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Poland's president promises defence spending increase
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski plans to double defence spending from 1998 to 2002, to help speed up his country's entry into NATO. Kwasniewski says that the money, amounting to Pzl8 billion ($6.2 billion), will be needed to fund armed-forces modernisation programmes, including the purchase of new multi-role combat ...
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Romanian air force receives first C-130Bs
The Romanian Air Force took delivery of its first two ex-US Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130B transports on 23 October. One of the aircraft, in Romanian air force colours, is shown at Shannon, Ireland, en route for Bucharest. Romania will take delivery of two more C-130Bs in November, and is ...
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South Korea considers stand-off weapon selection
Paul Lewis/SEOUL The SOUTH Korean air force is expected to make a decision in 1997 on the selection of a new air-launched stand-off weapon to arm its McDonnell Douglas F-4E and replacement F-X aircraft. South Korean interest is focused primarily on the Rockwell International AGM-130 ...
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Turkey will join USA in fielding Army Tactical Missile System
Turkey is to join the US Army in deploying the Lockheed Martin Vought Systems Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). The US defence contractor says that Turkey has agreed to buy 72 ATACMS missiles, worth $48 million. The foreign-military-sales transaction is the first outside the USA for the surface-to-surface ...
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Bombardier offers Challenger 604 part-shares
Bombardier Business Jet Solutions has taken delivery of the first Canadair Challenger 604 for use in its FlexJet fractional-ownership programme. The delivery boosts the number of aircraft operated by the Bombardier/AMR Combs joint venture to 22, including eight Learjet 31A light business jets, nine mid-sized Learjet 60s and three wide-body ...
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Main PNG helicopter operators
Papua New Guinea's (PNG's) two major helicopter operators plan to merge in early 1997 in an effort to combat growing international competition for their established businesses. Hevilift and Pacific Helicopters have a combined fleet of more than 70 aircraft, ranging from Bell 206 Jet Rangers, through light and ...
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Raytheon begins first Premier I fuselage
Graham Warwick/WICHITA Raytheon Aircraft is to produce the first composite-fuselage section for the Premier I business jet later in November, using fibre-placement technology. The forward-fuselage section is intended as a demonstration article, but could be used in an aircraft if it passes all qualification tests. ...
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FAA approves Duke strakes
Vortex-generator specialist Boundary Layer Research has obtained a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type-certificate for fitting a pair of aft-body strakes to Beech Duke models 60, A60 and B60. The two 1.6m-long strakes, weighing a total of 3.4kg, are riveted to the underside of the aft fuselage. They are claimed ...
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Funding hurdle bars further SW-4 progress
Andrjez Jeziorski/WARSAW Polish helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik successfully completed the much-delayed first flight of its SW-4 light helicopter on 26 October, but now has to fight for Government funding to complete certification. The single turbine five seater is the first new East European aircraft, designed and ...
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AVIC and AIA discuss extended-range AE-100
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Aero International Asia (AIA) are discussing development of an extended-range version of the proposed AirExpress AE-100 family of regional aircraft. According to industry sources, it is planned to offer the option of a longer-range derivative, designed to fly up to 4,800km ...
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China signs contract for CFM56-5B4s to power its A320 fleet
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has signed a $130 million contract with General Electric/Snecma for CFM56-5B4 engines to power 13 Airbus A320s for China Northwest Airlines and Zhejiang Airlines. Under a deal already agreed with CASC, ten of the A320s will be allocated to China Northwest, and the remaining ...
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MDC board terminates MD-XX
McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) long-term commitment to the commercial jet-airliner business has once more been thrown into doubt following the board's decision to scrub plans for the proposed MD-XX tri-jet. MDC chief executive Harry Stonecipher admits that the decision to abandon the programme, which was taken at a ...
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Swissair threatens to pull out of Sabena deal
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Swissair has warned that it is prepared to pull out of its investment in strike-hit Sabena if it does not meet the cost-cutting targets being set for the loss-making Belgian carrier. Swissair confirms, however, that it is pressing ahead with a joint fleet-renewal programme to ...
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TAM Fokker 100 clipped building before crashing
Brian Homewood/RIO de JANIERO A Fokker 100 (PT-MRK) operated by Brazilian regional airline TAM crashed into a densely populated residential area shortly after take-off from Sao Paulo's downtown Congonhas airport on 31 October. All 90 passengers and six crew on board were killed, along with at least ...
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Avpro studies Harrier personnel pod
UK company Avpro, is looking for development funding for a personnel pod to be carried on the outer-wing hardpoints of a British Aerospace Harrier GR7 or McDonnell Douglas AV-8B. Project director Mike Ryan, believes that the personnel extraction/insertion (exint) pod could be used for a wide range of missions, including ...
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Dowty awarded BAe IFPCS contract
British Aerospace has contracted Dowty Aerospace to design and develop a suite of flight-control actuation equipment for installation on BAe's Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control System technology demonstration rig. The rig, located at BAe Military Aircraft Division at Warton in the UK, will be used to perform integration ...
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Honeywell prepares to launch Primus Epic avionics system
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Honeywell plans to unveil its next-generation integrated-avionics system, the Primus Epic, at the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) meeting in Orlando, Florida, in mid-November. Hardware development, module building and testing begins in 1997, with software due to be run in 1998. Testing ...
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Litton replacements
Litton Industries has won a US Navy contract, potentially worth more than $50 million, to provide up to 784 replacement navigation systems for Lockheed Martin P-3s and C-130s. The replacement system combines laser inertial-navigation and global-positioning in one complete unit. Source: Flight International
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Kenya's Dutch treat
Allan Winn/NAIROBI If there hadn't been a KLM, I wouldn't have known what to do - we'd done all the things we could," says Kenya Airways managing director Brian Davies as he looks back over the months since a successful privatisation and the formation of a successful ...
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Momentum versus kinetic energy
Sir - Mr Alan Mason says that, "mass times velocity says it all". Actually, it doesn't. He seems to be mistaking momentum (MV) for kinetic energy (half MV2) - more than a slight difference when one is talking of speeds of 50,000km/h, or 8.5 miles/s. A given mass ...