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Northwest
Laurence Grimard has been named vice-president for aircraft-maintenance operations at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minnesota. He was most recently vice-president for operations at engine-test-equipment supplier Aero Systems Engineering, also of St Paul. Source: Flight International
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Learjet
Rolland (Rollie) Vincent has been appointed director of public relations and strategic planning at Bombardier subsidiary Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. He was formerly director of international marketing, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, for Bombardier Regional Aircraft, based in Toronto, Canada. Nita Scrivner has been named director of ...
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Helicopter success
McDonnell Douglas has sold its first MD600N to a customer in France. The helicopter was purchased by supermarket chain Presta Services. The helicopter company has also sold a MD Explorer, a MD600N and a MD500 to UND Aerospace. The aviation education and training arm of the University of Dakota has ...
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Pakistan radar test
Pakistan has commenced flight trials of the Italian Grifo-7 radar on board the Shenyang F-7 fighter. The pulse-Doppler multi-mode radar fit is part of a wider upgrade of the aircraft Source: Flight International
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Guidance for Falcon
The European Joint Airworthiness Authorities has certificated the Flight Dynamics HGS-2850 head-up guidance system for the Dassault 2000 business jet. Dassault is to offer a similar system for the recently certificated Falcon 900EX tri-jet. Source: Flight International
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U-2 production may be restarted
LOCKHEED MARTIN is looking to re-open its U-2 reconnaissance-aircraft production line on the back of potential orders for the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The company submitted a "data package" on the U-2 at the request of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) in May. ...
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Lockheed Martin may build F-16 in Brazil
LOCKHEED MARTIN is examining the possibility of licensing F-16 production to Brazil, with Embraer forming the core of an assembly programme for several South American countries. Senior Lockheed Martin sources confirm that licence production is one of several options being considered to secure the South American market. ...
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Hurel-Dubois presents new thrust-reverser concept
FRENCH aerostructures company Hurel-Dubois is developing a new thrust-reverser concept which it claims will be cheaper, lighter and more reliable than existing systems. The system, called the Papillion, incorporates technology used in the company's earlier pivoting-door thrust-reverser designs in a blueprint requiring fewer components. The design is aimed at underwing-mounted ...
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Asiana wants additional power for 777-300 fleet
GENERAL ELECTRIC and Rolls-Royce are being pressed by Asiana Airlines to commit to development of higher-thrust engines to power Boeing 777-300s. The South Korean carrier has specified that it wants a 430kN (98,000lb)-thrust engine to power its planned fleet of aircraft. The yet-to-be-selected engine is needed by early ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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Raytheon unveils radical bid for Sidewinder replacement
RAYTHEON HAS revealed a radical missile design offered to meet the Pentagon's AIM-9X Sidewinder-replacement requirement, while admitting that it is also working on larger-diameter versions of its missile. Raytheon has married its rotate-to-view (RTV) imaging infra-red seeker to the Box Office airframe. The seeker is a radical departure ...
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P&W ADP lives on
PRATT & WHITNEY is to have talks with Airbus Industrie at the end of September over potential applications of its Advanced Ducted Propulsor (ADP) technology. The move comes despite the recent signing of an exclusive agreement between Airbus and General Electric to study possible engine solutions for the ...
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Scientists lose faith in Ariane 5 managers after 'betrayal'
Tim Furniss/FARNBOROUGH EUROPEAN SPACE Agency (ESA) scientists have been "betrayed" by management mistakes which resulted in the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch in June, according to Roger Bonnet, the head of the agency's space-programmes office. Bonnet says that the official enquiry board into the ...
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Bell signs MoU
Bell signs MoU to take stake in IAR BELL HELICOPTER Textron has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Romania's State Ownership Fund, laying the ground rules for Bell's planned acquisition of a majority of Romanian aircraft manufacturer IAR Brasov. The US helicopter manufacturer's takeover of IAR ...
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JSTARS E-8 faces NATO re-engineing
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is to re-engine the Boeing E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft to be offered to NATO. The US company is already in talks with potential suppliers BMW Rolls-Royce and CFM International about the BR 715 and the CFM 56-3B, respectively. The effect of ...
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Date is set for Eurocopter hearing
THE LEGAL action being brought by Beverley Securities (BSI) against Eurocopter alleging that it failed to pay commissions on defence equipment supplied to the apartheid regime in South Africa, is to have a public hearing on 12 September in Paris (Flight International, 1-6 May). BSI claims that Aerospatiale's ...
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Cruise-missile strikes on southern Iraq satisfy US officials
PENTAGON officials say that they are "satisfied" with the success of the air and cruise-missile strikes carried out on 3 September in the southern Iraq no-fly zone, which followed Iraqi military action against Kurdish safe havens in the north. Fourteen Hughes Tomahawk land-attack missiles (TLAMs) were fired from ...
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CFMI faces new 737 test hurdle
CFM INTERNATIONAL (CFMI) is redesigning the fan-blade-retention device on the CFM56-7B2 for the third time in an attempt to complete certification testing for the engine type for the new-generation Boeing 737. The new test will take place "around the end of September", says CFMI, which realises that ...