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Lockheed Martin slips further into mire
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Chris Jasper/London Lockheed Martin's financial position is set to worsen, with the manufacturer predicting a loss for the second quarter of this year and significantly reduced earnings for 1999 and 2000. It blames spiralling costs, delays in C-130J production and delivery, and launch vehicle failures and ...
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Lockheed Martin gets involved in Hungarian scandal
Lockheed Martin is trying to distance itself from an unfolding political scandal in Hungary involving the activities of one of its mid-level executives, who has been forced to resign, along with two senior Hungarian government officials. The scandal centres on Hungarian political lobbying to appoint Steven Jones, Lockheed Martin ...
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Cathay on schedule as dispute ends
Cathay Pacific is aiming to return to a full flight schedule as soon as possible following the eleventh-hour resolution of a long-running pay dispute with its pilots. Cathay's flights have been severely disrupted since 28 May by pilots calling in sick, citing excessive stress because of the dispute. Pilots ...
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Trent 500 exceeds planned thrust
Rolls-Royce has exceeded the planned 60,000lb (300kN) certification thrust of its Trent 500 by 8,000lb. The engine, under development for the Airbus A340/500/600, has been running on a testbed since late May. The first engine is to complete more than 60h of testing this month, when a second test ...
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AlliedSignal and Sikorsky join on EGPWS
AlliedSignal and helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky have teamed up to develop an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) for rotary wing applications. The specially developed system for helicopters will differ substantially from the fixed wing EGPWS, says AlliedSignal. A digital moving map will replace the traditional paper chart in the ...
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Thomson-CSF unveils RC400 airborne radar
Thomson-CSF Detexis is demonstrating its RC400 airborne radar to potential export customers during the show at a military airbase near Paris. The French company is holding talks to undertake a test programme in a Mikoyan MiG-29. The RC400 is aimed at the retrofit market in the hope of boosting ...
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French carrier signs for freight TBM700
Socata has signed a deal with French airline Air Open Sky under which the carrier will lease a freighter version of the TBM700 turbine single for trials leading to an order for up to five aircraft. A similar deal is being negotiated with Swedish cargo carrier Air West Sweden. ...
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Radom takes wraps off PC-9 prototype
Radom Aviation Systems is displaying a prototype of its upgraded Pilatus-built PC-9M. The aircraft are being supplied to the Slovenian air force. The Israeli company has fitted a new mission and weapons system, as well as a Lockheed Martin F-16-like cockpit that includes a FlightVisions Sparrowhawk head-up display. The aircraft ...
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Regional squeeze
You would think that some industries learned from their mistakes. Not so the regional aircraft manufacturing sector. It appears again that too many players are trying to cram into a market with more products than it can reasonably support. At one stage, it seemed that the industry had accepted ...
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Bombardier extends FlexJet fractional scheme into Europe
Bombardier is trying to make inroads into the fledgling European fractional ownership market by extending its successful US FlexJet programme. "We have been interested in Europe for some time, but have held back until we found the best way of adapting our US programme to this market," says FlexJet ...
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Israeli F-16s are targeted for upgrades
Elisra Electronic Systems and Lockheed Martin have signed a co-operation agreement to market previously competing electronic warfare (EW) suites for the F-16. Under the deal, EW systems from Elisra and Lockheed Martin's Sanders subsidiary will be offered as baseline systems on the F-16. The agreement, which covers the sale of ...
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Latest orders boost MD Helicopters
MD Helicopters has announced orders for 23 MD500/600 series and Explorer helicopters for European and Latin American government agencies and private operators. Dutch-owned MD Helicopters, recently sold by Boeing, plans to almost double its output of civil machines over the next two years. The Mesa, Arizona-based company says it ...
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Seattle landing
Messier-Dowty is to open a design office in Seattle. The world's leading landing gear specialist, which has extensive operations in France, Canada and the UK, is pushing to increase its links with Boeing's commercial and military operations. Apart from a small share of 777 work, the Snecma-owned company has failed ...
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Agile thinking
While the design emphasis was on air-to-air combat - both beyond and within visual range - the result is a capable multirole machine Acceleration is described as "tremendous" and agility is claimed to exceed that of today's best fighters, but pilots say the Typhoon is easy to fly. This is ...
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Autonomous operator
The fuel system is among Typhoon's technological innovationsEurofighter says it "pushed technology on several fronts" to package the required capability in an aircraft as small as the Typhoon. The task was made more challenging by customer demands that the Eurofighter be capable of autonomous operation and require minimum support in ...
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Lethal independence
New European weapons on the horizon will change the Typhoon from air-superiority machine to multirole strike fighter Shortly after it enters service, the Typhoon will be cleared to carry a range of advanced weaponry as the aircraft's full multirole capability begins to be exploited. At initial operational capability (IOC), the ...
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Heavy duty
There's only one Antonov An-70 and Flight International's test pilot was the first Westerner to fly Ukraine's four-engined military transportPeter Henley/KIEVThere are several persuasive reasons to fly the Antonov An-70. Little is widely known about it in the West. It is the product of a leading aircraft manufacturer from the ...
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Antonov's phoenix
Paul Duffy/KIEV To date, aircraft from countries of the former Soviet Union have not made any real impact in Western markets. One aircraft is poised to challenge that trend: Antonov's new An-70 freighter. Antonov has specialised in military transports since the 1950s and many of them have ...
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Continental challenge
Bombardier says its 'super mid-size' business jet would cost $4 million more if made by anyone else - but it has not skimped on its systems Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBombardier's Continental may be the first business jet designed to a price point, but it has the specification of a more expensive ...
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Cessna bulletin
Cessna has issued a service bulletin to hundreds of piston-single aircraft customers ordering an airframe logbook check for any one of 30 faulty fuel-selector valves shipped as replacement parts last year and early this year. The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to follow this with an airworthiness directive. The Washington-based ...