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Simon Aviation's de-icing system 'saves on fluid use'
SIMON AVIATION Ground Equipment of Olathe, Kansas has launched an aircraft de-icing system, which, the company claims, saves up to 30% fluid use. Known as the Fluid Efficient Deicing System, it consists of a spray nozzle on a manoeuvrable swivel, which allows an operator, housed for protection in ...
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UK likely to spurn US missile approach
US OVERTURES seeking to entice the UK into a joint stand-off missile programme are unlikely to succeed, according to industry leaders already bidding for the UK requirement. A similar French offer has already been rebuffed. The US Department of Defense is looking to fill the hole left ...
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GEC talks to Siemens as DASA deal stalls
GEC HAS OPENED negotiations with Siemens over a possible purchase of the German Company's defence-electronics operation, as long-running joint-venture talks between Siemens and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) have run into trouble. Although both German companies insist, that year old talks on a link between Siemens' defence electronics group and ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...
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A minister for Europe
Roger Freeman, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, reveals his pragmatism on the European front. Douglas Barrie/LONDON When it comes to European policy, Roger Freeman, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, marches to a different beat than that of many other senior Government ministers. ...
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Seeing double
Multi-spectral seekers, extended range and increased velocity are in vogue for the next generation of guided weapons. Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Julian Moxon/PARIS Over the next decade, Western air forces will revamp their inventories of both within and beyond-visual-range (WVR/BVR) missiles. The operational requirements which ...
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UK unveils replacement for unique IMC rating
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority is about to invite comments on a proposed "instrument weather rating [IWR]" to replace its current - and unique - instrument-meteorological- conditions (IMC) rating. An Air Accidents Investigation Board recommendation (92-32) following the 1992 crash into a mountain ...
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Diamond ships its first Katana to Missouri
DIAMOND AIRCRAFT has delivered its first DA20 Katana trainer to Central Missouri State University. The London, Ontario-based manufacturer says that it has firm orders for 121 of the all-composite two-seaters, the majority from US flight schools. Diamond has so far delivered 11 Canadian-built DA20s and operates a demonstrator ...
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Starkraft ditches kitplane plans
STARKRAFT HAS dropped plans to market its Model 700 piston-twin as a kitplane and is arranging financing to certificate the eight-place, all-composite aircraft. A prototype was flown for the first time in December 1994, powered by two 260kW (350hp), liquid-cooled Teledyne Continental TSIOL-550s mounted in the nose and ...
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Swissair and Sabena head for May deal...
Kieran Daly/ZURICH THE BELGIAN Government's exemption of flag carrier Sabena from social legislation responsible for some BFr650 million ($22 million) of the airline's annual costs has paved the way for its proposed co-operation with Swissair. Swissair chief negotiator Alain Bandle says: "I think it is fair ...
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HS-601 boosted with new order
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE COMMERCIAL success of the Hughes Space and Communications three-axis stabilised HS-601 satellite bus has been further boosted with the 42nd order for the spacecraft. Japan's Space Communications (SCC) has purchased the satellite, to be called Superbird C, for launch in early 1997 (Flight International, ...
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Lockheed/Boeing evaluate F-22 mission derivatives
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED AND Boeing will study derivatives of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter under a US Air Force contract to be awarded within the next two months. Missions to be studied include strike, defence-suppression and reconnaissance, says F-22 programme general-manager Gary Riley. The F-22 ...
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MDC shuts down plants after Tomahawk loss
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to close its missiles plant in Titusville, Florida, following the group's failure, to win the US Tomahawk cruise-missile competition. Another electrical-equipment plant is also to close at St Charles, Missouri, bringing group redundancies to 1,300. The Florida plant will deliver its last Tomahawk sea-launched ...
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NASA selects new Discovery missions
NASA HAS SELECTED the Lunar Prospector as the third low-cost Solar System exploration mission in the Administration's Discovery programme. To be launched in June 1997, the $59 million, 1.3m-diameter, hatbox-shaped craft will go into orbit around the Moon. It will be used to map its chemical composition and ...
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Pegasus to launch satellite trio
ORBITAL SCIENCES (OSC) will begin a new era in satellite data communications later this month with the launch of the first two Orbcomm satellites aboard the Pegasus XL. Also on board will be the first OSC Microlab piggyback science satellite for NASA. The Orbcomms, originally scheduled to have ...
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Martin Marietta plans three Atlas launches
THREE MARTIN Marietta Atlas boosters, are scheduled to be launched, from Cape Canaveral, Florida and Vandenberg AFB, California, this month. The Intelsat 705 communications satellite will be launched from Cape Canaveral on 19 March, aboard an Atlas 2AS vehicle, and will be followed on 31 March by American ...
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Ramjet technology
Ramjet technology is neither new, nor difficult, at least on paper. Implementing such a power plant on a missile, however, poses considerable demands on propulsion designers. The attraction of ramjet propulsion is that it offers both extended range and increased mean velocity during missile flight, with an ...
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Brazilian Skyjet begins operations
A NEW BRAZILIAN charter carrier, Skyjet, has started operations with flights to Margarita Island in Venezuela, Cancun, Mexico and the Virgin Islands, operating a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. Skyjet will take delivery of a second DC-10 by the middle of this year. It hopes to operate it on proposed ...
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Swissair supports Fokker 100
SWISSAIR HAS written to Fokker to make clear that it has no criticism of the Fokker 100, despite its probable dropping of the type from its fleet. The airline says, that its public comments on the Fokker 100's economics, when it said that the aircraft had "accounted ...
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Dassault calls for defence reform as industry suffers
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS, SERGE DASSAULT, speaking as president of French aerospace-industry association Gifas, warns of another bleak year for the country's embattled industry and renews calls for reform of the French military-procurement system. Presenting the association's year-end report, Dassault warns that 1995 is likely to bring ...