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Lockheed Martin looks east with KC-130J
Lockheed Martin is developing a hybrid boom/ probe-and-drogue variant of its KC-130J Hercules II, aimed at Middle Eastern states with mixed fighter fleets. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are thought to be the most likely near-term customers, although the United Arab Emirates could emerge as a prospect in the ...
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Saudi FLIR
The Royal Saudi Naval Force has signed an agreement with US company FLIR Systems for the supply of up to 80 AAQ-22 SAFIRE forward- looking infra-red thermal-imaging systems for its Eurocopter Super Puma helicopters and for naval patrol craft. The foreign-military-sales contract is initially worth $700,000, although if the Saudi ...
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Aerospatiale/Denel deal
Aerospatiale of France and SouthAfrica's Denel are expanding their co-operative agreement with a deal signed during the IDEX show between Yves Michot, Aerospatiale chairman, and Johan Alberts, Denel chief executive. Possible areas of collaboration include tactical missiles, helicopters and aircraft. Source: Flight International
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BAe offers Gripen to Oman to replace Jaguar
British Aerospace is proposing the Swedish Saab JAS39 Gripen to Oman as a replacement for its Sepecat Jaguar combat aircraft, while Lockheed Martin is understood to be offering secondhand and new-build F-16s. The Omani air force is conducting a study into its future combat-aircraft strategy, including consideration of ...
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Kentron flight tests new laser-designator pod
Kentron of South Africa is working on an aircraft laser-designator pod. A test version is already undergoing preliminary flying trials. The pod, which is fitted with a forward-looking infra-red sensor and laser designator, is designated the KZ2, and draws on company technology initially developed for reconnaissance and target-location ...
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Apache warner
Egypt wants to acquire a laser detector for its McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apache attack helicopters, for protection against threats such as laser-beam-riding surface-to-air missiles. It is believed to be looking for systems for up to 38 helicopters. The most likely purchase is for the Hughes AVR-2A(V). Kuwait and the United ...
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US carriers hunt for new twin families
CONTINENTAL Airlines is negotiating with Boeing and Airbus Industrie over the purchase of 40 long-range commercial aircraft worth as much as $2.5 billion, says the airline. Continental expects to decide within two months whether to buy the Boeing 767-400 or 777, or, instead, purchase the Airbus A330-200. The ...
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Delta signs up with Boeing for exclusive fleet-renewal deal
Delta Air Lines has agreed an exclusive 20-year fleet-acquisition plan with Boeing, covering the potential purchase of up to 644 aircraft, and launching the stretched 767-400 as part of the initial order phase. The deal includes 106 firm orders, 124 options and 414 "rolling options". Despite "fierce competition" ...
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Global goes quiet
Both BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engines were inadvertently shut down in flight during testing of Bombardier's second Global Express prototype. The engines were restarted from the AlliedSignal RE200 auxiliary power unit. One BR710 had been shut down for relight tests when the crew accidentally attempted to relight the operating engine, causing ...
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First flight for NH90 second prototype
Eurocopter France has carried out the maiden flight of the second prototype NH Industries NH90 multi-national transport helicopter. It is the first of the five planned prototypes to be fitted with a fly-by-wire flight-control system - although that was inhibited on the initial flight, to ensure that other ...
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-plans IHAS avionics safety development
AlliedSignal Aerospace is discussing with airlines and aircraft manufacturers its plan to develop a so-called integrated hazard-avoidance system (IHAS). The IHAS would combine safety-related avionics systems, such as ground-proximity warning system, traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system and windshear detection, in a single box, with the aim of providing a ...
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Jayhawk gets GPS
Raytheon Aircraft is to retrofit US Air Force T-1A Jayhawk tanker/transport trainers with global-positioning systems (GPS) in a deal potentially worth $25 million if all 180 aircraft are upgraded. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal sets regional target for RE220 APU-
The AlliedSignal-led team which is developing the RE220 auxiliary power unit (APU) is refocusing its efforts on the regional-aircraft market, following the virtual completion of the Gulfstream V flight-test programme, followed by the beginning of the Bombardier Global Express test effort. The APU produces up to 280kW (375hp) ...
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C-17 is capable of all envisaged roles
Sir - We agree with Comment "Strategic retreat" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P3), which says that the US armed forces must replace the Lockheed C-141 in the early 2000s. That replacement, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III, already exists. We recently delivered aircraft No 30 to the Air ...
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Teledesic approval
The US Federal Communications Commission has approved the deployment of 840 small communications-satellites in low-Earth orbit, starting in 2002, to provide the proposed $9 billion Teledesic multi-media service. The UK's University of Kent's space-debris research department says that the satellites could double the debris collision rate in orbit. ...
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Lockheed Martin wins Indonesian Palapa race
Lockheed Martin has beaten Hughes, Aerospatiale and Matra Marconi Space (MMS) to win a $140 million deal to build a replacement for the Palapa B2R communications satellite operated by Indonesia's PT Telkom. The 36-transponder spacecraft, to be called the Telkom 1, is likely to be launched by Arianespace ...
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BMed
Geoff Crawford BMED Capt Geoff Crawford has been appointed director of flight operations at British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) of London, UK. Crawford, who joined British Airways as a pilot in 1968, has more recently been senior strategy manager for the BA corporate-strategy department and business manager for customer-service development. Charles ...
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Emirates' pilot
There is an infectious buzz about Dubai. The country is awash with new construction on a grand scale. Among other things, the tiny Gulf state will soon have the world's tallest and most exotic hotel to add to its tally of international golf courses, race tracks and shopping malls. It ...
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UAE springs EF2000 surprise
The United Arab Emirates has formally reintroduced the Eurofighter EF2000 into its multi-role/strike aircraft competition, catching the previously two short-listed competitors, Lockheed Martin and Dassault, off guard. The move comes after months of behind-the-scenes political activity and several visits by senior UAE defence officials to British Aerospace's Warton ...
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A fine balance
IT IS A BELIEF UNIVERSALLY held among airline managers that, in an upturn, their own particular airline will perform better than its competitors, and that in a downturn it will suffer less. In general, this is bunkum, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is on the basis of ...