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GECAS signs $3.2 billion Airbus/Boeing contracts
General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed orders worth an estimated $3.2 billion with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for up 52 aircraft. The deal with Airbus, for 30 A320 family aircraft plus options on a further 10, takes the US leasing company's orders for the twinjet to 82 ...
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Sweden tests KEPD-150 mockup on Gripen
Taurus Systems, a subsidiary of Germany's LFK and Celsius of Sweden, has successfully completed the first flight of a mockup of its KEPD-150 kinetic energy penetrating weapon. The mockup of the stand-off missile, a lighter, shorter-range version of the Taurus KEPD-350 ordered by the German air force, had its ...
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Thomson-CSF offers MiG-29 upgrade
Thomson-CSF has joined with MIG MAPO to offer new avionics and sensors for upgrading MiG-29 fighters and MiG-29UBT strike aircraft. The equipment includes the RC-400 radar system and the CLDP laser electro-optical targeting pod. The upgrade is intended for export customers which prefer a Western radar to Russian systems, such ...
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Denmark signs up for Canadian flying training package
The Royal Danish Air Force has become the launch customer for the NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme. A memorandum of understanding was signed on 7 September, under which the first six students and six instructors will be sent into the programme by 2000. The agreement, signed by ...
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Oman Air adds ATRs to aid regional expansion
The Muscat-based partially privately owned airline has placed firm orders for two ATR 42-500s with options on four more, which can be taken as the larger ATR 72-500. The two firmly ordered aircraft will be delivered later this year, with the options due in 1999. Oman Air general manager ...
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First Comanche radar bids go in
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have placed early bids for a new fire control radar (FCR) for the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance/attack helicopter. Further bids are expected. According to Boeing, the US Army is proposing to include the radar in production Lot 1, rather than Lot 5 as ...
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Romania approves funding for Soim upgrade
The Romanian Government has given the green light for $21 million of funding to begin upgrading 24 Romanian air force Avioane IAR-99 Soim jet trainers with Israeli avionics. The upgrade, carried out by Avioane at its site in Craiova, Romania, in partnership with avionics suite supplier Elbit Systems, is ...
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GE overhaul network continues to expand
General Electric is continuing the aggressive expansion of its engine overhaul and maintenance network by forming GE Varig Engine Services, a new joint company to be located at the Brazilian airline's Galeao International Airport overhaul site in Rio de Janeiro. The company is being formed through its recently acquired ...
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Boeing confirms control system contributed to Delta III failure
Tim Furniss/LONDON Boeing hopes to complete the investigation into the failure of the guidance system on the first launch of its Delta III booster by the end of the month. The booster was launched on 26 August from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and broke apart at about T+72s. "The ...
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Surrey Satellite signs for Dnepr mini lauch
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has signed a contract with the Russian ISC Kosmotras company to launch its new Uosat 12 minisatellite aboard a modified SS-18 missile, renamed the Dnepr. The launch will be from Baikonur in 1999. Kosmotras, a Russian/Ukrainian venture, is converting the SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile into ...
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Thiokol Propulsion builds EELV engine nozzle
Thiokol Propulsion is to begin fabrication later this month of the first exit cone for Boeing's new RS-68 low-cost cryogenic engine which will power the Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) for the US Air Force. The phenolic exit cone will be delivered to Boeing for a full ...
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Rotary revolution
Tim Furniss/LONDON Rotary Rocket Company has raised $17 million from investors and hired Barclays Capital to assist in an additional $20 million private investment in its bid to offer commercial satellite launches. The Redwood Shores, California-based company will offer transportation of payloads weighing 3,200kg to low earth orbit ...
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Heat damage hints show up in recovered MD-11 wreckage
David Learmount/LONDON Signs of "heating" damage have been detected in parts recovered from the cockpit of the Swissair Boeing MD-11 which crashed off Nova Scotia on 2 September, says chief accident investigator Vic Gerden. Gerden, of the Canadian Transportation Safety Board (CASB) would not be more precise or offer ...
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RAF holds back on tanker programme
The UK Ministry of Defence has delayed releasing a request for information (RFI) for the Royal Air Force's future strategic tanker aircraft programme for six months as Airbus Industrie and Boeing prepare to square off with respective proposed new military derivatives of the A310-300 and 767-300ER twinjets. Manufacturers had ...
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Airbus confirms UPS A300 freighter deal
Airbus Industrie has confirmed its long-awaited deal with United Parcel Service (UPS) for up to 60 new A300-600 freighters. The estimated value of the contract is around $5 billion. The order, revealed exclusively in Flight International earlier this year, follows a bid battle involving new and used aircraft from ...
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SSTL wins moon mission contract
UK company Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has won a contract from the European Space Agency to undertake a Lunar Orbiter Mission study. SSTL will work with the Technical University of Berlin and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. The SSTL-led Lunar Academic Research Satellite, Lunarsat, is the result ...
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Fight for East Europe markets
Lockheed Martin sees "no near-term announcements of significance" from Eastern European air arms seeking replacement fighter aircraft. At a briefing at the show, Dain Hancock, president of Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, said economic constraints on nations such as Poland and the Czech Republic meant that they were still ...
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Fuji's unmanned helicopter
Fuji Heavy Industries is preparing to launch its high performance unmanned RPH2 helicopter in the Japanese market next year. The multipurpose 100kg payload unit is piloted by a radio control system and its altitude, speed and direction are automatically maintained by various sensors and on-board computers. Source: Flight Daily ...
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Farnborough debut 'do or die'
Bell Helicopter Textron pulled out all the stops to make sure a production 427 light twin made its public debut at Farnborough, officials said at the show. "That's the importance we place on this airshow," says senior executive marketing director Jeff Pino. "Out of the 75 orders we have ...
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IATA networks with SITA
IATA has chosen SITA as its preferred, corporate networking partner for the supply of products and services. The three-year agreement will, by the end of the year, include integration of IATA's Montreal, London, Geneva, Miami and Singapore offices via SITA's global network. Other IATA offices will be connected via ...