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Argentinian goal
Raytheon is to team with Lockheed Martin for Argentina's requirement for an integrated civil/military airspace-management system. The contract could be worth $185 million. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Venezuela also plan modernisations. Source: Flight International
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Thai order
Thailand's navy has ordered Matra-BAe Dynamics Sadral/ Mistral short-range air-defence missile systems to equip its largest warships. Matra-BAe was competing for the order, reportedly worth more than Fr200 million ($34.5 million), with Hughes, offering the Phalanx gun system, and Raytheon, proposing the Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile. The company has also ...
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Elbit wins US HUD
Israeli electro-optics specialist Elbit has been awarded a contract to upgrade its helicopter night-vision goggles/ head-up displays fielded by the US Army. Source: Flight International
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C-130 crash
The Belgian and Dutch Governments will ask the International Civil Aviation Organisation to modify its Flight Plan procedures following the Belgian air force Lockheed Martin C-130 crash on 15 July, in which 35 people died. The investigating committee, established that although, passenger numbers must be recorded by pilots in flight ...
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Montpellier dropped
French independent airline AOM is to drop its service between Paris Orly and Montpellier because of low load factors. Another private carrier, Air Liberte, also stopped services to the city in September, leaving Air France subsidiary Air France Europe as the only airline flying the route. ...
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Clinton pushes JSTARS
US President Bill Clinton says that he will urge NATO to purchase Northrop Grumman's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS),to satisfy the organisation's requirement for an airborne surveillance aircraft. NATO has been given JSTARS proposals covering five, ten or 15 aircraft, alongside likely rival bids from the France, Italy ...
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Chromalloy sues UTC
United Technologies (UTC) is being sued by Chromalloy Gas Turbine for alleged infringement by UTC's Pratt & Whitney division of patents covering production of cooling holes in aero-engine turbine blades. San Antonio, Texas-base4d Chromalloy's action seeks an order blocking further alleged infringement, as well as unspecified damages. Source: ...
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Serco acquires
Aeronautical Visual Aids has been acquired by Serco Aviation Services, forming Serco-AVAL, based at Liverpool Airport in the UK. The company provides design, installation and maintenance services for airfield ground-lighting systems, and associated navigational aids and electrical systems. Source: Flight International
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DRS distributes
DRS of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been appointed as an approved distributor of Inter-technique fuel circulation equipment for Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Eurocopter, Fokker, Jetstream and McDonnell Douglas aircraft. Source: Flight International
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MHI sells cell
SIA Engineering, the technical arm of Singapore Airlines, has ordered a jet-engine test cell from Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). The contract covers the supply and installation of engine test equipment, and construction of a 95 x 51 x 30m building at Changi Airport. ...
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Sarajevo navaids
Thomson-CSF Airsys is to supply navigation and landing aids for Sarajevo Airport, under a contract from the civil-aviation authority of the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina. The equipment, use of which will enable the airport to be re-opened to commercial air traffic, is due to be installed by December. ...
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Samsung signs CityAir
Samsung has signed a contract with local operator CityAir to supply five Bell 427 helicopters from 1999. Under a joint-venture deal signed with Bell this year, Samsung will build the helicopter's cabin, fuselage and tail boom, as well as market and assemble 427s sold in South Korea and China. ...
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Big LEOS agree
Globalstar, Iridium and Odyssey, the operators of the planned Big LEO low-Earth-orbit mobile-communications-satellite systems, have agreed to co-operate in an effort to secure global authorisations for portions of the radio frequency spectrum to be used by their mobile telephones. Globalstar and Odyssey will use code-division multiple access, while Iridium will ...
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Bill Bedford
Celebrated test pilot, AW (Bill) Bedford died suddenly on 20 October, aged 75. After wartime service in the Royal Air Force and training at the Empire Test Pilot School, and service with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, he joined Hawker Aircraft, becoming chief test pilot in 1961. He made the first ...
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Jersey
Andy Handford has been appointed ground-services manager, at UKChannel Island carrier Jersey European Airways. He will be based at Exeter, Devon. He replaces Alex MacKenzie, who becomes general manager of Jersey European's new joint-franchise arrangement on routes to Toulouse and Lyons, France, and is based at London Heathrow Airport. ...
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Leeds Bradford
Leeds Bradford International Airport has named Tony Cairns as chairman. Cairns, also leader of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, has been on the Airport's board since 1987 and was previously chairman between 1991 and 1993. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal
AlliedSignal Aerospace, of Torrance, California, has appointed Linda Capuano to the new position of vice-president of technology and new-business development. Mark Radin becomes director of contracts; Donald Deptowicz is appointed director of technical excellence; and Sherry Ruffing is named manager for aerospace Government-relations. Source: Flight International