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F124 has successful T-45 debut
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE US NAVY, AlliedSignal and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are looking at ways to continue flight tests of the F124-powered MDC T-45A Goshawk following a successful 90min initial sortie on 7 October. The aircraft was flown from MDC's St Louis, Missouri, factory by T-45A ...
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MIDS production
A GEC-Marconi Systems/ Rockwell Collins joint venture has been awarded a $3 million US Navy contract to produce multi-functional information-distribution systems. Source: Flight International
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Quickfix may not be a fix at all
THE US ARMY RISKS buying an Advanced Quickfix electronic-warfare helicopter which may not meet performance requirements, says the US General Accounting Office (GAO). The US Army is spending $1.5 billion to develop and field the Intelligence Electronic Warfare Common Sensor. It is designed to locate, intercept and jam ...
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Japan gears up for SH-60 update
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE JAPAN'S TECHNICAL Research and Development Institute (TRDI) is seeking initial funding in 1997 to begin work on an upgrade of the Mitsubishi/Sikorsky SH-60J naval helicopter. The Defence Agency institute has requested an 8.8% budget increase for the next fiscal year. Its ´178.5 billion ($1.6 ...
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Boeing takes lead in order race
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BOEING HAS edged ahead of Airbus Industrie in turbofan-aircraft sales at the end of the third quarter of 1996, the two manufacturers having effectively matched each other's performance in net-order terms during the first half-year. The US manufacturer, which had around 50% of the ...
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Sabena places new long-haul fleet
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE RATIONALISATION of Sabena's long-haul-aircraft types is the priority item on the carrier's fleet-planning agenda, with a decision expected soon on standardising on a single type. The long-haul decision is seen as a more urgent than the replacement of its older Boeing 737-200s, ...
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USAir investigates new 'no-frills' division
DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN USAir and its pilots could lead the way towards the creation of a low-cost service designed to counter operations such as those of the newly created Delta Express, Southwest and ValuJet. Successful negotiations between management and members of the Air Line Pilots Association over the start-up ...
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Aeronavali converts
Aeronavali, a division of Alenia, has received a contract from United Airlines for the conversion of four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CFs to full cargo configuration for the airline's new all-cargo services to Asia. The first two aircraft will be redelivered in March 1997, with the second batch following in September. The ...
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Sun seeks strategic overseas partner
Andrew Doyle/JOHANNESBURG THE SOUTH AFRICAN Government's plans for privatising domestic carrier Sun Air could get the go-ahead later this month, clearing the way for a sale by mid-1997. Trade-union representatives on the Government's transport sectoral task team, which is charged with evaluating restructuring options for the ...
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Decoy award
Israel Military Industries (IMI) has been awarded a $21 million US Navy contract to build 98 improved tactical air-launched decoys (TALDS) for use on McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet strike aircraft. The contract includes 80 units for combat operations and 18 TALDS for quality-assurance testing. The decoys will be manufactured at ...
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Bear gets Sea Eagle
`INDIA IS CONSIDERING fitting the British Aerospace Sea Eagle anti-ship missile to its fleet of Tupolev Tu-142M Bear F maritime-patrol aircraft. The Indian navy has already carried out carriage trials of the Sea Eagle on an Ilyushin Il-38 in May. The missile is used on Westland Sea King ...
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RAF reviews possible replacements
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE is considering at least three options to eventually replace its still highly classified British Aerospace Nimrod R electronic-intelligence-gathering aircraft. Airframe refurbishment, a modified business jet and an unmanned-air-vehicle solution are all viewed as potential candidates to replace the three Nimrod Rs, which are expected ...
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An-124 crashes on approach to Turin
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE TWO PILOTS of an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA)-operated Antonov An-124 were killed, along with at least two people on the ground, when the aircraft crashed into houses short of the runway while attempting to land at Turin's Caselle Airport, Italy, on 8 ...
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Airbus Industrie creates freight airline for Belugas
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has set up a subsidiary to operate its A300-600ST (Super Transporter) "Beluga" outsized transports on commercial cargo charters. It is estimated that the new division, Airbus Transport International (ATI), could earn the consortium up to $15 million-worth of revenue each year using spare capacity on the Beluga fleet. ...
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Germany seeks new trainers
THE GERMAN ARMED forces are in preliminary talks with helicopter manufacturers over a new primary-training-helicopter procurement, which could lead to an UK-style tri-service training school. German Eurocopter partner Eurocopter Deutschland (ECD) confirms that it will be bidding for the contract, but declines to say which helicopter types it ...
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Germany to lead free-flight trials in Europe
GERMANY'S civil-aviation authority, the DFS, is working with Lufthansa to carry out trials of free-flight technologies in Europe. "We're looking at how to implement free flight in Germany as soon as possible," says Dr Klaus Dieter Ehrhardt, responsible for CNS/ATM planning in the DFS. "We will look at ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...
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Airlines are 'confused' over European free-flight issues
Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM A MAJOR INITIATIVE to prove the cost benefits of flying in a "free-flight" air-traffic-management (ATM) environment must be mounted if the system is ever to become reality, say leading industry officials speaking at the Flight International Airline Navigation '96 conference in Amsterdam on 9 -11 October. ...
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Spain freezes defence expenditure
THE SPANISH Government has frozen the defence ministry's budget for 1997 at this year's Ptas870 billion ($7 billion) level, effectively cutting spending in real terms by 2.6%. State-owned aircraft manufacturer CASA, however, has secured Ptas22 billion for the final development phase of the Eurofighter EF2000, in addition to ...
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IPTN plans N270 talks in December
SENIOR OFFICIALS from Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and its US subsidiary, American Regional Aircraft Industry (AMRAI), plan to meet in mid-December to re-evaluate development of the proposed stretched N270 turboprop. The Indonesian meeting is expected to conduct a complete review of the yet-to-be launched, programme in ...