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Good track record
The HeliStar programme, which operated during the Atlanta Olympic Games, proved to be more than an interesting experiment. Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE OLYMPIC FLAME has been extinguished in Atlanta, Georgia but among the many legacies, which the host of the centennial Games will have is that of having ...
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The future beckons
Avionics companies expect the market to improve. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AVIONICS MANUFACTURERS appear to be on the brink of something of a boom period, as airlines get to grips with the realities of the future communication, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic-management (CNS/ATM) system. Farn- borough is likely to witness ...
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Competition to the fore
Europe continues to be an attractive market for simulator manufacturers. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PERHAPS THE biggest simulation-industry news at the Farnborough air show will come from a company, which is not even exhibiting. FlightSafety International (FSI) is expected to announce on the eve of the show ...
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Twister types
While 1996 has not been an exciting year in helicopters, manufacturers are chasing orders. Douglas Barrie and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CIVIL HELICOPTERS THE CIVIL-HELICOPTER industry is emerging from one of its bleakest periods and is cautiously optimistic that the future is brighter. Recent forecasts ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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More space
The Farnborough air show offers more in the way of space-industry exhibitors. Tim Furniss/LONDON TRADITIONALLY, the Farnborough air show is not an important event for the space industry. This year, however, the Lockheed Martin (E5) Skunk Works X-33 will give more prominence to this area ...
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Lockheed
Bob Kosakoski has been appointed to the new position of programme manager of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) programme at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, in Marietta, Georgia, responsible for developing the C-130J Hercules as an AEW&C platform for the RAAF. Kosakoski was most recently ...
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UPS ups orders
UPS has announced orders for five additional Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Boeing 757-200PFs for delivery in 1998, which will bring its orders for the aircraft to 75. The express-parcels carrier operates more than 50 757s, including 35 powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW2000. Source: Flight International
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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Transatlantic target
European and US requirements will have a high profile at this year's Farnborough air show Douglas Barrie/LONDON THREE ISSUES, two of them involving programmes and the other industrial, will dominate discussions among missile vendors at this year's Farnborough air show: the USA's competition for an AIM-9 Sidewinder replacement; ...
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taylor's aims
EARTH OBSERVATION To develop a fully competitive commercial industry by 2005, with a supportive research-and-development programme, which will be driven by predicted market requirements. To secure continuity of global data for operational meteorology and climate monitoring and, by 1999, establish a better understanding among potential users ...
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Millennium Satellite
A UK SATELLITE, to be used by schools to enhance education and to stimulate interest in space science and the Earth's near-space environment, may be launched to celebrate the Millennium, with financial support from the Millennium Commission. The Millennium Satellite Centre has been established to build, launch and ...
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Talking business
The major teams will be at Farnborough, but without some of their star players. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOME OF THE business-aircraft industry's hottest talking points will remain just that at the 1996 Farnborough air show - talking points. For several reasons, many companies are not showcasing their ...
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BAe wins Nulka decoy contract
BRITISH AEROSPACE Australia has won a A$58 million ($46 million) contract to supply the ship's equipment component of the Nulka missile-decoy system for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The contract covers fire-control systems and launchers for the Navy's eventual eight Anzac and six FFG frigates. Australia signed a ...
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Estimated cost of Pentagon's weapons bill escalates
THE ESTIMATED cost of US Department of Defense weapons purchasing rose by $6 billion in the second quarter of 1996, from the $702 billion first-quarter estimate to a mid-year projection of $708 billion. The so-called Selected Acquisition Report summarises the latest schedule and cost estimate for the Pentagon's major weapons ...
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Better late than never
The Eurofighter EF2000 is expected finally to make an appearance at a Farnborough air show. Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE 1992 AND 1994 FARNBOROUGH air shows passed without the Eurofighter EF2000 making an appearance. The 1996 show will have not one, but three EF2000s on show, along with the ...
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Powering fourth
The Saab JAS39 Gripen remains central to Sweden's plans for a "fourth-generation"air force. Andrzej Jeziorski/SATENAS SWEDISH AIR FORCE chief Lt Gen Kent Harrskog says that the Saab JAS39 Gripen "-has actually given us a whole new air force". This new force, dubbed "Air Force 2000", is one ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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Developing power
New military engines, as well as old, will be under discussion at the Farnborough air show this year. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Andrew Doyle/LONDON IF THEY CAN MAKE themselves heard above the roar of the performing combat aircraft, visitors to this year's Farnborough air show will ...
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Offensive ambitions
After Eurofighter comes the Future Offensive Aircraft... perhaps. Douglas Barrie/LONDON A DECADE AFTER the baseline configuration for the European Fighter Aircraft was agreed, the Royal Air Force is behind a push to develop a next-generation - the Future Offensive Aircraft (FOA) - to complement that air-superiority fighter. ...