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Vnukovo forms link with ARIA
MOSCOW-BASED Vnukovo Airlines has announced a deal with Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) to co-operate on Russian domestic, intra-CIS routes, and some international services. The international destinations are those in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Co-operative arrangements are intended to improve passenger services, enable sales-office sharing, ...
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Airbus tests ATC datalink
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE, in association with Aerospatiale and the Eurocontrol air-traffic-control (ATC) centre at Maastricht, the Netherlands, has begun in-flight trials of equipment enabling ATC by datalink. The aircraft being used in the tests are green A320s being ferried from Airbus' Toulouse, France, assembly plant to Hamburg, Germany, for ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Canada offers to host NATO training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CANADA HAS submitted a "power-by-the-hour" proposal to host advanced flying-training for European NATO nations. The NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) proposal is backed by an industry team, led by Bombardier and including British Aerospace and CAE, which would own and operate the aircraft and simulators ...
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DASA Inspector takes shape
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace's (DASA) Space Infrastructure division in Bremen is constructing a 70kg prototype free-flying servicing spacecraft, dubbed the Inspector. The commercial feasibility of the vehicle, which will be used to inspect and repair spacecraft, will be studied jointly by DASA, RSC Energia of Russia and Rockwell Aerospace under ...
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Radar first
Westinghouse has received a $3 million contract to retrofit Portuguese air force Lockheed C-130Hs with its APN-241 predictive-windshear radar. Deliveries begin in November. The contract marks the first international, and first retrofit,sale of the radar, which is in production for new US Air Force C-130Hs and the C-130Js now under ...
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Detection success
Westinghouse's AAR-54(V) passive missile-warning system detected and classified all 14 missiles fired during US Navy live-fire demonstrations. The ultraviolet-based system was mounted on a QF-4 drone and used to cue an ALE-47 flare dispenser. Source: Flight International
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Arrius FADEC
Chandler Evans is to supply a version of its generic full-authority digital engine-control (FADEC) for Turbom‚ca Arrius 2B engines fitted to the Eurocopter EC135 helicopter. The order is a breakthrough for the US company, as previous Arrius FADECs have been made by Sextant. Source: Flight International
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Boeing flies 767 freighter
THE BOEING 767-300F freighter made its first flight from Everett to Boeing Field in late June. Boeing says that the 2h 29min "flawless" flight begins a relatively short test effort which is expected to include 60 flight hours and 300 ground-test hours. Three aircraft will be involved in ...
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Racal rejigs UK battlefield-helicopter EW bid
RACAL RADAR Defence Systems has dropped plans to bid with Litton for the electronic-warfare (EW) package on the UK's attack-helicopter programme, instead unveiling its own integrated defensive-aids system (IDAS), built round its new Griffin G500 radar-warning receiver (RWR). Racal is offering the IDAS, in collaboration with Westland, as ...
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Canadian team develops investigation tool
A TEAM OF ENGINEERS at Canada's National Research Council (NRC) has developed an information-management system capable of translating data from aircraft flight recorders into computer animations. The team, based at the Flight Recorder Playback Centre, part of the NRC's Institute for Aerospace Research, developed the ADAAPS (Aircraft Data ...
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Long hot summer
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 is facing its toughest test so far. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES It is make-or-break time for the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) C-17. The future of the military transport, and that of the US Air Force's global heavy-lift capability, hinges on the outcome of two ...
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NASA reviews space access after second Pegasus failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA HAS FORMED a series of teams "...to address all aspects of its strategy for access to space", following the second failure on 22 June in two launches of the new Orbital Sciences (OSC) Pegasus XL. The Administration has four spacecraft due for launches on the ...
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Chinook crash: causes debatable
Sir - I have followed with interest recent reports concerning the circumstances surrounding the Chinook accident on the Mull of Kintyre. I read the report of the Board of Inquiry. The findings are unsurprising, if not spectacularly inconclusive. Without the benefits of reports from survivors, eye witnesses, radar ...
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Are they sitting comfortably?
ASSESSMENT SERVICES IS PERFORMING electromagnetic compatibility tests on an actuator unit on behalf of UK ejection-seat manufacturer Martin-Baker. The actuator, destined for use on Dassault's Rafale fighter aircraft, is designed to ensure that the pilot is correctly positioned in the cockpit for optimum use of the aircraft's systems and displays. ...
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AMO sells more 146 leases
BRITISH AEROSPACE'S Asset Management Organisation (AMO) has placed six more BAe 146s with European and Australian operators. Swedish regional carrier Malm" Aviation is acquiring a ninth aircraft, a 146-200, on a five-year lease from September; Mistral Air has already taken delivery of a Series 100 for scheduled passenger ...
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Air Foyle plans to plug gap in cargo capacity
UK CHARTER AIRLINE Air Foyle is poised to enter the scheduled long-haul cargo business for the first time later this year. The Luton-based carrier is negotiating the dry-lease of a Boeing 747-200F freighter to begin services from London - possibly Stansted - to destinations in South-East Asia, South ...
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Coherent ground-tests 3-D laser radar
COHERENT Technologies has ground-tested an experimental three-dimensional (3-D) laser radar developed under contract to the US Air Force. The device could be used for targeting in close air-combat, for missile terminal-guidance, or in a point-defence weapon system, the USAF believes. The Boulder, Colorado-based company has been ...
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Eumetsat opens control centre
THE 17-MEMBER state European meteorological satellite organisation, Eumetsat, opened its new $37 million headquarters, including a mission control centre, in Darmstadt, Germany, on 26 June. The control centre will take over operations of Meteosat satellites on 1 December, replacing the European Space Agency's (ESA) space-operations centre, ESOC, also ...
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Clearest view of Mars
THE HUBBLE SPACE telescope has returned the clearest image of Mars taken from the Earth's vicinity, 103 million kilometres away. Most of the carbon-dioxide frost around the permanent water-ice polar cap on Mars' springtime northern hemisphere has sublimated and wispy white clouds indicate that the atmosphere is cooler than when ...