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US services select Israeli pods to equip F-16s
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV The US Air National Guard (ANG) and Reserve Command have selected Israel's Rafael Litening targeting and navigation pod for their Lockheed Martin F-16s, in an order potentially worth more than $300 million. Rafael and US partner Northrop Grumman will supply the systems early in 1999. ...
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New Piper rolls out Malibu Meridian
New Piper Aircraft rolled out the first single-turboprop Malibu Meridian on 13 August. "We're on time, we're under budget and we're moving," said chairman Chuck Suma at the roll-out at Vero Beach, Florida. Initial runs have been completed on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A engine and a first ...
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Aspen Mountain Air
Exec Express II, parent company of Aspen Mountain Air of Grand Prairie, Texas, has applied for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It has already obtained approval for interim financing from a Dallas bankruptcy court. Source: Flight International
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UAL picks AlliedSignal
United Airlines has selected AlliedSignal's RDR-4B forward-looking windshear radar for its 473 aircraft. The radar gives 90s warning of windshear, working alongside the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System. Source: Flight International
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Lone pilot objects to Australasian Singapore alliance
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS An objection by New Zealand pilot Peter Wakeman to Australia's competition authorities was the only remaining obstacle last week to the implementation of the planned commercial alliance between Air New Zealand, Ansett and Singapore Airlines (SIA). The Australian Consumer Competition Commission (ACCC)released a final authorisation on ...
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Titan 4A is destroyed only 40s after blast-off
A Lockheed Martin Titan 4A launcher carrying a classified US military satellite, rumoured to be worth some $1 billion, had to be destroyed only 40s after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 12 August. The US Air Force launch ended in a spectacular explosion as the Titan appeared to ...
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Airbus will flight test Rolls-Royce Trent 500 on A340-300 prototype
Airbus Industrie plans to flight test the Rolls-Royce Trent 500 which is being developed to power the A340-500/600 family on its A340-300 development airframe. The Trent 500 is scheduled to have its first run in the second quarter of 1999. Flight testing on the A340-300, with a Trent being installed ...
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Boeing uses F-15E to prove
Boeing has demonstrated the use of commercial computing technology in an F-15E combat aircraft. Flight testing of an advanced display core processor (ADCP) using PowerPC hardware began in late July. The ADCP replaces both the central computer and the multi-purpose display processor in the F-15E testbed. Boeing says that ...
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Daewoo fuels civil expansion with 747-400 frame delivery
Paul Lewis/CHANGWON Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has begun deliveries to Northrop Grumman of the first computer-designed fuselage frames for the Boeing 747-400, as part of wider expansion by the South Korean company of its civil aerostructures subcontracting business. Under a new contract signed with Boeing and Northrop Grumman ...
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Software tool promises fast design choices
European systems consultancy Knowledge Technologies International (KTI) is close to the release of a new software tool which links a system integrator with its suppliers in electronic product definition. The new system represents an extension of the existing ICAD manufacturing tool, which KTI has now acquired from original US ...
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TCAS 2 tests
The US Federal Aviation Administration has completed tests of the latest Change 7.0 software for the traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS 2), compulsory in Europe from 1 January, 2000, using a Boeing 727 and new software developed by Rockwell Collins. Source: Flight International
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Boeing stake
Boeing has acquired an equity stake in Elipso, the private firm that will offer satellite based low-cost, high-quality digital voice and data services globally. Source: Flight International
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PZL set to complete simulator upgrade
Poland's ETC-PZL Aerospace Industries expects to complete the modernisation of its full-flight simulator for the PZL-Mielec I-22 Iryda military trainer by mid-September. At the same time, the I-22 is being upgraded to the revamped M-96 standard for the Iryda. The simulator has been located at the Polish Military Institute of ...
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USAF streamlines training bids
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Air Force is preparing to make the first award under a contracting vehicle designed to streamline the acquisition of training systems. The air force has qualified five companies to bid for contracts worth up to a total of $486 million to be let ...
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FedEx prepares for Loadmaster training
FedEx has selected Pan Am International Flight Academy to provide training for the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster. The Academy will build a training centre at FedEx's Memphis, Tennessee, hub to house a Level D full-flight simulator for the turboprop-powered feeder freighter. FedEx has 50 Loadmasters on order and 50 more ...
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From Seattle to Miami
FlightSafety Boeing Training International is moving a Boeing 767-300ER simulator to its Miami, Florida, centre, fromSeattle. Its first training contract in the new location is with LanChile. Source: Flight International
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Wicat adds Boeing to training device portfolio
Wicat Systems has seen sales of its flight training devices increase as airlines move to reduce the amount of expensive full-flight simulator time used for transition and recurrent training. Recent sales of flight management and guidance system trainers (FMGST) for Airbus types include six to Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO, A320), ...
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Lockheed Martin to test missile warning systems in laboratory
Lockheed Martin is to modify the USAir Force's Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) to allow laboratory testing of missile warning systems. The AFEWES is a "hardware-in-the-loop" simulator which is used to evaluate the effectiveness of aircraft self-protection systems and techniques. The modified simulator will be used for dynamic testing ...
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Next stop Mars
The Mars Polar Lander craft, part of NASA's Mars Surveyor 1998 programme, is pictured at its proposed touchdown site, scheduled for January 2000, close to Mars' south pole. The Lockheed Martin lander is to be launched on a Delta II on 10 December. Its robot arm is designed to pass ...
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Boeing to build Delta IV pad
Boeing is to spend $250 million on restoring a launch site at Cape Canaveral for its Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). All that is left of Launch Complex 37 (LC37) is the stand. Although eight early versions of the Saturn 1 rocket were launched from LC37, starting ...