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Delta detection
Robotic Vision Systems (RVSI) has received an order from Delta Air Lines for additional ID-1H wide-area ice-detection systems to complete equipment of its Delta Shuttle aircraft. The ID-1H combines a hand-held sensor with a video display to enable de-icing truck operators to locate contamination of critical surfaces. Source: ...
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Is the SST a viable solution?
Sir-In your article "Supersonic Resurrection" (Flight International, 18-25 December 1996, P26), you reported the Tupolev officials' belief that sustained air-traffic growth would lead to the need for a larger, second-generation, supersonic transport (SST). This is illogical, as continuing air-traffic growth is already causing a shortage of "slots" at major airports. ...
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UK CAA insists on stick-shaker for Falcon 2000
Dassault has delivered the first UK-registered Falcon 2000 business jet, but has been forced to equip the aircraft with a "stick-shaker" stall-warning device to meet the UK Civil Aviation Authority's "additional requirements for import". These come despite the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) declaring that such a device is unnecessary. ...
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Mitsubishi tests second MH2000
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) began flight-testing the second prototype of its MH2000 helicopter in late 1996, and says that the helicopter remains on track to receive airworthiness certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau by the end of March. The company has begun marketing the 4.5t-class machine domestically in Japan, ...
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Swiss FBO expansion
UK company BBA Group, which owns the Signature Flight Support chain of US fixed-base operators (FBO), has formed a joint venture with Zimex Aviation of Switzerland to set up a new "Signature-type" FBO in Zurich. The international engineering group hopes that the deal marks the beginning of an expansion of ...
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Raytheon wins bidding war for Hughes Aircraft
Raytheon has emerged as the victor in the contest to acquire Hughes Aircraft from General Motors. Raytheon edged out Northrop Grumman in an auction which pushed the value of the deal up to $9.5 billion - including the take-over of $4.7 billion of debt. The transaction should be ...
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Thai's R-R Trent woes continue on 777
Thai Airways International has removed a second Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engine from one of its Boeing 777 aircraft in two months, after metal debris was again found on the magnetic chip-detector (MCD). The second unscheduled removal by Thai of a Trent 800 occurred on 25 December, 1996, following ...
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Aerospatiale jumps back into profit
Aerospatiale has posted a dramatic turnaround in its financial fortunes during 1996, which president Yves Michot says will strengthen the group's hand as it prepares for major structural changes including the forthcoming merger with Dassault Aviation and the restructuring of Airbus. The manufacturer also reveals that it is involved in ...
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Airbus gets ready for tough talks
The Airbus Industrie partners are preparing for a tough round of negotiations over the value and scale of assets which are to be pooled when the consortium becomes a fully fledged company, but little firm progress is expected until Aerospatiale has sealed its own merger with Dassault Aviation. ...
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AMR nets $1 billion
American Airlines parent AMR has kicked off what is due to be a record round of year-end financial results for the USairline industry, with a group net profit of $854 million before special items. The figure reached $1 billion after including a $497 million gain from the partial flotation of ...
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Australia chooses SeaSprite
Australia has selected the Kaman SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite naval helicopter, together with the Kongsberg Penguin Super Mk.2 anti-ship missile, for its Navy's new ANZAC-class frigates. New Zealand, which is also buying a naval helicopter, expects to make a decision shortly. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) initially intends to ...
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Lockheed Martin has eyes on FATE designs
Lockheed Martin has eyes on FATE designs LOCKHEEDMARTIN plans to offer a tailless-delta design for the USAir Force's planned Fighter Aircraft Enhancement (FATE) programme to build pilotless demonstrators to flight-test new technologies. The company has been working on the tailless-fighter design since 1991, most recently under the Air Force's Innovative ...
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BAe offers RAAF missile package
British Aerospace is proposing a package of weapons to the Australian armed forces to meet their growing number of requirements for new air-to-air, anti-radiation, anti-ship, air- defence and stand-off air-to-surface missiles. The concept being proposed by BAe builds on an earlier offer to establish in-country assembly and support ...
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Turkey and Eurocopter discuss Cougar licence
Eurocopter is in "advanced" negotiations with Turkey on licence-building 30 Cougar Mk 1 utility helicopters. The deal follows an order in 1993 for 20 machines - which were supplied directly from the Franco-German company. Few details of the accord are being released, but it is understood to be ...
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Italy will review defence procurement
Italy is to review its defence-acquisition plans, with substantial cuts being seen as inevitable. Several projects are likely to be delayed, if not cut altogether. Beniamino Andreatta, Italy's defence minister, says that the long-term defence spending plan, the Defence Model hammered out in 1995, is no longer affordable. He says ...
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Germany approves Litening procurement
The German parliamentary defence-procurement approvals committee has given the go-ahead for Germany's long-awaited purchase of laser designator pods for its Panavia Tornado fleet. The contract, believed to be worth DM144 million ($91 million), will go to Rafael of Israel. The company's Litening pod was selected early in 1996 ...
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Chinese get Sunburn
China will acquire the Raduga 3M80 (SS-N-22) Sunburn supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons package to be supplied with the two Russian Sovremenny-class destroyers which the country is in the process of purchasing. The ships may also be provided with the naval variant of the SA-17 ...
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KC-135 Re-engineing
The first of ten re-engined Boeing KC-135 tankers will be delivered to an unidentified non-US customer in February under a $10 million deal announced on 7 January. The original Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojets are being replaced with CFM International CFM-56 turbofans. Source: Flight International
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Dassault and Government near multi-year Rafale purchase deal
The French ministry of defence (DGA) and Dassault Aviation are near to a landmark agreement under which the price of the Rafale fighter would be cut by 10% in return for a multi-year procurement of up to 48 aircraft. This will be the first time such an agreement, ...
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Radar tests get under way on Sukhoi Su-27IB variant
Two "production standard" Sukhoi Su-27IB (Su-34) strike aircraft have been fitted with the Leninetz phased-array radar, with flight-testing about to get under way, according to Sukhoi officials. What Sukhoi describes as the "second production aircraft" is now at Pushkino air base near St Petersburg, where Leninetz is based. ...