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Eurofighter partners agree on worldwide marketing/sales deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The four Eurofighter consortium partners have reached an internal agreement on dividing up areas of responsibility for worldwide marketing and sales of the EF2000 combat aircraft. According to senior sources within the consortium, the agreement was approved in May by member companies Alenia, British ...
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Lockheed tests F-22
Lockheed Martin has begun taxi trials in preparation for the first flight of the F-22, possibly by the end of this month, after testing the fighter's 156kN (35,000lb)-thrust Pratt & Whitney F119 powerplants at full afterburner, with the aircraft tied down. A series of minor software problems, including over-sensitive sensors ...
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GE details F110 programme for F-15/F-16
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric plans to run a signiÌcantly upgraded version of its F110-129 engine as early as the last quarter of 1998 if the United Arab Emirates (UAE) selects the proposed Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 60 with its engine rather than the competing Pratt & Whitney F100-229. The ...
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Northrop Grumman hawks advanced radars for fighters
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NORTHROP GRUMMAN is taking orders for improved versions of the APG-66 and APG-68 fire-control radars, according to vice-president for avionics systems James Pitts. The advanced systems include the APG-68 Agile Beam Radar (ABR), the active electronically scanned-array variant of the radar installed in ...
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Singapore studies bases
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is considering a shortlist of locations on offer from the Australian government as permanent advanced jet-training bases. The RSAF study is running concurrently with a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) review of airfield requirements, and the Australian Defence Force (ADF), while ...
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No train, no gain
David Learmount/LONDON Aspiring student pilots worldwide are naturally delighted by the growing demand for airline crew, but it is becoming clear that an appropriate pilot's licence and ratings are no longer automatic passports to jobs. The training industries of Europe and the USA report that airlines expect higher ...
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Advanced wing for the Beaver wins approval
A CANADIAN company has received supplemental type-certification for a replacement wing which enables the gross weight of the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver to be increased. Vancouver, British Columbia-based Advanced Wing Technologies (AWT) says that it already has orders for the C$95,000 ($73,000) modification from operators in Alaska, Australia and Canada. ...
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UK research team floats new helicopter ditching system
A British research project which is investigating improvements to emergency flotation devices has recommended further development of two devices which it believes could prevent helicopters which have ditched in heavy seas from inverting. BMT Fluid Mechanics, with help from GKN Westland Helicopters, has been undertaking the study for ...
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AOPA safety arm funds research
Research into a novel high-lift device is being funded by a ground-breaking grant from the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's (AOPA) Air Safety Foundation. The research grant has been awarded to Wichita State University in Kansas to conduct computational fluid-dynamic analysis and windtunnel testing to validate the "Nahas wing" ...
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Arm sales up for USA
The US Congressional Research Service reports that the value of military export deals totalled $32 billion in 1996, the first yearly increase since 1992. The USA topped the arms-sales league, with exports of $11 billion, compared with $9 billion in 1995. The UK improved from 1995's $1 billion, to $5 ...
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Continental is revealed as EVA's US partner
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways has agreed an alliance with Continental Airlines of the USA. The deal struck between the two carriers, which is expected to be announced on 26 August, will cover a range of activities which includes a frequent-flyer tie-up (Flight International, 6-12 August). The ...
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KLM pursues European plans
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM says that it will continue to press ahead with plans to increase its presence across Europe, having signed its latest partnership deal with Norway's Braathens SAFE- backed with a 30%equity stake. KLM, which took full control of Air UK earlier this year and ...
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Olympic will buy 737-800s
Julian Moxon/paris Olympic Airways is to acquire a fleet of Next Generation Boeing 737s and Airbus A340s. The airline is close to resolving its long-running dispute with the European Commission (EC), which has held up payment of the last two tranches of its state aid. Resolution of the ...
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Successful launch of Long March booster
China Great Wall Industry (CGWIC) successfully launched the second Long March LM3B, its most powerful satellite booster, from Xichang on 19 August, carrying the Space Systems/Loral-built Agila 2 communications satellite into geostationary-transfer orbit (GTO) for Mabuhay Philippine Satellite. The launch of the first LM3B failed on 14 February, ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce presses Bonn to finance Tu-334
Andrzej Jeziorski/MOSCOW German engine manufacturer BMW Rolls-Royce has appealed to the Bonn Government to give financial backing to the Tupolev Tu-334 102-seat regional jet. "We believe that some of the financial assistance and credit which the German Government is giving Russia for commercial projects should be ...
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United buys time for regional-jet deal with Atlantic Coast Airlines
United Airlines has agreed to reimburse the aircraft-lease and flight-crew costs for Atlantic Coast Airlines' (ACA) Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ) until the end of the year, giving the carrier more time to reach an agreement with its pilots . ACA had planned to begin an independent regional-jet ...
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Alcore in Japan
Maryland-based Alcore has licensed its phosphoric-acid anode (PAA-CORE) technology to Showa Aircraft Industry of Japan. PAA-COREis a flexible aluminium honeycomb material with anti- corrosive properties. Source: Flight International
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Boeing studies composite primary-wing technology
Guy Norris/Los Angeles Boeing Commercial Airplane Group is drawing on expertise at the former McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Phantom Works to study composite primary wing structures. Before the recent merger, Boeing and MDC were separately involved in NASA's $130million Advanced Composites Technology (ACT) effort. MDC focused on ...
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Volga-Dnepr signs up for Il-96T
Ilyushin has signed an agreement with Russian cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr covering the sale of four Il-96T freighters, with two options. The aircraft manufacturer's chief designer Igor Katyrev says the agreement does not constitute a firm contract at this stage, although Volga-Dnepr has scheduled the first delivery for 1999. ...