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GV sales help Gulfstream to chalk up record results in 1997
Gulfstream Aerospace soared to record financial results in 1997 and expects the trend to continue as production ramps up for the ultra long range GV business jet. The corporation's sales virtually doubled over the year, reaching $1.9 billion, with deliveries of the GV climbing to 29 aircraft, alongside 22 GIV-SPS. ...
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Brave new world
GLOOM-MONGERS aside, Asia's aerospace sector is strong enough to host Asian Aerospace '98, but this show does represent a watershed. It comes at a time when economic turbulence has spelled the end of many old assumptions about the shape of the aerospace world, and the position of the players in ...
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MAPO plans to fly MiG 1.42 by August as LFI demonstrator
MAPO MIG's Object 1.42 fifth generation fighter prototype will finally be flown by the third quarter of this year, with the aircraft being used as a technology demonstrator for the company's Lightweight Frontal Fighter (LFI), according to Mikhail Korzhuyev, new general director of Mikoyan design bureau. The aircraft has ...
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USAF military 757 makes first flight at Renton
The first of four military Boeing 757s, designated C-32A, made its maiden flight from the company's Renton site on 11 February. The first aircraft, NP901, landed at nearby Boeing Field after a 2h test flight. Unlike previous military transports built for the US Air Force, the C-32As are being ...
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F/A-18E/F funds wait for wing drop cure
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC US Defence Secretary William Cohen says that funding for the second tranche of Boeing F/A-18E/Fs will be withheld until the Department of Defense (DoD) is satisfied that the US Navy has corrected the problem of wing drop. Almost $2.4 billion in fiscal year 1998 funding for the ...
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Russian air force to be halved
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Russian air force (VVS) plans to cut nearly half of its personnel and aircraft. The cuts are part of a restructuring package being implemented by recently appointed commander-in-chief Col Gen Anatoly Kornukov, who is overseeing the merger of the VVS with the air defence force (PVO). It ...
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German air force seeks more A310s
Germany's air force is hoping to acquire up to four more Airbus Industrie A310s to bolster its fleet of long range air transport aircraft in the face of increasing logistics demands. The creation of a German rapid reaction force, as well as humanitarian operations, has led to increased transport ...
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US DoD to select missile defence team in April
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense is expected to choose the prime contractor for the multi-billion dollar National Missile Defense Lead System Integrator (NMD LSI) programme in April, say US defence industry officials. The two competing teams submitted their proposals in November to the US Ballistic ...
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Rafael tackles air launched Scud killer
Seeker dome heating is emerging as probably the single largest technical challenge for Israeli missile design house Rafael in developing an air-launched anti-tactical ballistic missile weapon. Rafael is working on a weapon, dubbed the MOAV, which draws on elements of its Python-4 infra-red (IR) guided short range, air-to-air missile ...
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Black Hawk support
The US Army has awarded Sikorsky Aircraft a $26 million contract to produce 56 additional External Stores Support Systems (ESSS) for use on UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters made by the US defence contractor. Source: Flight International
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Ethiopian support
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an additional $11 million foreign military sales contract to provide contractor logistics support for four C-130Bs previously sold to Ethiopia. Source: Flight International
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P&W completes F100-229A altitude testing
Pratt & Whitney has completed initial altitude tests of an advanced version of the F100-229A flight engine, which is fitted with a new fan and inlet to boost power and increase durability. The -229A is designed to power the Boeing F-15E and Lockheed Martin F-16C/D from 2000 onwards - ...
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Singapore negotiates on JSF participation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Singapore is conducting talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on participating in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme as an observer, in a further sign of increasingly close defence co-operation between the two nations. The Singapore Ministry of Defence is understood to be discussing a memorandum ...
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Russia and Ukraine clash over crash
Russian air force findings that a multiple engine failure caused the loss of an Antonov An-124 Ruslan have been sharply rejected by Ukrainian engine manufacturer ZMKB Progress. The Russian air force commander-in-chief Col Gen Anatoly Kornukov said on 10 February that the cause of the fatal crash on 6 ...
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Partners poised to restart X-31 VECTOR
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Industrial partners in the tri-national X-31 VECTOR research programme expect the signature in March of an inter-government memorandum of understanding (MoU) signalling the restart of the successful thrust vectoring work. Following the approval of the US portion of the programme's funding in mid-January, similar clearance is expected from ...
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Tight rein forecast
Max Kingsley-Jones and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON for Flight International It is one of the ironies of the airline cycle that just as the manufacturers are gearing up to record production levels, the market runs into trouble. Last time round it was the Gulf war which heralded a dramatic and damaging descent ...
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Multimission craft
Julian Moxon/Marignane, FRANCECUTAWAY DRAWING/Giuseppe Picarella In bringing two new machines to the market in the space of two years, Eurocopter appears to have pulled off something of a coup. By any standards, the eight seat, twin engined EC135 and now the five seat EC120 Colibri single have both been very ...
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Coming on strongly
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Certification begins this quarter for Kamov's much delayed new Ka-226, which had its first flight on 4 September, 1997. Unusually, it was not really a test flight but a demonstration for Russia's Minister of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, whose new Ministry has provided the funding to bring the ...
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Calculated landings
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS According to David Jacobson, a training captain on Qantas' Boeing 737 domestic fleet, in this age of "-technical precision, the manual landing flare manoeuvre has remained imprecise. Conventional techniques have relied upon an inconsistent, critical estimation of height above the landing surface, and are subject to a number ...
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Cuts mar USA year
Tim Furniss/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER The BOEING/Lockheed Martin United Space Alliance (USA) has had a successful first year as NASA's prime contractor for the Space Shuttle programme (see box), but it has been overshadowed by the need to lay off about 363 of its 6,000 workers at the Kennedy Space ...