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Honeycomb delivery
Texas Almet has agreed to distribute Hexcel honeycomb products in North America. The company's decision to provide the service, which will be known as Express Honey-comb, follows "extremely positive" regional tests of the concept. Hexcel is now attempting to emerge from Chapter 11 protection. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon delivers first U-125A
The first of up to 27 Raytheon Aircraft U-125As earmarked for the search-and-rescue role has been delivered to Japan, where mission-system performance testing is now being carried out by Fuji Heavy Industries. Fuji is Japan's prime-subcontractor on the programme. The formal handover of the first aircraft to the Japan Air ...
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EUROSAM on target with Aster
The EUROSAM consortium has carried out a launch-and-intercept trial with its Aster 15 missile against a simulated supersonic sea-skimming missile. The montage image of the interception shows the relatively high parabola flown by the missile in successfully engaging the target. The weapon, now in development, is scheduled to enter on ...
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Intercontinental
Colombia's director of civil aviation, Alvaro Rad Gomez, has said that the Intercontinental de Aviacion McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 which crashed on 11 January appears to have exploded at 14,000ft (4,250m) during its descent for Cartagena, Colombia. Two minutes after the crew had radioed to clear its descent, the 28-year-old DC-9 ...
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Snecma-Mikoyan deal
French engine manufacturer Snecma is hoping to conclude a licence-production agreement with Mikoyan in the next few weeks, according to Snecma chairman Bernard Dufour. The two companies have been involved in prolonged negotiations about a licensing agreement covering the Snecma-Turbomeca Larzac 04-R20 engine for Mikoyan's MiG-AT jet trainer. ...
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Thrust reverser delivered to Rolls-Royce
THE FIRST THRUST reverser for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engine has been sent by manufacturer Hurel-Dubois to R-R's engine-test site at Hucknall, UK. The system includes a Hurel-Dubois reverser design which combines target-type and pivoting-door reversers. Hurel- Dubois has responsibility for the design, development, supply and subsequent in-service support of ...
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EC.135 heads for Heli-Expo
FRANCO-GERMAN MANUFACTURER Eurocopter is to display the third pre-production EC.135 powered by Turbom‚ca Arrius 2B turboshafts at the forthcoming Heli-Expo '95 show in Las Vegas. Eurocopter has flown the type for more than 150h, achieving a service ceiling of 20,000ft (6,100m), cruising at up to 140kt (260km/h), diving at 160kt, ...
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Picking up the pieces
The UK Government and British Aerospace are in the final stages of concluding a contract covering the repair and return to service of Panavia Tornado F3 air-defence fighters structurally damaged by maintenance firm Airwork. The Ministry of Defence is declining to give a value for the contract, stating that it ...
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Rolls-Royce cuts
Rolls-Royce is to shed 600 jobs from the aerospace engineering operation at East Kilbride, UK, leaving 1,000 workers. The site will focus on repair, as design work moves to the firm's Derby and Bristol, UK sites. Source: Flight International
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RAAF opts for Air New Zealand F-18 maintenance
AIR NEW ZEALAND Engineering Services has been named as preferred tenderer to overhaul the General Electric F404-400 engines of the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) McDonnell Douglas F-18A fighter fleet. Incumbent contractor Hawker de Havilland, a BTR Nylex subsidiary, and Australian airline Qantas were the other two bidders. ...
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Taxi service
Span Air, a new Indian private-taxi operator, is launching a regional service in the state of Maharashtra, using three Reins-Cessna F406s acquired from Sembawan Aviation of Singapore. It is believed that Span is paying $1.5 million per aircraft. The taxi operator says that it is also talking to aircraft and ...
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JAS pulls back
Japan Air System (JAS) plans to suspend Tokyo-Singapore flights from 1 April, as part of cutbacks in international services in favour of more profitable domestic routes. Aircraft and crews will be redeployed on ten new domestic routes planned for launch in 1995. JAS scrapped its Honolulu service in 1994 after ...
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RAF hits 5,000h mark in Turkish operation
THE RAF HAS SURPASSED 5,000 flight hours in Operation Warden, which is intended to provide a safe haven for the Kurds in northern Iraq. Following an initial deployment of Sepecat Jaguars, British Aerospace Harrier GR.7s were deployed to Incirlik air base in April 1993. The 5,000h mark was passed shortly ...
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BAe holdings
Simon Jewell has been named vice-president for air weapons at the Government Programs Office of British Aerospace Holdings of Arlington, Virginia. He was formerly vice-president for Europe in the Defence Marketing Directorate at British Aerospace Defence headquarters at Farnborough in the UK. Source: Flight International
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Russian boost for Atlas
A HIGH-FIDELITY MOCK-UP of a Russian RD-180 rocket engine at Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver, Colorado, is being assessed for use on the company's Atlas fleet of commercial launchers. The engine, developed by NPO Energomash, is a two-chamber version of the four-chamber RD-170/171/172 engine, used on the Energia and Zenit launchers ...
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Government order reprieves Kania
Poland's Kania multi-role-helicopter programme has been granted a stay of execution following the placing of four new orders by the Polish Ministry of the Interior - the first new sale of the Kania in five years. The deal came at a time when some at manufacturer WSK PZL-Swidnik were pushing ...
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Corpsam teaming
Loral Vought Systems has teamed with TRW Data Technologies and Westinghouse Electronic Systems to bid for the US Army's CorpsSam programme to replace the Hawk surface-to-air missile. France, Germany and the USA are discussing co-operative development of the CorpsSam. Source: Flight International
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Information required, please, on the Fairey Gannet
Sir - I am researching UK carrier aircraft and would like to make contact with the designers, pilots and engineers who flew and maintained any Fairey Gannet. Is there a flyable aircraft somewhere? Where can one be seen? Those residing in the USA can call collect to ISAM, Neil ...
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Hubble stars again
The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has located one of the smallest stars in the Universe. Designated the G1623b and located 25 years away in the constellation of Hercules, the smaller component of a binary-star system is ten times less dense than the Sun. ...