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Bell picks Litton to perform USMC cockpit
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Bell Helicopter Textron has chosen Litton Industries to modernise the cockpits of AH-1W and UH-1N helicopters now operated by the US Marine Corps. Litton's Guidance & Control Systems group, located in Northridge, California, was selected in preference to bids by Honeywell, Elbit and ...
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Germany thinks again on EF2000 defence system
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Germany's defence ministry is once again re-considering its position on a defensive-aids subsystem (DASS) for the Eurofighter EF2000 in the run-up to the project's approval by the German parliament. The other Eurofighter partner nations -Italy, Spain, and the UK - are effectively procuring a ...
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Demand for cuts may delay JASDF tanker plans
Paul Lewis/Singapore Demands for the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) to cut expenditure over the three remaining years of its 1996-2000 mid-term plan is threatening further delays for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) in its plans for the acquisition of its first in-flight refuelling tanker. The ...
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Aerospatiale to help Norway's NSM programme
Julian Moxon/PARIS Aerospatiale is to take a stake of around 10% in the development of Norway's New Ship Missile programme as part of a potentially wider anti-ship missiles co-operation between the two manufacturers. Norwegian prime contractor Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace selected Aerospatiale following negotiations with European ...
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South Korea considers plan to extend production of F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A proposal to extend licence-production of the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Korean Fighter Programme (KFP) appears to be gaining support, as budgetary pressure grows for the follow-on F-X fighter project to be delayed. A squeeze on South Korean defence expenditure is forcing the ministry of ...
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Common module show
Lockheed Martin Sanders will demonstrate multi-function common electronic modules for signal acquisition and processing in synthetic-aperture radars, electronic-warfare and communication systems, under a $12 million US Navy contract. Source: Flight International
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SIVAM radar deal
Lockheed Martin has received a contract from Raytheon for six TPS-B34 mobile, solid-state, long-range radars for use in Brazil's $1.4 billion SIVAM Amazon-surveillance system. Source: Flight International
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RAF selects Racal command and control
Racal-Thorn Defence has won the contract to build the UK Royal Air Force's Tactical Air Control Centre (TACC), which will fill a command and control capability-gap identified in the 1991 Gulf War. Although the TACC is due to enter service in March 1999, an initial capability will be ...
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Technical problems dog THAAD testing
The next flight test of the Lockheed Martin Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon has been pushed into 1998, because of additional technical problems dogging the programme. With four failures in as many attempts to intercept a target, project officials had hoped for a successful test in ...
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More than collision avoidance
Harry Hopkins/LONDON An unplanned-for side-effect of the fitting of the traffic-alert and collision- avoidance system (TCAS) to airliners - compulsory already in the USA, and shortly to be so in Europe - is that pilots can have a much greater awareness of the positions of other aircraft around ...
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Maturing nicely
Graham Warwick/Fort Worth Risk will be a deciding factor in who wins the competition to develop the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). An unprecedented effort is under way, therefore, funded by government and industry, to reduce the risk attached to technologies judged critical to meeting the affordability and performance ...
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Master of the Loads
Graham Warwick/Washington DC Kathmandu is a long way from Albany, Georgia, but the power of the Internet has brought Ayres' Loadmaster to the attention of an operator in the Nepal capital, and others in places as far afield as Papua New Guinea and South Africa. Enquiries ...
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Raytheon marks Bonanza's 50th anniversary
Raytheon Aircraft has completed a customised Beech Bonanza to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its piston single, which has been in continuous production since 1947 - with total sales nearing 17,400 aircraft. The Bonanza B36TC has a special interior and extensive options, including AlliedSignal Bendix/King KFC-150 autopilot, KLN-90B global-positioning system ...
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Irish Police receive Defender
Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) has delivered the first production version of the BN2T-4S Defender 4000 to the Irish Police. The aircraft is an enlarged variant of the BN2T turbine Islander/Defender, offering increased range, higher payload and a larger cabin area. PBN is scheduled to deliver its second Rolls-Royce Allison 250-B17F-powered Defender ...
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Eurocopter leads rush into Russian helicopter market
Andrzej Jeziorski/MOSCOW Eurocopter has signed a further contract with the Russian emergencies ministry EMERCOM for one twin-turboshaft BK117, while USrival Bell is examining possible co-operative agreements to break into the Russian market. The Franco-German company already has a toe-hold in Russia with EMERCOM's current fleet of ...
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Atlantic investors plan fixed-based expansion
USAVIATION-SERVICE company Atlantic Aviation has agreed to be acquired by the Legg Mason investment fund in a move designed to provide the backing for ambitious expansion plans. The company, which employs about 500 people at five US fixed-base operations (FBOs) and a business-aircraft maintenance and modification base at ...
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Hartzell issues propeller order
Hartzell Propeller has issued a service bulletin requiring repetitive inspection of propellers fitted to "hundreds" of Beech, Cessna, Navion, Piper and Twin Commander aircraft manufactured in the 1950s and 1960s. The bulletin affects two- and three-bladed steel-hub units. Hartzell says that service bulletin 217 is a result of ...
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Israviation is faced with receivership
Troubled business aircraft manufacturer Israviation may be placed in receivership following the decision by its main Swiss investor to pull out of the ST-50 five-seat pusher-turboprop executive jet programme. According to Israviation president Stephane Juffa, the unnamed investor's decision to withdraw was "because of the situation in northern ...
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Lufthansa offers interiors for Airbus and Boeing business jets
Andrzej Jeziorski/MunichGraham Warwick/Atlanta Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is offering modular interior packages for both the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), a derivative of the Boeing 737-700, and the Airbus A319 Corporate Jet, which will allow an aircraft operator to mix and match an individual aircraft for a variety of roles. ...
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New Swiss centre
Signature Flight Support and Zimex Aviation officially inaugurated their joint business-aviation centre and flight-support operation at Zurich Airport, Switzerland on 22 August. The centre, which includes a 2,415m2 (26,000ft2) maintenance hangar, is intended to offer support for every type of business aircraft. Source: Flight International