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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: ...
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Cessna boosts training
Cessna has introduced an improved private-pilot course for authorised Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs), developed jointly with Jeppesen Sanderson. There were once more than 1,100 CPCs worldwide, of which some 360 survive in the USA and Canada, but Cessna plans to expand its training-centre network with the delivery of new piston ...
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The right track
Flight planning and aero-information specialist SkyTrak, of Twickenham, London, has won UK National Air Traffic Service approval for flight plans to be filed direct to destination airports and Eurocontrol, using the company's SkyFile flight processing system. This will allow UK flight clearance centres to be by-passed, which, says SkyTrack chairman ...
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Martinair orders zonal dryers
MARTINAIR HOLLAND has become the launch customer for CTT Systems' zonal drying system (Flight International, 10-16 August 1994). They will be fitted to the Dutch charter carrier's fleet of six Boeing 767-300s. The sixth aircraft will have the system factory-installed by Boeing before delivery in November. Nykoping, Sweden-based ...
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Cambodia plans a radical upgrade at Pochentong Airport
THE CAMBODIAN Government is planning a major $120 million project to bring Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport up to international standards. A contract for upgrading and expanding the airport has been awarded to a joint venture between Dumez-GMT of France and Malaysia's Muhibbah Engineering. Construction is expected to take ...
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USAF scores hits with GBU-15 and AGM-130 tests
US AIR FORCE McDonnell Douglas F-15E crews scored six direct hits with six launches of Rockwell's AGM-130 stand-off weapon, and 11 hits with 12 drops of the company's GBU-15 glide-bomb, in tests at the Utah weapons range. In similar tests in 1994, General Dynamics F-111F crews scored seven ...
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Bell Boeing to develop CV-22
BELL BOEING has received a US Navy contract to design changes to the V-22 for the special-operations mission. A follow-on contract is expected in 1996, to convert the second of four MV-22 engineering- and manufacturing-development aircraft to the CV-22 special-operations configuration. The US Air Force plans to buy ...
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Japanese FS-X prototype first flight delayed
MITSUBISHI'S prototype FS-X support-fighter is expected to make its first flight on 19 September, after encountering some early problems with the aircraft's emergency-power unit. The aircraft has been equipped with an AlliedSignal emergency- power unit, modified to run on Japanese JP4 fuel. The system has had start-up and flame-out ...
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Elbit urges Australia to reconsider L-59F
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ELBIT IS PRESSING the Australian Government to reconsider its earlier decision not to allow the Aero Vodochody L-59F, on which it is teamed, to compete for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) lead-in-fighter competition. According to local sources, Israeli interests are lobbying hard in ...
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Cabin safety research to be 'more systematic'
EUROPEAN AND NORTH American aviation authorities, have made an unprecedented joint invitation to the air-transport industry, to take part in a review of progress in cabin-safety research. The subject retains a high political profile, particularly since, during the last five years, all the authorities involved have postponed decisions ...
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NIIP reveals phased- array radar for Su-35
Douglas Barrie/MOSCOW RUSSIAN RADAR design house NIIP has revealed that it is testing a phased-array radar for the Sukhoi Su-35 advanced derivative of the Su-27 Flanker. At the Moscow air show, NIIP showed an image of a fixed-array antenna mounted to the nose section of a ...
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Mirage shot down during NATO air strikes
A FRENCH AIR force Dassault Mirage 2000 was shot down near Pale during a series of extensive air strikes launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb positions beginning 30 August. Targets attacked included radar sites and surface-to-air-missile batteries, ammunition dumps and communications infrastructure. According to NATO, the air strikes ...
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Airbus flight-tests longer range A340
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS flown the first high gross-weight version of the four-engine A340-300. Delivery of the first of 17 aircraft ordered by Singapore Airlines (SIA) is due in April 1996. Maximum take-off weight of the modified aircraft, termed the A340-300E by SIA, is increased to 271t from the ...
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Safety board seeks FAA AD for CF6 fatigue-crack inspections
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for an airworthiness directive (AD) to be issued requiring fatigue-crack checks on General Electric CF6 engine high-pressure compressor (HPC) spools. The US Federal Aviation Administration says that an AD is imminent - only ...
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US airlines on track to meet Stage 3 noise targets
US AIRLINES REMAIN on track in replacing Stage 2 aircraft with quieter Stage 3 machines, says the US Federal Aviation Administration. By the end of 1994, the number of Stage 3-compliant aircraft in the US fleet rose from 3,943 to 4,427, while the number of active Stage 2 ...
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Pilots attack draft for centralised JAA
David Learmount/LONDON AN UNRELEASED DRAFT convention attempting to define the role and legal status of a fully unified European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has been attacked by the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) for leaving essential points "shrouded in mystery". IFALPA has written to ...
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The race is on to hit BA 777 delivery date
BOEING IS confident that it can deliver the first General Electric GE90-powered 777 to British Airways on schedule, on 28 September, despite the grounding of a flight-test aircraft for compressor-blade repairs. Certification flight-testing continues with the first GE90-powered 777, and ground runs have begun on the first production ...