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Bigot's battle
The joint marketing of the Atlas and Proton fleet is a major threat to Arianespace. Tim Furniss/PARIS IT WAS THE THIRD day of the Paris air show, and Arianespace chairman Charles Bigot was rattled. The day before, Lockheed Martin and Khrunichev of Russia had announced ...
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Cessna/Raytheon study new business-jet plans
CESSNA AND Raytheon Aircraft are studying new mid-sized business jets, which, if launched, would succeed the current Citation VII and Hawker 1000, respectively. The designs are likely to offer larger cabins and higher performance than the aircraft they would replace. Raytheon is believed to be studying a stretched, ...
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Eurojet
Eurojet, a partnership between MTU of Germany, Italy's FiatAvio, Spain's ITP and the UK's Rolls-Royce, is responsible for the EJ200 turbofan which will power production Eurofighter 2000 aircraft. The first EF2000 prototype to be fitted with EJ200 engines, designated DA3, was flown in early June from Alenia's Caselle ...
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General Electric
The first General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 resumed certification flight-testing on 20 July, following rectification of a fan problem discovered during ground-based bird-strike tests earlier this year. New fan-platform spacers have been fitted to existing test and production engines, following validation tests in early July. Compressor surge problems, ...
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Born-again fighter
Israel's low-cost upgrade, for the venerable MiG-21, has entered the flight test stage. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE UPGRADE prepared by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for the MiG-21 (Flight International, 15-21 March, P14) has been driven by the assumption that most potential customers want to enhance the aircraft's ...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150 to power the recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400. The PW150 is a growth version of the PW100-series turboprop, and is rated at 4,800-5,600kW. The engine will be de-rated to 3,670kW for the Dash 8-400, however. P&WC is now ...
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MDC is awarded NASA wing work
NASA HAS SELECTED McDonnell Douglas to build and test a full-scale, all-composite, airliner wing under an eight-year, $160 million contract. MDC has already delivered a wing-box test section under a previous phase of NASA's Advanced Composites Programme. The wing will be produced using MDC's stitched resin-film intrusion process, ...
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US Border Patrol receives re-engined Huey for trials
THE US Border Patrol, has taken delivery of five Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1 utility rotorcraft, powered by Light Helicopter Turbine Engine's T800 turboprop engines. The re-engine UH-1s, delivered on 14 July, are on a one-year loan from the US Department of Defense. After testing the combination, ...
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BA reports on Oporto near-collision
A BRITISH AIRWAYS Boeing 737 avoided a head-on collision with a TAP Air Portugal Airbus A340 in May. The 737 took off rapidly from runway 17 at Oporto, Portugal, on 4 May, having seen that the A340 was on short finals for the same runway in the opposite direction. ...
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South Africa is raring to go
Sir - In the article "Survival techniques" (Flight International, 12-18 July, P28) there is the subheading "No better in South Africa" (P32). Fortunately, there are also some positive indications later in the text. Industrial development is in the forefront, particularly in provincial South Africa. The Orange ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, the first to be certificated at 400kN, will power the Boeing 777-300s recently ordered by Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai Airways International. R-R has defined a thrust level of 423kN for the initial -300 A-market stretch, saying that this can be achieved with adjustments to the ...
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Power struggle
It is a familiar story, but Russian engine makers are suffering from a shortage of funds. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW OF ALL SECTORS IN THE Russian aviation industry, engine manufacturers are receiving probably the sharpest criticism from national media and airline operators for their apparent inability to ...
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ITEC
International Turbine Engine (ITEC), a joint venture between AlliedSignal and the Aero Industry Development Center of Taiwan, is supplying its F124-100 turbofan engine to power the Czech L-159 combat aircraft which is being developed by Aero Vodochody. The engine, rated at 30kN, is a non-after-burning version of the TFE1042-70 (F125) ...
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LHTEC
LHTEC, a joint venture between Allison Engines and AlliedSignal Engines, is supplying its T800 turbo-shaft engine for the re-engineing of Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters flown by the US Border Patrol. The first re-engined aircraft was due to have been delivered in July. The T800 was originally developed for ...
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Next bus for Asian telecommunications
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S NEW A2100 spacecraft bus will be used in the company's $650 million Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) network programme. The satellite, equipped with large antennae manufactured by Harris, will provide a mobile-telephone communications system for the Far East and Asian regions, and will be operated by companies from Indonesia, ...
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DASA pleads with French
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has appealed to France to continue supporting the European Columbus module of the Alpha Space Station, following fears of French withdrawal. France has proposed to pull out of the DASA-led Columbus programme, by resurrecting its crew-rescue vehicle (CRV) project, cancelled earlier ...
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MMS wins ESA polar-platform contract is signed
Tim Furniss/LONDON MATRA MARCONI SPACE (MMS) and the European Space Agency have signed a $700 million deal for the development of a polar-platform spacecraft. The first, called the Envisat 1, will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 in 1999, to be operated in an 800km circular ...
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Discovery returns to Kennedy
THE SPACE SHUTTLE STS 70/Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 22 July after an 8 days 22h mission. It had been launched on 13 July, a record six days after the end of the last mission, the STS71/Atlantis. The Discovery crew deployed the final TRW-built ...
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Booster Test
The final test at Kourou, French Guiana, of the Ariane 5 solid-rocket booster was completed on 21 July. It was the second qualification firing and the seventh overall. The vehicle's maiden flight is now expected to take place on 17 January 1996. Source: Flight International
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MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce (MTR)
The MTR390 turbo-shaft engine will power some 427 Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters for the French and German armies, but two significant potential orders were lost when The Netherlands and the UK decided to order the US McDonnell Douglas Apache instead. Developed specifically for the Tiger by MTU, Turbomeca ...