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JSF gun tie-up
Boeing's ordnance operation in Mesa, Arizona, and German gun manufacturer Mauser have confirmed their teaming for an advanced 27mm weapon for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The collaboration disclosed last year also includes ammunition supplier Primex Technologies. Source: Flight International
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UK thinks about An-124 and Beluga for strategic role
Howard Gethin/LONDON The UK Ministry of Defence may consider the Airbus Industrie Beluga and the Antonov An-124 as alternatives to the Boeing C-17 to meet the near-term Royal Air Force need for a strategic airlifter. The requirement was confirmed by the Government's recent defence review. "Although there has ...
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Ka-60 to make first flight in August
Kamov's Ka-60 medium battlefield utility helicopter is to make its first flight this month, according to Sergey Mikheyev, Kamov general designer. Both the Ka-60 and civil Ka-62 development and flight test programmes are being partly funded by the Russian ministries of defence and economy. The Ka-60 has had ...
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Searching for finance
Emma Kelly/RIO DE JANEIRO Building blocks for worldwide implementation of communications, navigation and surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems are in place, but one crucial element remains. "It's up to us to provide the muscle - money - to put the building blocks together," Jack Howell, director of the ...
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Russian promise
Ian Sheppard/LONDON A worldwide observation campaign to define more precisely the characteristics of the Russian Glonass satellite navigation system will run from September to December this year. It will be conducted by the geodetic community, which is relying on combining the Glonass with the US global positioning system (GPS) to ...
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September farewell
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The 1998 Farnborough International air show not only marks the exhibition's 50th anniversary at the Hampshire site, but draws to an end the traditional September date for the air show stalwart. Future exhibitions will be held in July (Farnborough 2000 takes place on 24-30 July). "We ...
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Building on basics
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS There are still light-aircraft owners who mentally associate buyer-assembled "kitplanes" with two-stroke engines, wooden propellers and doped fabric stretched over wire-braced wings with alloy tube spars attached to plywood ribs. The reality is that many home-built aircraft are now more sophisticated that any single-engined general aviation ...
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Celestial Internet
Tim Furniss/LONDON Of all the advances in satellite communications since Telstar, the most interest is being created by the $9 billion Teledesic programme. Now that Teledesic has assembled a powerful industrial team to build and launch its 300-satellite constellation, the project is moving into high gear. Teledesic's copyrighted "Internet in ...
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Boeing rolls out Business Jet
Boeing rolled out the first ultra-long-range Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) from its Renton factory on 26 July, two weeks later than planned. The aircraft, which combines the fuselage of the Next Generation 737-700 with the wing and landing gear of the larger and heavier 737-800, is to make its ...
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New chain formed in FBO consolidation
Consolidation of the US fixed-base operator (FBO) industry has taken a further step forward, with the merger of Piedmont Aviation Services and Hawthorne Aviation to create a 21-location chain. Washington DC-based investment company The Carlyle Group is providing financial support for the move and will emerge as the majority ...
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Low-cost fractional ownership scheme launched in USA
A new fractional ownership scheme has been set up in the USA, providing business aircraft at less than half the cost of existing programmes. AVLink, a College Station, Texas-based management company, has started operating one Cessna Citation 1 and has plans to add more to the fleet. "We ...
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Gulfstream aims to reveal GIV improvements at Farnborough
Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH Gulfstream is to improve its GIV business jet. Plans will be unveiled in September at the Farnborough air show in the UK . The Savannah-based company's chief operating officer Bill Boisture says the improvements will focus on reliability and maintainability. Some avionics and systems developed for ...
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K-C Aviation sale reshapes completion market
Gulfstream's $250 million acquisition of K-C Aviation will remove from the independent completions market a company responsible for outfitting almost half the Bombardier Challenger 604s sold last year. Chairman Teddy Forstmann says Gulfstream was not the only bidder for K-C, suggesting that Boeing and Bombardier were interested, "but we ...
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NetJets Asia
Executive Jet (EJI) plans to start a NetJets programme in Asia-Pacific "in early 2000", arguing that the region's financial turmoil has not had an impact on its business aircraft fractional-ownership programme. EJI chairman Richard Santulli, meanwhile, says the continued rise of the US stock market is driving growth of the ...
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Wolf captures new managers and reviews 728JET progress
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH John Wolf, the recently appointed chief operating officer of Fairchild Dornier, has shaken up the company's regional jet programmes with new management appointments and a review of the company's approach to the 728JET project. Three new programme managers have been appointed - two of them Wolf's ...
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737 booms with Boullioun buy
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Firm sales of Boeing's Next Generation 737 reached 995 on 28 July, with a deal for up to 60 aircraft worth $2.6 billion from Washington-based leasing company Boullioun Aviation Services. The deal included firm orders for 30 aircraft and options on 30 more, with first deliveries ...
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EC unveils alliance plan details
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has published details of its proposed conditions for the British Airways and Lufthansa-led transatlantic alliances, including a call for the governments involved to open up national airports to other European carriers wanting to start US services. The official publication of the proposals, ...
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Greece orders stand-off missile from Dasa
The Greek Ministry of National Defence has ordered the Autonomous Freeflight Dispenser System (AFDS) stand-off weapon from Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) missile subsidiary LFK. The weapon will equip Greek Vought A-7 Corsairs, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms and Lockheed Martin F-16s. The AFDS is a development of the German/Swedish DWS 39 ...
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JAL takes delivery of its first Boeing 777-300
Japan Airlines has become the third airline after Cathay Pacific and All Nippon Airways (ANA) to take delivery of a Boeing 777-300, with the handover of its first of five Pratt & Whitney PW4090-powered aircraft on 28 July. JAL's second aircraft will be delivered this month. The P&W-powered 777-300 ...