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Beijing beckons
Paul Lewis/BEIJING In the 16 years since China opened its doors to reform, the country has emerged as a major trading partner of the West and is on course to become an economic superpower in the next century. Underlining its emerging importance are the many corporations beating a ...
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Windshear approval due for Westinghouse radar
WESTINGHOUSE expects next month to receive a supplemental type certificate (STC) from the US Federal Aviation Administration which will allow the use of its MR-3000 weather radar as a predictive windshear system for civil aircraft. Initially, the windshear predictor will be installed aboard Westinghouse's British Aerospace One-Eleven testbed ...
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USA and UK move ahead on Halon test replacement
Simon Elliott/LONDON THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority will award a contract to design and build an aircraft-cabin hidden-fire test rig by the end of this month. The system will be used to test replacements for Halon 1211, which is used in aircraft-cabin fire extinguishers. The contract ...
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Fibre-optic contract goes to Sira
SIRA, THE UK space-instrumentation and hardware specialist, has won a contract which could lead to the development of a passive fibre-optic monitoring system capable of allowing ground controllers to view the deployment of spacecraft-based systems. The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Sira a feasibility contract under which ...
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Blade runners
It may be a depressed market, but potential customers have plenty of choice. Douglas Barrie Kieran Daly Jennifer Pite/LONDON In the civil market, helicopter sales show scarcely any sign of recovery - with some sectors declining still further. Nonetheless, there ...
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Stability with style
Bell has incorporated both flair and style in its intermediate-sized twin-turbine helicopter, the Model 230. Peter Gray/DALLAS When Bell Helicopter Textron decided to re-engine its Bell 222 helicopter with Allison 250-C30G/2s, it took the opportunity to incorporate more than 70 other refinements and modifications. The result is the ...
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Exploring technology
The McDonnell Douglas Explorer was designed with the customer more than just in mind Guy Norris/MESA, ARIZONA As the latest commercial machine from the manufacturer of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, it is reasonable to expect the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) Explorer to incorporate the ...
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Mir rendezvous
Tim Furniss/LONDON Members of the crew of a routine Space Shuttle Discovery mission have waited a year to be launched but, during that time, their mission has taken on a higher profile, as well as an extra crewman. The wait will have been worthwhile. The Discovery is now ...
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Turboprop market ripe for mergers
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE TURBOPROP market showed few clear signs of recovery in 1994, lending weight to moves for industry consolidation in the run-up to the alliance between ATR and Jetstream; exclusively reported in Flight International, 18-24 January issue. Overall delivery numbers appear to be largely unchanged ...
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Italy deploys Harrier II Plus for first time
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ITALY HAS deployed its McDonnell Douglas Harrier II Plus operationally for the first time on the aircraft carrier Garibaldi as part of a task force covering the withdrawal of United Nations forces from Somalia. The Harrier II Plus aircraft, assigned to the Gruppo Aeri ...
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Germany favours France's spy-satellite development
GERMANY WILL JOIN the French Helios 2 intelligence-gathering satellite project, but only on condition that France also commits to developing an active-array radar "spy" satellite as a follow-on programme. German defence minister Volker Ruhe met with his French counterpart Francois Leotard, along with the Italian and Spanish defence ...
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Douglas concentrates on proposal for MD-11 Twin
Guy Norris/ LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS has revealed new details of the medium-range twin-engined version of the MD-11 now emerging as an early leader in Douglas Aircraft's (DAC) studies of potential developments of the tri-jet. The twin would be aimed primarily at the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ...
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Second satellite loss sets back Japanese space programme
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE JAPANESE space programme has been hit by its second major failure in five months, with the loss of the $160 million Experimental Recoverable Space System (Express) microgravity research satellite, after launch from the Kagoshima space centre on 15 January. The second stage of ...
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Ariane nets Hot Bird 3
THE EUROPEAN satellite-communications organisation Eutelsat has selected Arianespace to launch its Hot Bird 3 satellite in early 1997. The choice between an Ariane 4 or 5 launch for the Matra Marconi Space-built satellite will be made in 1996. Arianespace hopes to launch either the Hot Bird 1 or ...
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Boeing says 777 noise 'better than forecast'
BOEING IS about to submit "better than expected" noise data on the 777 to the US and European Joint Airworthiness Authorities. The noise data are essential for the type to qualify under Stage 3 requirements at certification, expected in late April 1995. Boeing 777 noise-engineering supervisor, Billy Glover, ...
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Cessna/Gulfstream break sales records
CESSNA AIRCRAFT and Gulfstream Aerospace have reported record business-jet sales for 1994. Cessna says that it delivered 121 Citation business-jets in the year, up from 116 in 1993, and booked orders for a further 203 - its highest order intake since 1979, the best year ever for Citation sales. ...
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LOT signs three airlines to co-operate in Europe
LOT POLISH AIRLINES has signed co-operation agreements with three European carriers, while reporting a significant increase in 1994 passenger traffic. The Polish flag carrier experienced a 13% growth in passengers carried in 1994 - more than double the world average. The co-operation agreements are with Austrian ...
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Learjet 45 engine ready for testing
LEARJET IS PREPARING to fly the engine testbed for its new Learjet 45 business-jet by early February. An AlliedSignal TFE731-20 turbofan has been installed on the left side of a Learjet 31 prototype for tests in advance of the first flight of the Learjet 45 later this year. ...
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Schweizer capitalises on R22 troubles
SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT reports strong interest in its Model 300CB training helicopter, fuelled by fears that the Robinson R22 could be grounded because of safety concerns. The 300CB will be launched formally at the Heli-Expo '95 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in late January. Elmira, New York-based Schweizer says that ...
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Bhoja Air leases Yak-42s
PAKISTAN'S BHOJA AIR has taken a four-month lease on three Lithuanian Airlines (LAL) Yakovlev Yak-42s, possibly leading to a later purchase. LAL hopes that a lease of a further three aircraft to Bhoja will follow, and wants to sell the aircraft to the Pakistani company for between $15 ...