be called the GELA (Hypersonic Experimental Flying Testbed), has already been test-flown and prototypes have been built. The programme may be associated ...
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Obstacle course
Russian GA manufacturers chafe at the bit at slow progress being made in the country's industry. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW IN THE SOVIET Union, general aviation (GA) as it is understood in the West did not exist. Now, with Russia moving to a market economy, rapid GA development ...
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NAT RP-1 deal
Mitsubishi has selected Northern Airborne Technologies (NAT) to supply dual audio panels for its RP-1 eight-passenger, twin-turbine, commercial helicopter. Kelowna, British Columbia-based NAT's AMS43 audio controller will be installed in the RP-1 prototypes. Source: Flight International
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Concern mounts over JAR 65
Sir - Having read David Learmount's article "Licence to change" (Flight International, 26 July-1 August, P25), Aircraft Engineers International would like to offer its input on this important issue, which concerns future European maintenance engineers' licensing as it will be covered in the forthcoming Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) requirement JAR ...
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Gulfstream V roll-out date is set
GULFSTREAM WILL roll out its Gulfstream V long-range business jet, at its Savannah, Georgia, plant on 22 September. The first flight is on schedule for 15 November, the manufacturer says. The Fokker-produced empennage was attached to the first GV early in August, the Northrop Grumman-built wing having been ...