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Advanced Seekers
Raytheon Systems has received an $11 million contract from the US Navy to develop uncooled focal plane array seekers for direct attack weapons. Now a jointly funded advanced technology demonstration programme, the direct attack munition affordable seeker project's goal is to demonstrate a low-cost, imaging-seeker upgrade kit for guided weapons. ...
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V-22 fuselage shipped
The first production Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor fuselage was shipped from Boeing Helicopters to the Bell Helicopter Textron facility in Arlington, Texas, for final assembly. The aircraft, Osprey No 11, is the first of five Lot 1 low-rate initial production aircraft. Following operational testing, the aircraft will go to ...
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Curtiss-Wright
Curtiss-Wright has teamed with GEC-Marconi Aerospace to produce the trailing edge flap drive actuation system for the Ayres Loadmaster. Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based Curtiss-Wright flight Systems will provide its Power Hinge rotary actuator and a power drive unit. Source: Flight International
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Sextant/Smiths win
The second-generation flight management system (FMS) being jointly developed by Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries for the Airbus A320 and A330/A340 families has been selected by several airlines for their existing fleets and future orders. The airlines are Air France, America West, Asiana, China Northwest, China Southwest and US Airways ...
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TAPO brakes RJ
The Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO) of Uzbekistan has agreed to manufacture under licence complete airbrake assemblies for British Aerospace Regional Aircraft's Avro RJ family. TAPO already produces cockpit floor beam assemblies for the RJ. Source: Flight International
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TEAC purchase
TEAC America is to acquire Palo Alto, California-based Merlin Engineering Works by October. TEAC will call combine Merlin's expertise in the processing of digital data for its airborne video and data recording devices, which TEAC claims are fitted in more than 75% of the world's military aircraft. Source: Flight ...
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Joint venture
AAR and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) have formed a joint venture, called AIMCO, to lease rotable parts to airlines. GECAS will provide the financing while AAR will manage the programme, which aims to save an airline money by allowing it to sell its active rotables inventory to the venture ...
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Fairchild Aerospace names 728JET risk share partners
Fairchild aerospace has admitted that, after months of talks with potential subassembly manufacturers on the 728Jet regional aircraft, it may end up having to build the aircraft structure itself. Despite that, the company was able to reveal several of its risk sharing partners in the programme at the show. ...
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Boeing goes to the limit as it examines 777X growth
Boeing is studying an increase in the weight of the 777X to close to the ultimate design limit as it struggles to find a launch customer and stick to its late 2002 entry into service target. News of the weight boost option emerged as General Electric reversed policy and ...
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Testing ground
Peter Henley/WICHITA Bombardier Aerospace boasts that its flight test centre at Wichita in Kansas is undertaking more development and certification flight testing than any other company worldwide. Since Bombardier acquired Learjet in 1990, the personnel headcount of the flight test centre has grown from 20 to about 500 - ...
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Airbus revises A3XX investment estimate
The investment required for Airbus to build its A3XX 480/650-seat airliner family has been officially pushed up to $10 billion, as a result of a change in Airbus' accounting process. Until now, the manufacturer has maintained that around $8 billion would be needed to fund the new family, despite ...
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UPS tests ADS-B in Los Angeles area
United Parcel Service says it is carrying out ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) operational flight testing in the Los Angeles area using one of its Boeing 727s. The tests are being monitored by specialists from US avionics organisation II Morrow and the FAA Technical Centre. The trials began on 4 ...
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AlliedSignal launches AS900
AlliedSignal has launched the full-scale development of its next generation AS900 turbofan for business aircraft and regional airliners. "We are fully committed to this programme and obviously we would not be going ahead if we did not have good prospects of selling the engine," says AlliedSignal Engines Commercial Propulsion ...
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ASTOR radar contenders increase lobbying efforts
Preserving UK radar capability and guaranteeing export potential are emerging as key factors in the three-way competition to win the UK Ministry of Defence's £750 million Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) programme. All three teams stepped up lobbying efforts at Farnborough, with heavy emphasis on the implications of the competition for ...
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Aer Lingus seeks US suitor to beat off alliance threat
David Learmount/LONDON Aer Lingus is seeking a US airline partner prepared to inject equity into the Irish state-owned carrier. The Government intends to maintain a controlling interest in the airline. A study by the carrier into the strategic alliance plan has been approved by the minister for public ...
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Euroscot discusses franchise and return to jet operations
Euroscot Express is in advanced negotiations to launch franchise operations for a major European carrier next year, which would see the airline re-introduce jet operations from its Bournemouth base. The UK regional began operations a year ago serving Glasgow and Edinburgh with a BAC One-Eleven on wet lease from ...
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Matsushita and Honeywell form alliance
Matsushita Avionics Systems (MASC) is to form a strategic alliance with Honeywell. The tie-up combines the Japanese company's in-flight entertainment (IFE) technology with its US partners strengths in avionics, particularly communications. The link between Matsushita, an IFE market-leader, and Honeywell is in part a response to Rockwell Collins purchase ...
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Marketplace
-Airbus Asset Management is negotiating to lease an ex-Gulf Air A340-300 to Sabena to replace the aircraft damaged in a landing accident at Brussels. The A340 had previously been earmarked for Ethiopian Airlines. -Alitalia has leased one new Boeing 767-300ER and two used examples from International Lease Finance. The aircraft, ...
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UK carries out satellite guided approaches
The UK Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) successfully conducted the first satellite-based augmentation approaches using the Northern European Satellite Test Bed (NESTBed), according to Flight International's sister publication Air Navigation International. NESTBed, which has been developed by NATS to demonstrate the satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) concept, ...
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Doubts raised by Xian plans for ATR production
Xian Aircraft (XAC) plans to licence-produce the ATR 72 turboprop aircraft have been thrown into doubt in the near term by the downturn in the Chinese air transport market raising further questions about the Chinese manufacturers future supply of work in the wake of the recent demise of the Sino-European ...