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Westland to offer T800 Lynx to Australian navy
Westland will offer to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) an LHTEC T800-powered variant of its Super Lynx shipborne helicopter. If successful, the bid would, in effect, launch what amounts to a mid-life upgrade for the Lynx. Diplomatic sources say that they expect Westland to submit an LHTEC T800-based ...
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K-MAX has show debut at Helitech
Kaman's K-MAX intermeshing-rotor helicopter had its display debut at the Helitech show. The helicopter has already notched up civil sales in Europe, the USA and Japan. The helicopter on display belongs to Swiss operator Helog. Elsewhere, the US Navy continues to test the K-MAX as part of its vertical-replenishment demonstration ...
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Czech restructuring plans change again
Andrzej Jeziorski/PRAGUE ANOTHER PIECE of the Czech aerospace industry's restructuring appear to have unraveled, with the collapse of joint-venture discussions between Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and Czech engine manufacturer Walter. It is believed that the deal finally fell through because P&WC was unwilling to ...
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Denmark will deregulate, but expects little change
DANAIR, A GROUPING of Denmark's three largest airlines - Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), Maersk Air and Cimber Air - is to be dissolved as the country deregulates its domestic market on 1 October to comply with European Union liberalisation legislation. The grouping controls around 95% of the market. ...
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Wheel deal
AlliedSignal Aerospace has signed a letter of intent with China Southern Airlines to establish a joint venture in Shanghai to repair and overhaul aircraft wheels and brakes. Operations will begin in late 1995. Source: Flight International
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Greenwald blames bilaterals for strangling industry
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON UNITED AIRLINES (UAL) chairman Gerald Greenwald has launched one of the most scathing attacks yet on the system of bilateral air agreements, including among his main targets the slow progress being made on UK-US liberalisation. "What we have now is a kind of ...
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Tu-154 fleet repainted
THE FORMER MINERALNYE VODY division of Aeroflot is having its Tupolev Tu-154 fleet repainted at the Aer Rianta paint shop at Shannon, Ireland. Mineralovodskoe Production Association, which operates regional and international services, runs some 14 Tu-154s on a weekly scheduled flight to Shannon, which links with an Aeroflot transatlantic flight. ...
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New identity for Skyways
A NEW CORPORATE identity has been adopted by Swedish airline Skyways. Based at Linkoping, the airline has grown in the past two years to become the country's third-biggest airline, expecting to carry 420,000 passengers in 1995, giving it a 9% share of a still-declining domestic market. Its expansion ...
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Arinc/China in datalink deal
ARINC HAS SIGNED a multi-year contract with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to implement air-to-ground digital datalink systems in the country. The CAAC development, consistent with International Civil Aviation Organisation-approved communications, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic-management system, will enable datalink-equipped aircraft to transmit and receive air-traffic-control and ...
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Tyrolean Airways takes on four Canadair Regional Jets
EXPANDING Innsbruck-based Tyrolean Airways has placed an order for four Canadair Regional Jets, in a contract valued at $80 million. Options have also been secured on a further four aircraft. The first RJ is due for delivery in December. The Regional Jets will complement the recently acquired Fokker ...
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DASA finalises Italian partnership talks
Julian Moxon/PARIS Andrea Spinelli/MILAN Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) and Finmeccanica/Alenia have finally sealed their long-standing talks over a greater German-Italian aerospace partnership, by agreeing to study co-operation across "all fields of civil and military interest". The move comes as DASA, which posted a loss of ...
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Lufthansa spends $1 billion
LUFTHANSA HAS authorised the acquisition of 18 aircraft at a total cost of DM1.7 billion ($1.14 billion). The purchase will be financed from its own resources. Four additional Boeing 747-400s and one Airbus A340 will be bought to strengthen the long-haul fleet in 1997. One of the 747-400s ...
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Teams gear up for T-38 upgrade
NINE COMPANIES have expressed interest in bidding for the US Air Force's Northrop T-38 Talon avionics upgrade. A final request for proposals is expected on 13 October, leading to the March 1996 award of an engineering and manufacturing development contract to modify two aircraft and produce two aircrew training-devices. ...
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USAF and USN plan to solicit bids for JASSM in January
THE COMPETITION to supply a replacement for the cancelled Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) is expected to begin in January 1996, with the release of a request for proposals for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM). Development of the Northrop Grumman AGM-137 TSSAM stealthy ...
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JAST engine contest ordered
GENERAL ELECTRIC is to be given the opportunity to compete with Pratt & Whitney, on the power plant for conventional variants of the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme, because of a US Congressional edict directing the US Department of Defense's programme office, to conduct a competition to power conventional ...
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GE prepares for growth -90 runs
GENERAL ELECTRIC plans to make the first test run of its growth GE90, the 410kN (92,000lb)-thrust -92B, on 11 October at its Peebles site in Ohio. The US company hopes to start flight tests, in August 1996. The higher-thrust version will power higher-gross-weight, longer-range 777-200s, the first of ...
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GPS munitions reach milestones
SELECTION OF a single contractor, to develop the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), is scheduled for 11 October. Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are competing for the contract to produce global-positioning/inertial-navigation (GPS/INS) guidance kits for 74,000 US Air Force bombs. The JDAM guidance kit will be ...
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Loral offers heavy-lift UAV platform
LORAL HAS briefed the US Air Force, Army and Navy on its proposal for a heavy-lift, high-altitude, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to be used as a sensor and weapons platform for cruise- and ballistic-missile defence. The UAV, with a flyaway price of about $5 million, could be fielded ...
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Pension beckons for grandfather rights
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES David Learmount/LONDON EXISTING RULES governing the certification of derivative aircraft are to be scrapped if the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) approve new proposals presented by an international task force of manufacturers and aviation authorities. The ...
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NASA prepares to make major supersonic-systems choices
NASA AND ITS US industry team members are preparing to make major airframe and propulsion-system selections in December as the High Speed Research (HSR) programme moves into Phase II. The HSR project is designed to provide a technology base by 2001, which will support a US industry ...