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PC-12 popularity prompts production increase
Strong demand for the single-engined Pilatus PC-12 turboprop has prompted the Swiss manufacturer to increase annual production from 48 to 60 aircraft. The move is likely to strengthen Pilatus Aircraft's market value, following the decision by parent Oerlikon Burhle Holdings to sell the Stans-based manufacturer as part of restructuring plans ...
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Kosovo causes air show cancellations
The air war over Kosovo and Serbia has forced the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force to cancel air shows later this year at RAF Mildenhall and RAF St Mawgan, in the UK. Billed as the largest military-organised air show in the world, Mildenhall's Air Fete - ...
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Heavy fuel engines offered for UAVs
The UK's UAV Engines (UEL), a leader in gasoline-powered Wankel powerplants for drones and aerial targets, is offering heavy-fuel-burning models for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Stoking the race to develop heavy fuel engines for remotely piloted vehicles is the US Navy's Vertical Take-off and Landing Tactical UAV programme and ...
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Iran tests unmanned air vehicle
Iranian company Hesa is working on an improved version of the Ababil II unmanned air vehicle. A model was shown at the IDEX defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi recently, but this is the first time a working version has been seen. The canard-configuration Ababil II can carry a small camera ...
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Mixed picture for B/E
Cabin interiors specialist B/E Aerospace made record revenues of $701 million in the year to 27 February, boosted by the sale of its in-flight entertainment business to Sextant Avionique, but still recorded a net $40 million loss after closing seven sites. Source: Flight International
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Namibia lands Combi
Air Namibia has bought a new Boeing 747-400 Combi for delivery in October. It is understood that the aircraft was built for South Korean carrier Asiana, but never delivered. Source: Flight International
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MD-11 AD
Operators of 45 US-registered Boeing MD-11s have been ordered by the US Federal Aviation Administration to inspect wiring in the cargo compartment after one operator found burned insulation and worn wiring. The air carriers are required to verify the installation of a wire harness support bracket and clamp in the ...
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Pacer CRAG order
The US Air Force is to purchase an additional $50 million-worth of avionics from Rockwell Collins for the Pacer CRAG programme to upgrade Boeing KC-135 tankers with FMS 800 flight management systems. Source: Flight International
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F-111 crash
A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) General Dynamics F-111G crashed into the South China Sea off the Malay peninsula on 19 April, killing both crew. The aircraft, of 6 Sqn, one of 15 acquired from the US Air Force in 1993, is reported to have hit a peak on the ...
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Alpha Jet accident
Two Belgian air force Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets of 1 (Training) Wing collided in mid-air after take-off from Beauvechain AB on 19 April, and crashed in a field at Opveld. The pilots ejected safely. An eyewitness says the aircraft collided during a formation barrel roll. Source: Flight International
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Australia 748 sell off
The Royal Australian Air Force is selling its ageing fleet of 10 Hawker Siddeley 748s and is considering leasing six modified Learjets, provided by National Jet Systems, for the navigator training role. Two further HS748s, operated by the Royal Australian Navy as electronic-warfare training aircraft, are to be replaced under ...
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Armenian MiGs
Russia is to send more MAPO MiG-29 fighter aircraft to its military base in Armenia, reinforcing the deployment of S-300 surface-to-air missiles and five MiG-29s earlier this year. The eight-aircraft deployment was announced on 14 April by Russian air force chief Col Gen Anatoly Kornukov, who also invited Azerbaijan to ...
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Rolls for Shinmaywa
The Japan Defence Agency and Shin Maywa Industries have selected Rolls-Royce AE2100J turboprops to power the US-1A Kai amphibian. The company will supply 12 engines to support development and flight testing of the prototype later this year. Source: Flight International
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EH101 engines
Fiat Avio has delivered the first General Electric T700/T6A turboshaft engines for the Italian navy's EH101 helicopters. The powerplant, which is also the choice of the Canadian Forces for its Cormorant search and rescue variant, the EH101 is produced jointly by Fiat Avio and GE. Source: Flight International
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Lycoming reprieve
The US Federal Aviation Adminstration will not issue an airworthiness directive against Textron Lycoming, saying the problem with excessive piston-plug wear on IO-360 pistons is under control. Source: Flight International
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Horizon wing
Risk-sharing supplier Fuji Heavy Industries has delivered the first Hawker Horizon wing to Raytheon in Wichita, Kansas. All three sections of the first Horizon all-composite fuselage have been completed by Raytheon. The fuselage and wing will be mated this year. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream sales
Gulfstream booked orders for 12 aircraft (seven GIV-SPs and five GVs) in the first quarter, down from 13 in the same period last year. The company delivered 17 aircraft ( 10 GIV-SPs and seven GVs) in the first three months of the year, compared with 13 in the first quarter ...
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Soaring sales
Sales of the Falco kit aircraft have soared by more than 76% in the past year, according to supplier Sequoia Aircraft. The Falco, originally designed by Stelio Frati of Italy and first flown in 1955, was re-introduced by Sequoia in 1979 as a kit aircraft. Sequoia attributes the sales increase ...
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Quake sats
NPO Mashinostroyeniya of St Petersburg plans to develop four 130kg (290lb) earthquake prediction satellites and launch them on converted SS-18 Strela missiles from 2001. Instruments carried on the satellites could forecast earthquakes from 2h to two days before they occur. Source: Flight International
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Hubble gyro fails
The third of six gyroscopes on the Hubble Space Telescope has failed. One more failure would put the telescope in a protective safe mode, preventing further observations. The accelerated third Space Shuttle servicing mission, which will replace the gyroscopes, is due in October. The mission has been brought forward from ...