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USA gives green light for Army Comanche plan
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) has approved a US Army plan for the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche scout/attack helicopter which calls for two prototypes, six "early operational capability" (EOC) aircraft, and entry into service in 2007. The restructured programme is the Army's response to the DoD's ...
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Racal acquires Thorn sensors
UK ELECTRONICS company Thorn EMI has bowed out of the defence sector, with its sensors division being acquired by competitor Racal in a deal worth £17.5 million. Thorn had previously sold parts of the defence business to GEC and Thomson-CSF. The business includes the design and maintenance of ...
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Boeing trims Trent 890 flight tests
BOEING PLANNED to reduce the flight test programme for the Rolls-Royce Trent 890 destined for the 777, following a successful first flight test. The engine was flown on Boeing's 747 testbed aircraft on 29 March, with a further flight planned for each of the following two days. ...
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Long Division
Rather as the UK and USA are described as being divided by the use of a common language, it now appears that Europe's Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) and the USA's Federal Aviation Administration are divided by the use of increasingly common standards. In the old joke about language, there was ...
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Chinese Start-Up
China's latest start-up carrier, Daxueshi Aviation, began services in late March equipped with five Harbin Y-12 turboprops. The privately owned airline is operating in support of oil companies in the remote Xinjiang region of western China. Source: Flight International
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Mir Mission Delay
The first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Mir 1 space station, the STS71/Atlantis, scheduled for launch on 10 June, is threatened with delay because of problems in checking the Russian Spektr module, which has to be launched to the Mir on 11 May. The Spektr will provide ...
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Coltax Lands Amo Deal
Coltax Aerospace, part of Meggit Aerospace, has agreed with British Aerospace's Asset Management Organisation (AMO) to support BAe 146 landing-gear overhaul and repairs. Source: Flight International
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Entertaining engineers
Rarely can the airline industry's love affair with a new technology have soured as quickly as in the case of interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE). Seized upon by marketeers, as the ultimate weapon in their armouries, its costs have proved greater and its benefits more elusive than perhaps anyone expected. Its ...
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Swiss Buy Ranger
The Swiss Government is to buy 28 unmanned aerial vehicles from Oerlikon Contraves in a deal worth SFr 280 million ($240 million). Delivery is due in 1998/9. They will be used for reconnaissance and artillery fire control, and are part of a recently approved arms-procurement programme. Source: Flight ...
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Ice and poor management hit Viscount
THE OFFICIAL UK report on 1994's fatal crash of a Vickers Viscount freighter, following multiple engine ice-ingestion, severely criticises the crew's actions and the airline's emergency checklist. Two of the 36-year-old aircraft's four Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops flamed out after ingesting ice at 18,000ft (5,500m). The crew of the ...
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Cash Transfer
The US National Guard Bureau has transferred $17 million to the US Army to pay for development of the UH-60Q medevac version of the Sikorsky Black Hawk tactical-transport helicopter. Two UH-60As will be modified to qualify the Q configuration. Source: Flight International
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V2500 Overhaul Deal
Rolls-Royce has agreed with Singapore-based leasing and charter operator Region Air to repair and overhaul V2500 engines at its East Kilbride service site in Scotland. Region Air wet-leases two V2500-powered Airbus Industrie A320s to China Airlines of Taiwan and a further two to Oman Air. Source: Flight International
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KLM Tie-Up
Garuda Indonesia and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have signed a co-operation agreement covering passenger and cargo handling, and aircraft maintenance. It follows a memorandum signed by the two carriers in December 1995. Garuda Indonesia is about to be privatised and the Netherlands airline is being tipped as a possible investor ...
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P&W Tests Engine Upgrade
Pratt & Whitney has ground-tested an upgraded version of the F100-229 fighter engine, the -229A, incorporating technology from US Department of Defense Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology research. P&W say that performance expectations were exceeded in 110h of altitude testing. Temperatures and pressures are reduced at the present thrust ...
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The times they are a-changin'
BOEING IS ABOUT TO COMPLETE TESTS of its 737-700 at the UK Defence Research Agency's 5m (16ft) pressurised wind tunnel. It uses the Farnborough tunnel, to provide highly accurate low-speed test results at 3bar pressure, in this case on a 1/11th scale model. The contract highlights the absence of a ...
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Long-range Trigat on target
The first full guided-firing trial of the Euromissile long-range Trigat anti-armour missile has been successfully completed. It was launched against a target over 3.5km (1.9nm) away. Test firing is being carried out at the Royal Artillery range at Larkhill in the UK. The long-range Trigat imaging infrared missile, is the ...
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Hughes Drops GM
GM Hughes Electronics has dropped the General Motors (GM) initials from its name, while its Hughes Aerospace and Electronics unit will operate as Hughes Aircraft. The GM subsidiary says that better customer recognition for the Hughes name is the reason behind the name change. Source: Flight International
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Oryx kitplane deliveries imminent
FRENCH KITPLANE BUILDER Construction Aeronautique Technologie Avancee is about to commence deliveries of its LMK.1 Oryx two-seater. Three kits are expected to be delivered by June, followed by one a month until the end of the year. Production of the Toulouse based company's low-wing composite aircraft is expected to reach ...
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Raven Flight
Northrop Grumman is flight-testing the first US Air Force EF-111A Raven upgraded under the system improvement programme, which increases the signal-processing capacity and speed of its AIL Systems ALQ-99E tactical-jamming system, and improves operability, reliability and maintainability. USAF flight-testing will begin in mid-1995. Source: Flight International
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Minister confirms Tarom bomb threat
ROMANIAN TRANSPORT minister Aurel Novak has confirmed that bomb threats against the Romanian airline Tarom had been received from unknown sources during the months before the Tarom Airbus A310-300 crash at Bucharest Airport, Romania, on 31 March at 08.10 local time. On the day of the accident, which ...