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USA to clear AIM-120 for Thailand
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense will clear the release of the Hughes AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) for Thailand by the end of this month, freeing a log jam which was threatening any procurement of US fighter aircraft. Asian and US ...
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Boeing/Lockheed show losses
THE COST of restructuring caught up with Boeing in the second quarter, sending the group to its first quarterly loss in decades. Merger costs have also left Lockheed Martin with a deficit for the quarter. Boeing ended the three months to June with a net loss of $231 ...
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Ryanair threatens Stansted move
INDEPENDENT Irish airline Ryanair, is threatening to transfer operations to London Stansted, as part of a protest over charges levied by Irish airports authority, Aer Rianta at Dublin Airport. Incoming Ryanair chairman Tony Ryan, the former boss of leasing giant GPA, has launched a campaign for a second ...
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NH90 delays create German Lynx need requirement
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN NAVY has delayed and stretched out its procurement of the naval version of the EH Industries NH90 helicopter, creating a need for additional Westland Lynx purchases. The navy had planned to operate its 17 remaining Sea Lynx Mk 88s until 2003 ...
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Virgin to enter South Africa
Chris Yeats/MANCHESTER VIRGIN AIRWAYS is to enter the South African market in 1996, according to company boss Richard Branson. Speaking at the launch of Virgin's new scheduled service from Manchester to Orlando, Florida, he said: "We are 90% sure we'll be flying the route early next year." ...
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Turkey Cougar
Turkey is to buy 30 more Eurocopter AS.532 Cougar military-transport helicopters in addition to 20 ordered in 1992. The deal, worth around $370 million, is expected to be approved by the Turkish Government early in August. Source: Flight International
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Rockwell joins protest at JPATS selection
ROCKWELL International has joined Cessna Aircraft in formally protesting about the selection of the Raytheon Aircraft Beeck MkII turboprop trainer for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS). Lockheed Martin, meanwhile, has withdrawn its complaint, and Northrop Grumman, which had two JPATS contenders, has decided not to ...
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Aero Lloyd Selects APU
Germany's Aero Lloyd has selected Auxiliary Power International's APS 3200 auxiliary power-unit (APU) for 16 Airbus A320/A321s on order and six on option from International Lease Finance, for delivery beginning in January 1996. Source: Flight International
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DASA/Collins team succeeds with GPS-based landing tests
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH A TEAM FROM Collins Commercial Avionics of the USA and Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has carried out successfully what is claimed by the companies to be the first fully automatic satellite navigation-based landing. The trials were part of the Boeing-led GPS Landing System ...
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Canadian heads for a seventh year of losses
Despite reaching a "tentative" agreement with its pilots' union over cost savings, Canadian Airlines has admitted that it is on course for its seventh successive year of losses. The Canadian carrier had started the year forecasting a net profit of around C$52 million ($38 million) for 1995, but ...
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Turbulence caused Long March failure
EXTREME TURBULENCE was probably the cause of the loss of the Chinese Long March 2E booster T+51s after lift-off from Xichang on 26 January. Debris from the resulting explosion killed six people on the ground. China Great Wall and Hughes - which made the destroyed $160 million HS-601 ...
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China continues airline constraints
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA IS TO continue its two-year-old policy of restricting the start-up of new carriers, while encouraging smaller airlines in financial difficulty to merge with larger operators. "We will not in principle approve new airlines. We are controlling the number of airlines very strictly," ...
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Innappropriate Force
ONCE AGAIN, the Balkans are providing Europe and the USA with intractable problems, and it looks increasingly likely that, following the latest developments, NATO air units will soon be called upon to attack Bosnian Serb forces on the ground. Such operations, however, need to be portrayed within a larger military ...
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Kentron/GEC link on Brimstone
SOUTH AFRICAN MISSILE manufacturer Kentron and GEC of the UK have pieced together a deal allowing the former to offer a variant of the GEC Brimstone millimetre-wave (MMW) seeker on its ZT6 anti-tank missile. The ZT6 will form the primary anti-armour weapon for the Atlas CSH-2 Rooivalk attack ...
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US Embargo Shift
President Clinton has asked the US Congress to approve the delivery to Pakistan of embargoed military equipment, including three Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions. The request to deliver equipment already paid for by Pakistan does not cover 28 Lockheed Martin F-16s. Source: Flight International
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Daimler-Benz ex-finance chief blasts Dornier deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ'S acquisition of Dornier has been labeled "...the most miserable contract we have ever completed" in a fierce written attack on retired Daimler-Benz president Edzard Reuter by the company's former finance director. Gerhard Liener wrote a 76-page diatribe against Reuter after quitting the ...
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International Aero Engines
International Aero Engines (IAE), a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, is working with Calcor Aero Systems of the USA to develop a variable-area exhaust nozzle for IAE's V2500 turbofan. The nozzle will vary the exhaust-exit area by around 15%, and ...
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Klimov
Klimov manufactures the RD-33 low-bypass turbofan, which powers all versions of the MiG-29 fighter aircraft, and upgraded MiG-21s. The RD-33K is the latest version and is fitted to the MiG-29K and MiG-29M. Klimov also builds TV3-117 and TV7-117 turbo-shafts for a range of airframe applications. Source: Flight International