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JSTARS upgrade
Northrop Grumman has received $132 million in US Air Force contracts to upgrade computers used on the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). The US company will integrate new, more powerful central computers and workstations in the third developmental aircraft. The upgrade will replace five central processors ...
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Finalist: Fokker Services
Finalist: Fokker Services Location Woensdrecht, The Netherlands Achievement Maintaining service levels for Fokker aircraft despite the manufacturer's collapse. When Fokker Aircraft went into bankruptcy at the start of 1996, one of the main concerns among aircraft operators and owners was over what levels of support service ...
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Finalist Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Services
Finalist: Antonov Aeronautical Scientific/ Technical Complex Location Kiev, Ukraine Achievement Development of the propfan An-70 transport, including the second prototype. Despite setbacks, the Ukraine's Antonov design bureau is now back on track with its unique propfan An-70 military-transport programme. The original An-70 prototype had ...
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Maintenance
Winner: Richard Wolf Location Knittlingen, Germany Achievement Combining grinding and borescope tools to allow compressor-blade repairs without engine removal. Like many of the best innovations, this year's winning entry in the Maintenance category is a relatively simple concept, but one which could save the aviation industry ...
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Military aviation
Winner: Sukhoi Design Bureau Location Moscow, Russia Achievement First flight and air display of the super-agile thrust-vectored Su-37 fighter. The Sukhoi Su-37 fighter proved to be a show stopper when the aircraft made its debut at the Farnborough air show in September 1996. This thrust-vector-modified version ...
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Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics
Finalist: Northrop Grumman, Electronics & Systems Integration Division Location Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA Achievement Weight and cost savings through a miniaturised radio-transmitter unit. Northrop Grumman's highly miniaturised C-Band Microwave Power Module (MPM) is already offering significant weight savings in use on the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye ...
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Finalist: Messier-Bugatti
Finalist: Messier-Bugatti Location Velizy, France Achievement Development of a miniature pump to allow decentralisation of aircraft hydraulic systems. Messier-Bugatti set itself the goal developing a miniature pump for electro-hydraulic actuator (EHA) units, which are sufficiently small and light to be sited alongside flight-control equipment, so allowing ...
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Space & missiles
Winner: Surrey Satellite Technology Location Guildford, UK Achievement Pioneering of microsatellites to give more nations affordable access to space. Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) was formed in 1985 by Professor Martin Sweeting, a UK pioneer of affordable microsatellite technology at the University of Surrey. His ...
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Systems & components
Joint Winner: BFGoodrich Avionics Systems Location Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Joint Winner: Meggitt Avionics Location Fareham, UK Achievement Development of solid-state electronic standby instrument systems. Over the past couple of decades, the modern flight-deck has changed out of all recognition. Old ...
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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Training & safety
Winner: The Flight Data Company Location West Drayton, Middlesex Achievement Making flight-data analysis accessible and affordable running on a PCModern airliners generate a wealth of flight data, which if properly interpreted can prove invaluable in enabling carriers to improve safety and reduce costs. The difficulties lie ...
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U-buy stake
Taiwan's U-Land Airline says that it is negotiating to buy an undisclosed stake in Vietnam's struggling Pacific Airlines. The two-year-old Taiwan domestic carrier wants to use Pacific Airlines to help expand internationally. U-Land operates four McDonnell Douglas MD-82s and plans to acquire two more. Pacific Airlines is struggling to survive, ...
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Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999
Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...
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Sun Air privatisation goes into the final furlong
South Africa has announced a shortlist of four bidding groups to go forward to the next phase in the privatisation of domestic airline Sun Air. Malaysian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and rival regional Comair are listed. Each of the three airlines, together with a fourth bid led by Phoenix ...
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Germany and UK deny French Airbus claims
French assertions that the four partners of the Airbus Industrie consortium have reached agreement on the future shape of the company have been denied strongly in Germany and the UK. Aerospatiale president Yves Michot claims that the four company presidents, meeting on 26/27 May, had agreed on "a ...
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France aims for closer military-engine co-operation with UK
The French armaments directorate DGA is mounting an initiative designed to push co-operation between France and the UK on research into advanced military engines. A senior DGA source says that there is a "possibility" of an announcement as early as this week's Paris air show on a joint-venture ...
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US Air Force embraces EGPWS
THE US AIR FORCE will begin buying enhanced ground-proximity warning systems (EGPWS) even before the US Federal Aviation Administration requires its installation on transport-category aircraft. The USAF joins a handful of US airlines which have voluntarily elected to install copies of the upgraded safety device on their aircraft ...
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Boeing battles to cut F-22 costs
Boeing is attempting to slash costs on the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter by up to $12 billion over the life of the programme, partly through a series of production initiatives. The move follows the review of the Joint Estimate Team (JET) US Department of Defense price watchdog, ...
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Boeing speeds hypersonic weapon push
Boeing North American has completed initial wind-tunnel work on a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet)- powered waverider lifting body. Now the company is pressing the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the effort as part of the development of future hypersonic weapons. The call ...
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Indonesia examines alternatives to F-16s
Indonesia has begun to focus attention on a range of alternative Russian and European-built fighter aircraft, following the Government's decision to cancel its planned purchase of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA (Flight International, 2-8 April). An Indonesian military delegation is understood to have already visited Russia ...