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Boeing joins Meteor missile group
Stewart Penney/LONDONBoeing is joining Team Meteor, the European consortium competing in the UK's Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) competition to select a weapon to arm the Eurofighter. A decision is expected by early next year. Boeing joins a European grouping that includes the Matra BAe Dynamics (MBD), Alenia Marconi ...
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Stevens nears Orenda C90 certificate
Stevens Aviation plans to begin the last phase of flight tests of a Raytheon KingAir C90, re-engined with Orenda liquid-cooled V8 piston engines "within the next couple of weeks". The delayed flight test effort involves two C90s. It should lead to a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate ...
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Single-turbine craft could plug Cessna product gap
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Cessna is considering a single-turbine aircraft to fill the gap between its piston-single line and its Citation business jet family. The company is also looking at the potential for applying high-speed technology from the Mach 0.92 Citation X to smaller aircraft in the product line. ...
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Turks review Ka-50 in Russia
A high ranking Turkish army delegation has visited Russia to review the Kamov/Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) Ka-50-2 Erdogan. The co-axial-rotor attack helicopter is a contender in the Turkish army competition to provide 145 machines. Kamov has been forced to redesign its side-by-side Ka-52 attack helicopter to meet Turkey's requirement ...
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Production flight
Aero Vodochody has flown the first production L-159 light attack aircraft for the Czech air force. The aircraft, flown by Aero chief pilot Miroslav Schutzner, reached 42,000ft (12,800m) during the 1h flight. The air force is to take delivery of five L-159s this year from an order for 72. Source: ...
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Aircraft mixture may fill US sensor scheme
A US Army requirement for an Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) aircraft could be met with a mix of long-range/high-endurance fixed-wing aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). ACS will combine the capabilities of three aircraft types into one or more platforms, offering corps-level airborne intelligence, surveillance and target acquisition capabilities. ...
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Kenya Airways weighs options for long-haul aircraft renewal
Jens Flottau/NAIROBI Kenya Airways is preparing to undertake a long-haul fleet-renewal programme. The carrier has issued requests for proposals to Airbus and Boeing and to leasing companies. A decision on the new long-haul fleet could be made as early as January. Although the airline's new chairman Richard Nyaga ...
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English fly Scots flag
Suckling Airways has been relaunched as ScotAirways, following investment by Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, Scottish founders of transport operator Stagecoach. The airline, based at Cambridge Airport, operates from Amsterdam, Dundee, Glasgow, London City, London Luton, Manchester, Norwich, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Southampton.Source: Flight International
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Delta learns crash lessons with mask deal
Delta Air Lines is to equip all its aircraft with full-face cockpit oxygen masks from BE Aerospace. The move follows a number of fatal fires and comes ahead of an anticipated Federal Aviation Administration ruling on their use. The airline plans to fit the system to all 600 ...
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Workshop
Australian regional Kendell Airlines has selected GE Engine Services to maintain and service the General Electric CF34-3Bs which power its new Canadair Regional Jet fleet. The deal is valued at around $40 million. KLM and its subsidiary, Martinair, have signed a contract with Boeing covering the exchange, overhaul and repair ...
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Helios charters rise in Cyprus
Backed by Cypriot and Swiss investors, a new privately owned charter carrier serving the leisure market will start operations from Larnaca, southern Cyprus, next June. Already licensed by Cyprus, the carrier, Helios Airways, will launch services with a single 170-seat Boeing 737-400 leased from GE Capital Aviation Services. By ...
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Globalstar tally increases as ICO changes business plan
Tim Furniss/LONDON Starsem launched another Soyuz-Ikar booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 18 October, carrying four more Globalstar satellites into orbit, bringing the total to 44. Starsem, the Aerospatiale Matra, Arianespace, Russian Space Agency and Samara Space Centre company, plans another launch next month, carrying another four ...
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Arianespace puts Orion 2 into orbit
Arianespace launched a 44LP booster from Kourou, French Guiana, on 19 October on mission V122, carrying the Orion 2 digital TV satellite for Loral Orion. It was the 48th consecutive Ariane 4 launch success and the third Ariane 4 launch in 45 days. The V123 mission, set for 13 November, ...
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Hughes introduces powerful satellites
Hughes Space and Communications has expanded its satellite product line with the HS 601 Plus and HS 702 Plus models. With existing spacecraft buses, the company will offer power from 2kW to 25kW. One of the primary enabling technologies is more efficient solar cells from Hughes subsidiary, Spectrolab. It ...
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Boeing and Pratt & Whitney work towards Delta III reflight
Boeing is conducting tests to prepare the Delta III rocket for its flight next year, after two initial launch failures. Boeing and the Delta second-stage engine supplier Pratt & Whitney say they are "very encouraged" by initial results from the improved RL10B-2 second stage engine combustion chamber brazing process. Voids ...
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Chauffair plans record Cessna order
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON ChauffAir has placed the largest ever single order for Cessna business jets in Europe. The seven Citation Excels, valued at $63 million, will be delivered to the Farnborough, UK-based operator in 2001 and join its business jet leasing scheme ChauffAir Share, which began on 21 October. ...
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Boeing pitches business jet to US Air Force
Boeing Business Jets hopes to increase its order book through the sale of its BBJ long-range business jet to the US military. The manufacturer is touting for orders for up to four aircraft from the US Air Force, which plans to acquire modified civil aircraft in corporate configuration to carry ...
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Police helicopter
The East Midlands Police air support unit in the UK has received a Eurocopter EC135. The twin-engined helicopter will be based at the unit's Husbands Bosworth base. It is the fourth to enter service with UK police forces in the last year. Source: Flight International
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Running with it
If Europe has found a way of sorting out its fragmented space, guided weapons, commercial aircraft and even helicopter industries with a path being trodden for avionics, radar and other defence systems, the fighter road is far from clear. It is a worrying sign, given that air power will ...