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Growing future
Dubai looks forward to an increasingly significant show Douglas Barrie/Max Kingsley-Jones/Kate Sarsfield/LONDON In the last few years, the Dubai air show has established itself as probably the fourth most significant international event (and second in regional terms after Singapore's Asian Aerospace) in the regular two-year air show calendar. ...
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RSAF purchases additional F-16C/Ds
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to expand its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters with an order for another 12 Block 52 standard aircraft. Singapore's follow-on purchase will allow it to deploy at least two squadrons of F-16C/Ds locally. The additional aircraft are likely to ...
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ARIA concludes deal to lease II-96M/Ts
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has reached agreement to acquire its Pratt & Whitney PW2337-powered 20 Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts through lease financing rather than direct purchase. ARIA's order includes 17 passenger Il-96Ms and three Il-96T freighters, to be purchased by a joint-venture leasing company established by the National Reserve ...
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Vega photon release
Photon Research Associates of Texas, USA, has released two new real-time software modules for Paradigm Simulation's Vega embedded software-development environment. While RadarWorks simulates synthetic aperture radar displays and will soon include Doppler beam-sharpening, SensorWorks produces displays of simulated environments based on user-defined virtual sensor characteristics. Source: ...
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New missions
NASA has selected two new science missions in its low-cost, 250kg-class Small Explorer programme, to investigate solar flares and the evolution of galaxies. The $67 million High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager will be launched by a Pegasus XL booster in 2000, while the $65 million Galaxy Evolution Explorer ultra-violet telescope ...
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China's first VIP CRJ
Bombardier has delivered the first of five Canadair Corporate JetLiners to China under a $116 million deal signed in January. Three aircraft will be delivered this year and two next, replacing VIPChallenger 600s. The 25- to 32-seat variants of the Canadair Regional Jet will be operated by China ...
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Flexjet passes 150
Bombardier Business JetSolutions' FlexJet fractional-ownership programme, launched in May 1995, has passed the 150-owner mark. The FlexJet fleet of Bombardier Learjet 31As, Learjet 60s and Canadair Challenger 604s, now totalling 34 aircraft, is expected to approach 40 by year-end. Source: Flight International
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Innovative FBO
Mercury Air Centers is to build a $5 million, art deco, "Hollywood-themed" fixed-base operation (FBO), complete with screening room, at Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport in California. The FBO, which is Mercury's fifteenth, is to open in late 1998. Source: Flight International
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Jet manages GV
Jet Aviation has become the first business-aircraft management company to take on a long-range Gulfstream V, which will be operated on behalf of its owner. The aircraft is the second delivered to a customer. Source: Flight International
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Explorer costs
Boeing says that direct operating costs for new-production MD Explorer helicopters have been reduced to $394/h, from $430/h originally, through longer-life parts and a 22% cut in spares costs. Source: Flight International
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Austin grows
Texas-based Austin Jet International is to expand its maintenance capability to handle larger corporate aircraft when it relocates from Austin to nearby Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport in mid-1998, with the closure of Austin's Robert Mueller Airport in favour of the former Bergstrom AFB. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon supports DEA
Raytheon Aerospace is to maintain and support the US Drug Enforcement Agency's fleet of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, based at FortWorth, Texas, under a contract potentially worth almost $85 million over five years. Source: Flight International
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Winglets progress
Seattle, Washington-based Aviation Partners has so far sold 55 blended-winglet performance-enhancement kits for the Gulfstream II and plans to retrofit the remainder of the GII fleet over the next two years. The $457,000 modification increases range by 7%. Source: Flight International
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Crash recorders found
The crashed Garuda Airbus A300's flight recorders have been found buried at the Sumatra accident site, airline officials have reported. Evidence indicates that the 26 September accident was not caused by technical problems but to the crew's failure to initiate a turn ordered by air-traffic control to intercept the instrument-landing ...
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Avpro rescue pod
Hunting Engineering and Avpro have completed a feasibility study on a manned EXINT pod for the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, which can be carried on a hardpoint under the wing of a British Aerospace Harrier GR7 for rapid rescue missions, or for insertion of special forces. ...
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Additional AMRAAM
The Pentagon plans to sell South Korea an additional $180 million worth of advanced weaponry, including 159 AIM-120B Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) made by Hughes Aircraft and Raytheon, and one MK 41 Vertical Launch System for installation on a new frigate under construction. Source: ...
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USMC tests ADAD
The US Marine Corps has ordered a Air Defence Alerting Device (ADAD) from Pilkington Optronics, which anticipates further orders following testing and evaluation. ADAD is a passive wide-area ground-based sensor which identifies, tracks and prioritises targets from their infrared signatures. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin outlines air-mobility
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin believes that next-generation military-transport aircraft will use commercial engine and cockpit technology, but will require unique features precluding the adaptation of civil-freighter designs. The next military transport will have to be produced for around the same $100 million price tag as ...
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USA begins F-2 work
Lockheed Martin has begun manufacture of parts for production Mitsubishi F-2 support fighters. The first aft fuselage will be delivered in late 1998. The first production F-2 for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force will be rolled out in early 2000. Source: Flight International
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Hamburg Airlines to fold after partner talks fail
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Hamburg Airlines managing director Udo Klien confirms that the carrier will fold at the end of the year, after the failure of partnership talks with regional carrier Augsburg Airways. Augsburg is now planning instead to extend its Hamburg operations within its existing Team Lufthansa ...