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Rosati Looks East
Veteran Pratt & Whitney engine executive, Robert Rosati, twice former president of International Aero Engines, has become senior vice-president, international. He will be responsible for the company's programmes in Eastern Europe, Russia and other CIS countries. Rosati will also continue to serve as P&W's primary liaison with the Airbus Industrie ...
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First Finnish F-18 is rolled out
THE FIRST OF 64 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18s for the Finnish air force was rolled out from the company's St Louis site in Missouri on 7 June. The aircraft will form part of the initial batch of four F-18s to be delivered to Finland in November. MDC will ...
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DASA and Denel to support Transall
GERMANY'S DAIMLER-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and South Africa's Denel are teaming to support the C.160 Transall military transport in response to the South African Air Force's decision not the sell the aircraft, but to use them for humanitarian missions. The C.160 support package has been identified as the first ...
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Dash-8 crashes in New Zealand
THREE PEOPLE WERE killed, and four seriously injured, in the crash of an Ansett New Zealand de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 on 9 June. The crew, who were among the injured, did not report any emergencies before the crash. The aircraft, which was approaching Palmerston North airport on ...
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Ariane 5 evolution
The need for an early growth version of Ariane 5, to meet the demand for higher launch weights, has been deemed essential by Arianespace if it is to compete with other launchers into the next century. A decision on development of the Evolution will probably be taken at the Toulouse ...
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Marketing the Ariane 5
The first commercial customer for the Ariane 5 is Eutelsat, whose Hot Bird 3 communications satellite is due for launch in April 1996. This is the point at which Arianespace officially takes over the management of the programme. In the near term, it is unlikely, that there will ...
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Vulcain main-propulsion system
The Ariane 5 cryogenic propulsion system consists of the main engine, feed lines, valves, pneumatics and tank-pressurisation systems and is the responsibility of France's Soci,t, Europ,en de Propulsion (SEP) which, as a prime contractor, leads a group of 37 European companies "Our objective was to develop an extremely ...
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Transformed Popeye unveiled
Rafael has unveiled its radically revised derivative of the Popeye stand off missile being offered to meet the Royal Air Force's Staff Requirement (Air) 1236 for a conventional stand off missile. While retaining the Popeye front-end, the airframe has mid-body pop-out wings, a reconfigured tail and a lower rear-body engine ...
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Qantas Airlink
Qantas has appointed Barry Mayo as general manager of its regional subsidiary, Australian Airlink. Mayo was formerly managing director of Insight International Tours. Previously, he represented Garuda Indonesia regionally for six years and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for eleven years. Source: Flight International
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Europe's solid biggest boosters
Ten times larger than anything previously built in Europe, the Ariane 5's solid-booster motors each develop 6,367kN (1.44 million lb) of thrust, slightly more than half the thrust of the Shuttle solid boosters, and about the same as the Titan 4. The six test firings to date at Kourou have ...
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Launching the Ariane 5
The Ariane 5 ground operation at Kourou covers 2,500Ha (5,190 acres), and is split into three main areas: the ELA3 launch site; booster zone (containing the solid-propellant plant, booster-integration building and solid-booster test stand) and cryogenic-fuel preparation zone. The site is new, and cost around Fr6.3 billion ($1.27 billion). ...
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The Shuttle/Mir missions
The objectives were: to gain engineering and operational experience in conducting research on an orbital space station; to characterise the environment relative to micro-gravity and life sciences; to better understand past and future investigations; to conduct specific investigations in medical support, life ...
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S/MM-01
STS71 Atlantis, 23 June, 1995 Mir 19 launch-phase crew: Anatoli Solovyov, Nikolai Budarin. Mir 18 re-entry and landing phase crew: Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard. Gibson will fly the Atlantis towards the Mir from below and will perform the docking using television monitors ...
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Simultaneous dangers
Radio-telephony transmissions on any frequency, can be sent only one at a time. Simultaneous transmissions cause the messages to be partially or completely lost in a squeal of garbled noise. Other stations (the generic term for either a ground-station or an aircraft with a transmitter/receiver) within range, will recognise a ...
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XV-15 returns to Paris air show
Bell Helicopter Textron's XV-15 tilt-rotor technology demonstrator is making its second appearance at the Paris air show, alongside the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, which it preceded. The XV-15 had its Paris debut in 1981. The V-22 is being flown for the first time at an international aerospace show. The Bell-Boeing ...
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Hughes Asian Success
The Hong Kong Provisional Airport Authority has awarded a HK$331 million ($42.4 million) contract for master-systems integration to Hughes Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). Hughes will provide integrated airport-information and communications systems for Chek Lap Kok. Source: Flight International
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Jetstream Maintenance
ASE Maintenance has contracted to provide technical support for Air Ostrava's fleet of Jetstream 31s. Eindhoven-based ASE will also supply training for the Czech airline's maintenance staff. Source: Flight International
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Standby Communications
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has selected Poole-based Copperchase to provide communications terminals for the Oceanic Area Control Centre at Prestwick, Scotland. The terminals provide standby data communications for use with the Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network, Gander Area Control Network in Newfoundland and Shanwick Aeradio in Ireland. Source: ...
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Battery Approval
Fairchild Aircraft Services has obtained supplemental type certification for the replacement of nickel-cadmium batteries with lead-acid batteries on Fairchild Metro III and SA227 AC/BC aircraft. Fairchild says that the conversion improves hot-and-cold temperature starts, lessens engine and starter-generator maintenance requirements, eliminates the battery- temperature monitoring system, and reduces the number ...
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Tornado Recording Deal
Daimler-Benz Aerospace/ Honeywell have chosen the Ampex DCRsi 107 digital-cartridge recording system for use in reconnaissance-pod infra-red line scanners fitted to the German air force's Panavia Tornados. The product allows the collection and analysis of data at up to 107 Mbits/s, for subsequent evaluation and processing at a ground laboratory. ...