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Kaman concludes SH-20(A) deal with Australian Navy
The first of 11 Kaman SH-20(A) Super Seasprites for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) will be delivered during the first half of 2001, with all deliveries completed halfway through 2002. Contract negotiations on the purchase were concluded in June. The helicopters will be operated from the RAN's ANZAC ...
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Price delays decision on AWACS upgrade
The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Agency (NAPMA) will give the green light to a mid-term upgrade of NATO's fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft by early July, if a cost discrepancy can be resolved in time. German sources close to the programme say ...
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South Korea buys Lynx, delays C-130J
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE South Korea's ministry of national defence has announced formally its intention to go ahead with a $337 million deal to buy additional Westland Super Lynx naval helicopters and upgrade an earlier batch of machines already in service. The order covers a second batch of ...
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to fly JSF avionics
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH LOCKHEEDMARTIN has added two key company-funded tests to its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator programme. The proposed avionics architecture will be flight-tested in team member Northrop Grumman's BAC One-Eleven, and Lockheed Martin will build a full-scale high-fidelity pole model of its JSF to determine radar ...
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-as Northrop Grumman reveals stealth design
Northrop Grumman is working on uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs), which company officials believe could be deployed within 15 years to handle "dull, dirty and dangerous missions". Acknowledging the UCAV research, the firm's military-aircraft-systems division at El Segundo, California, has revealed the design of a low-cost stealthy, re-usable, ...
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USAF terror concern
A force-protection battle laboratory has been created at Lackland AFB, Texas, to come up with innovative concepts to protect US Air Force personnel and sites against terrorist attack. The impetus was the terrorist truck-bombing at Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, a year ago, in which 19 US airmen were killed. The ...
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Talon support
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems has won a $29 million contract to support maintenance of the company's MC-130H Combat Talon II radar system for two years. Contract options could increase the total award to $35 million up to the end of the century. The firm will provide Warner Robins Air Logistics ...
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US Navy faced by JASSM decision
Douglas Barrie/London The US Navy is expected to decide on whether to continue with the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-Off Missile (JASSM) by mid-1998, according to senior programme officials. The JASSM is being pursued as a US Air Force/Navy programme, with Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) developing ...
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USN considers future UCAV-
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US NAVY has launched the Joint Semi-Autonomous Air Weapon System (JSAAWS) project to consider uninhabited-combat-air-vehicle (UCAV) concepts, including an "air-arsenal ship" and a potential replacement for the McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F Super Hornet. The heavily armed UCAV and next-generation pilotless strike aircraft could ...
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Changing the differences
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW In common with all Soviet overhaul sites, Factory N402 at Moscow's Bykovo Airport had specific work allocated to it. Until the early 1990s, it was the overhaul centre for most of the world's ageing Ilyushin Il-18 turboprops. The Factory was also the only centre in the ...
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Galaxy is closer to new home
GALAXY AEROSPACE has narrowed its choice of a US location for its completion and service centre to two sites - Dallas,Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida. A decision is expected "soon", says Galaxy president Brian Barents. The company also reveals that it is looking into the fractional-ownership market for its aircraft. ...
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Third Global Express returns to flying
BOMBARDIER'S third Global Express long-range business jet has re-entered the flight-test programme less than two months after an inadvertent wheels-up landing. The aircraft was returned to flight status earlier than expected, and the company says that the incident has had no impact on the schedule, which calls for certification in ...
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Bombardier extends RVSM rules to Learjet 60
BOMBARDIER's LEARJET 60 has been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration for operation on North Atlantic routes with reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) - the first mid-sized business jet to comply with the regulations introduced in March. A $13,500 service bulletin, enabling compliance with the RVSM altimetry requirements, was to ...
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Paris air show helps to swell Sino Swearingen orderbook
Sino Swearingen Aircraft distributors placed 16 orders for the SJ30-2 light business jet at the Paris air show. Ten aircraft were ordered by Sino Swearingen Deutschland, which is jointly owned by Rheinland Air Services and Piper Deutschland. The remaining six aircraft were ordered by IBCOL General Aviation of ...
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Venezuelan FBO
Texaco International Aviation and fixed-base operator (FBO) Atlantic Aviation have opened the first general-aviation fuelling unit at Arturo Michelena Airport in Carabobo, Venzuela. The partnership will initially provide fuel and general ground support for corporate and commercial aircraft, with other FBO services expected to be offered by the end of ...
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Bombardier complains
Bombardier is pressing the Canadian Government to file a formal complaint with the World Trade Organisation, alleging that the Brazilian Government is subsidising sales of the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. Source: Flight International
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Alenia/GEC-Marconi merger nears
Julian Moxon/Paris Italy's Alenia Difensa and the UK's GEC-Marconi are preparing to present details of a joint merger study to their respective Governments. A decision on whether to approve the deal is expected from London and Rome by the end of the month. Prospects for a ...
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European academics warn over dangers in Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger
A group of UK and German aerospace academics have written to the European Commission (EC)with a stark warning over the dangers of the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC)merger, a decision on which is now due by the end July. The open letter is written by Professor Philip Lawrence, director of ...
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Sweden plans series of Gripen upgrades
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The Swedish defence ministry is planning upgrade programmes for the Saab JAS39 Gripen, which go beyond the third batch of aircraft ordered recently. The country's Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) formally placed the order on 26 June, which include improvements to the third batch and ...
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Mitsubishi receives certification for Japan's first indigenous helicopter
Andrew Mollett/TOKYO Mitsubushi Heavy Industries (MHI) MH2000 twin-engine medium utility helicopter, Japan's first indigenously developed helicopter, has received type certification from the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau. The certification covers the standard ten-seater version of the aircraft. MHI says that it intends to get type certification for ...