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USNavy plans mine-detector fly-off
A fly-off between airborne laser mine-detection systems is planned by the US Navy later this year. Kaman's Magic Lantern will be evaluated against the ATD-111 system developed by Lockheed Martin company Sanders, for deployment on Navy Sikorsky SH-60s. The Magic Lantern is already operational, providing an interim laser-based ...
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V-22 delivery
The third of four Bell Boeing production representative V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor has been delivered to the Patuxent River Naval Air Warfare Test Center for flight testing. V-22 Number 9 will be used to test the forward-looking infra-red navigation. Source: Flight International
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USAF radio
A programme to replace all military radios with systems using common hardware and software modules has been lauched by the US Department of Defense. The joint-service Progammable Modular Communications Systems programme is expected to get under way before the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Singapore and South Africa agree training
Singapore has concluded a defence co-operation agreement with Pretoria which will allow its forces to train and exercise in South Africa with remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). Singapore defence minister Tony Tan says that training with RPVs will begin in 1998 at the South African Air Force's Hoedspruit airbase. ...
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USAF abandons winner-take-all EELV approach
The US Air Force has changed its procurement method for its next-generation Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELV), abandoning its previous winner take-all approach in favour of a rolling batch-procurement competition. Lockheed Martin and Boeing had been competing in a winner-take-all competition for a $1.6 billion engineering and manufacturing ...
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US Navy receives first digital-cockpit T-45 from Boeing
Boeing has handed over to the US Navy the first T-45 jet trainer with a digital cockpit. The upgraded aircraft, designated the T-45C, as opposed to the T-45A, is equipped with two multi-function displays, one for the front seat and one for the back seat. The Navy intends to upgrade ...
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Shop till you drop
Annabel Wells/LONDON As the aerospace industry worldwide enjoys an upturn, so is that trend reflected in the aerospace-events arena. Exhibitors at 1998 trade shows will have a satisfyingly large choice of shopfronts in which to set up their wares. Potential customers will be presented with a hugely varied ...
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Heading for collision
David Learmount/LONDON Fixed-wing aircraft set out for airports or airfields, but helicopter destinations are of almost limitless variety, and the precise details are often unknown to the pilot at departure. There is no Jeppesen approach chart for the site of a road accident or a mountain rescue. Professional ...
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Role reversal
Tim Furniss/LONDON Six minutes into the flight of the Space Shuttle STS87 on 19 November, the orbiter Columbia, arcing over the Atlantic Ocean heads-down, still attached to its external tank (ET) and with its main engines firing, will perform a 20s, 180íroll to a heads-up position, travelling at ...
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Slovenian revival
Tim Ripley/LJUBLJANA Six years after the outbreak of the Yugoslav conflict destroyed its core business, Slovenia's national carrier Adria Airways has staged a remarkable recovery in preparation for privatisation and European Union (EU) membership. One morning in June 1991, Yugoslav air force Galeb ground-attack jet aircraft ...
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AASI starts Jetcruzer 500 certification process
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) plans to fly the first certification-test Jetcruzer 500 pusher-turboprop business aircraft by the end of this month. The aircraft is the first with the stretched, pressurised fuselage planned for the production Jetcruzer 500. AASI reports orders for 70 of the $1.3 million aircraft. ...
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AlliedSignal expands package for Hawker Horizon controller
AlliedSignal has revised its recent systems agreement with Raytheon Aircraft for the Hawker Horizon to cover the development of a single integrated pneumatic controller (IPC) which effectively links the auxiliary power unit (APU) and the environmental-control system (ECS) to act as a single system. The IPC is believed ...
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Bombardier and Lufthansa set up maintenance centre
Bombardier Aviation Services (BAS) and Luthansa Technik will open their first European service centre on 20 November, bringing to eight the total number of BAS service centres worldwide. Called Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS), the centre, based at Berlin Schonefeld Airport, will be responsible for service, maintenance, repair and overhaul ...
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Sukhoi delivers aerobatic trainer
Sukhoi has delivered its first Su-31M sport aerobatic trainer equipped with the new SKS-94 super-light ejection seat, to UK-based aircraft distributor Richard Goode Aerobatics. The $35,000 ejection system is designed by Advanced Sukhoi Technologies and Zvesda, Russia's main manufacturer of military-ejection seats. Source: Flight International
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Grob builds variant of GF200
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German composite aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob Aerospace is making a prototype variant of its four-seat GF200 business aircraft. The company, which has been searching for a partner for the project, says that it has decided to proceed with the prototype because a Teal Group ...
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Myasishchev forms niche venture with US investors
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON GrahamWarwick/WASHINGTON DC Russia's Myasishchev Design Bureau has formed a joint venture with General Aircraft USA and several other US investors to "produce four niche aircraft for the world market". General Aircraft USA will be responsible for assembly, engine and avionics installation, and US ...
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Australia race
A London-to-Sydney air race will form part of the celebrations of the centenary of Australia's federation in March/April 2001, with A$500,000 ($350,000) in prize money. Talks are under way to start at Biggin Hill Airport near London. Source: Flight International
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Boeing remains committed to 777-200X/300X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing says that plans to develop the ultra-long range 777-200X and long haul -300X are "still going forward" despite continuing uncertainty over engine availability and the decision of a potential key customer, EVA Air of Taiwan, to sign a letter of intent for the rival ...
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IATA plea leads to delay of B-RNAV
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol has delayed by three months the deadline for introduction of basic radio navigation (B-RNAV) standards to European airspace after a last-minute request from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The original deadline, 28 January, 1998, has been put back to 23 April, which ...
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Dassault nears Netjets contract
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Dassault Aviation has joined the rush for orders from the burgeoning fractional- ownership market by agreeing a deal with Executive Jet Aviation to supply up to 24 Falcon 2000 business jets for its Netjets programme. The French aircraft manufacturer has not ...