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Distribution Alliance
Derco Industries is to stock and distribute AlliedSignal components for the Lockheed Martin C-130, P-3 and F-16, General Dynamics F-111 and Northrop F-5 under an exclusive agreement covering 51 countries, excluding the USA. Derco will make a "multi-million dollar" investment in inventory and will stock and distribute more than 8,000 ...
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Taking over
As the US military moves out of the Philippines, so FedEx moves in. Paul Lewis/SUBIC BAY WHEN THE US NAVY pulled out of the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines in November 1992, the local Olongapo City authorities inherited an $8 billion military base ...
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P&W-led team assesses ADP nacelle)
TESTING OF composite parts of a new-technology engine nacelle for Pratt & Whitney's advanced ducted propulsor (ADP) has begun under the US Advanced Research Project Agency's affordable composites for propulsion (ACP) programme. All the composite sections will be assembled around P&W's ADP core for full engine testing in ...
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Canada to test voice control navigation
CANADA'S NATIONAL Research Council (NRC) plans to begin voice-control flight tests in July, using its Bell 412 Advanced Systems Research Aircraft (ASRA). A Canadian Marconi (CMC) speech-recognition system will be used to control selected communications and navigation functions in the helicopter. The flight trials will be funded by ...
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Aviation Partners pushes for Gulfstream II winglet exports
AVIATION PARTNERS is pursuing overseas sales of its performance-enhancing winglet modification for the Gulfstream II business jet following the aircraft's international debut at the Paris air show in June. Negotiations are under way with several potential offshore modification-centres. Interest in the modification is highest in Saudi Arabia, which ...
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Tri Star to start with BAe 146s
START-UP NEVADA-based carrier Tri Star Airlines will begin services on 17 July, from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon with three British Aerospace 146-200s. The airline ran a series of proving flights for five days from 5 July before beginning three ...
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European directory
The deadline for the receipt of information for the Flight International Directory Mainland Europe 1996-7 has been extended to 1 August. All companies and individuals listed in the current edition of the directory have been circulated for the purposes of updating the information to be contained in the new version. ...
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Lockheed leads in defence research stakes
LOCKHEED HAS AGAIN topped the Pentagon's ranking of its largest research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) contractors in 1994. The corporation pushed up its total of awards to above $2.6 billion, closely followed by merger partner Martin Marietta, in second place, with $1.8 billion. Together, the ...
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Syrianair plans to renew its fleet
Alan George/DAMASCUS SYRIA IS MOVING to improve its air-transport infrastructure as talks with Israel on a peace accord continue to make progress. National carrier Syrianair and the Civil Aviation Directorate are both looking to re-equip their operations. Syrianair is talking to major aircraft manufacturers about ...
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USA poses liability dilemma
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US INSISTENCE THAT its citizens have the right to claim unlimited compensation on any international flight, has again emerged as the major stumbling block, in efforts to agree new world limits on passenger-liability limits. An outline agreement on updating the Warsaw Convention limits ...
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Women general-aviation pilots are 'safer than men'
IT IS OFFICIAL: women pilots are safer then men. Initial results from a survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority's General Aviation Safety Department (GASD) reveals that male general-aviation pilots in the UK are more than four times as likely to have a fatal accident as their female counterparts. ...
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MDC to pick JAST lift engine
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE McDONNELL Douglas (MDC)-led Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) team will decide by the end of this month on a lift-fan-engine supplier for its design after dropping the alternative gas-coupled lift fan in favour of a "more affordable" lift-plus-lift-cruise concept. The late ...
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Grob 115 lifespan is 60,000h-plus
Sir - In your flight test of the PZL Koliber (Flight International, 7-13 June, P111), you say that, "difficulties arose because no training aircraft had been certificated in years". The Grob G115C and D have not only had full US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 23 certification since 1993, but have ...
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Westinghouse
Kent Hutchinson has been named president of Westinghouse Norden Systems, of Norwalk, Connecticut. He succeeds Jack Wohler, who has become executive vice-president technical of United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney, of East Hartford, Connecticut. Hutchinson was previously vice-president for programme management at Northrop Defense Systems, overseeing electronic-countermeasures programmes for the B-1, ...
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Intensive Autoclave
We have been asked to point out that Aerovac's new autoclave (Flight International, 28 June-4 July) is used to make intensifiers for the manufacture of advanced composites, and not to manufacture advanced composites, as we stated. Source: Flight International
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...
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Sokol flight-tests export Foxhound
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AN EXPORT VARIANT OF the Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound heavy fighter, dubbed the MiG-31E, is undergoing flight trials, according to Vladimir Pomolov, general manager of Russia's Sokol plant, which builds the aircraft. Confirming that the export version is being flight-tested, Pomolov ...
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New Latvian flag carrier appointed
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE LATVIAN Government has approved the Baltic International USA (BIUSA)/ Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) proposal for the establishment of a partially privatised airline to take over the operations of Baltic International Airlines (BIA) and the loss-making state-owned carrier Latavio Latvian Airlines. The new ...
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Hungary forced to ground MiG-29As
THE HUNGARIAN air force has been forced to ground its Mikoyan MiG-29A Fulcrum fighter aircraft following the discovery of a design fault which was leading to foreign-object damage (FOD). Initial problems with the aircraft began to emerge shortly after the first Hungarian unit of Fulcrums was declared operational ...
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Weight-lifter
Peter Gray/KUSSNACHT, SWITZERLAND KAMAN AEROSPACE HAS handed over the first K-MAX external-lift helicopter to be delivered to a European customer. The delivery, to Helog of Switzerland, provided an opportunity for a closer look at an unusual aircraft with a growing international presence. The K-MAX is in service ...