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Purso Tools updates MD-80 cabin trainer
THE RECENTLY established Aviation Engineering unit of Purso Tools, based in Pori, Finland, has completed its first cabin-trainer project by updating an existing McDonnell Douglas MD-80 cabin-procedures simulator. Purso says that it is in negotiations with potential customers and that it is attempting to establish a foothold in ...
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Arianespace loses Nahuel contract to Chinese
Tim Furniss/LONDON Daimler-Benz Aerospace has selected, China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC), to launch the Nahuel 1 communications satellite, which it is building with Aerospatiale for Argentine. The decision is a blow to Arianespace, which lists the satellite in its order book of 37 outstanding launches. ...
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Bedek faces probe after 747 work is questioned
A US FEDERAL Aviation Administration inspection team is to visit Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek overhaul division later this month, following concerns over the company's Boeing 747 maintenance work. Bedek, one of the world's primary 747 over-hauls, has meanwhile consented, to stepped-up FAA surveillance of its work on ...
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New Zealand operator tries V8 power on agricultural aircraft
Agricultural operator Super Air has begun in-house certification work on a Ford V8-powered variant of the Fletcher FU-24 agricultural aircraft. Hamilton, New Zealand-based Super Air will seek an initial supplemental type certificate (STC) to operate its own fleet of 14 FU-24s, and will eventually pursue full type-certification. ...
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ST50 heads for Paris
Cirrus Design, has completed US flight-testing of the ST50 single-turboprop business-aircraft and shipped the engineering prototype to Israviation in Israel. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus developed the all-composite ST50 under contract to Israviation. The prototype will be re-assembled in Israel, where flight-testing is scheduled in preparation for the aircraft's first ...
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Starships go to NASA for advanced GA programme
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has donated two Beech Starship twin-turboprop business aircraft to NASA for studies related to the US Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) programme. The AGATE programme is intended to combine the resources of NASA, the US Federal Aviation Administration, industry and universities to develop new technologies, ...
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Finance deal clears way ahead for SJ30
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FINANCING FOR production of the Swearingen SJ30 light business-aircraft is now in hand, allowing ground to be broken this month for the final assembly plant at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in Martinsburg. SJ30 production is made possible by the formation of ...
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Ground work
Tests being carried out in the USA are proving the worth of ground-proximity warning systems for helicopters. Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO THE US NAVY AND a civil-helicopter operator have begun evaluation of the world's first ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) to be tested successfully in a helicopter ...
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C-17 launch-reliability tests are successful
Guy Norris/BICYCLE LAKE McDONNELL Douglas C-17s achieved launch-reliability levels of 97.6% during a series of US Air Force exercises, which pave the way for final assessments of the programme in July. The outcome of the mid-year evaluation is critical to the US Government's November decision ...
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Mielec delivers first K-15 Irydas
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH AIR FORCE has taken delivery of its first two PZL-Mielec M-93K Iryda trainers. The aircraft are fitted with 14.71kN (3,300lb)-thrust K-15 turbojets developed by the Warsaw Aviation Institute (IL), giving around 4kN more thrust than the PZL-5 engines powering the predecessor ...
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EW F-18 Hornet could replace USN Prowler
A VARIANT OF THE McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18E/F Hornet is a viable contender to replace the US Navy's aging Grumman] EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare (EW) aircraft early in the next century, says Capt. Joe Dyer, the US Navy's F/A-18 programme manager. MDC wants initial USN funding to develop the ...
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Qantas foreign-ownership limit raised
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has raised limits on foreign ownership in Qantas Airways to 49%, ahead of the carrier's privatisation, although individual holdings will still be restricted to 25%. The policy switch, announced on 9 May, is designed to widen the base of potential investors when the airline's privatisation ...
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US/Peru Deal
The USA and Peru have signed a three-year bilateral agreement, expanding services between the countries. It will increase weekly round-trip flights, from 21 to 42, by November 1996. Source: Flight International
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Arianespace reveals details of launch guarantees
ARIANESPACE HAS provided full details, of its guaranteed Ariane 5 launch service (Flight International, 16-22 November, 1994). "If a satellite is lost during the launch phase - whether the failure is caused by the launcher or the satellite itself - the customer will be granted a free launch ...
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Thagard breaks US space record
NASA ASTRONAUT Norman Thagard, who was launched to the Russian Mir 1 space station on Soyuz TM21 on 14 March, became the most experienced US astronaut on 12 May, having amassed over 84 days during five space flights, four on the Space Shuttle. The record beats the achievements ...
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Loral targets communications
LORAL PLANS TO enter the high-speed, digital interactive-communications market with its CyberStar satellite system. The first satellite, serving the USA, will be launched in 1998 into geostationary orbit at 110¡W. The CyberStar will be the first satellite to be operated exclusively on the Kabroadband frequency, relaying ultra-clear, digitised ...
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Airbus cracks down on manufacturers of IFE
Kieran Daly/TOULOUSE AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is launching a two-pronged campaign to improve in-flight entertainment (IFE) equipment-performance. The move comes amid growing concern on the part of airframers that poor IFE reliability is adversely affecting overall aircraft reliability. Airbus is stressing that it will give ...
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British Army Air Corps chases Mi-8s in Bosnian war zone
Tim Ripley/GORNJI VAKUF THE UK'S ARMY AIR Corps (AAC) Westland Lynx helicopter crews are being used by the United Nations to chase and identify helicopters breaching the No-Fly Zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina amid growing concern over the dangers of a "friendly-shootdown" incident. Evidence of NATO's inability, or unwillingness, to enforce the ...
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TWA Maintenance
Trans World Airlines (TWA) will perform heavy maintenance on 52 McDonnell Douglas C-9s and DC-9s operated by the US Navy and Air Force. The initial contract is worth $38 million, with options over the next five years, which could take the value to $200 million. Most of the work will ...
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F-22 programme deemed low-risk
A US DEFENCE SCIENCE Board (DSB) task force concludes that the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 programme schedule sets an acceptable overlap of research and production. The task force's report runs counter to a US General Accounting Office (GAO) study which urges slowing F-22 production because of associated risks ...