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Eurofighter tops defence cost-escalation list in UK
Andrew Doyle and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE UK'S SHARE of the Eurofighter EF2000 combat-aircraft programme is now £1.25 billion ($1.94 billion) over budget and three years behind schedule, according to figures from the UK Government's spending watchdog. The mounting costs of the programme are detailed in ...
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Transfield/Lockheed Martin team for Pacific Rim market
LOCKHEED MARTIN and Transfield Defence Systems are working to establish a joint-venture company to compete for defence and civil contracts in Australia and South-East Asia. A memorandum of understanding, has already been signed, by Lockheed's Ocean, Radar and Sensor division and Transfield Australia's second largest defence contractor. ...
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Racal-Thorn concludes Chinese surveillance-radar negotiations
RACAL-THORN Defence is to sell up to eight surveillance radars to China, in a deal worth around £40 million ($62 million). The radars are variants of the Searchwater, which is used in maritime surveillance and airborne early-warning applications by the UK armed forces. Negotiations over the sale have ...
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Russia nears decision on Fokker proposal
THE RUSSIAN Government is close to making a decision on whether to support Yakovlev's proposal to buy the bankrupt Fokker aircraft operation. Edward Chechelov, a section head in the foreign-investment department of Russia's economics ministry, says that the Russian Government is near to deciding on the issue. "Most ...
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TWA probe focuses on fuel-tank-ignition theory
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AS THE US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) works to discover, whether the 17 July crash of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 was caused by a bomb or missile, investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), are examining a theory ...
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PW4090 flight-test programme starts on first Boeing 777
PRATT & Whitney's 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust PW4090 engine has entered a five-month flight-test programme on the first Boeing 777 aircraft, WA001. The engine will power 777-200IGW versions on order from Korean Air and United Airlines, the first of which will enter service in March 1997. The engine is an ...
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AWACS 767 begins flight testing
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE FIRST BOEING 767 airborne warning and control-system (AWACS) aircraft was expected to begin a seven-month flight-test programme with a sortie from Everett, Washington, on 9 August. The 767-27C, which is a modified extended-range -200ER, is the first of four destined for ...
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Delta launches low-cost Express from Florida base
Karen Walker/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES has entered the low-fare market with the launch of Delta Express, a single-class service providing non-stop flights between Florida and cities in the mid-western and north-eastern USA. Services, using a dedicated fleet of 25 Boeing 737-200s, will begin on 1 October ...
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Gulfstream crash
A Royal Danish Air Force Gulfstream III business jet crashed into high ground on Vaago, Faeroe Islands, on 3 August while approaching to land in poor weather. Nine people were killed, including Denmark's new Chief of Staff, Adm Hans Joergen Garde. Source: Flight International
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Adios ADEOS
Japan's Advanced Earth-Observing Satellite (ADEOS) is to be launched aboard the fourth H2 booster from Tanegashima on 17 August. The H2 will also launch a Japanese amateur-radio satellite. The ADEOS will be used to conduct a global environmental-observation mission, including collecting data on global warming and the ozone layer. The ...
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Tailless tactics
The 1980s tailless-fighter concept could be a reality after 2000 Mastery of thrust vectoring is paving the way for tailless-fighter research. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES HIGH OVER THE dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, on 24 April, 1996, the pilot of a NASA McDonnell ...
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Litton Aero
Leon Webrand has been promoted to president of Woodland Hills, California-based Litton's Aero Products division, succeeding Dudley Mahler, who is to retire early in 1997. Webrand was formerly division vice-president of finance and administration. Source: Flight International
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Money no object
BOEING'S PURCHASE of Rockwell's defence business underlines - if any extra emphasis were needed - just how rapidly the major US aerospace prime contractors continue to consolidate. It also provides an embarrassing reminder of how far the European industry - hidebound by the legacies of state ownership and national politics ...
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Engines should be treated separately
Sir - Recent news suggests that civil organisations do not seem to share their safety-related views. I was amazed to find that an airline could conduct the same maintenance task, simultaneously, on both engines of a twin without a test before flight. Surely, if there is a need, for example, ...
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European capsule splashes down
THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S (ESA) Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator (ARD) capsule is pictured with two stabilisation balloons, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily, following its 18min descent-and-recovery test. After being dropped from a stratospheric balloon at 82,000ft (25,000m) and making a 33,000ft free-fall, its one drogue and three ...
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Agena is Lockheed Martin EELV choice
LOCKHEED MARTIN Astronautics has selected an upgraded version of the Agena upper-stage rocket engine for its entry into the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) competition. Team Agena 2000, consisting of Atlantic Research and Aerojet, is to provide a modified Agena storable-propellant main axial engine to ...
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Maintaining success
European maintenance company FLS Aerospace is to undertake heavy maintenance on three Boeing 747-100Fs belonging to US freight operator Polar Air Cargo. The programme will be performed "nose to tail" at the FLS hangar at Stansted in the UK, starting on 11 August. The Danish-owned company has also secured a ...
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Farnborough '96 Preview
Aerospace is flooded with air shows, but the Farnborough '96 organiser promises an "essential"event this September Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH THE AEROSPACE calendar awash with air shows, Farnborough '96 show organiser The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is keen to promote its biennial show as ...
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Airtran
AirWays, of Orlando, Florida, parent company of AirTran Airways, has appointed its chairman and chief executive, Robert Swenson, president and chief executive of AirTran, following the retirement of John Horn. Swenson was chief executive of AirTran Corporation from 1978 to September 1995 and is a former treasurer, vice-chairman and chairman ...
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John Fozard
John Fozard, chief designer of the British Aerospace Harrier from 1965-78, died at the end of July. Among the many titles and positions he held, was marketing director at BAe Kingston-Brough division from 1978, and president of the Royal Aeronautical Society during 1986-7. Since his retirement from BAe in 1989, ...