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Lockheed Martin turns maintenance attention to civil sector
Lockheed Martin Aircraft and Logistics (LMALC) is planning to expand its US and Argentina-based military maintenance operations into the civil aerospace market. Turnover at the Greenville-based company has grown to $800 million from $200 million three years ago and should reach $1 billion by 2003. LMALC president Daniel Patterson says ...
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Alliance groups aim for share in LOT
The world's three established airline alliance groupings have each bid for a stake of up to 38% in Polish carrier LOT, with British Airways representing oneworld, Lufthansa the Star Alliance and Swissair the Qualiflyer group. Poland's state treasury, which owns LOT, initially received expressions of interest from six carriers, ...
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UK takes private air traffic control route
David Learmount/LONDON The UK Government is seeking an established company to take a 46% stake in National Air Traffic Services (NATS) after confirming plans to sell 51% of stock for around £500 million ($800 million) within the next two years. UK electricity distributor National Grid and France's Thomson-CSF are known ...
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Ball and Aerojet link to target Mars MicroMission
Ball Aerospace and GenCorp Aerojet have joined forces to bid for NASA's Mars MicroMission programme, expected to begin late this year. If selected, Ball would be prime contractor, while Aerojet would supply the propulsion system. Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the MicroMission programme aims to explore Mars by ...
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ILS assigned exclusive rights to market Angara launchers
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and Krunichev have agreed to assign exclusive marketing rights for the Angara family of launchers to their joint venture, International Launch Services (ILS). Krunichev is developing the Angara as a successor to the Proton launcher, marketed commercially by ILS. The first launch is ...
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US Army pushes cockpit management technology
Guy Norris/YUMAThe US Army has begun demonstrations of the Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA), a cockpit management system for combat helicopters, amid mounting interest from potential non-rotary users, including the unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programmes. A Boeing Phantom Works-led team developed the RPA over six ...
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Turkish F-4 delight
Israel Aircraft Industries Lahav division will deliver the initial McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom upgraded for the Turkish air force in the first quarter of next year. Two prototypes are flying. Under the $600 million deal, Lahav will complete 27 aircraft and the Turkish air force a similar number, using Israeli-supplied ...
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Emergency parachute to be offered for Skyhawk
Ballistic Recovery Systems (BRS) is developing an emergency parachute system for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The whole-aircraft recovery system is fitted as standard on the recently certificated Cirrus Design SR20 four-seat piston single. To fund development and certification, Minnesota-based BRS has launched an "initial pilot offering", aimed at enlisting ...
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Boeing stamps its mark on business billings
Increased deliveries of business jets boosted US general aviation manufacturers' shipments and billings substantially in the first half of the year. Jet deliveries were up by more than 32% over the same period last year, to 225 aircraft, says the US General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). One of ...
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Schweizer locks up 330SP orders
Schweizer Aircraft has sold two Model 330SP helicopters to the San Antonio police in Texas, to add to two the unit operates." The deal will enable the eighth largest city in the USA to move to standardise its fleet," says Elmira, New York-based Schweizer. The helicopters will be used for ...
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Swiss lessor boosts Galaxy orderbook
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Galaxy Aerospace has reached an agreement in principle with Swiss leasing company ILI Aviation for the purchase of seven Galaxy super mid-size and two Astra SPX mid-size business jets, valued at about $146 million. The deal includes options for another 15 Galaxys and two SPXs which, if ...
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Aviat flies Special
Aviat Aircraft completed the first flight of its resurrected Monocoupe 110 Special on 25 July, reaching speeds of 165kt (305km/h). The Special, based on the 1932 radial-powered Monocoupe design, is driven by an aerobatic 150kW (200hp) Textron Lycoming AEIO-360 turning a 1.95m (78in) Hartzell constant-speed propeller. Certification is planned for ...
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Mini-M Aero
Honeywell and Racal have signed an agreement with South African antenna subsystem supplier OmniPless to market, distribute and support globally the SCS-1000 Mini M Aero satellite communication system. The SCS-1000, an adaptation of Inmarsat's Mini-M service for land mobile and maritime users, was approved by the satellite provider in March, ...
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717 emerges as favourite for BA requirement
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways could be poised to boost the Boeing 717's flagging sales fortunes, with the twinjet emerging as front runner for a requirement to purchase up to 40 of the 100-seaters. A request for proposals (RFP), covering 20 firm orders, plus up to 20 options, has ...
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Hushkit makers push for EU court action
Pressure is mounting on the US Government to take legal action against the European Union (EU) unless it repeals legislation banning the addition of Stage 3 hushkitted airliners to the European register after next May. Lobbyists for US hushkit manufacturers believe the government could file a protest this month ...
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Trio pump money into Astrolink venture
TRW, Lockheed Martin and Telespazio have agreed to invest $900 million in Astrolink, a $3.6 billion venture to provide global broadband satellite communications service. In return, Lockheed Martin has received a contract from Astrolink to build four satellites with TRW-supplied Ka-band payloads. Astrolink will allow companies to configure global ...
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NATS privatisation hits Scottish ATCC
The UK National Air Traffic Services' (NATS) has abandoned plans to build its New Scottish Centre (NSC) as a private finance initiative project with the Lockheed Martin-led Sky Solution consortium in the wake of a government announcement that the air traffic control provider is to be partially privatised. The ...
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KLM-Alitalia seal 'unprecedented' deal
Chris Jasper/LONDON KLM and Alitalia have agreed details of their alliance, to be launched on 1 November, claiming it "represents a new industrial model for air transport in Europe". In an Alliance Settlement Agreement signed last week, the pair defined an earnings-sharing formula according to which they will divide ...
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Stealth shackled
The US Air Force has raised the stakes in its battle with Congress overproduction funding for the advanced air superiority fighter, the Boeing/Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, by hitching its future fate to that of the Joint Strike Fighter. Without the F-22, USAF says, it would have to rethink its requirement ...
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Agusta reveals new tiltrotor
Andy Nativi/GENOA An Agusta-led team is seeking European Union (EU) research and development funding for a second generation tiltrotor which uses a tilting outer wing and can take off like a conventional airliner as well as vertically. Italian company Agusta is seeking around 90 million euros ($92 million) ...