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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. ...
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Long-Range Tie-Up
Auxiliary-fuel-systems supplier PATS and BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco are to offer jointly long-range fuel-system installations at BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco's aircraft maintenance/modification plant in Everett, Washington. PATS' long-range fuel tanks can be installed as a post-delivery modification, or as a separate installation for in-service aircraft. Source: Flight International
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The truth about Y-12 engines
Sir - There seems to be a persistent misunderstanding about the origins of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines which power the Harbin Y-12 (Flight International, 12-18 April, P10). All engines used in the Y-12, produced both for the export or the Chinese markets, were (and continue ...
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Safety procedures are efficient
Sir - The article "Confidential safety" (Flight International 24-30 May, P49) makes some controversial statements, which need correcting: it is not only airlines which have to report "those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people and damage to equipment". UK Civil Aviation Investigation of Air ...
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Logic behind greater thrust
Sir - I was surprised to read in the article "GE looks at increasing GE90 thrust levels" (Flight International, 26 April-2 May, P6) that the preferred approach to achieving greater power is by removing one or two high-pressure stages from the core. Such a change would allow a ...
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Indian Mode-S First
The Airports Authority of India has begun operation in Trivandrum of the first of four air-traffic-control radar systems to be built and installed throughout India by Westinghouse. The ASR-9 airport-surveillance radar allows controllers to detect and track aircraft under all weather and heavy clutter conditions. Each system contains a Mode-S, ...
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: ...
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Aerosonic Loss
Clearwater, Florida-based Aerosonic, has posted a $211,000 loss on 1994 sales of $24.4 million, up by 2%, compared with an $869,000 profit in 1993. Sales at Aerosonics' Avionics Specialties were up by 13% on increased sales of its turbine-engine power analyser and recorder system. Source: Flight International
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CAE Profits Rise
Canada's CAE reports that profits were up by one-third for its financial year to the end of March, helped by military-simulator sales which offset flat commercial markets. Profits grew to C$47 million ($33 million) as revenues climbed by 11% to the C$658 million mark. The CAE Aviation unit benefited from ...
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Milstar Payloads Grow
A key communications payload and subsystems for the US Air Force Milstar 5 and 6 satellites will be built by TRW, under contracts with Lockheed Martin and Hughes worth $560 million. The Milstar 5 and 6 craft will allow the US Department of Defense to complete the last two of ...
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Genesis Fails
East Midlands, UK-based regional carrier Genesis Airways has ceased operations eight months after starting scheduled flights to Belfast, Northern Ireland, using a British Aerospace Jetstream 31. Genesis began operating as Prospair, in 1990. Source: Flight International