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2002-04-12, SERGEI Khitrovo: NASA to send teacher into space in 2004 April 12, 2002 Posted: 5:02 AM EDT (0902 GMT) Barbara Morgan has trained to become an astronaut for years. By Kate Tobin CNN Sci-Tech Unit (CNN) — Barbara Morgan, an Idaho elementary school teacher and Christa McAuliffe's backup to fly aboard the ill-fated Challenger mission in 1986, is headed to space. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will announce Friday in a speech on the future of the agency that Morgan will be assigned as a mission specialist on a shuttle flight to the international space station in 2004, according to sources familiar with the space agency. She has been in astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston since 1998, when then NASA chief Dan Golden announced the official resumption of the Teacher in Space program. Rather than select a new person for the job, NASA decided to stick with Morgan, who trained alongside McAuliffe for six months in 1985 and early 1986. Morgan, 50, is married and the mother of two sons. After graduating…

2002-04-12, SERGEI Khitrovo: Pentagon: U.S. bombing accuracy improved in Afghan war April 9, 2002 Posted: 10:51 AM EDT (1451 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) — An initial U.S. Navy analysis of the bombing campaign in Afghanistan has concluded that 75 percent of all munitions dropped by Navy and Marine Corps aircraft destroyed or disabled the intended target, according to an official familiar with the study. By comparison, roughly half the munitions dropped during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and Kosovo in 1999 had a similar effectiveness, the study calculated. The key difference appears to be the military's increased use of advanced technology to aim the munitions initially and also to guide them to their targets after launch. CNN.COM SPECIAL REPORT CNN NewsPass Video Cuba detainees moving indoors Afghan food aid 'hit or miss' MORE STORIES Probe clears U.S. in bombing of U.N. food convoy Report: Al Qaeda e-mail warns of attack EXTRA INFORMATION Al Qaeda documents reveal depths of terror Most wanted terrorists Sixty percent of all…

2002-03-17, Serge Pod: ~~~The Struggle for a Contract Worth Billions This March has all the chances of becoming the decisive period for domestic military aircraft construction. In accordance with an order of the Russian president, the lead developer of the future aviation complex for frontal aviation /PAK FA/, which is more widely known by the public as ``the fifth generation fighter,`` should be selected. The victor will receive the largest defense order in the coming 20 years. The likelihood is extremely great that in the future the winning firm will become the only developer of aviation complexes. Not only the firms are participating in the contest, but also the financial and industrial capital, and groups within the government and the Ministry of Defense that support them. The chief of the Ministry of Industry and Science, Ilya Klebanov, and his allies are proposing the drawing up of a tough line of control under the guardianship of the government and Rosaviakosmos. The are looking at withholding part of the export income from…

2002-03-17, Serge Pod: ~~~Russia Unveils Space Shuttle for Tourists American businessmen and Russian engineers unveiled the first space shuttle designed exclusively for tourism on Thursday, paving the way for tourists on a budget to taste life in zero gravity. For under $100,000 would-be astronauts will be able to take an hour-long flight aboard the ``Cosmopolis XXI``, a snub-nosed rocket-powered shuttle about the size of a minivan. The trip includes only three minutes of weightlessness, but costs a mere sliver of the $20 million reportedly paid by space tourism pioneer Dennis Tito last year for a week on the International Space Station. ``We know the potential market is huge,`` said Eric Anderson, president of the U.S.-based Space Adventures company which organised Tito`s flight. ``We literally have people waiting to go who have already paid us, who have said /they/ want to be the first to fly.`` The shuttle, a joint project by Space Adventures and Russia`s Myasishchev Design Bureau, is due to start regular flights by 2004-05.…

2002-03-13, Serge Pod: Russian Tu-204 Aircraft Becoming Competitive in Worldwide Market The Russian Tu-204 airplane is becoming competitive in the worldwide marketplace both in its technical characteristics as in costs. Ibrahim Kamel -chairman of the board of directors of the international company Sirocco Aerospace - expressed such an opinion in an interview with an RIA Novosti correspondent. The company is taking part in the upgrade program for the Tu-204 and in its preparation for international certification. In Kamel`s opinion, the Tu-204 is in no way worse than the new Boeings. ``The excellent economy of use of the airplane is combined with a system of technical support of a worldwide level and at the same time the price of the Tu-204 is 30 - 40 percent less than the cost of a similar type of Western produced airplane,`` he noted. Kamel also expressed the opinion that using the example of the Tupolev concern, Russian aircraft manufacturing can make significant successes in export trade. In particular, he emphasized that the…

2002-03-13, Serge Pod: ~~~Construction of AL-55 Engine to Be Discussed Next Week There will be a large meeting next week at the A. Lyulka Scientific and Production Center, structurally included in OAO NPO Saturn, on the question of the of further measures regarding the building of the new AL-55 aircraft engine which is intended for light training and combat trainer airplanes, an informed source at the A. Lyulka NPTs reported. According to him, at the present time development of the working design and engineering documentation for the new aircraft engine is being concluded. The engine is being created for use on an airplane of the Yak-130 type. In the opinion of specialists, the cost of the scientific, research and experimental design work will be several tens of millions of dollars, with the price of a serial engine at more than one million dollars. Source: 13.03.02, Finmarket Agency Translated by Roy Cochrun /http://www.toad.net/cgi-bin/cgi wrap/royfc/today/acft_news.html/ www.avia.ru

2002-03-13, Serge Pod: ~~~New Predator squadron activated 11 March 2002 The US Air Force has activated a third Predator squadron. The 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (RS) was activated on March 8 at Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield, Nevada. The unit, which joins the 11th RS and…

2002-03-05, dsamoilov: The long-awaited order from the Indian Air Force for the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has finally been awarded, HAL chairman, Mr N R Mohanty, announced 27 February at the Asian Aerospace 2002 exhibition. The Indian Air Force has ordered a limited series production of eight aircraft with delivery of the first one in 2006. In a further announcement Mohanty went on to say that the Intermediate Jet Trainer, the HJT-36 which will replace the Kiran for Stage II training, will have its first flight by the end of 2002 and is due for delivery in 2004. By Simon Michell for Janes Defence Weekly

2002-02-25, Serge Pod: Gripen provides double boost for Polish aerospace industry 22 February 2002 Gripen International, jointly owned by SAAB and BAE Systems, has strengthened its partnership with the Polish aerospace and defence industry by signing two new industrial co-…

2002-02-06, Serge Pod: Military Be-200 The General Director of the Taganrog Beriev ANTK, Gennadiy Panatov, announced the fact that the enterprise is developing a patrol variant of the Be-200 amphibious airplane. The Russian Federal Border Service is showing interest in it. In…

2002-02-06, Serge Pod: Russians Search for Helicopter Lost over Chechnya Six helicopters are engaged in the search for the Mi-24 helicopter that belonged to the North Caucasus regional department of the Russian Federal Border Guard Service, Chechen prosecutor Vsevolod Chernov said. The search for a border troops helicopter which disappeared yesterday was resumed today. All contact with the Mi-24 helicopter was lost near Khankala airport on the outskirts of Groznyy yesterday , a spokesman for the Federal Border Guard Service press centre told ITAR-TASS. He noted that the Federal Border Guard Service had no information about what had caused the loss of contact and the helicopter's disappearance. ``For reasons that are not yet clear, the helicopter either landed somewhere unexpectedly or crashed,`` the source said. Groups of rescuers are currently engaged in the search, the spokesman said. He recalled that yesterday morning, the crews of two helicopters, a Mi-24 and a Mi-8, had been ordered to fly to the Tuskharoy border post and…

2002-02-06, Serge Pod: ~~~Russia Ready to Sell India Tu-22 Bombers An anonymous, highly place source in the Indian government has reported to the Reuters agency that within the framework of a visit to Delhi which is starting by the Russian Vice Premier Il`ya Klebanov, Russia…

2002-01-30, Serge Pod: ~~~Eurocopter has a good 2001 23 January 2002 Eurocopter Group chalked up 375 new aircraft orders in 2001, representing 43% of the market based on the number of new civil and military helicopters. The orders were broken down as follows: 81 EC 120 B Colibri, 103 single-engine Ecureuil/Fennec, 27 EC 130 B4, 2 BO 105, 17 twin-engine Ecureuil/Fennec, 38 EC 135, 2 BK 117, 8 EC 145, 10 Dauphin/Panther, 1 3 EC 155 B/B1, 26 Super Puma/EC 225 - Cougar/EC 725, and 48 NH 90. The total order book, including new and previously owned aircraft (50 helicopters sold by Eurocopter and its subsidiaries), research and development, services provided to customers, and other various activities increased to Euro 2,825 million euros. The breakdown of these orders by value is 45% for the civil and parapublic sector and 55% for the military sector. The consolidated order book for series-production helicopters represents Euro 1760 million euros. Eurocopter President Jean-Fran‡ois Bigay said that he was particularly satisfied with the…

2002-01-17, Serge Pod: ~~~[b]LAPIK to Deliver Three Il-103 Aircraft to Laos[/b] According to the Commercial Director of the Lukhovitsy Aviaton Production and Testing Complex /LAPIK/, Valeriy Bredikhin, LAPIK is fulfilling a contract for the delivery of three four-seat Il-103 multirole light airplanes to Laos. All the airplanes for this contract will be delivered during 2002. Besides that, the signing of a large contract for the delivery of a significant number of Il-103 airplanes is being prepared in one of the Southeast Asian /SEA/ countries. Delivery of airplanes to this non-disclosed SEA country will not be estimated for one year. One can expect the finalized form of the contract at the end of the first quarter of 2002, a source noted. According to his same information, in all at the present time there are 23 Il-103 airplanes in service, including 4 airplanes in Belorussia and 6 aircraft in Peru. The remaining airplanes are being used in Russia. The Il-103 airplane is sold at a price of 164,000 - 210,000 dollars each. Source:…

2002-01-17, Serge Pod: ~~~Rosaviakosmos Increased Production of Aircraft by 10 Percent in 2001 The development of the Russian Federation aviation and space industry in recent times is characterized by a steady growth dynamic. According to the General Director of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Yuriy Koptev, according to the results of the last year, 14 airplanes were built in the country and 79 helicopters, which is 10 percent more than in 2000. Yu. Koptev notes that this year, financing of work on the development of civilian aviation will grow 2.3 times. These funds will be concentrated on 3 - 4 basic projects. Among them is work on the Tu-204, Tu-324 and Tu-334 airplanes and also on the PS-90A and PS-90A2 engines. The growth of the totals of the Russian space branch last year, according to Yu. Koptev, was 5.3 percent. But the quantity of commercial launches at the same time went down. Only three heavy ``Proton`` boosters were launched using the funds of foreign investors. According to Yu. Koptev, this is connected with…

2002-01-17, Serge Pod: ~~~MiG Trainer for Future Aces At a briefing devoted to the results of the work of the Russian Aircraft Building Corporation MiG in 2001, the General Director - General Designer of the corporation, Nikolay Nikitin, noted that one of the priority programs of the firm for 2002 will be the completion of tests and the moving into the domestic and export markets of the new generation MiG-AT training airplane. In particular, a resolution has been adopted regarding joint certification tests of this airplane with the Russian Federation air force and Rosaviakosmos and accepting it for experimental service. What about this aircraft which has no analogue among airplanes of a similar class? The MiG-AT trainer was created at RSK MiG for the training of airmen at the beginning, primary and higher stages of preparation with elements of combat use, and also for the support of piloting skills in the line units. The chief designer of the airplane is Vasiliy Shtykalo. The MiG-AT was developed at once as an international…

2002-01-17, Serge Pod: ~~~Airliner Makes Emergency Landing in Omsk, Nobody Hurt A Tu-204 passenger aircraft belonging to the Russian airline Sibir en route from Frankfurt to Novosibirsk made an emergency landing in Omsk. A source with the Omsk airport has told Interfax that Novosibirk's Tolmachyovo airport denied the landing of flight 852 arriving from Germany and redirected the plane to Omsk. Approaching a landing strip at the Omsk airport, the pilots realized that the plane might miss the strip due to a heavy crosswind. However, as the airliner was running out of fuel, the crew did not risk making another approach and landed the plane, which then ran some 400 meters off the strip. /Interfax/ www.avia.ru

2002-01-17, Serge Pod: ~~~Air Force Chief Will Step Down General Anatoly Kornukov, the commander of the air force and the man who led the operation to shoot down a Korean Air Lines jet in 1983, said he is resigning from his post in line with a law capping the age of officers at 60. ``I`m leaving -- there`s no doubt about that. The decision has been made,`` Kornukov said at a news conference Friday, a day after he turned 60. Kornukov refused to name who is in line to replace him, saying only that he has made his recommendation to his superiors. Kommersant reported Saturday that the candidates include Vladimir Mikhailov, the first deputy commander of the air force, Gennady Vasilyev, commander of the air force's Moscow district, Mikhail Oparin, commander of strategic aviation, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, commander of the 11th army of the air force, and Vitaly Pavlov, commander of the air infantry Kornukov, a 38-year veteran of the air force, was appointed to its helm in January 1998 with a mandate to consolidate the country`s air defense…

2002-01-16, The FriedrichFiles: ~~~Can somebody help me with these questions? Bell AH-1P (S (PROD) Step 1) line drawing Bell AH-1Q: line drawing Blackburn Iris II: line drawing Dassault Mirage III/Atlas Cheetah D: date of first delivery? English Electric P.5 Kingston III: line drawing Hiro H2H1 = Navy Type 89: date of entry into service Hiro H4H: see http: // picpage7.tripod.com/h4h.html Kellet KD-1/XO-60 / YO-60: line drawings Mil Mi-17KF: entry into service, armament Mil Mi-17MD: entry into service, armament Mil Mi-17TB Hip-H: entry into service, armament Mil Mi-26TM Halo: entry into service Mitsubishi 3MT2 = B1M2 = Navy Type 13 carrier aircraft: date of entry into service Mitsubishi 2MR4, 2MRT1, 2MRT2, 2MRT2A, 2MRT3, 2MRT3A = C1M = Navy Type 10 reconnaissance aircraft: entry into service of each version Naval Aircraft Factory PT: line drawing Polikarpov U-2L: entry into service Sikorsky CH-60S: line drawing Sikorsky EH-60C Quick Fix: date of entry into service Sikorsky EH-60L: where to find a line drawing Sikorsky HH-60G: where to find…

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2002-01-13, Serge Pod: ~~~Tu-214 Airplane Continues to Be Improved with First Deliveries As the Chief Designer of OAO Tupolev, Yuriy Vorobyev, has reported, the Tu-214 medium range passenger airplane produced by the Kazan Aviation Production Association /KAPO/ is being improved…

2002-01-13, Serge Pod: ~~~Russian and Indian Companies to Produce New Airplane Together The largest Indian state aviation enterprise, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. /HAL/ and two Russian companies - the Irkutsk Aviation Complex and the Ilyushin Design Complex - have reached agreements on the joint production in India of a multirole transport airplane. As the HAL chairman, Nalini Ranjan Mohanti, reported to RIA Novosti, the commercial production of the airplane will begin in 6 years. It is calculated for 100 seats in the passenger variant and in the transport can carry from 20 to 50 tonnes of freight. The cost of the airplane will be 20 percent cheaper than the market prices for similar aircraft, Mohanti noted. According to him, the cost of the project will be determined finally in the near future, and its detailed account will be ready by 20 January 2002. According to the agreement on hand, the Russian companies will transfer to HAL the conceptual draft of the production of the airplane and the metallurgic know-how. For its part, HAL…

2002-01-13, Serge Pod: Heavy-Lift Airplane of An-124 Series to Be Upgraded by Russian and Ukrainian Specialists A heavy-lift airplane of the An-124 series will be upgraded by Russian and Ukrainian specialists, the reported at the Russian Federation Ministry of Transport State Civil Aviation Authority /SCAA/ on Thursday to an RIA Novosti correspondent. They explained at the Ministry that a joint long-range program /including measures to 2020/ will be developed for this purpose in the first half of this year. This, according to a Ministry representative, will allow the An-124 as before to occupy a dominant position in the rendering of aviation services in the international market of hauling out-size and non-standard cargoes. As is proposed, the program will include increasing the the flying and technical characteristics of the An-124 airliner and its upgrade the An-124-100 ``Ruslan`` produced by the Ukrainian Antonov ANTK aviation enterprise /city of Kiev/. Moreover, the upgrade of the avionics is envisioned. Included is the…

2002-01-13, Serge Pod: ~~~KAPO to Upgrade Tu-160 An upgrade version of the Tu-160 strategic bombers and missile carriers, which it is planned to begin in 2002 at the Kazan` Aviation Production Association /KAPO/, will depend on the volumes and quality of the financing of this work. A highly-placed representative of the Tupolev firm announced this to Interfax-AVN on Thursday /10.01.02/. According to him, the firm has developed several variants of upgrade for the Tu-160. ``The engineering side of the upgrade on any of the variants is assured in full by the Russian developers of the equipment and the enterprises which manufacture this equipment,`` the source noted. He also reported that the chief customer has approved and supported the proposals of the Tupolev firm for the upgrade of airplanes of this type. According to Interfax-AVN, the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with KAPO for the overhaul and upgrade of all 15 Tu-160 from the make-up of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division. According to the…

2002-01-10, Serge Pod: ~~~Russia Begins Production of New Anti-Submarine Helicopter The Russian military airline producer Kamov has begun construction of a new anti-submarine combat helicopter, a company spokesman said Thursday. Construction had started on the first of the aircraft, which will be powered by two 1,550 horse power motors, Kamov`s assistant chief engineer Venyamin Kassyanikov told the Interfax-AVN news agency. He also pointed out that all the equipment and systems of the helicopter would be produced in Russia, adding that the price of each craft would be between 2.5 and 3 million dollars /2.8 to 3.36 million euros/. According to the company, the Russian defence ministry requires around 350 Ka-60 helicopters which are scheduled to replace the Mi-4 which is currently in service. /AFP/ www.avia.ru