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Hughes exports trainer devices
Hughes Training (HTI) has secured the first international customers for its unit training device (UTD), developed to provide squadron-level training for USAir Force Lockheed Martin F-16 pilots. Jordan has ordered an F-16A UTD, South Korea has committed to six F-16 devices, and Bahrain is to buy an F-16C UTD. ...
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Three bidders queue for UK MoD project
Three simulator manufacturers have submitted bids for the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Medium Support Helicopter (MSH) programme. A contract to build and operate the training centre is expected to be awarded by March 1997, although the MoD may first narrow the competition to two contractors. CAE ...
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Hawk eye for France
Contraves, with Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), will supply a Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye operational flight-trainer to the French navy. TTS is scheduled to provide the motion and visual systems, including its Space Magic image-generator. Source: Flight International
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E&S answers Silicon Graphics success
Evans & Sutherland (E&S) has introduced an image-generator architecture which will enable it to take advantage of the rapid advances in commercially available hardware and software. Under development for two years, the Universal 3D Architecture is E&S' response to the success of Silicon Graphics (SGI) in the visual-simulation market, using ...
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Inmarsat D provides two-way messaging for GPS receivers
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Hand-held global-positioning-system (GPS) receivers incorporating two-way short-messaging capabilities will be available to general-aviation pilots from the third quarter of 1997, according to international mobile satellite-communications provider Inmarsat. Technology is being developed to take advantage of the new Inmarsat D service, launched on 3 December. ...
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MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks
MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks US Fuel-tank manufacturer PATS has gained a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate for its long-range auxiliary fuel system for the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 twinjet. The PATS system consists of ten auxiliary fuel tanks located in the aircraft's lower ...
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Inner Health sends crews to sleep
Forbes Mutch/ORLANDO Sleep-and-fatigue research company Inner Health is offering a commercial version of its Fatigue Reduction/Safety Enhancement Training system to airlines and other aviation-related users after completing a two-year development programme in association with the US Air Force. The system involves personnel being trained in ...
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HAL tries to cut ALH weight
HAL displayed a light-attack variant of the ALH and a civil version is under way Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has launched a weight-reduction programme on its Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), to allow the aircraft to meet Indian army requirements. Programme officials confirm that they are looking ...
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...as ALH engine plans firm up
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) is close to signing a deal with LHTEC, the Allied Signal/Allison engine joint venture, to supply its CTS800 turboshaft to power the prototype of HAL's civil Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH). Work is expected to get under way early in 1997, in what will be ...
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Indian army prepares to test new UAV
The Indian Army is to start user trials of a new unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) in 1997, following the completion of a series of tests by the Indian Aeronautical Development Establishment. The Nishant, which has a composite airframe, is claimed to have an endurance of around 5h, a range of ...
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Aero offers L-59
Aero Vodochody is making a late bid to break into the competition to supply an advanced jet trainer for the Indian air force. The Czech company exhibited the L-59 trainer at Bangalore in the belief that the evaluation could be re-opened. To date, only the British Aerospace Hawk, Dassault/ Dornier ...
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Fairchild Dornier may move 328 wing to HAL
Fairchild Dornier and Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) are in negotiation to move wing production for the 328 turboprop from Germany to India. The Indian company has also been earmarked to build the aircraft's fuselage shell, now fabricated by Daewoo in South Korea. In a separate move, ...
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Aero India
Although its Light Combat Aircraft was absent, the progress which India is making on its path to becoming a major aerospace player was on display at Aero India 96. The most visible signs of this at the 3-7 December show were the Advanced Light Helicopter, along with the public debut ...
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Indian air force opts for Elta on Jaguar
The Indian air force has selected a variant of the Israeli Elta El/M 2032 pulse-Doppler radar as part of an upgrade for its maritime-strike Sepecat Jaguars. The Israeli company will supply ten radars for the upgrade programme, along with an additional radar for integration trials. The first flight ...
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India studies Mirage/Jaguar replacement
The Kaveri may power the twin-engined medium combat aircraft India has begun a conceptual study into a medium combat aircraft, intended to replace air force Dassault Mirages and SepecatJaguars from around 2010, according to Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, chief scientific advisor to the Indian defence ...
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TAAL stakes claim to corporate aircraft niche
Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) has launched what is believed to be India's first fractional-ownership scheme aimed at the corporate-aviation market. The company, a subsidiary of engineering company Indian Seamless, has set up the Netair scheme based on three of its own P68s - built locally under licence ...
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AGI enters Bolivia
Airport Group International, which is owned by Lockheed Martin and Soros Capital, has been awarded a 25-year contract to operate Bolivia's three main airports. The US group says that it will invest $100 million in expanding the passenger terminals at La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. Source: Flight ...
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Reforming Liberte
TAT president Marc Rochet prepares to lead British Airways' challenge in France. Julian Moxon/PARIS By the beginning of 1997, Marc Rochet, president since August of British Airways French subsidiary TAT, is likely to find himself president of the largest privately owned airline grouping in France. He is ...
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NASA's XAF moves
NASA's Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), designed to be the world's most powerful X-ray observatory, is taking shape, with Eastman Kodak delivering the high-resolution mirror assembly. It has also delivered the optical-bench structure to spacecraft prime contractor TRW. The AXAF project is the third of NASA's Great Observatory series, after ...
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Space Systems Loral boosts Japan's H2A with ten orders
Japan's uprated H2A booster has been booked for ten flights by Space Systems Loral, giving the launcher a total of 20 firm commercial-launch bookings, an unprecedented number for a new launch vehicle. The latest Loral order, which covers launches scheduled to take place from 2000, follows the booking ...