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Gripen squadrons may go as Sweden cuts costs
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The supreme commander of the Swedish armed forces, Gen Owe Wiktorin, has proposed cutting the final number of Saab JAS39 Gripen squadrons from 12 to 10, as a cost-cutting measure. Reduced flying by the remaining Gripen squadrons would save the service around SKr 150 ($18 million) a ...
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Korean Hip seizure
Russian customs authorities have seized five Mil Mi-8T Hips at Khasan on the Russian-Korean border. The helicopters were flying to North Korea, but customs officials stopped the crews after it was discovered that there was no approval to sell the aircraft and documentation showed irregularities. The helicopters were thought ...
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Israel forms F-16 tie with Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding on future F-16 upgrade programmes. The IAI/Lockheed Martin package is primarily intended for the Israeli air force's fleet of F-16A/Bs, but one of Lockheed Martin's roles will be to promote the upgrade to the ...
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Italy studies the Yak/AEM-130 as Russia falters
The Italian air force has had initial briefings on the Yak/AEM-130 advanced jet trainer, as the Aermacchi/Yakovlev joint programme becomes increasingly an Italian venture due to Russia's financial woes. In a separate move, the Italian Government is planning to provide around L390 billion ($241 million) in funding over the ...
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Japan stalls future fighter demonstrator
The Japan Defence Agency (JDA)has postponed plans to start work on a future fighter demonstrator next year, as it struggles to complete development flight testing of the new Mitsubishi F-2A/B support fighter by the end of 1999. The JDA's Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) had wanted to start ...
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Germany approves Camcopter vehicle
Austria's Schiebel says that its Camcopter vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is the recommended platform for the next phase of Germany's Airborne Minefield Reconnaissance Technology programme. The compact rotary-wing UAV won the endorsement of the IABG, which tests and evaluates systems for the German military. ...
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Patriot is top for Greece's air defence package
Howard Gethin/LONDON Greece has selected the Raytheon Patriot missile system over the Russian S-300 (SA-12 Gladiator) to form the core of its air defence system upgrade. An order worth more than $1.1 billion is likely to follow final negotiations. The announcement came at the end of the Defendory ...
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Taiwan hovers on Huey replacement
Taiwan is planning to order nine improved Boeing CH-47SD Chinook transport helicopters, while wavering on a final decision to purchase a much larger quantity of utility machines to replace its locally built Bell UH-1Hs. The US Congress is to be asked to approve a $486 million deal covering the ...
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'Pilot's pal' system flies the Apache Longbow
Boeing has flight tested a talking cockpit management system, called the rotorcraft pilot's associate (RPA), in a modified AH-64 Longbow Apache attack helicopter, part of an $80 million advanced technology demonstration by the firm's Phantom Works. The system, which uses pilot-activated voice commands, includes new special cockpit controls and ...
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Cessna raises Citation stakes
Guy Norris/WITCHITA Cessna comes to the US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) meeting this year with an unprecedented array of eight Citation models either in production, flight test or planning. Filled with ambition, and keen to bolster the competitiveness of the Citation family against a new generation of business jets, ...
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Mediterranean stand-off
Andrzej Jeziorski/ATHENS Early in September, Greece accused neighbouring Turkey of repeatedly violating its national airspace, and the Athens flight information region (FIR),with its military aircraft, in a series of incidents symptomatic of the tension between the two countries. The Greek air force claimed that a total of 26 ...
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Honeywell displays advances
Guy Norris/PHOENIX When Honeywell unveiled its Primus Epic avionics system at the 1996 National Business Aviation Association convention, it promised that advanced three-dimensional (3D) displays were just down the road. At this year's NBAA, it will be demonstrating 3D display concepts developed using its new tool for rapid ...
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Compromise and change
Paul Lewis/SEOUL and CHANGWON Two years is not generally considered a long time in the world of aerospace, but for South Korea's industry, it must have seemed like eternal purgatory. Once- bold visions of being a major international aerospace player have been shattered by the cold blast of fiscal reality ...
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Good flying ?
Christopher Yeo/SACHON, SOUTH KOREA Keen to apply aircraft development skills honed on licence manufacturing, South Korea's aerospace industry is facing a major test as it awaits an order for its first indigenously designed product - the KT-1 Woong Bee turboprop trainer. The South Korean air force has completed ...
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Aiming for the stars
Tim Furniss/LONDON South Africa's first satellite, the Sunsat, will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II on 8 January, 1999. The 50kg spacecraft will be placed into a 400-800km polar orbit, and could be a precursor to a fleet providing remote sensing services for natural disaster and environmental monitoring. ...
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Getting ready for recession
Graham Warwick/CHICAGO United Airlines is drawing up plans to stay profitable through the next industry downturn, despite being unsure exactly when it will happen. In fact, the carrier seems to regard a recession as necessary if airline stock prices are ever to achieve their full potential again. As ...
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'Growing demand' for Colibri prompts production increase
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocopter is to step up production of its EC120 Colibri light helicopter from four to six aircraft a month by late December, reflecting a "growing worldwide demand" for the five-seat machine. The smallest and most recent helicopter in the Eurocopter range, the Colibri has won more than 100 ...
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Honeywell launches OneLink service
Honeywell Aviation Services has developed a new communications service for the business jet market called OneLink, which will allow calls to be made to aircraft from the ground. Unlike current limited services, the caller will be able to reach the aircraft without having to know which of the four ...
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Mooney Eagle programme advances towards its target
Mooney Aircraft's worst fears for development of its new M20S Eagle piston single have failed to materialise, and it is on schedule to begin delivering the entry-level aircraft in January, after US approval around 1 December. Soon after Mooney launched the Eagle early this year, company sources confided that ...
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Bio fuels
A pioneering bio jet fuel has been developed by independent Swedish oil Company, Hjelmco Oil, and a small renewable energy commercialisation group, Midlands Renewable Energy Technology Transfer, of the UK. The Bio Jet A1 fuel, which is still under research, could give an increase in the aircraft's range or payload, ...