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China works on active air-to-air missile
China is working on an active radar-guided air-to-air missile, with the China Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute (CLETRI) to develop an active radar-guided seeker. The seeker, for use on what CLETRI describes as the AMR-1 missile, was shown at the Zhouhai air show. It uses a flat-plate antenna with a ...
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Sukhoi presses on with fifth-generation designs
Co Gen Deinekin (left) and Mikhail Simonov met this year to discuss the S-32 The latest design iteration of the S-32? The above impression represents an early S-32 iteration Alexander Velovich/MOSCOWDouglas Barrie/LONDON Sukhoi is continuing to pursue research into advanced "fifth-generation" ...
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Northrop Grumman sues the Pentagon
Northrop Grumman has filed a $750 million lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, seeking to recover losses it incurred on the AGM-137 Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme which the US Air Force cancelled in 1995. The company says that the US Government violated its own procurement ...
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Growing ambitions
Emirates has achieved a phenomenal rate of growth during its first ten years, achieving profit in all but its second year. Paul Phelan/Dubai Since its inception in 1985, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has, on average, doubled in size every three and half years and made a profit in all ...
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Coming of age
The Orient Airline Association, after years of relative silence, has now found its voice. Oriental airlines are finding strength in unity Paul Lewis/BRISBANE The Orient Airline Association (OAA) has been in existence for some 40 years, but only in the past 24 months has it ...
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Time to convert?
"Build it and they will come" is Bell Boeing's hope for sales for the world's first civil tilt-rotor. Offshore support will be a key market for the Bell Boeing 609 nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor Graham Warwick/ORLANDO WHENBELL BOEING unveiled the Model 609 civil tilt-rotor in Washington ...
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Cessna offers sales to service stations
Cessna is to give all of its existing authorised piston-single service stations the opportunity to sell new aircraft. The company says that the move will enable customers to obtain service at the same place as they buy their new piston-single aircraft. Cessna plans to form a network of dealers or ...
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New Meyers develops four-seater
M300 flight-testing is scheduled to begin in early 1997 New Meyers Aircraft has begun development of a four-seat light aircraft, with certification flight-testing scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 1997. The new M300 is planned to enter production alongside the company's two-seat SP20, an updated version of ...
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P&WC aims for PW500 goals
Pratt & Whitney Canada hopes to achieve two major milestones for its PW500 series this month, including European certification of the PW530A for the Cessna Citation Bravo and Transport Canada certification of the PW545A for the Cessna Citation Excel. Some 10,200h of development and certification testing have ...
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Windeagle peps up Windecker project
Canada's Windeagle Aircraft plans to produce the five-seat Windecker Eagle light aircraft, which became the first all-composite aircraft to win US certification in the 1970s, but which never entered production. The Windeagle is powered by a 210kW (285hp) Teledyne Continental IO-520, but the company plans to install a ...
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Airbus welcomes in Alenia
Julian Moxon/Paris Airbus Industrie and Italy's Alenia/Finmeccanica have agreed to form a company to lead European participation in the AirExpress AE-100 regional aircraft, to be built under a joint venture with China and Singapore. The Italian group is also being invited to "draw nearer" to Airbus through ...
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India looks at active phased-array AEW
India has started work on an active phased-array system for possible use in an indigenous airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft programme. In a paper presented to a conference held in tandem with the Indian air show, the country's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) revealed that a "-long-range AEW, based ...
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McDonnell Douglasties its civil fortunes with Boeing
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has formally agreed to pursue a "strategic collaboration" with Boeing for future development of widebody airliners, in a move seen as a possible first step towards a full-scale merger of the group's Douglas Aircraft (DAC) unit and the Seattle-based giant. The deal, signed on ...
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Delta, Continental consider merger options
Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines are refusing to comment on widely publicised reports that they are negotiating a possible merger that would create the largest airline in the world. The talks, reportedly initiated by Continental several months ago, are at an early stage, and lesser options are ...
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Legal row will not delay Storm Shadow contract
Despite a legal spat between Aerospatiale and Matra over the Apache stand-off missile, Matra British Aerospace Dynamics expects to conclude a deal with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on the Storm Shadow derivative of the missile before 1997. Aerospatiale has begun legal proceedings against Matra over ...
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Rockwell deal
Boeing's acquisition of Rockwell's Aerospace and Defense businesses was formally completed on 6 December with the establishment of a new subsidiary called Boeing North America, headed by John McLuckey. "We have openings for about 1,000 people," he says. Source: Flight International
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India signs up thrust-vectored Su-30
Andrew Chuter/BANGALORE A new version of the Sukhoi Su-30 multi-role combat aircraft with thrust-vector controls, canards and, possibly, Western avionics, is to be delivered to India as part of a $1.8 billion deal signed with Russia. The 40 aircraft involved in the agreement will all be ...
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Committee decision derails privatisation of Thomson
Julian Moxon/Paris The French government has been forced to abandon, at least temporarily, its planned privatisation of defence-electronics giant Thomson SA, following the rejection of its plan by an independent privatisation committee. The move was unexpected, and leaves the Government's attempts to restructure the French ...
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DoD AIM-9X decision will launch US missile sector restructuring
Even closer links could develop between the MDC F-18 and Hughes' AMRAAM Douglas Barrie/LONDON An imminent decision from the US Department of Defense (DoD) over a Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missile replacement presages a radical shake-up of the US missile-manufacturing industry. The decision, due ...
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Reflectone wins USMC V-22 deal
Reflectone has won the contract to supply a suite of maintenance trainers for the US Marine Corps Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport. The company also plans to bid to supply V-22 flight simulators, the request for proposals for which is expected to be issued in January 1997. ...