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Broadening horizons
Times are hard at home, so All Nippon Airways is looking abroad for its growth. Kieran Daly/Tokyo and Kansai Throughout the world, governments are cheerfully embracing the concept of instant deregulation of their air-transport services. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic, frequently unforeseen and, ...
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Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
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Elettronica launches EW test sets
THE UK AND German subsidiaries of Italian-based Elettronica have launched a family of electronic-warfare (EW) test sets, which the companies say offer a unique flight-line-equipment validation capability. The Elettronica approach differs, from traditional built-in-test equipment, in that it is external to the system under test and is used ...
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US aviators discuss safety in Washington
THE PLANNED two-day US aviation safety summit, called after the fourth major airline crash in recent months, was scheduled to have begun in Washington DC on 9 January. The US Transportation Department says that the meeting, intended for airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was to ...
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FAA compromises on its regional TCAS I deadline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC REGIONAL AIRLINES in the USA are being given until the end of 1995 to fit the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS I) on their aircraft, even though manufacturers are warning that they may struggle to deliver kits in time. The US Federal ...
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Advanced Citations win foreign orders
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA KOREAN AIRLINES has ordered four Cessna Citation Ultra light business-jets for use as flight crew trainers. The aircraft will be modified to accommodate a third crew-station aft of the cockpit. The forward bulkhead will be removed, but six cabin seats will be retained, enabling the ...
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Championing United
After sweeping consolidation, where does UTC go next? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON George David shows a near faultless eye for detail as he skips between the United Technologies (UTC) business units summoning up market statistics and programme information. As president of a group, which spreads from aircraft ...
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Japan explores XAAM derivative
JAPAN IS considering developing a ship-launched air-defence derivative of the new Mitsubishi XAAM-4 medium-range air-to-air missile. The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) has requested '600 million ($6 million) in funding in the budget for fiscal year 1995 for Mitsubishi to study a naval surface-to-air version of the indigenously developed ...
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Pentagon awards more JAST work
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US DEFENCE department's Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme office has handed out 24 contracts, worth $140 million, for concept definition and design research. No foreign firms were on the list, but the Pentagon says that it wants to open up the project. ...
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Belgian air force completes testing of Carapace ECM
THE BELGIAN air force has completed pre-production testing of the Dassault-built Carapace threat-warning system. Delivery of the first sets for installation on Lockheed F-16A/Bs, starting with No 2 Wing at Florennes, will start by the second quarter of the year. In all, 100 aircraft are to be ...
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Telstar 4 mystery delays Asiasat 2 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON ASIASAT HAS DELAYED the launch of its Asiasat 2 on a Chinese Long March booster, originally scheduled for this month, until at least the middle of the year while the September 1994 failure of a similar Martin Marietta Astro Space-built satellite, the Telstar 402, is ...
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Row shadows start of new Cambodian line
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CAMBODIA International Airlines (CIA) is threatening legal action over the Cambodian Government's order for it to cease operations and hand over routes to newly re-launched national carrier Royal Air Cambodge (RAC). The Thai-owned airline says that it was given 24h notice to stop ...
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Backing down
Russian air attacks on Chechnya seem to have failed. Simon Elliott/LONDON Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Russian president Boris Yeltsin's 4 January decree to end the bombing of Grozny, the capital of break-away republic Chechnya, brought to an end, however temporarily, what appears to have been a singularly unsuccessful operation. ...
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China's DFH struggles into GEO
CHINA'S FIRST three-axis-stabilised, advanced, indigenous, 24 C-band communications satellite, the DFH 3, has finally reached geostationary orbit (GEO). A navigation malfunction had left it stranded in a lower transfer orbit ever since its launch aboard a Long March 3A on 30 November (Flight International, 7-13 December, 1994). ...
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US Court gives Virgin go-ahead to challenge BA
BRITISH AIRWAYS' alleged abuse of a market "monopoly" position can now be challenged by Virgin Atlantic Airways under US anti-trust laws, following a ruling by the US District Court. The Court, which took eight months to decide, ruled that only three out of eight complaints by Virgin, could ...
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Malaysia plans to sell F-5E/Fs after MiG-29s enter service
MALAYSIA IS looking to find a buyer for up to 15 of its air force's Northrop Grumman F-5E/F fighters, which are due to be replaced by Mikoyan MiG-29s later this year. The F-5s, are planned to be withdrawn from service, by January 1996 and disposed of according to ...
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Seaspray sparks Australian row
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS THE PERFORMANCE of the GEC-Marconi Avionics Seaspray radar, is at the centre of a growing dispute, between the Australian Government and the four losing bidders, for its A$270 million ($210 million) nine year coastal surveillance contract. The work was awarded to National Jet ...
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Agusta hopes for A.129 order boost
ITALIAN HELICOPTER builder Agusta is seeking to revive its fortunes by offering an enhanced version of the A.129 Mangusta in the increasingly active attack-helicopter market. The prototype of the new A.129 International was due to be flown for the first time as Flight International went to press. ...
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Indians deliver first Partenavias
TANEJA AEROSPACE AND Aviation (TAAL) has delivered the first of the Aercosmos/Partenavia P.68 variants, which it is building under licence in India. The company says that it sold six aircraft during 1994 and is negotiating the sale of 12 more. A second aircraft will be delivered this month ...
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Italian air force faces tough 12 months as cash cuts bite
THE ITALIAN air force's first leased Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F.3 Air Defence Variant (ADV) fighters will be deployed with the 36th wing at Gioia del Colle air base in June, marking one of the service's few high points over the next year as defence budget cuts bite harder. ...