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Turkey expands AEW&C requirement
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Turkey has expanded its airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) requirement to seven aircraft. It is expected make a final selection shortly after the recent submissions of best-and-final offers by competing teams Boeing/Northrop Grumman and Raytheon/Elta. Ankara is to decide by the end of March between ...
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Private education
The RAF's new Hawk simulator will save money and allow more training Stewart Penney/RAF VALLEYWhen the Hawk Synthetic Training (HST) facility opened on 11 February it was no ordinary debut - it was a milestone in the UK Government's use of its private finance initiative (PFI) to fund capital investment ...
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Bearing fails in Lockheed Martin JSF STOVL tests
A bearing in the shaft-driven lift fan of the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) propulsion system for Lockheed Martin's X-35 Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator has failed during engine ground testing at Pratt & Whitney. The bearing failed after 67h of testing, equivalent to about 18 months of ...
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Egypt shops in China for trainer
Egypt has ordered 80 Nanchang Aircraft/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex K-8 Karakorum trainers from China to replace Aero L-29 Delfins. Completion of the basic jet trainer search has initiated action in the follow-on competition for advanced trainers with a light strike capability to replace Aero L-59Es and Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets. Egypt's ...
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Mergers
Smiths Industries has bought the actuation systems arm of BAE Systems North America for $100 million. The unit is non-core to BAE, but strengthens Smiths' position as a provider of non-cockpit-based control equipment for aircraft "utilities", ranging from electrical power generation to environmental controls, a competency further enhanced by the ...
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F/A-18E/F close to export release
Boeing expects to receive a US Government green light to launch the F/A-18EF Super Hornet on the international market by the middle of the year following the completion of US Navy operational evaluation and testing. The company claims to have several requests in hand from foreign air forces for ...
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Singapore sends positive JSF signal
Singapore has signalled to the USA that it intends to commit to the follow-on engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme and upgrade their involvement. The island republic is already involved in the current concept demonstration aircraft (CDA) phase of the JSF. Its ...
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BAE and Boeing move closer to joint KAI offer
BAE Systems and Boeing are set to go ahead with a joint bid for Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) following a successful due diligence investigation. A senior executive at the UK company says that valuation is the only issue which needs resolving. KAI, which brings together the aerospace activities of ...
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F-16 upgrades herald business boom
The fast-developing market for updating cockpits of early model Lockheed Martin F-16s sparked two leading upgrade companies to display programmes at the show. Singapore Technologies Aerospace's (STAe's) Falcon ONE package made its debut and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) displayed its Air Combat Enhancement (ACE) package. Meanwhile. Lockheed Martin is developing ...
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Singapore signs up
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has joined the NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) scheme, signing up to the advanced and lead-in fighter training phases. Six pilots and two flying instructors will be sent to the NFTC every year for Phase III Advanced Training at Moose Jaw, ...
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Dassault reveals future Rafale developments
Dassault Aviation has revealed a model of the Rafale fighter equipped with conformal fuel tanks (CFT) on top of the fuselage in a design similar to that projected for the Lockheed Martin F-16 and Eurofighter Typhoon. The company is also looking at the potential of the aircraft as a flight ...
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Taiwan speeds up military transport aircraft plans
Taiwan is accelerating plans to procure a light military transport aircraft. The programme suffered the latest of several delays last year as funding difficulties pushed the start of the procurement back to at least 2002. Among the contenders, Lockheed Martin, with partner Alenia, is offering the C-27J upgrade of the ...
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Teal predicts market for 3,000 fighters over the next 10 years
Almost 3,000 fighters worth $136.1 billion at today's prices will be procured over the next 10 years, according to the latest world military aircraft forecast from US consultancy the Teal Group. Teal's study, released at the show, reviews the market for Western- and Russian-built fighters with a maximum take-off weight ...
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Standard contract
Standard Aero has won contracts for work on Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules. The first, from Lockheed Martin and worth around $45 million, is for the overhaul of Rolls-Royce AE2100 turboprops fitted to Lockheed Martin C-130Js operated by the Royal Australian Air Force and US Air Force. The second, from the ...
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BAE Systems outlines offer for Korean involvement
BAE Systems yesterday spelled out what it could bring to the party as South Korea's restructured aerospace industry looks for a foreign investor to take an equity stake in its future. Lockheed Martin expressed optimism three days ago on its chances of being selected as the foreign investor for ...
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Boeing captain takes off and lands a busy show
Steve Nichols Capt Rod Lekey must be the busiest pilot at the air show. Every 10 minutes he takes off in his Boeing F/A-18, shoots down four enemy planes, destroys two ships, completes two victory rolls and lands - on the deck of the USS Eisenhower. But he ...
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Singapore pilots to join NATO training plan
Singapore air force pilots are to be the first from a non-NATO country to participate in the NATO Flying Training Canada (NFTC) programme. The deal was concluded when Maj Gen Raymond Ng, chief of the island republic air force, and Lt Gen David Kinsman, head of Canada's air staff, ...
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Falcon soars to Singapore with solid order book
Alan Peaford Serge Dassault, the enigmatic chairman of the French aerospace firm that bears his name, arrived in Singapore on board his company's Falcon 900EX demonstrator, keeping up the proud record of having attended every Asian Aerospace show. Dassault steps down as chairman of the group in April ...
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Face the Facts with...Ken Maciver
A hot topic is "More Electric Aircraft" and the end of hydraulic actuation as we know it. Ken Maciver, TRW Aeronautical Systems' (Lucas Aerospace) executive vice-president and general manager, discusses the implications of TRW's acquisition of Lucas Aerospace, its Asian business and the company's contribution to future electric technologies. Interview ...
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Greece opens contest for attack helicopters
Paul Derby Greece has raised the stakes for the world's attack helicopter manufacturers still further by kicking off a competition to supply up to 24 combat machines, it was revealed at the show yesterday. The Greek government has sent out a price and availability (P&A) request, covering potential ...