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Thawing the frozen East
User fees could pay for the modernisation of Russian far-east airspace. Kieran Daly/LONDON The task of modernising the air-traffic management/control of the former Soviet Union is awesome. For those faced with the challenge, it is hard to know where to begin. The signs are, however, ...
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Achievement: Carbon-fibre brake technology
Messier Bugatti has developed new-generation carbon brakes, which halve the cost per landing penalty compared with traditional steel and carbon products. The aim is to bring the advantages of using carbon brakes to high-rotation short-haul airliners such as the Airbus A320/321 family. The new-generation Sepcarb III brakes have ...
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Silver Arrow unveils two UAVs
SILVER ARROW, the Israeli unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) manufacturer, has unveiled two new systems at the Paris air show. The Darter is aimed at front-line combat units, while the Colibri is for training UAV operators. The Darter has a wingspan and length of just under, 4m. Its claimed mission radius ...
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IAE works on variable-area nozzle
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) and Calcor Aero Systems are to develop the world's first variable-area exhaust nozzle for a civil aero-engine. IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, will work with California-based Calcor to produce a technology demonstrator for IAE's ...
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Shorts boost
Short Brothers, a Bombardier Group company, is commissioning a £2.4 million ($3.82 million) automatic riveting machine with nine-axis control. The purpose-built GEMCOR A-2760, believed to be the first of its kind, will boost the company's fuselage-manufacturing capability and enable it to meet the riveting requirements of fuselages such as that ...
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Kidde develops fire detector for F-22
A HIGH SENSITIVITY ultra-violet optical detector has been developed by Kidde Aerospace for incorporation on the Lockheed/Boeing F-22 advanced tactical fighter for the US Air Force. The sensor, used in the UK Company's optical fire-detection system, provides ultra-fast detection of flames in engine or auxiliary-power-unit compartments. ...
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Reverse gear is being considered
Sir - The idea of a powered landing gear, or reverse gear for aircraft, is receiving the consideration of the Italian Office of Intellectual Property (file RM95A00318 0f 17 May, 1995, for the granting of a patent) to try to save the fees for pushback. Airbus Industrie says ...
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Deneb launches engineering advance simulation
DENEB SOLUTIONS HAS launched an "immersive" virtual-reality software systems designed for manufacturing and engineering simulations. The UK Company's Telegrip system provides a three-dimensional view in which imaginary objects appear to behave realistically, according to their expected physical dimensions and properties. This means that jointed mechanisms, robots, machines - ...
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October launch is planned for SOHO
Gilbert Sedbon/TOULOUSE MATRA MARCONI SPACE (MMS) is completing final integration and tests of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in Toulouse, before shipment to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its launch on an Atlas 2AS booster in October. The 1,850kg SOHO will be ...
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Honeywell clinches TracLink GPS deal at Minneapolis
HONEYWELL HAS BEEN selected by the Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), Minnesota, to install a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system and the company's recently developed vehicle-tracking system, the TracLink. Both systems are based on the global-positioning system (GPS) and will use correctional positioning information from a local-area GPS ...
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MAS profit rise fails to impress
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) managed to deliver its long-awaited profit recovery for the 1994/5 financial year, but the improvement failed to live up to expectations following a lack-lustre second half. The group turned in profits of M$139 million ($56.6 million) for its full year ...
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Ametek to combine Sentinel with Primus
AMETEK, THE Pennsylvania-based avionics manufacturer, is to integrate its Sentinel data acquisition unit (DAU) with Honeywell's Primus 2000 XP avionics system for the Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. The DAU will be used to monitor inputs from the electronic engine-controller, electrical system, air-data computer, hydraulic and other ...
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Moller plans four-seat VTOL experiment
MOLLER International, manufacturer of the M200X experimental two-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, aims to fly a four-seater, the M400 Skycar, before the end of 1995. Moller is expected to give more details of plans for the Skycar at the Paris air show, which opened on 10 ...
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FAA reviews air-tour safety advice
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is reviewing recommendations designed to increase safety for US air-tour firms operating fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The move follows recommendations from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which resulted from an in-depth review of the 139 air-tour accidents or incidents since 1988. ...
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USA/UK inch towards liberal bilateral deal
David Learmount/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND UK have moved towards liberalisation of their bilateral air-service pact. The deal falls far short of the "open-skies" pact being pursued by US negotiators, however. The US Department of Transportation (DoT) emphasises that the latest accord ...
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Discovery pushed down launch pecking order
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE SPACE SHUTTLE mission STS70/Discovery, which had been scheduled for launch on 8 June, was cancelled on 2 June after woodpeckers damaged its brown external tank (ET). The birds, from the Kennedy Space Centre's wildlife refuge, mistook the ET for a tree. They made ...
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US polar projects to be merged
NASA, THE US Department of Commerce and the US Air Force have agreed to merge the operations of their polar-orbiting weather satellites, into a single programme. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Defense Meteorological Satellite Programme (DMSP) spacecraft will become part of a three-satellite national polar-orbiting ...
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Orbcomm passes space tests
NORMAL communications, with the Orbcomm 1 and 2 satellites, which were lost after launch on 3 April, have been restored. The first data messages to and from one of the spacecraft and a Panasonic personal communicator have been completed. A software problem, which was preventing the Orbcomm 2 ...
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US workforce heads for record low
EMPLOYMENT IN the US aircraft industry is at its lowest point in nearly two decades. It is likely to reach a new record low, possibly this year, as companies continue to shed staff, warns the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). Direct employment in aircraft, missiles and space manufacturing ...
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Dassault flies its Falcon 900EX for the first time
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DASSAULT AVIATION's new Falcon 900EX long-range business jet had a successful first flight from Bordeaux-Merignac Airport on 1 June. The aircraft reached an altitude of 41,000ft (13,600m) and a speed of Mach 0.82 during its 2h flight. "The aircraft behaved beautifully," says test ...