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Depressed market damps SAe figures
A DEPRESSED AIRCRAFT- maintenance market and higher taxation combined to push Singapore Aerospace's (SAe) net profit down by nearly 19% for the year ending 31 December 1994. SAe reported after-tax earnings of S$25 million ($17.6 million), compared with S$30.7 million posted in 1993. Company turnover, however, was up ...
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A340 fuel problem was 'acceptable'
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) says that the Airbus A340 fuel-indication problems highlighted in a UK safety inspectors' report were known of at the time of certification. JAA large-aircraft coordinator Adre Kraan says that the problems were considered to be acceptable teething troubles for which a fix ...
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Canada bids to counter cuts by marketing training capacity
CANADA'S DEPARTMENT of National Defence (DND) is marketing its pilot-training capability in a bid to offset excess capacity caused by budget cuts. Six student pilots from the German air force and navy have begun training at the Bombardier-operated Canadian Aviation Training Centre (CATC) at Southport, Manitoba. DND studies ...
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Bombardier flies Challenger with definitive CF34-B power
BOMBARDIER HAS begun flight-testing the Canadair Challenger 604 business-jet with the definitive General Electric CF34-3B engines. The prototype, a modified Challenger 601-3R, was flown with -3Bs for the first time at the Learjet flight-test centre in Wichita, Kansas, on 17 March. The first production 604 is nearing completion ...
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Australians buy Honeywell/Pelorus DGPS
HONEYWELL AND Pelorus Navigation Systems have sold an SLS-1000 satellite landing-system for installation at Armidale Regional Airport in New South Wales, Australia. With certification planned for the second quarter of 1996, this will be the first local-area differential global-positioning-system (DGPS) in Australia, says purchaser Dumaresq Shire Council. ...
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Lockheed makes F-16 line 'green'
LOCKHEED FORT WORTH (LFWC) has eliminated the use of ozone-depleting compounds (ODCs) from the F-16 production line. The F-16 factory at US Air Force Plant 4 was formerly the largest user of ODCs among US Government-owned, contractor-operated plants, using 227,000kg of these compounds in 1989. LFWC introduced a ...
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On target
The first launch of a Rockwell AGM-130 standoff weapon with both global-positioning/inertial-navigation mid-course guidance and an improved focal-plane-array infrared seeker resulted in a direct hit. The April launch from a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E demonstrated an offset-heading release in reduced visibility. . Source: ...
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Hughes and Raytheon bid for Standard
HUGHES AIRCRAFT and Raytheon have submitted a joint bid to produce the Standard surface-to-air missile for the US Navy. The two companies, which compete for annual Standard production contracts, have proposed the formation of a joint venture, Standard Missile, to build the weapon. The US Department of Defense ...
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Short take-off, low funding
When General Dynamics rolled-out its F-111A Tactical Fighter (TFX) prototype in 1964, the-then-US defence secretary Robert McNamara proclaimed it as "...the greatest single step forward in combat aircraft to occur in several decades". In the event, the "Aardvark", as it was nicknamed, turned out to be a "turkey" in most ...
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Software-test tool qualified for 777 programme
IPL, THE UK SOFTWARE verification-products company, has had its AdaTEST verification tool qualified by GEC-Marconi Avionics for use on the Boeing 777 programme. The UK Avionics Company, which has recently completed a successful audit of the product, will use the AdaTEST to test its own software for the ...
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Privatisation path
In February, El Al at last emerged from 12 years of receivership. Now, for the first time since the early 1980s, Israel's national airline is under the control of its own board of directors. Their primary objective is to speed the airline towards privatisation, while at the same ...
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Sabbath flight ban harms El Al
EL AL IS WARNING THAT it is being financially "crippled" by the Israeli Government's ban on its national carrier flying on the Jewish Sabbath and other holy days. There are also fears that the carrier's imminent privatisation could be affected. President Raphael Harlev issued the warning as he ...
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AGATE sets up Florida meeting
THE FIRST executive council meeting of the US government/industry Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) research-and-development programme has been scheduled for April, in Florida. The AGATE programme is a joint project involving NASA, the US Federal Aviation Administration, industry and universities. The goal is to pool resources and ...
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FAA predicts GA upsurge
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration forecasts that industry response to the recent product-liability reform will take effect by 1998 and reverse the decline in US general-aviation (GA) activity. Passage of the legislation, which limits manufacturers' liability to 18 years after production, should enable companies to lower their insurance ...
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Atlanta plans to try out Olympic heli-route network a year early
A JOINT US government/ industry project to develop a low-level airspace system for Atlanta, Georgia, is expected to be demonstrated by July, one year before the city hosts the centennial Olympic Games. The aim is to have a network of helicopter routes over Atlanta's freeway system by July ...
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FAA turns down waiver for ageing 707 fleet operator group
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is rejecting attempts by Boeing 707 operators to extend the imminent deadline for completion of the type's aging-aircraft programme. The work has to be done by 29 April, or at 20,000 cycles, and, although no more than 25 aircraft fall under the FAA's ...
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FAA's piston-engine directive leaves 6,000 aircraft grounded
THE DISCOVERY of faulty counterfeit connecting-rod bolts on some Textron Lycoming piston engines is expected to result in a bill of more than $10 million for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter owners. A US Federal Aviation Administration emergency airworthiness directive (AD) has grounded the aircraft for inspection. The FAA ...
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Second launch pad for India
THE INDIAN Government has approved construction of a second launch pad at the Sriharikota space centre in the south of the country. Spending on the project was approved in the 1995-6 space budget, in which New Delhi also approved three more test flights of the Polar Satellite ...
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Loral grows with Unisys
LORAL HAS WON ITS $862 million bid to acquire the defence operations of US computer manufacturer Unisys, seeing off rival offers from Hughes Aircraft and Raytheon. The acquisition, which will bring sales of $1.4 billion and around 8,500 staff, continues a five-year shopping spree in which Loral has ...
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First satellite launch by Lockheed Martin
WITH THE NEW Lockheed Martin logo hastily painted on its side, an Atlas 2AS booster blasted off from Cape Canaveral on 22 March, carrying the Intelsat 705 communications satellite into orbit, on the first satellite launch by the newly merged corporation. Other launch companies have not fared so ...