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EFW joins T-38 upgrade team
TEXAS-BASED EFW, a subsidiary of Israeli company Elbit, has been selected by Northrop Grumman to join its team bidding for a US Air Force contract to upgrade 425 T-38 Talon II advanced trainers. EFW will provide the core avionics package under the agreement, which has yet to be ...
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MDC joins with Rockwell to offer Goshawk to the RAAF
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has teamed with Rockwell Australia to offer the T-45A Goshawk for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Lead-In Fighter (LIF) trainer programme. The T-45 is one of three aircraft still in the running to replace the RAAF's Aermacchi MB.326H trainers; the others are the Aermacchi MB.339FD and ...
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Bosnian battleground
The British Army's Airmobile Brigade deploys on its first operational outing, in Croatia. Tim Ripley/PLOCE A senior 24 Airmobile Brigade officer explains the rationale for dispatching the British Army brigade to reinforce the United Nat ions Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia, saying: "We give ...
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Lifting off
When Helitech '95 opens, it will reflect an industry overcoming its problems and showing signs of resurgence Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH SO MANY MAJOR, regional and specialist air shows in the aerospace calendar, it is becoming increasingly hard for event organisers to attract large numbers of exhibitors. ...
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Still kicking
Upgraded with a powerful engine, the Pacific Aerospace CT4 trainer is enjoying remarkable longevity Once aboard, the student is exposed to a military-cockpit ambience Paul Phelan/HAMILTON BUILT FOR THE FLOURISHING flying-school market of the early 1960s, Australia's successful Victa Airtourer and Air cruiser trainer aircraft ...
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US aerospace figures on track for first half
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FIRST-HALF figures from the US aerospace industry hold few major surprises, but signs of recovery are showing through, helped by early gains from consolidation. Financial results for the top ten aerospace companies are largely steady, with most of them posting improvements in ...
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Litton tests autonomous navigation error detector
LITTON AERO Products and Airbus Industrie are flight- testing a computer program which can detect and automatically compensate for errors, outages or coverage gaps in data from navigation satellites. The program, called Autonomous Integrity Monitored Extrapolation (AIME), is written into the operating software of Litton's Flagship navigation system. ...
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Boeing homes in on carbon- composite production costs
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING IS gearing up to attack the cost of manufacturing carbonfibre-composite structures as part of a new phase of NASA's Advanced Composites Technology (ACT) programme. "The biggest thing we need to do is to reduce manufacturing costs," says Boeing director of aircraft-structures ...
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CAE Electronics scores with new simulator sales
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) has ordered a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 full-flight simulator with a 180°-wide MaxVue visual system from Canadian company CAE Electronics. It will be installed at the SAS Flight Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, in mid-1996, and will be the fourth CAE-built simulator purchased by SAS. ...
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TCTI buys trainer from ATS
Quebec-based ATS Aerospace will supply a multi-function air-traffic-control (ATC) trainer to the Transport Canada Training Institute (TCTI), which is to become the training arm of Nav Canada, the soon-to-be-formed privatised air-navigation-services corporation. The combined two-dimensional tower/radar trainer, supporting 52 desktop workstations, will provide the transition from basic ATC ...
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Lockheed wins $12 million image contract from FSI
Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth more than $12 million from FlightSafety International (FSI) to supply seven Compu-Scene SE2000 Plus image generators to upgrade CAE-built Lockheed C-5 Galaxy simulators used by the US Air Force (Flight International, 9-15 August, P21). Deliveries will begin in May 1996 and the first ...
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FlightSafety gets approval to build training centre in China
Graham Warwick/Atlanta FlightSafety International (FSI) has received approval to begin construction of its first Chinese training centre, close to Kunming International Airport. The centre, to open in 1996, is a joint venture between FSI and Xingyun, an investment subsidiary of Yunnan Tobacco. The centre will have ...
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ANA's first 777 simulator about to enter service
All Nippon Airways' (ANA) first Boeing 777 full-flight simulator - built by Thomson Training and Simulation (TTS) - is expected to enter service at the beginning of September. The Japan Civil Aviation Board (JCAB) has already approved ANA's TTS-built 777 maintenance-training simulator and the FlightSafety International Vital ChromaView visual system ...
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All eyes on Conestoga launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE REPUTATION of the USA's small-launcher industry will ride with the 16m-tall Conestoga 1620 when the maiden flight is attempted from Wallops Island, Virginia, in about "four weeks' time", says EER Systems. The industry has been hit by several setbacks recently. Orbital Sciences ...
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Cheaper fibre-reinforced ceramics
AEA TECHNOLOGY has developed new processing techniques, which it says cut the cost of producing fibre-reinforced ceramics. Fibre-reinforced glass- ceramic composites are suitable for use in turbine-engine components, but, until now, the cost of these materials has been prohibitive. AEA's System 2 composite has reduced cooling requirements, is ...
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Finmeccanica to buy Fiar stake
FINMECCANICA, IS preparing to buy the remaining 20.5% of Italian defence electronics company Fiar, which it does not already own. The purchase will allow Finmeccanica to complete another phase, of its long running restructuring, with Fiar becoming the focus for a new radar and electronics grouping. Analysts estimate ...
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Qantas delivers promised profit
A TURNAROUND IN domestic operations helped Qantas Airways to turn in better profits figures for its financial year to June. As promised in its flotation prospectus (Flight International, 5-11 July), pre-tax profits were up by more than one-third, at A$320 million ($230 million). The biggest turnaround came from ...
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EELV contracts are awarded
LOCKHEED MARTIN, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Alliant TechSystems have each been awarded $30 million US Air Force contracts to design concepts for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) to replace the existing Delta, Titan and Atlas launchers, which are based on 1950s and 1960s technologies. The first of ...
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Japan launch
The 23rd Hughes HS-601 communications satellite, Japan's JCSAT 3, was launched from Cape Canaveral on 28 August aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS. Source: Flight International
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Mil unveils all-weather Havoc
MIL EXPECTS to fly the Mi-28N millimetre-wave (MMW)-radar-equipped all-weather attack variant of its Mi-28 Havoc helicopter before the end of 1995. The aircraft, displayed for the first time at MosAero, showed numerous external differences, the most notable of which is the mast-mounted MMW-radar housing. The sensor ...