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P&W's Eagle soars to bolster perch in overhaul business
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney expects to see its engine-services sales reach $1 billion this year as its Eagle Services business continues to expand in the repair and overhaul sectors. Eagle Services generated roughly $600 million in 1996, representing around 10%of P&W's sales, but will have added another $400 ...
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Snecma returns to profitability
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat says that the group is back in profit and may not need to pursue its long-running call for fresh cash from the French Government. He also confirms that the re-organised group is keen to grow. Final figures for 1997 are not yet available, but Bechat ...
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Fair enough ?
What is a slot, and why does the European Commission (EC) want so desperately to become involved in its future? A slot is not a physical entity, it is merely a permission for a particular airline to land an aircraft, or have that aircraft take off, at a particular time ...
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Boeing holds fire on Harpoon upgrade until export decision
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is awaiting permission to export the AGM- 84 Harpoon Block 2 before launching private-venture development of the upgraded anti-ship missile. An agreement on the missile's releasability is being circulated by the US Department of Defense, Boeing says, and the company has scheduled an internal review for ...
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South Africa lines up three contenders for fighter requirement
South Africa is expected to issue formal requests for information for its future combat-aircraft requirement to British Aerospace/Saab, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) and Dassault in March or April. The Dasa-led AT-2000 advanced trainer, the BAe/Saab JAS39 Gripen and Dassault Mirage 2000 are the three types shortlisted to meet its air ...
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Brunei clears deck for BAe deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Royal Brunei Armed Forces defence planners are expected to focus their attention on concluding a deal for ten British Aerospace Hawk 100/200 trainer/light-combat aircraft, after signing an order with GEC-Marine for three missile-armed frigates. The planned $300 million purchase of six Hawk 100s and four single-seat ...
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Lockheed Martin plans C-130J world sales tour
Lockheed Martin will launch a world tour with the C-130J in February in a bid to stimulate sales for the improved Hercules transport aircraft. The 15-week tour will be conducted in five stages, using a US Air Force aircraft which is not involved in the continuing commercial-certification flight-test programme. ...
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Iryda teeters as Mielec decides to sue Polish defence ministry
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec is suing the country's defence ministry over its alleged failure to stick to the terms of a contract to upgrade the I-22 Iryda advanced-jet-trainer. While Mielec declines to comment on the case, the ministry says that the manufacturer is claiming Pzl17.7 million ($5.5 million) in ...
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Lockheed Martin will offer Elta radar for Israeli air force F-16
Lockheed Martin is to offer the Elta El/2032 multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar as part of its F-16 bid for the Israeli air force's $2 billion fighter-procurement competition. The Israeli air force, say sources close to the competition, has made it clear that installing the El/2032 on the F-16 is a priority ...
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KTX-II faces new threat from cuts
South Korea's on/off development of the Samsung/ Lockheed Martin KTX-II advanced-trainer/light-combat aircraft is again facing the threat of delay, as the country's defence ministry conducts an across-the-board review of military expenditure. Seoul is cutting the 1998 defence budget by 10% after the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent $57 billion ...
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Pakistan threatens legal action on F-16s
Pakistan has renewed threats to sue the US Government for the return of $656 million paid for 28 undelivered Lockheed Martin F-16s. According to local reports, the Pakistani prime minister has approved plans to file a lawsuit in the USA within "the next few weeks". The US Department of ...
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Danish Challenger
Denmark has purchased a special-mission Bombardier Challenger 604, with options on two more, to replace the air force's Gulfstream IIIs. Bombardier Services will equip the aircraft for maritime-surveillance, search-and-rescue, VIP-transport and medical-evacuation missions and will train pilots. Source: Flight International
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An NMD test
An exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) infra-red sensor successfully detected a simulated missile warhead and several decoys launched on a specially adapted US Air Force Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile. The exercise was a crucial test of the troubled National Missile Defense (NMD) system now in development, and was the second ...
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Boeing tests F-22 radar against T-33 target
Boeing is evaluating the radar cross-section (RCS) of a Lockheed T-33 which will act as a calibrated airborne target during tests of the Northrop Grumman APG-77 radar under development for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor fighter. "We hung the T-33 in our compact range chamber and took measurements across a ...
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Bonn questions delay Taurus go-ahead
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German parliamentary budget committee has pushed back the go-ahead for development of the Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)/Bofors Taurus KEPD350 stand-off missile. According to the Bonn defence ministry, the committee requires "additional information" from the ministry. The ministry expects the project to be cleared in the first ...
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Agusta power
Peter Gray/CASCINA COSTA DE SAMARATE Although it has been said before, the statement that "if it looks good, it flies good" certainly applies to the Agusta A109 - and particularly to the Power version. The outside shell has changed little since the first-prototype days of 1971, but as I ...
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The right way
John King/TEKAPO IN common with other countries with deregulated aviation industries, New Zealand has seen a proliferation of small airlines in recent years. Also in line with experience in many countries, some of those carriers have met problems. It is the old story of enthusiasm attracting under-capitalised players into setting ...
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Ultimate mobility
Tim Furniss/LONDON Making a mobile telephone call to and from anywhere in the world is about to become reality. Motorola's Iridium satellite system should be declared operational this year. Market studies indicate, however, that satellite services may not make as great an impact as first thought. The sixth Boeing Delta ...
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Only two can play ?
Tim Furniss/LONDON calls for the rationalisation and integration of European aerospace companies to allow it to face up to international competition are being reflected to a degree in the continent's space industry, but it is still competing with itself. The rationalisation of the European space business began with the ...
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Launching forward
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin/Boeing's F-22 represents the pinnacle of US military-avionics development, but the air-superiority fighter is not scheduled to become operational until 2005. Meanwhile, manufacturers have begun development of the next generation of avionics, for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which, probably optimistically, is scheduled to enter service ...