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Racal sells DVORs
Racal has announced orders for its newly launched MkIII Doppler VHF omni-directional ranging (DVOR) equipment with sales of single systems for Kuala Lumpur's Sepang International Airport and another Malaysian customer; Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands; Sïo Paolo and Seira De Mar in Brazil; Praslin in the Seychelles; and ...
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Germany orders seven Super Lynx
The German Government is to buy seven GKN Westland Super Lynx helicopters for the German navy. Final contract signing is expected by the middle of October. The new helicopters will be designated Super Lynx Mk88As, and will serve alongside 17 Sea Lynx Mk 88s. According to the German ...
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In the swim at Ghelendjik
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The already crowded international calendar of air shows has received another addition - and Beriev has rolled out its Be-200 twin-turbofan amphibian from the IAPO factory in Irkutsk, even though the aircraft is probably six months away from a first flight. Originally, the multi-role ...
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Rockwell consolidates Collins avionics business
Rockwell has brought together its Collins avionics and communications businesses into a single business unit, in a re-organisation, which follows the sale of the remainder of the group's aerospace interests to Boeing. The two Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based units, Collins Commercial Avionics and Collins Avionics & Communications, together with ...
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FBS wins UK training
THE FR Aviation, Bristow, Serco (FBS) team has won a ú400 million ($625 million) contract to run the ab initio helicopter flying training for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the next 15 years. Shorts and Bond teamed with Hunting were also competing for the business. The ...
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Phoenix fix boosts GEC plans
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) are in talks over potential teaming arrangements covering future unmanned- air-vehicle (UAV) projects. GEC's long-term plans to meet UAV requirements received a fillip with the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) decision to proceed with the ú250 million ($390 ...
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Damage fears resurface with RAF Tornado F3 crash
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The crash of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3 is again raising concerns as to the extent to, which a group of aircraft was inadvertently seriously damaged by contractor Airwork during maintenance on the aircraft. The Tornado was being flown by British Aerospace ...
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Lyulka Saturn
Lyulka Saturn has developed a thrust-vectoring version of the AL-31F engine that powers the Sukhoi Su-27. Designated AL-37F, a pair of the power plants have been fitted to a modified Su-27M, dubbed the Su-37 by the design bureau. The AL-37F has thrust-vectoring in pitch only, although the bureau ...
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NTSB proposes more 737 rudder system changes
Boeing will have to revise the design of 737 rudder control system components, develop a cockpit display showing rudder position, and establish service life limits for certain rudder control parts if several proposals under study by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are made compulsory. The aim is to ...
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GE expands with overhaul buys in Malaysia/Brazil
General Electric is forging ahead with international expansion of its growing engine overhaul business, with deals agreed in the last few days to take controlling stakes in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) engine- overhaul unit and Brazil's CELMA repair centre. Under an agreement understood to have been signed between ...
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DASA and Bonn lock horns over Eurofighter cash
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is at loggerheads with the German defence ministry over Euro-fighter funding, as the deadline looms for the presentation to parliament of the 1997 defence budget. There is still no funding allocated to Euro-fighter production investment in the draft budget, with the cash-strapped ministry hoping to ...
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'Mechanical problem' confused crew of crashed Aero Peru 757
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON A possible flight-instrument or air-data-computer problem is likely to be the initial focus of the investigation into the 2 October loss of an Aero Peru Boeing 757, which crashed into the Pacific Ocean killing all 70 people on board. Peruvian transport minister Elsa Carrera de Escalante ...
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V-22 team proposes rate increase
The Bell Boeing joint venture has proposed to the US Department of Defense that it could save $9 billion over the life of the V-22 Osprey programme if it were allowed to accelerate production of the tilt-rotor aircraft. At present, the joint venture will deliver 425 MV-22Bs to ...
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Airbus puts on AIRS for human-factor reports
Airbus Industrie is to provide customers, free of charge, with the software and training to record and share information on human-factors (HF)-related incidents with the con- sortium's safety department. To be known as the Aircrew Incident Reporting System (AIRS), it will be the first such manufacturer-provided service. Four ...
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Naval Mapo MiG-29 makes a comeback
The MAPO MiG-29K naval Fulcrum has re-appeared at an air show four years after being cold-shouldered by the Russian navy, which chose the Sukhoi Su-27K to equip the carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, effectively ending the rival Mikoyan programme. Rumours attributed to MAPO sources were circulating at the Ghelendjik Hydroaviation ...
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Airbus pushes on with new versions of A340
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to challenge Boeing's 777-300 stretch with an enlarged, rewinged A340 which carries as many passengers and flies further, says the European consortium's A330/ A340 commercial programme manager David Pound. The European consortium is effectively launching the -500 and-600 variants of the ...
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Airbus moves closer to forming AE-100 partnership
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE members and Alenia have reached a broad consensus on the need to establish a new European aerospace joint venture to partner China in the development of the proposed AE-100 regional jet. The planned new Airbus-led consortium is intended to take over Aero International (Regional)'s (AI(R)'s) partnership ...
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Lawyers link TW 800 loss to Iran air force 747 explosion
Alan George/LONDON Relatives of passengers killed in July's Trans World Airline (TWA) Flight 800 crash in which 230 people died when a Boeing 747-100 crashed off Long Island, New York, plan to sue the airline and the Boeing company for compensation, says their lawyer. The move ...
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You have control
Several recent airliner accident reports have identified problems with cockpit automation as principal or contributory causes of the accidents. Much of the conventional reaction (especially by pilots) to these incidents is of the "automation must be stopped" or "automation has gone too far" variety. That reaction, in human terms, is ...
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Allison and BMW Rolls-Royce hold co-operation discussions
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ALLISON ENGINE, Rolls-Royce and BMW Rolls-Royce are set to co-operate in a three-way development of the US company's AE3012 turbofan. The engine is already a contender to power the Aero International (Regional) AIR 70 regional jet. Detailed talks now under way are expected to ...