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Quick decisions crucial in UK procurement contests
Tim Ripley As British government ministers make their final assessment of the bids in the United Kingdom's beyond visual range air-to-air missile and future strategic airlift contest, the senior RAF officer attending Asian Aerospace has stressed that a quick decision is "crucial". Air Vice Marshal Jock Stirrup, assistant ...
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Golden Eagle team persists in bid for sales to USAF
Tim Ripley Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have not given up their efforts to persuade the US Air Force to adopt their T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic lead-in fighter trainer. The US-South Korean team announced the re-branding of their former KTX-T programme as the T-50 or A-50 ...
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Rockwell Collins tests weather system
A team led by Rockwell Collins (Stand A1011) is about to test a satellite-based graphical weather information service in Asia. Two American Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft will be equipped with satellite receivers and laptop computers to display the graphical weather data. When flying routes to Japan, the aircraft will ...
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Xetron provide RF amplifiers for tactical radio system
Xetron, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, has been awarded a $2.1 million contract from ViaSat as part of the Department of Defense's Multifunctional Information Distribution System Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) production programme. The final contract has an anticipated value of $6.4 million. The MIDS-LVT team includes ViaSat, Carlsbad, Harris, ...
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SALE deal
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has chosen the International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500 as the powerplant for the 20 Airbus Industrie A320-family aircraft ordered last year. The deal is worth $240 million. SALE has now chosen the V2500 for all A320-family aircraft either delivered or in service, apart from two ...
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Singapore joins RAeS
The Royal Aeronautical Society's (RAeS) 60th branch was launched yesterday - in Singapore. The move is a recognition of Singapore's expanding aerospace community. Singapore joins more than 100 countries worldwide with an RAeS presence, which will offer members - Singaporean and visitors alike - enhanced networking opportunities. An inaugural ...
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Boutique lessor International Aircraft...
Boutique lessor International Aircraft Investors is advising shareholders that its first-quarter revenues and earnings will fall well short of analysts' expectations because Mexican airline Taesa has defaulted on the lease of a Boeing 737-300 owned by the Los Angeles company. Taesa's default would cause more than 80% of the $700,000-$800,000 ...
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ELOP teams up with KARI
Israel-based ElectroOptics Industries (ELOP) has won a major contract with the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on the civilian Multi Spectral Camera (MSC) satellite programme. The MSC payload will fly on the Kompsat-2 satellite that is due to be launched in ...
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Flight awards acknowledge industry's high fliers
Flight International's prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards ceremony, launched at Asian Aerospace six years ago, provided a highlight of the week for a cavalcade of senior industry representatives who gathered at the gala event at the Ritz-Carlton hotel last night. The evening culminated with the announcement of the Aerospace Industry ...
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Hurel-Dubois joins the A3XX bandwagon
French aerostructures and thrust reverser manufacturer Hurel-Dubois has signed a risk-sharing participation agreement for a stake in Airbus's proposed A3XX ultra-large airliner. The framework agreement is for participation of up to 2% of the estimated $12 billion development cost of the 555-656-seat aircraft. It puts Hurel-Dubois in position ...
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'Big Two' take lead in aviation safety
Airbus Industrie and Boeing have created a world's first by calling a meeting with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to discuss how the aviation community can help meet safety challenges in the 21st century. Representatives from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Joint Aviation Authority (JAA) ...
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Agusta hopes to boost bid with new Australia office
Italian manufacturer Agusta has boosted its bid to supply Australia with a next-generation armed reconnaissance helicopter by setting up new headquarters in the country. Agusta will use its Canberra base to press the claims of the A129 Scorpion in competition for a 26-aircraft contract through Australia's Air 87 programme. ...
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Baden-Wuerttemberg chooses Eurocopter for police helicopter squadron
Paul Derby Eurocopter will be hoping to swell its order book for the EC155B even further during show week, after confirming the sale of two twin-engined machines in the run-up to Asian Aerospace. The Franco-German manufacturer tied up an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
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Honeywell warning system proves its worth
Honeywell's Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) now has 13 major enhancements and more are scheduled. Brian Pulk, Honeywell's Director of EGPWS products, says these developments were designed to further reduce the risk of Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) and the product is already proving its worth. "We ...
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Face the Facts with...Dain Hancock
In January, in a bid to improve its flagging financial performance, Lockheed Martin restructured its aircraft manufacturing business, creating a single company producing the F-16 fighter and C-130J airlifter, co-developing the F-22 and C-27J light tactical transport and competing for the Joint Strike Fighter programme. Dain Hancock, Lockheed Martin executive ...
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Frasca keeps spotlight on customer base
With 90% of the world market for Flight Training Devices (FTDs) Frasca International (Stand A1100) could well be forgiven for cruising comfortably into the new millennium. But the man charged with boosting new business for the company stresses that every effort is being made to maintain the dominant position ...
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Hermes handles critical Asia aviation data links
Steve Nichols Data link communication in Asia-Pacific is becoming increasingly popular. And as Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) becomes more developed in the region airlines will rely heavily on data links to provide critical information about flight plans, graphical weather and eventually air traffic clearances. Rockwell Collins ...
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Malaysian deal for Raytheon
Raytheon is maintaining its position in the super-midsize business jet market at Asian Aerospace 2000 with a sale announcement. Shipbuilding and hotel magnate Dato' Amin Shah bin Omar Shah, chairman of Malaysian industrial giant Business Focus has placed his faith in Raytheon jets for the fifth time with an ...
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HUD guidance system certificate for Challenger
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics and Bombardier Aerospace have jointly announced that the head-up-display guidance system (HGS) on the Challenger 604 business jet has been granted an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC). The Flight Dynamics system on the Challenger 604 offers a 'full flight regime' display, usable for takeoff, climb, ...
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Ibis JV makes debut with multi-role single
Mark Hannant It's the aviation equivalent of the imagined offspring of Vaclav Havel and 'Ah Mei': half Czech poet, half Taiwanese songstress. The Ae270 is the first fruit of the union of Czech airframe manufacturer Aero Vodochody and Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) of Taiwan. The Ae270 - the ...