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Opus 280 restarts
ASL HAGFOR AERO has restarted production of the Opus 280 single-engine trainer, following receipt of its JAR very light aircraft type certificate. Production work stopped in 1994 after certification took longer than expected. Two partially built airframes are on schedule for delivery in June to the Bromma Flight ...
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Qantas will advise troubled ASTAAS
Qantas may step into a consultant-management role at the troubled Aerospace Technologies of Australia Aircraft Services (ASTAAS). Qantas managing director James Strong has confirmed that the carrier has held discussions with the Australian Government, which is preparing ASTAAS for privatisation, on the provision of management expertise. ...
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Fastest and highest
The USAF operated the SR-71, the world's fastest and highest flying production aircraft, for 24 years. Of the 31 built, 20 survived to the end of the programme, with 14 released for display in aviation museums. Three were put in storage at Lockheed's Air Force Plant 42 Site 2 at ...
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TDRS spacecraft to be built by Hughes
Hughes Space and Communications' HS-601 spacecraft bus has been selected for NASA's second generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system, under a $482 million contract. The first seven TDRS were built by TRW - the last of which flies on the STS70/Discovery in June. The first HS-601 craft, the ...
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Hughes offers Canada revised ATC schedule
HUGHES AIRCRAFT has submitted a re-work plan to Transport Canada which extends the time-scale for completion of the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS) by almost two years, to 1998. Canadian progress payments to Hughes have meanwhile stopped, while the negotiations take place. Hughes says that the contract ...
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RAF to lose WE177
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE will lose its nuclear capability in 1998, nine years earlier than planned, with the withdrawal of the WE177 tactical free-fall nuclear bomb. The bomb is being replaced by a variant of the submarine-launched Trident missile to give the Royal Navy what the UK Government ...
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Pilot Faces Gaol
A former FedEx pilot who attacked one of the carrier's crews in a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in the cruise has been found guilty of air piracy and faces a 20-year gaol term. A jury rejected the insanity defence of Auburn Calloway who used hammers, a knife and a spear gun ...
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Fine Air Ban
Peru has banned Miami-based Fine Air from entering Peruvian airspace. The ban follows an Argentine newspaper report that the cargo carrier flew 75t of arms from Argentina to Ecuador via Venezuela in mid-February, when Peru was engaged in a border dispute with Ecuador. Source: Flight International
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US airlines dispute timetable and costs for flight-data recorders
THE US AIRLINE Transport Association (ATA) says that a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendation to require more sophisticated flight-data recorders on older Part 121 passenger aircraft is too expensive and unattainable within the time-scale proposed. The NTSB says that each installation would cost between $20,000 and ...
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Alitalia to select 70-seater shortly
ALITALIA WILL decide imminently, whether, to select British Aerospace's Avroliner or Fokker's Jetline family, as its new 70- to 100-seat regional aircraft. The airline initially favoured Fokker to fulfil its 15-aircraft requirement, but its board declined to make a final decision at a 5 April meeting after Avro ...
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Dependable Expendables
Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based AAR Expendables has become an authorised distributor of BFGoodrich Aerospace Ice Protection Systems division's speciality heated products, including flight deck, galley, lavatory, duct and drain-mast heaters. Source: Flight International
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Rumbold Enthroned
BSG International subsidiary L A Rumbold is to supply all lavatory modules for the next-generation 737-600/700/800 under a contract potentially worth $75 million. The UK Company is already sole supplier of lavatories for the current 737 family. Source: Flight International
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Software Alliance
McDonnell Douglas and engineering software specialist MacNeal-Schwendler have formed an alliance to develop and market aircraft modeling and analysis software. MacNeal-Schwendler specialises in software for modeling, analysing the strength, the dynamic response, thermal and electromagnetic characteristics of structures. Source: Flight International
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Eagle TCAS2
American Eagle is installing Rockwell-Collins TCAS traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems across its fleet, exceeding the regulatory requirement for all ten- to 30-passenger aircraft to be equipped with the less-capable TCAS I by the end of 1995. It cites commonality with its larger TCAS II-equipped aircraft as the reason for its ...
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Sweden looks at range of duties for CL-215
SWEDEN IS LOOKING for two water bombers - probably Canadair CL-215s or CL-215Ts - to combat forest fires between May and the end of August. The move follows a feasibility study, which also examined possible alternative uses for the aircraft, including Coast Guard activity and joint operations with neighbouring countries. ...
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Rotary groups fight FAA Robinson rules
US AND AUSTRALIAN helicopter associations, are disputing new US Federal Aviation Administration proposals, governing Robinson helicopter-pilot qualifications, as "unnecessary and restrictive." The Australians believe that the rules should apply to all helicopters. The FAA recommends that "...additional specific pilot training is necessary for the safe operation of ...
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Kentron develops ramjet SAHV
SOUTH AFRICAN MISSILE manufacturer Kentron has revealed that it is working on a ramjet-powered variant of the SAHV surface-to-air missile for an unspecified foreign customer. The SAHV has previously had a solid-rocket motor and fitting a ramjet would increase its range to beyond 30km (16nm). Work is believed ...
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Patriot assembly awarded
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL'S Tactical Systems division is to assemble millimetre-wave-radar seekers for Loral Vought Systems' Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) air-defence missile at a new site under construction at its Duluth, Georgia, factory. The site will house seeker integration and final-assembly areas and two anechoic chambers where acceptance testing of ...
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Honeywell commissions Reflectone
US SIMULATOR manufacturer Reflectone has received a Honeywell contract to design and build three test-benches for use in developing the Primus 2000XP integrated avionics for the Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. The test benches will house actual aircraft avionics and the computers and controls needed to monitor ...
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Coming together
In a hangar in Marietta, Georgia, the prototype Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 air-superiority fighter stands amid an impressive array of sample parts and prototype components ranging from avionics connectors to fuselage bulkheads. "We were not talking viewgraphs," says F-22 programme general-manager Gary Riley, referring to the critical design-review (CDR), ...