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Boeing wins airborne-laser battle-
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC A BOEING-LED TEAM has been selected by the US Air Force to develop and flight test an Airborne Laser (ABL) designed to shoot down short- and medium-range ballistic missiles during their boost phase. The Boeing Defense and Space Group team was awarded a $1.1 ...
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Eurocopter signs training helicopter contract with FBS
EUROCOPTER has signed a contract with joint-venture company FBS to supply 38 single-turbine AS350 Squirrel helicopters for use by the Defence Helicopter Flying School in the UK. The helicopters will be used to train Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force helicopter pilots. The school will have 76 ...
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Bell Boeing still hopes to increase tilt-rotor V-22 production
BELL BOEING executives still hope that production rates on the V-22 Osprey military tilt-rotor programme may be increased, despite a US Department of Defense (DoD) rebuttal of their proposal. The DoD has rejected a request to increase the V-22 production rate and switch to multi-year contracting which, the ...
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Display progress
Guy Norris/PHOENIX Graham Warwick/CEDAR RAPIDS Another busy day begins for the corporate-jet crew. Today's flight will take them from Dallas to New Orleans and on to Washington DC, weather permitting. The chief pilot moves the cursor to a "soft key" on the multi-function display (MFD) and selects weather ...
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Falcon rejuvenated
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH and Guy Norris/EDWARDS AFB FIGHTER PILOTS use "check six" as slang for a look back to ensure that the enemy is not approaching from behind. It is also the motto of the Lockheed Martin F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU) programme - signifying a look back to ...
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Hawker's new horizons
How do you create a totally new business jet which retains the qualities which made the Hawker name famous? Graham Warwick/WICHITA RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT HAS difficulty defining exactly what has made the Hawker family the most successful series of mid-sized business jets. "Balanced", "robust", "honest", "consistent" are words ...
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Pedigree preserved
Peter Henley/LUTON By the time British Aerospace sold its corporate-jets business to Raytheon in 1993, the BAe 125 8-14 passenger twinjet had gained a formidable reputation. Since 1962, when the original de Havilland DH 125 was first flown, 850 customers from more than 40 countries had purchased various ...
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European language
Forbes Mutch/LONDON On the face of it, business aviation in Europe is not looking healthy. Only one dedicated corporate-aircraft manufacturer survives (France's Dassault); the number of operational aircraft has fallen for the second year running (see P63); and major airport operators are closing their runways to business aircraft. ...
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Cautious optimism
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Business aviation's annual convention in the USA takes place this year in the "Sunshine State" - Florida. This would be appropriate for the outlook of the industry, at least in the home market, were it not for the threatening clouds reflecting concerns about regulation and taxation. ...
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Shifting balance
Forbes Mutch/London Midway through 1995, it looked as if a new trend had been established in the world fleet of business aircraft. For the first time in many years of turboprop dominance, the balance tipped in favour of jet-powered aircraft. The lead was not substantial (a meagre 1%) ...
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Collins
A demonstration flight in Rockwell-Collins' Sabreliner testbed, equipped with a prototype of its Pro Line 21 display for the Raytheon Premier I, illustrates the progress made since the system was launched a year ago. The first impression of the display is of solid colours and crisp symbols against a smooth ...
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Honeywell
Raytheon Aircraft's new Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet, to be unveiled at the National Business Aircraft Association show on 19 November, is the launch application for Honeywell's Primus Epic integrated avionics. Honeywell will be a risk-sharing partner in the programme, integrating equipment from other vendors and supplying a complete ...
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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Dallach provides Fascination
GERMAN KITPLANE MANUFACTURER Dallach is selling a new side-by-side two-seat aircraft, known as the Fascination D.4, in France and Germany. Previous Dallach designs have been open-cockpit mono and biplanes, such as the Sunrise II, in the ultralight and microlight classes. The Fascination is a sleek steel-tube-fuselage airframe with a bolt-on ...
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Air Methods delivers modular medical interior for MD900
Air Methods has delivered its first modular, multi-function, medical interiors to operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopter in Europe and the USA. Boise Life Flight in Idaho, and HSD in Germany, have taken delivery of Explorers equipped with the new multi-role interiors. Denver, Colorado-based Air Methods ...
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Dassault makes progress with Falcon 50EX
Dassault Aviation has flown the first production Falcon 50EX business jet. The aircraft is due to be displayed at the US National Business Aircraft Association show in Orlando, Florida, on 19-21 November, before being delivered to Dassault's Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre for interior installation. French certification of ...
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Raytheon unveils all-new Hawker
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Raytheon Aircraft has launched development of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet to replace the current Hawker 1000. The first flight is scheduled for late 1999, leading to US certification in the second quarter of 2001. Raytheon is planning to build 20-25 aircraft a year. ...
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ST-50 is lined up for February flight tests
The first production prototype of the ST-50 executive aircraft is scheduled to undergo flight tests in February 1997. Israviation, the ST-50 manufacturer, has moved to its permanent production site in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is already working on the two planned production prototypes. Test flights so ...
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Textron Lycoming puts new products on drawing board
Ramon Lopez/WILLIAMSPORT The resurgence of piston-engined general-aviation (GA) aircraft production in the USA has prompted Textron Lycoming to improve existing powerplants and develop new advanced engine models. Officials admit that research and development has remained "stagnant" during the past decade as the GA industry went into ...
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BMW R-R tackles weight of BR710
BMW Rolls-Royce expects to qualify weight-reduction changes to the BR710 powerplant by mid-1997. The manufacturer expects the changes to be incorporated progressively in batches of engines delivered to Bombardier and Gulfstream to power, respectively, the Global Express and Gulfstream V long-range business jets. Both aircraft manufacturers have acknowledged ...