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New AASI factory
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) plans to start building its 18,600m2 (200,000ft2) factory at Long Beach Airport, California, by the end of the year, from where the single-engined Jetcruzer Propjet and twin-engined Stratocruzer 1250 will be manufactured. The $7 million building, which will also house the company's design, engineering and ...
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Floats certificated
An inflatable emergency flotation system made by California-based Apical Industries has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification for use on the Boeing MD 600N helicopter. Boeing has received one firm order for a float-equipped version of the MD 600N which was certificated in May 1997. Source: Flight International
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US Navy records SLAM-ER success
A US Navy Boeing Stand-Off Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) successfully hit a target on San Nicolas Island in the Point Magu Sea Test Range off the California coast on 10 December. The test flight, launched from a Boeing F/A-18C/D, was the third and most complex yet in the ...
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Multiple engine failure blamed for An-124 Irkutsk accident
Alexander Velovich/Moscow Multiple engine failure immediately after take-off caused the fatal crash of a Russian air force Antonov An-124 Ruslan on 6 December in Irkutsk. The investigation commission says that, based on data from flight recorders, "-between three and 11 seconds after the take-off, engines number three, two ...
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Indonesia will get upgraded F-5s in early 1998
Sabca expects to complete flight-testing of two upgraded Indonesian air force Northrop Grumman F-5E prototypes by the end of the year and return them to Asia by mid-February 1998. The Belgian company has modified a single F-5E and a tandem-seat -5F under a contract which was concluded in 1995 ...
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Italy ponders AMX disposal
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA The Italian air force is considering selling off some of its Alenia/Embraer AMX fighter aircraft as it struggles to rationalise the number of variants of the type in the fleet and to improve its poor availability. The AMX disposal option has emerged from the highest echelons ...
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Seaspirtes arrives in New Zealand
The Royal New Zealand Navy has taken delivery of four ex-US Navy Kaman SH-2F Seasprite anti-submarine warfare helicopters. The first aircraft was delivered to the navy flight at Hobsonville in November, with the remaining three arriving in early December. The SH-2Fs will provide an interim anti-submarine warfare capability, replacing the ...
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Safe USAF
Despite a rash of aircraft accidents during the final weeks of fiscal year 1997, the US military completed one of its safest flying years on record. The aircraft major accident rate was 1.5 accidents per 100,000 flying hours, which is unchanged from the previous two years. There were 68 major ...
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Minuteman guidance
Boeing North American has received an additional $41 million to develop modernised guidance systems for Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The engineering-and-manufacturing development contract adjustment will delay delivery of initial units by eight months. Source: Flight International
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More Kill Vehicles
The US Army has awarded Boeing North American a $50 million contract to build three additional Kill Vehicle flight-hardware units for the Ground Based Interceptor research programme. Development of an exoatmospheric ground-based inter ceptor is an option under consideration for protecting the USA from ballistic-missile attack. Source: Flight ...
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ADF radar decision
Lockheed Martin has been named preferred bidder to supply new tactically mobile, long-range, air-defence radar systems for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The company has teamed with Tenix Defence Systems (formerly Transfield) and RLM Systems (formerly Telstar Systems) in Melbourne to replace the ADF's outdated air-defence radars. The first system ...
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Philippines awaits best offer as fighter contenders line up
Paul Lewis/Singapore The Philippines is shortly to issue a best-and-final request for tender (RFT) to a "shortlist" of six competing fighter manufacturers, in what is proving to be increasingly drawn-out selection process. A Philippine air force technical committee has completed its evaluation of competing types and had been ...
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JASSM flight tests
Lockheed Martin says that its Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) candidate is close to completing flight-testing at Edwards AFB, California. On 10 December, a JASSM Jettison Test Vehicle separated cleanly from a Lockheed Martin F-16 and hit the ground "well within the predicted footprint". The test was one of a ...
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Turkish Tadiran
The Turkish army has ordered the Tadiran Spectralink airborne search- and-rescue systems for the Turkish army Eurocopter AS 532UL Cougar helicopters. The ASR-700 is the airborne unit which allows search-and rescue helicopters or fixed- wing aircraft quickly to locate a downed pilot. Source: Flight International
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Swedish delivery
Saab Dynamics has delivered its IR-OTIS infra-red search and track radar to the Swedish defence ministry for flight testing on-board a Saab JAS37 Viggen fighter. The system, developed under a contract for the Swedish Defence Material Administration, will also be fitted to Saab's JAS39 Gripen. Source: Flight International
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ARL upgrade
The Airborne Systems Integration unit of California Microwave has won a $12 million contract to install advanced surveillance equipment in two RC-7B Airborne Reconnaissance Low Multi-function (ARL-M) aircraft operated by the US Army. Three RC-7Bs, modified de Havilland DHC-7 turboprops, are being used to patrol the Korean demilitarised zone. ARL ...
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Upgrades promised for RAAF F/A-18s
Australia is almost certain to upgrade its Boeing F/A-18 Hornet irrespective of continuing fighter-requirement studies, according to the country's defence minister, Ian McLachlan. McLachlan took the opportunity of the release of Australia's Strategic Policy document to tell Parliament that"-it is likely that a major upgrade of the F/A-18 will ...
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Australia nears Global Hawk goal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Peter le Franchi/CANBERRA Australian and US Government-to-Government negotiations over Australian Defence Force participation in the Teledyne Ryan Global Hawk long-endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) are virtually complete and may result in a formal agreement by the end of December, according to programme sources. Australian interest ...
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ST Aero purchases Dalfort maintenance
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) has acquired Dalfort Aviation's maintenance site in Dallas and is planning to expand its Mobile Aero- space Engineering (MAe) subsidiary in a move to increase capacity in the USA. The Singapore company has agreed with Astraea to purchase the leasehold, assets and inventory of ...
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Snecma lands in full control of Messier-Dowty as TI sells out
Snecma plans to take full control of the Messier-Dowty landing-gear business just three years after the Anglo-French joint venture was founded in a 50/50 partnership, together with the TI Group. The company now plans to create a major landing-systems business, including its Messier-Bugatti brakes unit. Under the terms of ...