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Kazakhstan DC-10 will be first to be operated in CIS
THIS McDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-10-30CF is seen at Stansted Airport in the UK, before delivery to Avcom in Kazakhstan. The ex-World Airways freighter is thought to be the first of the type to be operated in the CIS. Source: Flight International
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Loral UK MPA team
Loral Asic has teamed with E-Systems, Marshall Aerospace and Computing Devices to bid for the Royal Air Force's British Aerospace Nimrod MR.2 maritime-patrol-aircraft replacement programme. Loral intends to offer upgraded Lockheed P-3 airframes. Source: Flight International
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Rolls Royce
John Sandford has returned to head up Rolls-Royce's US operation as president and chief executive. He left the USA two years ago to become managing director of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group at Derby, UK. He succeeds George Davis, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Corporate Tay 727
Dee Howard is re-engineing an Australian-based executive Boeing 727-100 with Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans to meet Stage 3 noise limits. It is the US firm's first conversion for a passenger 727 and is based on the 727 Quiet Freighter developed for United Parcel Service. The US-registered aircraft is being re-engined under ...
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Grob Strato 2C takes shape
GROB HAS COMPLETED the airframe of its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, with the aircraft now in final assembly. A first flight is now scheduled for this year. The German company has been seeking additional funding from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology to complete the project. The twin-engined ...
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Helidyne fits Bell 230 for news
HELIDYNE SYSTEMS HAS EQUIPPED a Bell 230 to allow it to be operated as an electronic news-gathering helicopter, with video-production capabilities, for the Korean Broadcasting System. The helicopter, with a crew of six, can carry two independent microwave receive-transmit systems with deployable skid antennae for simultaneous aerial broadcast and ground-relay ...
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Genesis I goes with the flow
GROUP GENESIS OF MARION, Ohio, says that its all-composite Genesis I Standard Class racing sailplane is displaying laminar flow past 50% chordwise of the wing top-surface and past 90% on the underside. The picture shows NASA flight research engineer Einar Enevoldson, best-known for his work on spin-analysis and recovery procedures ...
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Kentron pointer
South African missile manufacturer Kentron has received the cardinal-points specification for the UK Ministry of Defence's Staff Requirement (Air)1236 for a conventional stand-off missile. Source: Flight International
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Liquid crystal contract
Litton will supply EASI liquid-crystal engine instruments to Bell for the new Model 407 light-turbine helicopter, providing a tenfold increase in reliability over conventional engine instruments. Source: Flight International
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Chrysler TAMACO work
Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems has won a $95.5 million contract to modify six EA-6 TACAMO aircraft to EA-6B configuration. Source: Flight International
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Norsk ousts Helikopter in North Sea
NORWEGIAN helicopter operator Norsk Helikopter has won a lucrative transportation contract with Phillips Petroleum, displacing former monopoly Norwegian North Sea operator Helikopter Services. The deal covers transportation to the Ekofisk field, from 1 September, when the existing deal with Helikopter Services expires - one of the company's largest ...
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Singapore success
Singapore International Airlines has selected the Rockwell-Collins Series 900 avionics for 17 Airbus A340-300s and 19 Boeing 747-400s on order, plus 20 A340-300s and 11 747-400s on option. Source: Flight International
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Sextant avionics
Sextant Avionique says that its Avionique Nouvelle (AN) series of helicopter avionics has been selected for the Eurocopter EC.120, EC.135 and future EC.165. The AN series consists of liquid-crystal multi-function displays, dual-screen vehicle- and engine-management display, global-positioning navigation system and air-data computer. SFIM will supply the automatic flight-control system. ...
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FAA plans explosive test
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is to begin testing later this year of the first explosives-detection system (EDS) certificated for baggage checks. Approved for use late in 1994, the InVision Technologies CTX-5000, a "computed tomography" system, can differentiate explosive material from other materials in cluttered passenger bags. ...
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FlightSafety sets up pilot school in China
FLIGHTSAFETY International is to establish an airline training centre in Kunming, south-west China, in a joint venture with Xingyun's Yunnan Tobacco Group. Kunming FlightSafety Aviation Training is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 1996, equipped with Boeing 737 and 757/767 flight simulators. FlightSafety, which will ...
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Chinese airline business booms
CHINA'S AIR-TRANSPORT industry continued to grow at a rapid pace in 1994, according to figures released by the country's civil aviation administration (CAAC). State-owned airlines, including flag carrier Air China, carried a total of 40.27 million passengers, up 19% on the 33.83 million recorded for 1993. Air freight ...
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Finnair share oversubscription restores optimism
THE LEVEL OF interest in the Finnair share issue has fuelled optimism that investors are regaining confidence in Europe's airline market. The state-controlled Finnish carrier reveals that the issue was more than twice oversubscribed and says that it has raised the volume of shares on offer to the ...
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Researchers abandon work on take-off monitoring
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM EUROPEAN AND US research on a system to improve airliner take-off safety has ground to a halt, faced with lack of interest from regulators, industry, and operators. Two agencies - NASA Langley in the USA and the National Research Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, Netherlands ...
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Launch pressure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Japan's third H2 booster will be carrying the nation's pride and, if successful, will raise post-earthquake morale when it is launched from the Tanegashima space centre on 22 February. After the $575 million losses of the Engineering Test Satellite 6 (ETS) in orbit in August 1994 ...