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Northwest signs MoU for another 50 Airbuses
Northwest Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a further 50 Airbus Industrie narrowbody aircraft, bringing the total number of firm orders for the consortium's main US customer to 136. The MoU outlines a requirement for 50 125-seat A319s, with options for 50 more aircraft. If ...
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American Airlines in massive seat-upgrade deal
AMERICANAIRLINES has placed orders exceeding $268 million for more than 70,000 new and upgraded passenger seats for its entire fleet. The deal has been split between three seat suppliers: US manufacturers B/E Aerospace (BEA) and Weber Aircraft, and Germany's Recaro. Installation is to be completed by the year ...
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COBRA program cures F-22 and JSF composites together
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC LOCKHEEDMARTIN is looking at simultaneously curing composite parts for the F-22 and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in one autoclave run, to reduce costs for both programmes. The procedure presents "-a unique opportunity for simultaneous cost reduction", the company says. Batch curing of F-22 ...
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ANPC demonstrates TLS
Advanced Navigation &Positioning (ANPC) planned to demonstrate the tactical, air-transportable version of its transponder landing system (TLS) on 20 June at The Dalles, Oregon, using aircraft including the McDonnell Douglas F-15, F-18 and AV-8B, Lockheed Martin C-130, C-141 and P-3, Sikorsky UH-60 and Airbus A300. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin readies VISTA/F-16 for thrust vectoring
Lockheed Martin is awaiting funding to complete modification of the F-16 Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) with thrust vectoring. The US Air Force's VISTA/ F-16, operated by Calspan Flight Research and re-engined with a Pratt & Whitney F100-229, is to be fitted with P&W's axisymmetric thrust-vectoring pitch/yaw balanced-beam ...
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Paris '97
Paris '97 will go down in the aviation history books as the "nearly" show. AI(R) nearly launched the AirJet, Boeing nearly launched the 777X and Embraer nearly launched the EMB-135. In the event the strategists had a field day and good news was largely left to the sales departments of ...
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France and UK fail to sgree guided-bomb framework
Attempts by the French and UK defence ministries to pull together a joint next-generation guided-bomb programme have faltered with the failure of the countries to agree a basic framework for the requirement. France and the UK were exploring the joint release of a request for information (RFI) covering ...
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EJ200 thrust-vector nozzle nears test
Rolls-Royce's Spanish partner on the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter EF2000 says that it will test a thrust-vectoring nozzle in January 1998. While no decision has been made on fitting the nozzle to the EJ200, R-R says that the device has "excellent potential" to improve the EF2000's manoeuvrability ...
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Hispano-Suiza makes Airbus A3XX first target for new 'scoop' thrust-reverser
Hispano-Suiza has revealed a "new concept" in thrust reversers aimed at high-bypass ratio engines. The new design will be offered for the Airbus A3XX, says the French thrust-reverser company. Claimed to offer a 20% improvement in efficiency over current cascade-type devices, the "scoop" reverser is also safer, says ...
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Daewoo expects 1998 approval for KTX-1
South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries expects the Government to give full approval for production of its KTX-1 primary trainer by the end of 1998. The company is now completing its fifth KTX-1 airframe, with the configuration effectively similar to that of a production-standard aircraft. The South Korean air ...
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Europe 0, USA 1
Airbus Industrie v Boeing; Boeing v Airbus. British Aerospace (BAe) with Lockheed Martin; Lockheed Martin perhaps with Airbus. Embraer perhaps with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) If there has been a theme to the 1997 Paris air show, it is that of transatlantic relations, good and bad. It is ...
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Trial separation over London
Sir - Media attention has focused on the UK Civil Aviation Authority's plans to reduce separation on final approach at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports in the UK. This attention followed publication in Transmit, the Journal of the Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers (GATCO), of a report ...
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Marketplace
++ Monarch Airlines has firmed up its letters of intent for two Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus A330-200s, and two International Aero Engines V2500-powered A321-200s. Monarch, which already operates a fleet of 12 Airbuses, will take delivery of the new aircraft from March 1999. ++ Rheintalflug has placed an order with ...
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Dasa's LFK develops NH90 missile warner
The LFK missiles division of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has been selected by Eurocopter Deutschland and the NATO Helicopter Management Agency (NAHEMA) to install its missile-launch detection system (MILDS) on the NH Industries NH90 helicopter. The contract to develop and adapt the MILDS AN/AAR-60 system to the NH90 is ...
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Augustine warns European firms
Lockheed Martin chairman Norman Augustine has warned that transatlantic alliances, including long-term ambitions for links with Airbus, cannot progress until European industry has freed itself from government ownership. "Privatisation is absolutely essential to building partnerships across the Atlantic-You cannot have alliances between private and public companies," says Augustine. ...
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Sabena selects Avros and Airbuses to replace 737s
Sabena is to order a mix of Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Airbus A319s and A320s by the end of 1997 to replace its 14 Boeing 737-200s, according to Air Transport Intelligence (ATI), the new Reed Aerospace news and data service . The electronic news service, formally ...
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Bombardier studies corporate gap
Bombardier chairman Laurent Beaudoin has revealed that the group's next priority is to plug the gap in its business-jet range between the Learjet 60 and Canadair Challenger 604. Beaudoin says that a new-aircraft programme is "under study", and that the group will make an announcement in "the near ...
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Lockheed Martin rules out A3XX equity stake
Airbus Industrie efforts to persuade Lockheed Martin to take a stake in the A3XX high-capacity widebody passenger aircraft have failed for the time being, with the US company effectively ruling out taking an equity stake in the project. Micky Blackwell, president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics ...
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The great escape
An SSTL-built satellite made history in 1996 as the first officially registered surviving victim of a space-debris impact. The Cerise microsatellite bus, made for Alcatel Espace and the French ministry of defence, was launched into a 700km polar orbit in July 1995, riding piggyback on the Ariane 40 ...