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Daewoo buzzes for Woong Bee
Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) is gearing up to begin production of the KT-1 Woong Bee turboprop basic trainer at a new plant, as South Korean air force operational testing of a fifth and final prototype nears completion. The South Korean conglomerate has built a 15,600m² (168,000ft²) facility at Sachon ...
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Bidders revise AEW offers as South Korea delays
A revised line-up is emerging for the stalled South Korean airborne early warning (AEW) competition, reflecting developments in contests now under way in Australia, Greece and Turkey. Before the programme was delayed by the country's economic crisis, South Korea had shortlisted three contenders for its AEW requirement: Boeing's 767 ...
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Lockheed Martin and Mitsubishi to link in defence partnership
Mitsubishi Electric and Lockheed Martin have reached a basic agreement to develop and market military equipment jointly to Japan's Defence Agency. The tie-up reflects Mitsubishi's desire to boost its military research and development efficiency by adopting US technologies, and Lockheed Martin's drive to expand Japanese market share. Although the ...
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Lockheed Martin delivers first RAF C-130J
Lockheed Martin plans to deliver around 30 C-130Js by the end of the year, following the handover of the first aircraft to the Royal Air Force at Marietta, Georgia, on 24 August. The company also plans to complete re-engineering of the C-130J assembly line by the end of the year, ...
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PZL-Okecie aims upgrade Orlik
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH PZL-Okecie is taking advantage of the Polish air force's continuing dilemma over its choice of advanced jet trainer to propose further orders and upgrades for the PZL-130 Orlik turboprop trainer. According to Okecie, discussions are being held with the air force about shifting more of the ...
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Australia poised to reveal stand-off weapons plans
Australian defence minister Ian McLachlan is expected to unveil proposals soon for the acquisition of a new family of air-launched stand-off weapons for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in a procurement project known as Air 5398. The statement, being made at ministerial level because of concerns that the ...
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V-22 carries record load at speed during trials
A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor unofficially broke a rotorcraft record on 20 August by carrying a 4,550kg (10,000lb) external load at 220kt (410km/h) in trials . The maximum payload lift, by a Marine Helicopter Support Team, was made on the V-22's aft external cargo hook. "This is the ...
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JSF X-35 remains on schedule despite late controls change
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin says it is on schedule to fly the X-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstrator aircraft (CDA) in 2000, despite a late change to the fly-by-wire flight control computer. An advanced computer under development by Lockheed Martin Controls will now be used instead of the ...
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Back to basics
Paul Lewis/SEOUL & SINGAPORE Asia's embattled aerospace industry will likely reflect on 1998 with utter dismay. Once-bold Asian aeronautical ambitions to be a global player have been confined to the scrapheap after a series of setbacks. The focus is now on a post mortem examination to determine if and ...
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Big-jet business
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC This is a very good time for business jet manufacturers. By almost any measure - orders, deliveries or backlog, in aircraft numbers or dollar value - the industry is setting records. Manufacturers also expect to continue doing well - as long as the US economy remains ...
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Back from the brink
Guy Norris/Seattle What went wrong, and what action is being taken to make sure it never happens again? These are the questions being asked by Boeing and the investment community as the company begins recovering from a dire production crisis that continues to wreak havoc with its financial performance. ...
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Helicopters for business
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON As the global helicopter industry emerges from one of the worst recessions in recent years, manufacturers are launching new machines and technologies and aggressively targeting their products at burgeoning markets, including offshore, news gathering and emergency medical services operations, in an effort to boost their order books. ...
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Take your partners
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH While Western Europe moves towards an integrated European aerospace and defence company, manufacturers in former Communist Eastern Europe must decide how they will survive in a market dominated by giants. Clearly, the companies cannot continue in their present form, and they cannot survive alone. In Poland ...
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First Course
Julian Moxon/PARIS It was settled on a Sunday in late July over a bottle of France's best wine and a "piéce de boeuf". At the end of the luncheon, Aerospatiale president Yves Michot and Lagardère co-president Philippe Camus shook hands on a merger that will change forever the face ...
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Ninety year after Cody
Howard Gethin and Allan Winn/LONDON The 24 October 1908 edition of The Automotor Journal (which was shortly afterwards to spin off its "Aeronautics" pages as the world's first aeronautical weekly, Flight), was less than flattering in reporting the first true flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft on British soil. The ...
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Seeking quiet
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Airport noise regulations worldwide are becoming ever stricter, putting airframe and engine manufacturers under increasing pressure to deliver quieter aircraft. In the USA, NASA's Advanced Subsonic Technology (AST) programme is a joint government-industry research effort which names aircraft noise reduction as a primary objective. Running since ...
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Signs of hope
Howard Gethin/LONDON For the Russian military aviation industry, things look a little brighter than they did two years ago. For the first time in several years, Russia has ordered new military aircraft (albeit only a handful) and the manufacturers have flown new designs, with the tenuous promise of meaningful ...
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Crisis and complication
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The Civil aviation industries of Russia and its CIS neighbours are in deep crisis. In 1996, only five airliners were delivered from the 22 factories which form the industry. In 1997, the total grew to just six aircraft. So far this year, only four aircraft have ...
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Sensing safer skies
Guy Norris/SEATTLE The aviation industry's continual search for safer skies is reaching "crusade" status as the chilling implications sink in of predicted traffic growth on accident rates. The US Federal Aviation Administration, for example, expects "a serious accident" every week by 2015 unless some radical changes are made. That ...
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Orbital timebomb
Tim Furniss/LONDON Safety concerns are mounting over the de-orbiting of the Mir space station next June and an international debate has now begun on how to dispose safely of the flagship of Russia's aerospace industry. While Russia embarks this month on reducing Mir's orbit from its present 450km, ...