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German Traffic Growth
Passenger traffic at Germany's international airports grew by 7.3% in 1994, compared with the previous year. Freight was up by 11.1%. According to the Association of German Airports, passenger figures reached 101 million, breaking the 100 million mark for the first time. Freight traffic grew to over 1.7 million tonnes. ...
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Eurocopter
Gerard Chauvallon has been named chairman of American Eurocopter, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He replaces Guy Eissautier, who has retired. Chauvallon was most recently vice-chairman of American Eurocopter and chief operating officer of Eurocopter France. Source: Flight International
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Heat Rejection
Loral Vought has been awarded a $13.3 million extension-contract to redesign six heat rejection system radiators for the international space station. The 1,000kg, 3m-long radiators will extend to 25m in orbit and will be capable of releasing 11kW of excess heat using a pumped liquid ammonia heat transfer system. ...
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Space Walk Tank
NASA has signed a $34 million lease/purchase agreement with McDonnell Douglas to acquire land and buildings at Clear Lake, near the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, where a new and larger neutral buoyancy laboratory will be located to train astronauts for space station space walking operations. NASA operates neutral-buoyancy tanks ...
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Scanning Alternatives
The Israeli navy is to decide this year whether to upgrade its Sea-Scan maritime-patrol aircraft or replace it with a turboprop. The Sea-Scan, an Israeli Aircraft Industries Westwind 1124 executive jet converted to serve in the maritime-surveillance role, is expensive to operate and, says the navy, is too fast for ...
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Kaman Cuts Loss
Kaman, more than halved its losses in 1994, to the end the year, with a $13.2 million deficit. Sales also edged up to $820 million, helped by the group's diversification into non-defence industrial-technology markets. Founding chairman Charles Kaman welcomes the Pentagon's initiative in urging the US forces to use commercially ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, now a British Airways franchise carrier is adding four per week services to the Spanish destinations of Valencia and Murcia in the northern summer. Source: Flight International
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is beginning services from Vienna to Beijing and Almaty, while Austrian rival Lauda Air is starting a daily Salzburg-London Gatwick service. Source: Flight International
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Air Engiadina
Air Engiadina of Switzerland is transferring its Berne-London service from London Stansted to London City Airport using the Dornier 328. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Air Canada is increasing its transatlantic and transpacific capacity for the northern summer by 18%. Toronto-Tel Aviv and Toronto-Montreal-Brussels are new services. There are capacity and frequency increases on routes to Madrid, Osaka, London, Glasgow, Zurich, Berlin and Vienna. Source: Flight International
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PW4000 for USAF Bid
Boeing has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine to power military versions of the 747-400F being proposed in the company's bid for the US Air Force's Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft (NDAA) programme. The NDAA is a wide-body commercial or military aircraft, which will augment the Lockheed C-141 fleet and provide ...
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Slam Ship Test
McDonnell Douglas is to conduct a ship-launched flight-test demonstration of the Stand off Land Attack Missile (SLAM) to the US Navy under a $3 million contract. Two missiles will be fitted with ship-launch boosters used on Harpoon anti-ship missiles and fired from a test ship. One will be controlled by ...
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Clear As Glass
PPG Industries and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have signed an agreement enabling operators of MDC aircraft from the DC-8 and DC-9 onwards to have PPG-manufactured glass-cockpit windshields to be repaired by PPG. The firm has already reached a similar agreement for Boeing aircraft. Source: ...
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Cold Comfort
Elberta Industries of Elberta, Alabama, has placed an Expeditor self-propelled de-icing/anti-icing vehicle with United Airlines at Chicago O'Hare Airport for customer demonstrations. The Expeditor has four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and a long-reach boom with remote-control nozzle. Source: Flight International
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GTE Airfone Success
GTE Airfone is to install GenStar passenger-telephone systems on six Boeing 777s to be operated by China Southern Airlines, the first Chinese carrier to offer such a service. Calls will be transmitted via satellite. The first GenStar-equipped aircraft will be delivered in November. Source: Flight International
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SIA Avionics Supply
AlliedSignal Commercial Avionics Systems is to supply Singapore Airlines with equipment for up to 67 Airbus A340-300s and Boeing 747-400s, including RDR-4B wind-shear-detecting radar, Mode S transponders, solid-state flight-data recorders, ground-proximity-warning systems and aircraft condition-monitoring-system data-management units. Source: Flight International
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ELISRA PAWS
Israeli electronic-warfare specialist ELISRA has developed a passive airborne missile-approach warner system (PAWS) for helicopters and transport aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream Expands
Gulfstream Aerospace is planning to build an 18,580m2 (200,000ft2) expansion to its aircraft-service site at its Savannah, Georgia, headquarters to serve Gulfstream V customers. The centre will be able to accommodate 12 Gulfstream Vs and be used for other models. Source: Flight International