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US aerospace hits turbulence
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON With further mega-mergers apparently ruled out in the wake of Northrop Grumman's abandoned amalgamation with Lockheed Martin, the top of the US aerospace league began to look more settled at the half-year mark. Yet aerospace stocks were on the slide by mid-year as first-half results largely ...
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Safety assault
Cultural factors have long been suggested as a cause for cockpit human factors accidents. This, however, is rocky ground - not only for the politically correct, but for all responsible people and organisations - because nobody can say for certain that it is true. There has never been a ...
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New Zealand air force defines A-4 Skyhawk replacement
Paul Phelan/AUCKLAND The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) has defined a future requirement for about 25 aircraft "in the F-16 or F/A-18 category" as a replacement for its fleet of nine McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks in the wake of a Government decision to stabilise defence expenditure. Chief of Air ...
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Boeing/Westland team up for UK Apache training
Aviation Training International, a joint team of GKN Westland and Boeing, has won a £650 million ($1 million) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to train flight and maintenance crews for the British Army's WAH-64 Apache attack helicopters. The 30-year Apache Training Service contract covers the establishment of dedicated ...
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USA aims to tie UK to radar programme
The US Department of Defense has warned the UK that it will not be allowed to purchase a new battlefield surveillance radar unless it participates in the development stage of the next generation programme. The UK Ministry of Defence is in the final stages of selecting a contractor for ...
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Gun-launched UAV under development
The US Navy has awarded Sonex Research a six-month contract to start development of a heavy-fuel powerplant for a gun-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) under study by Science Applications International. The USN plans to conduct a demonstration of a gun-launched Forward Air Support-Marine advanced technology surveillance UAV. The vehicle ...
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Eritrea stalls Elbit Ethiopian upgrade
Heavy diplomatic pressure on the Israeli Government by Eritrea may postpone the delivery of 10 upgraded MiG-21s by Elbit to the Ethiopian air force. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received a formal request from Eritrea to stall the deal, and sources say it is likely Elbit Systems ...
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F-22 cost cutting advances
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Producibility initiatives are driving down the estimated production costs for the F-22, says the Lockheed Martin/Boeing/-Pratt & Whitney design team. Now similar programmes have been launched to reduce development and support costs for the USAir Force's next generation air-superiority fighter. The three companies have together invested $150 ...
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Polish recommendation opens Huzar's avionics door for Boeing
The Polish Council of Ministers has recommended the launch of a new tender for an avionics and weapons systems integrator for the planned Huzar battlefield helicopter, based on the PZL Swidnik W-3 Sokol airframe. The recommendation has been made following the results of the Supreme Chamber of Control investigation ...
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MIG MAPO to unveil MiG-29UBT at Farnborough
MIG MAPO will unveil a two-seat MiG-29UBT multirole fighter at the Farnborough air show in September, says Mikoyan general director Mikhail Korzhuyev in Russian newspaper Nezavisimoye Voyennoe Obozreniye. The aircraft is a derivative of the MiG-29UB two-seat conversion trainer. Unlike the UB, it will have a fully combat-capable weapon ...
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IAI and Mil hold joint venture discussions
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Mil are discussing the formation of a joint venture to upgrade the Russian design bureau's helicopters worldwide. The initiative came from the Israeli company and talks between the two sides have been held in recent weeks in an attempt to work out a joint ...
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Helmet test
GEC-Marconi Avionics and Honeywell have tested a helmet-mounted cueing system (HMCS) on a Lockheed Martin F-16 in the Netherlands. The HMCS is tailored to fit into the Mid- Life Update F-16A/B and provides a fully integrated display drive and helmet tracking system together with advanced visor projected helmet-mounted displays. ...
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Modified Russian ejection seat undergoes tests for US needs
Tests of a Russian ejection seat modified to meet US requirements have begun, but question marks remain over Russian industry's ability to produce the seat if it was selected for use in a US fighter. The K-36D-3.5A is a lighter version of the seat produced by the Zvezda design ...
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Germany orders UAV from STN Atlas
The German army has placed an order with STN Atlas for series production of the Small Airborne Target Location System (KZO) unmanned air vehicle (UAV). According to the manufacturer, the order is worth about DM500 million ($280 million) and covers eight systems for the German army. Each system includes ...
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Cuban revolution
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAVANA The Franco-Italian regional aircraft consortium ATR scored a coup when it became the first manufacturer outside the ex-Communist Bloc to sell aircraft to Cuba since Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. The sale is the start of a massive fleet renewal programme covering all of the Caribbean island's ...
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Business and pleasure
Peter Henley/WITCHITA Bombardier's Global Express offers a combination of range, speed and cabin size claimed to be unequalled by any other business jet, a result of designing an aircraft from scratch for the ultra-long-range mission. The Global Express sits at the top of a range of Bombardier business jets which ...
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Station approaches
Tim Furniss/LONDON Late this month, technicians at NASA's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, will begin interlinking International Space Station (ISS) components for one of the largest test operations ever conducted by the space agency. The test will imitate the assembly in orbit of ...
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Parts partnerships
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Fewer air carriers want to be in the business of stocking and maintaining huge inventories of parts, so they are looking to shift the burden to those companies which supply everything from bearings and seals to engines and airframes. "Until the early 1990s, the industry was more ...
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EC135 receives first combined recorder
The first prototype of a new combined solid state flight data (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) has been delivered by AlliedSignal to Eurocopter for installation on the company's EC135 helicopter. The combined recorder has been developed for general aviation aircraft and helicopters where weight and space is critical. ...
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US business aircraft sales expected to boom
Aircraft financier and lessor the CIT Group is forecasting strong US demand for corporate aircraft over the next two years. The group says globalisation of business, strong corporate profits and a vibrant US economy will result in sales of some 5,300 new and used business aircraft, worth $18.2 billion, this ...