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Bell 'quiet cruise' reduces 407 noise
BELL IS DEVELOPING a technique to reduce the fly-over noise of its Model 407 light single-turbine helicopter, to meet expected demand for quieter aircraft for use on sightseeing operations over US national parks, such as the Grand Canyon. The company has demonstrated its Quiet Cruise concept to park ...
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Northrop Grumman to close four plants
Northrop Grumman is shutting four plants as part of its continuing effort to consolidate and streamline operations. The move, which will result in a charge of $90 million, will eliminate 2.5 million ft2 (232,000m2) of excess capacity and make 755 workers redundant. The largest cuts come within the ...
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Deutsche BA aims to return to profit by 1998
Deutsche BA has unveiled a new strategy, aimed at putting the airline into profit within 18 months and refocusing on internal German services. Since its launch by British Airways in mid-1992, the carrier has rapidly established itself as Germany's second-biggest after Lufthansa, but is still struggling to make a profit. ...
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Garuda profits
Garuda Indonesia managed to show a net profit for 1996, but largely as the result of selling off unwanted assets. According to the country's transport minister, Haryanto Danutirto, the state-owned carrier ended the year with an overall profit of 124 billion rupiah ($73.2 million), but that masked a loss of ...
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Virgin Express may pull out of its Brussels base
Virgin Express, one of the pioneers of Europe's low-fares air market, reports that it grew by one-third in 1996 and expects to report a profit despite the dramatic growth. The announcement comes, however, with a veiled warning that Belgium's high social costs could persuade the carrier to leave ...
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Boeing on track for massive sales hike
Boeing expects sales to grow by $10 billion this year, even without the pending McDonnell Douglas (MDC)merger, with commercial-airliner production rates virtually doubling by year-end. Group sales recovered to just under $22.7 billion in 1996, while Boeing's net profit climbed back above $1 billion. The real upturn, however, ...
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Aero privatisation
Aero Vodochody has taken the first step towards privatisation by issuing a tender offer to potential strategic partners, offering the chance to take a stake of up to 34% in the Czech jet-trainer maker (Flight International, 15-21 January). Bids must be in by 24 February and the result will be ...
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E-6B Milstar fatigue tests begin
A modified Boeing 707 fuselage section is being tested to verify structural changes planned for the US Navy E-6B airborne command post fleet as part of its recently expanded mission role. The E-6B fleet will be modified to take a large, roof-mounted antenna radome as part of the Milstar programme. ...
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RAF plans to install rangeless trianing kits on fast-jet fleet
The Royal Air Force is looking to equip the whole of its fast-jet fleet with a rangeless airborne instrumentation debriefing system, with an invitation to tender expected to be released soon. Companies likely to bid include RADA and BVR of Israel. The latter has already confirmed that it ...
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F-18 GPS trials
The US Department of Defense says that it has successfully demonstrated an advanced navigation set incorporating global-positioning system (GPS) and inertial-navigation system (INS) technologies. The system was tested on a McDonnell Douglas F-18 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Navy. DARPA provided a Phase 1 ...
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Hip Colombia
Colombia is to acquire ten Mil Mi-17 Hip military transport helicopters from Russia. The deal, brokered by arms agency Rosvoorouzhenie, includes $42 million for the first stage of the contract. Source: Flight International
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Hungary extends JAS39 Gripen agreement
The Hungarian Government has extended its 1995 industrial offset protocol with Saab of Sweden, confirming the JAS39 Gripen as a candidate for the Central European country's fighter requirement. The extension was signed on 22 January at the end of a visit to Sweden by a delegation from the ...
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Taiwanese patriot
Taiwan has taken delivery of its first Raytheon Patriot PAC-2 surface-to-air missile system. The three firing units will reportedly be deployed to provide air-defence cover for part of the greater Taipei area. Taiwan, in the meantime, is continuing to discuss the possible purchase of the Loral Vought PAC-3 Extended Range ...
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RAAF tests Rafael Python 4
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has carried out captive-carry trials of the Rafael Python 4 infra-red-guided short-range air-to-air missile (AAM) on a McDonnell Douglas F-18 fighter. The missile was carried on the wingtip and outboard wing stations on the aircraft. The RAAF has a requirement to replace the AIM-9 ...
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ASPJ goes East
South Korea has signed a $100 million deal with the US Government for the supply of Northrop Grumman/ITT ALQ-165 airborne self-protection jammers (ASPJs). ASPJ systems will be fitted to the South Korean air force's planned fleet of 120 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Block 52 fighters from 1999. ...
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Cambodian deliveries
Cambodia has taken delivery of its first two ex-Czech air force Aero Vodochody L-39 trainers from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). An additional four jet trainers will be delivered by early April, as part of wider deal with IAI to upgrade Cambodian Mikoyan Mig-21bis fighters. Source: Flight ...
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Hughes attempts to draw US Stinger ban
Hughes Aircraft is seeking to get around the US Government's refusal to sell the shoulder-launched FIM-92 FMP surface-to-air missile to South-East Asian countries by instead offering a tripod-mounted version of the weapon The US manufacturer is already in the process of seeking Government approval to sell its dual-mount ...
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F-22 restructuring freezes cost growth
A SPECIAL US Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) meeting on 29 January will decide whether to endorse a memorandum of agreement signed by the US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney on restructuring the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 programme. The agreement is based on recommendations from the ...
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Belgian UAV growth
Belgium has approved army plans to replace Epervier unmanned reconnaissance aircraft by 2002 and extend the army division's surveillance capability from 30km (16nm) to 80km by 2002. Source: Flight International
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Emery
Kerry Fielden has been appointed to the newly created position of sales manager for the UK, Ireland and southern Africa by the UK division of international aviation-services company Emery Worldwide, of Redwood City, California. He was most recently business-development director for UPS, based in London, UK. Source: Flight ...