December 18, 2000

December 18, 2000

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

MV-22 Crash Spurs Sweeping Reviews

By DAVID A. FULGHUM,ROBERT WALL6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Rockwell Collins Granted Autonomy

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI4 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

GE Testing F1 10-132

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO3 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

MV-22 Crash Spurs Sweeping Reviews

Four accidents in which 30 have died and a litany of aircraft problems raise questions about tiltrotor's maturity

By DAVID A. FULGHUM,ROBERT WALL6 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Rockwell Collins Granted Autonomy

NEW YORK Rockwell International plans to exit the aerospace industry by spinning off its Collins electronics unit to compete independently against the combined General Electric and Honeywell International. But this David-and-Goliath matchup may not be as one-sided as it might appear.

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI4 min

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GE Testing F1 10-132

NEW YORK General Electric is running performance tests of its 32,000lb.-thrust F110-GE-132 engine for Block 60 F-16s at its Peebles, Ohio, facility in anticipation of beginning altitude trials next year. The engine—the first complete, purpose-built F110-132— began about 30 hr. of runs at Peebles on an outdoor test stand in late November.

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO3 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Endeavour Lands; Atlantis Readied

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER The U.S./Canadian crew of Endeavour completed its 12day International Space Station assembly mission with a flyaround of the ISS followed two days later by a night reentry and landing on Runway 13 here on Dec. 11. Endeavour’s deployment of 65-kw. solar arrays on the ISS clears the way for launch of the 32,000-lb.

By CRAIG COVAULT2 min

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Domodedovo Ups Capacity

By ALEXEY KOMAROV2 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Virgin To Shed Irish Venture

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Aviation Week's First Aerospace Art Awards in cooperation with the American Society Of Aviation Artists

Aviation Week & Space Technology is pleased to join the American Society of Aviation Artists in presenting the art seen in this special issue. These selections are the magazine’s choices for the “Best in Show” and the “Best of the Best” among entries in the five categories:
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Reflections

This is the 11th annual Aviation Week & Space Technology photo issue, and the inaugural edition for our Aerospace Art Awards. While our photo issue has matured each year with an increasingly wider range of aviation and space-related photographs, we realized that we were missing the portrayal of aviation scenes that would be nearly impossible to capture by camera because of their historic elements or the inability of having a photographer at the scene.
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WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP

WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP

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STAR ALLIANCE

EXTENDING SERVICE WORLDWIDE

Since the original five airlines—Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines—founded the Star Alliance in May 1997, additional air carriers have been steadily integrated into the network, thereby increasing the group’s strength and broadening its worldwide appeal.
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