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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. ...
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TDRS Lease
TRW has signed a contract with Western Telecommunications of Denver, Colorado, for the lease of one C-band transponder on the NASA-owned tracking and data-relay satellite (TDRS) at 319°E in geostationary orbit, to provide compact-disc-quality music programming to Europe. Source: Flight International
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Indian Acquisition
Indian airline Raj Air, has been taken over by local industrialist, P Rajarathinam. The carrier, was previously owned by Raj chairman, Lalith Seth. Source: Flight International
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Alcatel Satellite
Alcatel Espace and WorldSpace of Washington DC have signed a $500 million contract to build three satellites to establish the world's first global digital-audio broadcast-satellite service by 1998. The French company, leading a consortium including Alenia of Italy, will build the CaribStar, AfriStar and AsiaStar satellites, and invest in the ...
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Universal Approval
Universal Navigation has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its UNS-1M navigation-management system fitted with a 12-channel global-positioning-system receiver. The system has been certificated on the Embraer EMB-120. Source: Flight International