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Tracor buys chaff
Tracor Aerospace has acquired the US and European chaff-manufacturing businesses of TransTechnology for an undisclosed sum. Tracor, which also produces radar-defeating chaff, says that current US military demand cannot support two manufacturers. Source: Flight International
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Precision profits
Maintenance specialist Precision Standard nearly doubled profits, to $11 million in 1994, despite a 12% slip in sales to below $149 million. The company blames the lower revenues on lower volumes and delays in military-aircraft maintenance and the slower-than-expected start-up of its Danish airliner centre. Source: Flight International
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Slam launch
The US Navy has conducted its first multiple launch of McDonnell Douglas Stand-Off Land Attack Missiles (SLAMs). Four missiles were launched from McDonnell Douglas F-18Cs at a target on San Nicolas Island, California, controlled via datalink from another F-18C to score direct hits. Source: Flight International
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Hughes
Hughes Electronics and TRW have teamed to bid for the US Air Force's Space-Based Infra-Red System (SBIRS) early-warning satellite. Hughes was released from its earlier teaming arrangement with Lockheed following the latter's merger with Martin Marietta. Two SBIRS pre-development contracts are scheduled to be awarded in June. ...
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Peace shield grows
The installation of Saudi Arabia's Peace Shield air-defence system has passed a major milestone with completion of system-integration testing and opening of the central sector-operations and maintenance centres and training school at Prince Sultan AB. The Peace Shield is scheduled to be completed by prime contractor Hughes Aircraft in January ...
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Bell tests
Preliminary airworthiness evaluations of the LHTEC T800-powered Bell UH-1H are to be completed in April, clearing the way for delivery of five re-engined helicopters to the US Border Patrol Agency for evaluation. Source: Flight International
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British Aerospace
British Aerospace Aviation Services has won a $1.5 million deal to perform "C-type" heavy checks on three ex-Continental Airlines Airbus A300-B4s, plus a mid-D check on a fourth. Customer ING, a Dutch financial group, will lease the first to Air Alfa of Turkey. Source: Flight International
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Shannon
Shannon Aerospace is performing substantial galley and interior modifications on a Boeing 737-200 for Malev of Hungary. The aircraft is on lease from Bavaria Flug, but Malev wants it to be configured like the rest of its fleet. Separately, China Eastern Airlines has sent 21 engineers to observe a Balair ...
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KC Aviation
KC Aviation of Dallas has installed Collins SAT-906 satellite communications in a Gulfstream IV, together with a Racal MCA-6010 mechanically steered antenna. It has also won a contract to install a Flight Visions FV-2000 head-up display in a Canadair Challenger. Source: Flight International
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Irish helicopters
Irish Helicopters of Dublin has won International Standards Organisation 9002 approval for its third-party maintenance operation, together with the rest of its activities. Source: Flight International
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Shopping around
With an ageing combat and support fleet, the Thai air force is looking for rejuvenation. Ren‚ van Woezik/BANGKOK The countries bordering Thailand are in the process of upgrading their combat-aircraft inventories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) is ...
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Space spectacular
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing a daily bonanza of images and data for astronomers Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has scheduled another Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for 1997. The STS82/Discovery mission, scheduled for launch in February 1997, is the ...
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Staying power
Bombardier's Canadair CL-227 unmanned air-vehicle is finally being prepared for production. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Unmanned air-vehicles (UAVs) come and go, but the Canadair CL-227 just keeps on going - or so it seems. Although similar externally, the production CL-227 now taking shape at Bombardier's Canadair ...
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UK investigates ITT jammer for Army attack helicopter
THE UK MINISTRY of Defence has begun a preliminary investigation into the suitability of the ITT Advanced Threat Radar Jammer (ATRJ) for the British Army Air Corps' next-generation battlefield attack helicopter. The radar jammer is now under development for use on US Army McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack ...
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BA World Cargo switches freight plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS has ditched earlier plans for the phased development of a new London Heathrow cargo hub, instead unveiling plans to spend £150 million on developing a new highly automated hub. The centre is due to open in 1998 with a capacity to handle around 800,000t of cargo ...
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FedEx takes American's MD-11 fleet
AMERICAN AIRLINES IS to sell the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas MD-11 fleet to FedEx for conversion into freighters. Confirming details of the long-rumoured sale, American says that 12 MD-11s will be delivered to FedEx between January 1996 and October 1999. FedEx also has the option to buy ...
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SIA and Tata to defy critics inside India
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) and Tata Industries are confident that their proposed joint venture to set up an Indian domestic carrier will go ahead, despite local political and airline opposition. The planned SIA-Tata partnership has been attacked by Pramod Mahajan, general secretary of India's main ...
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USAF pushes for hypersonic effort
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US AIR FORCE is seeking approval for a scaled-down hypersonic-technology research programme which will focus on hydrocarbon-fuelled supersonic-combustion ramjets (scramjets) for Mach 4-8 missiles. The HyTECH programme would be an effort to continue US hypersonic research after the cancellation of the X-30 National ...