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GV improvements increase efficiency
Engine and airframe aerodynamic improvements are allowing Gulfstream to claim significant efficiency gains for its GV ultra-long-range business jet. Chief customer engineer Ed Flinn says that the improvements (including a specific-fuel-consumption reduction of "one and a half percentage points") are compensating for the excess weight from which the aircraft still ...
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IPTN looks at options for RAAF
IPTN is in advanced negotiations with Pratt & Whitney Canada to offer a variant of the PW119 engine as an alternative powerplant on the IPTN CN.235-330 which it is to propose to meet the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Air 5190 Light Tactical Airlift Capability (LTAC) requirement. ...
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RAAF seeks initial funding for 707 tanker upgrade
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is hoping to secure initial funding in financial year 1998/9 to replace or upgrade its fleet of Boeing 707-300 tankers. According to local defence sources, Australia wants to advance its tanker replacement into the next five-year procurement cycle, because of rising concern ...
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Greenwich absorbs UNC to create overhaul giant
Greenwich Air Services is poised to make its biggest acquisition to date with agreement to take over UNC. The combined group will become the world's largest independent engine-services operation, with annual sales of around $1.8 billion and more than 10,000 employees. Greenwich chairman Eugene Conese says that the ...
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EVA profits again
EVA Air reports a second consecutive year of profits, after being launched six years ago by the Evergreen shipping group as Taiwan's second international carrier. After posting its first $7.2 million in profits ahead of plan in 1995, EVA has followed with a $17 million return in 1996. Sales continued ...
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Saab Aircraft counters 'merger' speculation
Saab Group president Bengt Halse has moved to quash speculation that the Swedish group may dispose of its civil-aircraft business, although it has taken a heavy charge to pay for market "repositioning" of the Saab 2000. Presenting Saab Aircraft's financial results, Halse said that the turboprop business is ...
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Mergers mould shape of US industry
The frenetic pace of merger and acquisition activity has again reshaped the league of US manufacturers for 1996 and more is expected this year, as the spate of big deals causes reverberations among the second tier of aerospace and defence companies. As expected, Lockheed Martin emerges as the ...
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BAe buys balance of USA's Reflectone
BRITISH AEROSPACE IS to acquire the balance of US simulator manufacturer Reflectone. The UK firm already owns 48% of the Tampa, Florida-based company, and has agreed to pay roughly $86 million for the outstanding stock. Reflectone president Richard Snyder says that the company's management is "strongly in favour" ...
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Longbow
Richard Russell has been named president of the Longbow Limited Liability Company, the Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman joint venture developing and manufacturing the Longbow weapon system. He will also head Longbow International, a joint venture set up for international sales. He was formerly director of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin's Electronics ...
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Sony trans
Irvine, California-based airline-entertainment- and cabin-information-systems provider Sony Trans Com has appointed Fran Waddle director of entertainment and information services. She was formerly managing director for inflight products at American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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GB Airways
Stephen Sturton-Davies has been appointed to the new position of general manager for the Western Mediterranean at UK scheduled carrier GB Airways, of Gatwick Airport. He will be based at the British Airways office in Madrid, Spain. Source: Flight International
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Rolls-Royce aims to clinch RAAF Hawk deal with Adour power
Rolls-Royce is offering Australia a full-authority digital electronic-control (FADEC) version of the Adour Mk871, in a last-ditch effort to swing a deal to power the air force's recently selected British Aerospace Hawk 100 lead-in fighter trainer. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is to make a decision shortly ...
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New Zealand offered temporary Wasp replacements
GKN Westland and Kaman are both offering to supply the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) with interim replacements for its Westland Wasps, until new-build or reconditioned naval helicopters can be delivered. The RNZN had hoped to introduce a replacement for its fleet of elderly Wasps by the middle ...
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Target support
Boeing subsidiary Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA) has been awarded a contract to provide through-life support for the Royal Australian Navy's planned new Tracor MQM-107E aerial target. The system is to enter service in 1998 and will replace the ASTA Jindivik system. ASTA is also looking at manufacturing wings, horizontal ...
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Australia starts AEW&C evaluation programme
Australia has embarked on a 30-month programme to evaluate and select an airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, following the submission of preliminary tenders by three competing consortia led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Wedgetail calls for initial design-activity ...
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BAe consolidates training services
British Aerospace has restructured its training services and products into a new corporate entity, to be named British Aerospace Training Services. The group will incorporate the company's training centres at Prestwick, Scotland, and Tamworth, Australia, as well as its interests in Singapore-based Asia Pacific Training and Simulation, North Sea Range, ...
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The Australian International Airshow Down...
The Australian International Airshow Down Under 97 was held atAvalon Airport in Victoria from 18-23 February. Despite a marked drop-off in the number of display aircraft over earlier shows, the event attracted a wide range of defence and general-aviation exhibitors. There was particular interest in Australia's pending requirement for an ...
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RAF Nimrod facelift begins
The Royal Air Force has begun to ship the first of its British Aerospace Nimrod MR2s from Kinloss in Scotland to FR Aviation in Bournemouth, southern England, for refurbishment as part of its Replacement Maritime Patrol Aircraft programme. Three aircraft, held in storage, were stripped to the fuselage and flown ...
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Norway narrows fighter choice to EF2000/F-16
The Norwegian defence ministry has confirmed that it has shortlisted the Eurofighter consortium and Lockheed Martin to begin negotiations to select a winner to meet its KFA-96 fighter requirement to replace its obsolescent Northrop F-5s. The decision, first revealed in Flight International (12-18 February), will eventually lead to ...
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Netherlands defence ministry advises Slovenia on choice of fighter aircraft
THE ROYAL Netherlands Air Force is conducting force structure and procurement studies for Slovenia as part of the ex-Yugoslavian republic's attempts to establish an independent air force. Slovenia began talks with the Netherlands Government in the third quarter of 1996 for assistance in establishing its air force, viewing ...