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Saab to provide computers for Thai satellite
SAAB ERICSSON SPACE has won a SKr20 million ($2.7 million) order to provide computer systems for use on Thailand's Thaicom 3 telecommunications satellite. The order comes via Aerospatiale, the main supplier to Thailand's Shinawatra Satellite. The French manufacturer is the first European company to penetrate this formerly US-dominated ...
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Hawker 800 for Russia
Raytheon has delivered its first Hawker 800 to a Russian operator. The pre-owned business jet has gone to Moscow-based transport and property-development company the Master Group. Source: Flight International
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US small-aircraft regulations now available on CD-ROM
AIRCRAFT TECHNICAL Publishers (ATP) has introduced a CD-ROM library of US aviation regulations governing small aircraft and rotorcraft. The library is the latest addition to the Brisbane, California, firm's Navigator CD-ROM product line. The US Aviation Regulatory Library for Small Aircraft and Rotorcraft contains airworthiness directives, service bulletins, ...
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Airbus develops infra-red water detector
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has developed a new infrared thermographic-inspection technique for detecting water ingress in composite-sandwich structures. The manufacturer says, that the procedure is proving so successful that it has been, recommended for use by all operators of Airbus aircraft. Infrared thermography is based on the principle that ...
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An invasion of privacy
Private aviation is, understandably, regarded as just that: private. Pilots often consider it their right to disregard established practices, especially outside controlled or busy airspace. As private pilots cannot be denied privacy and freedom, the only effective method of softening their resistance to regulation and safe practices is ...
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Singapore/Australian air force plan in doubt
FAILURE TO deliver promised economic benefits is jeopardising a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) proposal to base a second wave of Singaporean armed forces training aircraft and personnel in Australia. Approval for the plan hinges on Singapore's delivery of economic benefits foreshadowed in an earlier memorandum ...
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Rotary FANS
It is one of the ironies of the future air-navigation system (FANS) that, although it is aimed primarily at airline operations, the general-aviation (GA) community is so far its major user. One FANS element - satellite navigation - is already commonplace in fixed-wing GA in the form of the global-positioning ...
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More than one niche?
When it was launched at the 1990 National Business Aircraft Association show in the USA, the PC-XII was offered as a high-performance, low-operating-cost corporate/utility aircraft. Now, Pilatus is working with other large single-turboprop manufacturers Cessna and Aerospatiale to modify the certification rules so that the aircraft can be operated commercially ...
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Laser ignition system will be demonstrated later this year
AlliedSignal is developing a laser-based gas-turbine ignition system for improved starting reliability and lower emissions. The "Photon-Ignition" system is scheduled to be demonstrated in an engine later this year and may also be used, in conjunction with NASA, to develop "smart" fuel injectors. The photon-ignition system ...
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Pegasus XL lofts first Orbcomm satellites
THE ORBITAL SCIENCES (OSC) Pegasus XL air-launched booster was used successfully to place the first two of the company's Orbcomm communications satellites into 728km (390nm) circular orbit on 3 April. OSC's Microlab 1 research satellite, a smaller version of Orbcomm's MicroStar standard satellite bus equipped with NASA and ...
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EH101 compensation for Unisys
THE CANADIAN Government has agreed to pay C$166 million ($118 million) compensation to Unisys GSG Canada, one of the prime contractors on a Canadian purchase of EH Industries EH101 helicopters, 17 months after the project was cancelled by the incoming Liberal government. Scrapping the C$5.8 billion programme for ...
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Israel and Chile settle Phalcon disagreement
ISRAEL AND CHILE have settle a row which threatened to delay substantially delivery of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)-developed Phalcon airborne early-warning system to the Chilean air force. Following agreement between IAI and the Chilean air force, the aircraft will now be delivered early in May. Chile had ...
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Intelsat may drop Long March
INTELSAT MAY PULL an Intelsat 7 satellite from its launch on a Chinese Long March 3B (LM3B) booster, originally planned for October. The LM3B, a version of the LM2E with a cryogenic upper stage from the LM3A, has not yet been flown. Two controversial launches have been undertaken ...
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Born-again Blackbird
The supersonic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is no longer a museum piece: no more is it a relic of the Cold War, gathering dust. The renaissance of the US Air Force spy plane, which flies at altitudes above 85,000ft (26,000m), is a result of Congressional concern about the Pentagon's ability to ...
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APIC presses ahead with APU proposed for MD-95
AUXILIARY POWER International (APIC) has begun the risk-reduction demonstration phase of the APS 2100 auxiliary power unit (APU) selected by McDonnell Douglas (MDC) for the yet-to-be-launched MD-95. Initial risk-reduction activity is concentrated on noise tests of the Labinal/Sundstrand engine. The trials are taking place at Turbomeca's acoustic ...
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Rivals capitalise on Air Inter strike woe
AIRLINES, WHICH have been taking advantage of liberalisation, to compete with French domestic carrier Air Inter at Paris Orly Airport, are reaping the benefits of continuing strikes at the Air France subsidiary. Since January, AOM and Air Liberte have been operating flights to Marseilles and Toulouse respectively - ...
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Strato 2C takes flight but funds stay low
BURKHART GROB has flown its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft successfully for the first time, in an hour-long test flight on 31 March. The Strato 2C, the largest all-composite aircraft in the world, took off from Grob's Mindelheim site in Bavaria with former NASA test pilot Einar Enevoldson ...
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Snecma's losses treble as restructuring continues
SNECMA'S LOSSES MORE than trebled in 1994 as the French engine manufacturer bore the brunt of heavy restructuring costs and new programme costs. Sales are also expected to plummet. The group finally revealed that it had lost nearly Fr2.2 billion ($440 million) in 1994, confirming earlier projections of ...
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Israel defers El Al sell-off
THE ISRAELI Government has postponed the planned flotation of El Al for six months because of the crisis facing the Tel Aviv stock market. Valuations being put on the national carrier have failed to meet Government expectations. If the market fails to improve, the Government is expected to ...