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Police aviation sold
Bombardier has sold UK helicopter operator and distributor, Police Aviation Services (PAS) to RDM, the Dutch industrial group which acquired Boeing's civil helicopter activities earlier this year. The sale, which comes less than two years after PAS' acquisition by the Canadian company, is set for completion on 3 December. The ...
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Airbus offers to pay 30% of A400M costs
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Airbus Industrie is prepared to provide up to 30% of the development funding for the proposed A400M military airlifter if the money is required to get the programme launched, according to industry sources. The consortium believes its investment in the $6 billion development programme could be recovered through ...
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Air 2000 stays with A320 family for short-haul revamp
Air 2000 is to stick with the A320 family, rather than switch to the Boeing 737-800, to renew its short-haul fleet. A deal for eight CFM56-powered aircraft (five A320s and three A321s) has been concluded, involving four orders and four leases. The airline operates four International Aero Engines V2500-powered ...
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JSF faces STOVL engine problems
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESBoeing and Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstration development teams are tackling emerging problems with the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) propulsion systems. But both companies insist that the first flight target dates will still be met. Boeing's problems with the Pratt & Whitney JSF119-614 ...
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Airlines offered 737 winglets
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Boeing is proposing winglet-equipped 737-800s to Deutsche BA in a bid to win the Germany-based airline's fleet evaluation competition, due to be decided by the end of this month. The company refuses to specify either the content or identity of current campaigns, but admits: ...
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British Airways launches corporate rescue plan
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways has launched a corporate plan with the aim of tackling problem areas, including low yields at London Gatwick Airport, loss-making airline subsidiaries and domestic operation and poor aircraft usage. The plan is part of a bid to secure the massive profit improvements BA financial controller ...
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Matra BAe makes final Meteor push
Stewart Penney/LONDON Matra BAe Dynamics is organising a final push in its bid to win a deal to develop its Meteor missile to equip Royal Air Force Eurofighters ahead of a crucial UK Ministry of Defence Equipment Approvals Committee (EAC) meeting . The EAC meets on 6 December ...
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Lockheed Martin warns of JSF funding hitch
Lockheed Martin might need additional funding to continue evolving its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) proposal in the event that the programme office delays release of the final operational requirements document (ORD) until next year, the company has warned. The final ORD is scheduled to be completed by mid-December and ...
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Proton grounding adds to ISS delay
The International Space Station (ISS) is facing more delays following Russia's decision to keep its Proton booster grounded until at least March, while improvements are made to the second stage powerplant after two failures in four months. The grounding means that the Russian Zvezda service module for the ISS will ...
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Oceanic datalink
Raytheon has demonstrated the operational readiness of the multisector oceanic data link (MS-ODL) installed at the US Federal Aviation Administration's air route traffic control centre in Oakland, California. Similar installations will take place at the New York and Anchorage centres. The MS-ODL allows for digital text message traffic between controllers ...
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Custom P-3s
Lockheed Martin is modifying an additional six ex-US Navy P-3Bs for counter-drug operations with the US Customs Service. Two are being converted to airborne early warning configuration and four to "Slick" interceptors, with nose-mounted radar and multispectral imaging sensor. Each P-3 is equipped with three mission crew consoles. Source: Flight ...
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Minuteman test
TRW has tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with new solid rocket motors produced by Thiokol Propulsion and Pratt & Whitney's Chemical Systems. TRW won the US Air Force's Propulsion Replacement Programme, the ICBM prime integration contract, two years ago. Designed to keep the missile force operational through ...
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Integrated antennas
Lufthansa Technik has developed an antenna mounting system that allows satellite communication and direct broadcast satellite antennas to be integrated in a single installation on the widebody business jets - the Boeing Business Jet and the Airbus Corporate Jet. The new enlarged radome, mounted on the vertical stabiliser fin-top, provides ...
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Gulfstream mods
Jet Aviation has modified the first Gulfstream III with a Rockwell Collins flat screen FDS-2000 flight display, with new 127mm (5in) screens, control unit, cooling fans and glareshields. The aircraft is also the first to be retrofitted with a new all-composite GIV interior. Source: Flight International
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Brazil agreement
Ukraine and Brazil have signed a broad co-operation agreement that may lead to the launch by 2001 of new commercial Tsyklon 4 boosters from Brazil's equatorial Alcantara launch base. The Tsyklon 4 will be an uprated booster with an Italian Fiat Avio upper stage. Source: Flight International
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Static tests
Alliant Aerospace has completed the first of three planned static firings of the GEM 60 graphite epoxy solid rocket motor, which is being developed for the Delta IV. Source: Flight International
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SBIRS team
Aerojet has signed a teaming deal to become a member of the TRW-Raytheon project for the Space Based Infrared System Low (SBIRS Low) project. Aerojet will play a key role in the ground segment, systems engineering and space segment. SBIRS Low is the low-Earth orbiting component of the US Air ...
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Russian fine
Russia will pay Kazakhstan $400,000 in damages following last month's failure of a Proton booster from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Russia paid $270,000 compensation for a similar failure in July. Kazakhstan has banned Proton launches from Baikonur following the latest failure. Source: Flight International
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Routes
Peru back in Miami LanPeru, in which LanChile has a 49% shareholding, has started a daily service between Lima and Miami. Calling Pittsburgh US Airways chairman Stephen Wolf has called for a restoration of Pittsburgh- London services, abandoned by British Airways. The Bermuda II treaty bars the ...