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F-22 test
Flight testing of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft has resumed with the flight on 8 April of the second development aircraft following three months of modifications and ground testing. The aircraft has been retrofitted with new brakes, fuel pumps and probes, and horizontal tail actuators, and fitted with ...
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Japan ALQ-131
Mitsubishi Electric has awarded Northrop Grumman a $19.6 million contract to supply ALQ-131 electronic warfare systems, to be assembled by the Japanese manufacturer and supplied to the Japan Air Self Defence Force. Mitsubishi established a licence production agreement in 1991. Source: Flight International
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Mk41 VLS deal
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to licence-produce Mk41 missile vertical launch systems (VLS) for use on Japanese Murasame-class destroyers. The initial $70 million contract covers assembly and test of eight eight-cell modules. Each destroyer will be equipped with four modules, capable of launching a range ...
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Discriminating radar
Raytheon is to develop a prototype High Power Discriminator (HPD) radar for the US Navy. Initial funding is $7.4 million. The HPD is a ship-based X-Band active-array radar providing long-range detection, tracking and discrimination of theatre ballistic missiles (TBMs) as an adjunct to the AEGIS weapon system. It is being ...
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Lucas drive shafts
Lucas Aerospace is to supply high-speed flexible input drive shafts for the Bell Agusta Aerospace AB319 12/15-passenger twin-turbine helicopter. Ten prototype drive shafts will be supplied. Helicopter deliveries will begin in 2002. Source: Flight International
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EJM adds Cessnas
Executive Jet Management (EJM) has added three Cessna Citation Xs to its charter management fleet. One will be dedicated to supporting the fractional ownership programme operated by sister company Executive Jet. EJM has added 26 aircraft to its charter fleet over the past year, taking it to 46, and will ...
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Honeywell flight tests
Honeywell says its automatic flight control system has performed well in initial flight tests in Sino-Swearingen's proof-of-concept SJ30-2 business jet. Risk-reduction testing has included evaluation of the autopilot's secondary-surface yaw damper and rudder bias subsystem. The first certification-test SJ30 is to fly in early 2000. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon support
Raytheon Aircraft Services (RASL) has completed the conversion and upgrade of a Hawker 800 and a King Air C90 for new UK leasing company Corporate Aircraft Leasing. The Hawker 800, converted from the Bermuda to the UK register, is operating between the UK and mainland Europe for a UK multinational. ...
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American dispute
American Airlines has reached a deal with its flight attendants union on absorbing staff from Reno Airlines, which it is buying. The carrier's dispute with its pilots over a similar issue is unresolved. The pilot union has, meanwhile, written to Spanish flag carrier Iberia, a oneworld alliance ally part-owned by ...
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Military revenues
American Trans Air (ATA) anticipates a 60% increase in military revenues to around $200 million in fiscal year 2000 as a result of its acquisition of Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStars from Royal Jordanian Airlines. The five aircraft will enhance ATA's ability to provide US Air Mobility Command passenger airlift services. Source: ...
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Rolls-Royce award
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a £12 million ($19.3 million) grant towards its Advanced Low Pressure Systems/Advanced Civil Core Demonstrator project under the UK Government's Civil Aircraft Research and Technology Demonstration programme. The project will enable the evaluation of new designs in terms of whole-engine performance. Source: Flight International
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Link up
US company Spacehab and Germany's OHB-System have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide jointly commercial life sciences services on the Space Shuttle and on the International Space Station (ISS). They will establish a biotechnology business and upgrade the Commercial Biological Research Unit, which is planned for the STS107 mission ...
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Mars test
NASA engineers at Houston's Johnson Space Center, in Texas have tested equipment capable of extracting oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphere in preparation for the flight of the Mars In-Situ Propellant Production Precursor aboard the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander. Source: Flight International
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Maiden launch
Space Imaging plans to launch its first proprietary 1m-resolution commercial remote sensing satellite, the Ikonos 1, aboard a Lockheed Martin Athena II booster on 27 April from Vandenberg AFB, California. Source: Flight International
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Indian light
With first deliveries of HAL's Advanced Light Helicopter imminent, Flight International flew one of the prototypes Peter Gray/BANGALOREHindustan Aeronautics (HAL) plans to certificate and deliver its first Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) this year - although it still needs further development and more equipment, such as a health and usage monitoring ...
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Spring clean
There is no point in an airline carrying out a safety audit unless its employees, from chief executive to check-in clerk, are prepared to hear the truth, to recognise it as the truth, and then implement the findings. That may not be easy. Implementation may demand a total change ...
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Airbus readies for A318 launch
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCAirbus Industrie is on the verge of finally launching the A318 twinjet. At the same time the European consortium has signed Egyptair as a launch customer while engine supplier Pratt & Whitney is pursuing a trade-in deal with Air China to exchange old Boeing 747s for A318 orders. ...
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Eurofighter starts negotiations for Greek buy
Graham Warwick/MUNICH Eurofighter has begun formal talks with Greece over its planned purchase of 60-80 Typhoon fighters. A contract is not expected to be signed until this time next year. A team led by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) visited Athens last week for the first discussions since the Greek Government ...
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China-US agreement
China and the USA were poised to sign a new air services agreement, doubling flights between the two countries, as Flight International closed for press. The deal will see the 27 weekly flights available to each country rise to 54 by April 2001, when both will also add a fourth ...
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Four companies to battle for Spanish aero manufacturer
Julian Moxon/MADRID British Aerospace, Aerospatiale of France, Italy's Alenia and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany are all candidates for the purchase of up to 100% of CASA from Spanish holding company SEPI, the aero-structures manufacturer has revealed. CASA chairman Alberto Fernandez tells Flight International "...there is no particular scheme for ...