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Laser teaming
A TRW/Boeing team will compete against Lockheed Martin for development of the Space Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator (SBLRD). The TRW/Boeing team has received a six-month, $10 million study contract from the US Air Force to define concepts for the SBLRD spacecraft, which is intended to show the technical feasibility of ...
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Ericsson Saab wins contract to supply Gripen electronic warfare
Ericsson Saab Avionics has been selected as prime contractor for an electronic warfare (EW) suite for the export version of the Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter. The companies have signed an agreement for Ericsson Saab to develop and manufacture the system, designated EWS 39. According to Saab, export customers will ...
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Classic takes shape
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH In June a familiar shape is due to take off on a maiden flight from Long Beach, California. Outwardly it will bear the classic hallmarks of a Douglas-built T-tail twinjet, yet in most respects it is a radically new aircraft. The Boeing 717-200 was once the MD-95. ...
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Outlook fine
Tim Furniss/LONDON The European Space Agency (ESA) already has its eyes fixed firmly on the next weather satellite programme, even though a structural and thermal model of the first satellite in the present programme has only just been unveiled. The model, for the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) programme (see box), ...
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Ayres picks Alabama site for assembly of the Loadmaster
Ayres is to assemble its LM200 Loadmaster cargo aircraft in Dothan, Alabama. The aircraft manufacturer, which is based in Albany, Georgia, selected Dothan over another Georgian town, Americus, as the site for fuselage manufacture and final assembly of the aircraft. The decision was influenced by a combination of $4 ...
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Cessna confirms its plan for skyhawk SP
Cessna has confirmed plans to introduce a new version of the Skyhawk (Flight International, 18-24 March). The new Skyhawk SP will use the same Textron Lycoming IO-360-L2A as the 172R Skyhawk, but with a fuel injected engine certificated at 135kW (180shp) rather than at 120kW. Improved aircraft performance is coupled ...
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NASA steps up high flier testing
NASA plans to conduct extra test flights of its small fleet of high altitude long duration air vehicles this year as it steps up environmental research work. The Aero Vironment Pathfinder solar powered unmanned air vehicle, which is the most visible aspect of the US space agency's Environmental Research ...
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Second Sikorsky Skycrane is converted for use as firefighter
Erickson Air-Crane is remanufacturing a second Sikorsky S-64 and offering it to operators as a firefighting "Helitanker". Oregon-based Erickson bought the S-64 Skycrane type certificate from Sikorsky in 1992. The company developed more than 100 modifications for the helicopter before producing its first Air-Crane in July 1997. The zero-time ...
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Toyota plans
Toyota Motors is developing a four seat light aircraft and a diesel powerplant, according to Japanese press reports. A prototype is scheduled to fly at the end of 1999. Toyota has reportedly earmarked ´100 billion ($765 million) for the project. Source: Flight International
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Second win for Meggitt
Meggitt Avionics has won a five year contract to supply Raytheon Aircraft with solid state altimeters and secondary flight display systems for the Wichita, Kansas-based company's Beech King Air C90B, Beech 1900D, Hawker 800XP and Hawker Horizon business aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Orenda completes certification tests on Vee-8
Orenda Recip has completed certification tests on the OE-600 high-power Vee-8 piston engine. Transport Canada's approval was granted at the end of March, climaxing a prolonged development and certification effort, which began in 1994 when the Canadian company acquired the engine programme. Certification allows OE-600 production to begin, initially ...
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Busy Socata is forced to delay Tangara
Julian Moxon/PARIS Production of the Socata Tangara light twin is to be delayed by up to a year, as the French manufacturer meets increased demand for subcontracting work and its TBM700 single. French certification of the Textron Lycoming 0-360-A1G6 powered Tangara was obtained in December 1997, with production start-up originally ...
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Fighter competition warms up in Chile
Chile's need for combat aircraft has w Graham Warwick/SANTIAGO Chile plans to shortlist two finalists for its Fighter 2000 programme by the end of this month, and select the winning aircraft by the end of May. The air force is completing its technical evaluation of the four competing aircraft - ...
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GE eyes supersonic Falcon SST
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has begun a "basic feasibility study" into an engine for Dassault Aviation's proposed supersonic business jet. The work is based on its recently developed F414 military turbofan . The engine maker cautions that the study is preliminary and "-there is no discussion about a development ...
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Ilyushin freighter efficiency fails to impress Aeroflot director
Ilyushin's Il-96T has been brought to earth by criticism of its Alexander Velovich/Moscow THE HEAD OF Aeroflot has warned that the airline will not increase its orders for the Ilyushin II-96T freighter because the aircraft will not offer competitive operating economics. Speaking at a special gathering of Russia's Federal ...
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Airborne science flights begin at NASA Dryden
NASA's airborne science fleet has begun flying its 1998 programme at the Dryden flight centre at Edwards AFB, California, after being modified at the Ames Research Centre, California. Two Lockheed Martin ER-2s began flights from Dryden in January, while a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 is due to rejoin the airborne ...
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Mobile navaid test
Intertechnique's new automatic navaid inspection system (ANIS) has been certificated by the French civil aviation authority, the DGAC, for up to Category 3a instrument landing systems. The French company says that ANIS avoids the use of test aircraft and thus offers considerable savings. Source: Flight International
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Sextant gears up for merger
Ian Sheppard/PARIS Sextant Avionique is already gearing up to offer avionics systems from its future sister company Dassault Eléctronique. The initiative is part of the French company's efforts to build a flightdeck package to compete with integrated products offered by major US suppliers. Dassault Eléctronique developed an array ...
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Four teams line up to bid for new Argentine air traffic control
Argentina is to install a dual use civil air traffic control and military airspace surveillance system in a deal potentially worth $430 million. Four teams are expected to submit bids in mid-April, leading to a contract award by the end of May. Alenia, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Thomson-CSF are ...
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Lockheed Martin chases A-4 upgrade work
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina plans to pursue opportunities to overhaul and upgrade McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks expected to be acquired by Bolivia and Brazil. The Cordoba based company, which is upgrading A-4s for Argentina, also hopes to participate in a proposed upgrade of the Argentine air force's Dassault Mirages. Argentina's ...