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USAF chooses Warner
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has been selected over Boeing and Lockheed Martin to provide depot maintenance for the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin C-5A/B Galaxy transport aircraft. The decision shifts heavy-cargo-aircraft overhaul from the San Antonio Air Logistics Center at Kelly AFB, Texas, due to close in ...
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S Korea picks radars
ITT Gilfillan has received a $40 million follow-on contract from South Korea for fixed and mobile RAPCON air-traffic-control and air-defence-surveillance radars for the army and air force. Source: Flight International
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Hughes UK wins order to supply RAF reconnaisance pods
Hughes UK has won a £55 million ($90 million) order from the UK Ministry of Defence to provide the Royal Air Force with reconnaissance pods for its Panavia Tornados. The Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado programme requires Hughes UK and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems to deliver eight pods and two ...
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Russian air force faces cuts to save projects
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Senior Russian defence-ministry officials are advocating cutting the vast majority of combat-aircraft and helicopter development projects now under way in Russia, in an attempt to protect a handful of core programmes. In early September, defence-ministry acquisition chief Col Gen Anatoly Sitnov told a special ...
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GE completes growth T700 altitude tests
General Electric has completed altitude testing of the growth T700 turboshaft. The first T700/T6E flight-test engine will be delivered to NHIndustries later this year for installation on the NH90 military helicopter. The first CT7-8 commercial version will be delivered to Sikorsky in mid-1998. GE Aircraft Engines ...
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Widnall resigns as USAF Secretary to take up MIT teaching position
US Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall will leave her job on 30 October to return to teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Widnall became the first female service secretary in 1993. In resigning from her post, Widnall says: "It has always been my intention to see ...
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The fleet builds up
Increases in numbers of corporate aircraft during the past 12 monthsshow a healthy market The Flight International Corporate Aircraft Census is prepared by Aviation Data Services (Avdata): PO Box 2398 Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON DATA TABLES/Aviation Data Services If the 1997 Flight International Corporate-Aircraft Census is ...
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Falcon with frills
With its Falcon 900EX newly certificated, Dassault is in a strong position to resist its rivals. Julian Moxon With four years of strong sales, and 1997 figures looking as if they will set a record, Dassault Aviation had good reason to celebrate when its latest business-jet offering received its ...
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Greek fighter force
Rene van Woezik/Athens While recent Greek interest in the Boeing F-15 Eagle and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker may have caught the eye, the core of its air force's combat fleet into the first decade of the next century will be built around the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D, deliveries of which ...
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Learjet's latest
Bombardier's new Learjet 45 business jet proves pleasant and easy to fly Peter Henley/Wichita In the late 1950s, William Lear designed a small twinjet aircraft for business use with performance comparable to that of the jet-powered airliners of the day. Lear established a modest production plant at ...
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Dallas hosts No 50
Graham Warwick/Washington DC The US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) begins its 50th anniversary year with a revamped name intended to reflect more accurately its role in enhancing the safety, efficiency and acceptance of business aviation. The NBAA also completes its first half-century of advocacy, with many major ...
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Hong Kong caters for business aviation
Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre has been appointed by the Airport Authority of Hong Kong to design and build a fixed-based operation for business aircraft at the new Chek Lap Kok Airport. The company, a joint venture between US-based executive-aviation service provider AMR Combs and Chinese shareholders, will also operate ...
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First Galaxy moves towards first flight
The first Galaxy business jet to fly, in December, will be aircraft No 3, rolled out on 4 September. It will be followed by one further flying prototype and two test airframes (Nos 1 and 2), with aircraft No 5 being the first customer machine, to be delivered in 1999. ...
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North Sea crash results in AS332L1 grounding
David Learmount/London North Sea oil-support companies have grounded voluntarily about 50 Eurocopter AS 332L1 Super Pumas following the crash off the Norwegian coast of a Helikopter Service helicopter on 8 September, when all 12 people on board were killed. The cause of the crash was unknown ...
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PZL-Mielec aims to generate Brazilian sales with local plant
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec is preparing to start final assembly of M-18B Dromader agricultural and firefighting aircraft at a new plant in Anapolis, Brazil. According to Mielec, the first Polish-manufactured aircraft parts are to be delivered this month, with the first completed aircraft to be ...
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BAe rules out becoming major Air Jet investor
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON British Aerospace has effectively ruled out making any major investment in the Aero International Regional (AI(R)) Air Jet regional-jet programme, saying that the most important priority for funding must be the Airbus Industrie consortium. The company has pledged publicly to continue to support AI(R)in ...
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Potential suitors eye Cathay partnership
Cathay Pacific Airways says that it is being actively courted by global airline partnerships - in addition to the Star Alliance - but that is in no rush to make a decision. The Hong Kong carrier also warns that the recent downturn in traffic will affect the timing of its ...
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Explorer first flight
Boeing's first production MD 903 Explorer twin-turbine helicopter had its first flight on 5 September at the manufacturer's base at Mesa, Arizona. The eight-seat light helicopter aircraft is an upgraded version of the original MD Explorer, offering more powerful Pratt & Whitney 206E turboshafts, 8% more range, 4% more endurance, ...
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Delay forces F-22 flight-test changes
Graham Warwick/Atlanta Initial flight-testing of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has been revised to accommodate the delayed first flight of the air-superiority fighter. Plans to fly the F-22 from Lockheed Martin's final-assembly plant in Marietta, Georgia, to the flight-test centre at the US Air Force's Edwards AFB, California, ...