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Engine fire brings down Falcon 20
A DASSAULT FALCON 20E, of air taxi company Lead Air-Unijet, crashed shortly after takeoff from the operator's base, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France, at 17.30 on 20 January. The crew reported a fire in one of the aircraft's General Electric CF700-2D2 engines and was returning to land. ...
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Imperial approach to luxury travel
IMPERIAL AIRLINES, LAUNCHED BY a Bermuda-based consortium of private investors at the start of 1994 to serve the luxury-charter market, expects to begin operations on 15 February with a 14-day trip for an unnamed client from Washington DC to the Far East. The airline operates a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-52, purchased ...
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MDC cleans in a flash
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) HAS BEGUN marketing its Flashjet paint-removal system to other aircraft manufacturers, operators and maintenance centres. The Flashjet uses a combination of pulsed light-energy and carbon-dioxide pellets to remove paint without creating toxic waste. The system was developed for the US Air Force, which is installing a production ...
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Rafael works on dual-mode programme
ISRAELI MISSILE manufacturer Rafael has confirmed that it is working on a beyond-visual-range active-radar air-to-air missile seeker and a dual-mode seeker combining active-radar and imaging infra-red seeker technologies. The company says that it is using its own funds to work on the dual-mode programme, although the Israeli air ...
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DASA/Bofors Missile
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) is to co-operate with Sweden's Bofors on the Taurus family of standoff missiles. The partners have formed a DASA-led joint programme-management team to supervise the development, production and marketing of the missile. Source: Flight International
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Flightlink II Installed
In-Flight Phone has installed its first FlightLink II digital passenger-communications system aboard a USAir Shuttle Boeing 727. The system includes a seatback screen and telephone handset and provides in-seat communications, entertainment and information services to the passenger. Source: Flight International
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Leisure Air flies to Chapter 11
LEISURE AIR, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based carrier, grounded temporarily by the US Federal Aviation Administration in November 1994, has filed for Chapter 11, bankruptcy protection. The airline, which operates scheduled and charter flights, voluntarily suspended flight operations after the FAA completed a special weeklong safety inspection, which found ...
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Archana Orders Dash-8s
India's Archana Airways has ordered two de Havilland Dash 8-200s for delivery in September and October. The "hot-and-high" -200s will join, two leased Dash 8-300s scheduled for delivery in February and March. New Delhi-based Archana was awarded scheduled-airline status in 1994. Source: Flight International
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First K-MAX due in Europe
KAMAN AEROSPACE will deliver the first K-MAX external-lift helicopter to a European customer in the second quarter of this year. The aircraft, for Helog of Switzerland, was displayed at the Helicopter Association International's Heli-Expo '95 in Las Vegas on 29-31 January, ahead of its first flight. Five K-MAX ...
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Air UK
Robert Nunn has been appointed managing director of Air UK Engineering in Norwich, Norfolk. Nunn was most recently general manager line maintenance for British Midland Airways and, before that, he was with British Caledonian Airways, based at Gatwick Airport. Source: Flight International
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SEP faces up to life without Ariane 4
INTRODUCTION of the Ariane 5 launcher is forcing French rocket-engine manufacturer Societe Europeenne de Propulsion to diversify into other areas to protect its balance sheet. The Ariane 5, due for its maiden launch on 29 November, has a single SEP-supplied main engine - the Ariane 4 has up ...
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Human software is the safest option
Sir - "Lessons from the cockpit" (Flight International, 11-17 January, P24) shows that, although the automation of aircraft is sold as an improvement in safety, it is unfortunately not all gain. The main shortcoming is that the "modernisers" assume that the pilot receives relevant information from the instrument ...
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Satellites are cause of some problems
Sir - The article "Telstar 4 mystery delays Asiasat 2" (Flight International, 11-17 January, P18) confirms a story which I published in Worldwide Satellite Launches on 10 October 1994. I said: "...US Spacecom has only tracked one object from the launch (1994-058A/23249) which has been nominally assigned to the satellite: ...
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French Lesson
Daimler-Benz Aerospace finance director-designate Dr Wolfgang Piller has told French parliamentarians that France's defence industry must co-operate with its European neighbours to survive. Piller called for harmonisation of Franco-German procurement programmes for military technology, the creation of European centres of excellence to reduce duplication of capacity, and privatisation of the ...
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Arabasco Inauguration
Arabian Aircraft Services (Arabasco) has inaugurated a fixed-base operation at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Aranasbco, in partnership with Switzerland's Zimex Aviation, is also enhancing its airframe, engine and avionics maintenance capability. Source: Flight International
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BD-10 Crash Cause
Elevator flutter at about Mach 0.9 is believed to have led to the 30 December 1994, fatal in-flight break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10. The right elevator hinge is thought to have failed, resulting in full upward deflection of the left elevator, pitching the aircraft up and causing the right ...
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Dassault Delivers
Dassault Aviation delivered 25 Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 business-jets in 1994, up from 15 in 1993. Deliveries of Falcon 900s increased to 18, from eight in 1993. By comparison, Canadair delivered 25 Challengers, up from 20 on 1993, and Gulfstream Aerospace delivered XX GIV-SPs, up from 26. ...
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Cirrus SR20 First Flight
Cirrus Design plans to fly its SR20 all-composite, four-seat aircraft later this month. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus, is aiming for US certification of the fixed-gear SR20 in 1996. Source: Flight International
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E Prime Boost
The US Department of Defense has appointed a US Air Force liaison team to ensure that E Prime Aerospace of Titusville, Florida complies with the START 1 and 2 treaties in the production and eventual launch of its proposed Eagle series of satellite launchers based on the Peacekeeper missile. The ...
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NASA Flies Lockheed
Lockheed has been selected by NASA to provide the solar transition region and coronal explorer spacecraft to be flown on the next Small Explorer mission, to be launched in 1997. The company will also provide the cryogenic cooler for NASA's wide-field infrared Explorer, to be launched in 1998. ...