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Apache production
GKN Westland has opened a £2 million ($3.3 million) production facility for 59 of the 67 WAH-64 Apache helicopters on order for the British Army Air Corps. The first eight are being built by Boeing at its factory in Mesa, Arizona. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon delivers
Raytheon has delivered a Lockheed Martin P-3C partial aircrew co-ordination trainer to the US Navy, to train crews involved in anti-surface warfare operations. Under the Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement Programme, P-3s are being upgraded. Source: Flight International
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Upsurge in military spending brings order boost to CAE
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC CAE Electronics has benefited from an upsurge in military flight simulation business in the closing months of 1999. As part of a Raytheon-led team that has taken over training of US Air Force Boeing E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircrew, the company is to ...
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Colombia promised Black Hawks
Colombia is being promised up to 63 new Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk and used Bell UH-1N helicopters by the US Government as part of a requested emergency supplementary aid package worth nearly $1 billion to combat drug trafficking. The presidential request includes funds for 30 UH-60s and 33 older ...
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Sikorsky orders Tadiran search and rescue system
Israel's Tadiran Spectralink has won an order for its Airborne Search and Rescue System (ASARS) from Sikorsky which will fit the system to seven UH-60 Black Hawks for the Turkish army. The contract is the first between Tadiran and the US helicopter manufacturer, although Israel and Turkey have strong ...
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Creatively buoyant
The USA, Russia and the rest of Europe have seen plenty of civil helicopter product developments in the past 12 months Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DCThe civil helicopter industry remained creatively buoyant last year, with the launch and certification of new US and European developments and a continuing proliferation of Russian designs. ...
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US Army reviews Apache plans
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Army programme executive officer for aviation, Maj Gen James Snider, is working to reverse last year's cuts to the number of Boeing AH-64A attack helicopters to be upgraded to AH-64D Apache Longbow configuration. He says the cuts are "a bad idea". Meanwhile, the US Army is ...
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Austria nears selection of medium-lift helicopter
Stewart Penney/LONDON Austria's ministry of Defence expects to select a medium-lift helicopter within the next month, but is no further forward with its fighter selection because of political delays after last October's elections. The MoD will decide between the Eurocopter AS532UC Cougar and the Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk, ...
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Contracts
Canadian Marconi has won a C$4.9 million ($3.4 million) contract from Eurocopter Germany to supply CMA-806A Doppler navigation systems for retrofit to German navy GKN Westland Sea King Mk41 helicopters. Deliveries are due to start in mid-year. The Spanish army has awarded Boeing a contract to upgrade five CH-47C Chinooks ...
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JSF office sets March target for design specification
The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office plans to issue Boeing and Lockheed Martin with final design specifications by March, clearing the way for the conclusive Preferred Weapon System Concept (PWSC) tendering process to begin. Release of the final operational requirements document (ORD) was due in December, but was ...
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UK issues parallel invitations to tender for Spectator
Two parallel invitations to tender (ITT) for the risk reduction phase of the Spectator unmanned air vehicle (UAV) requirement have been issued by the UK Ministry of Defence. The two ITTs cover "potential programmes" for the supply of an aircraft to emulate a UAV and a radar to "provide ...
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Mergers
Menzies Transport Services (MTS) has acquired the London Heathrow cargo-handling facility of Aer Lingus, with a 10-year contract to handle the airline's cargo there. Austrian Airlines, Olympic Airways and Air Algerie are other customers. MTS is the second largest cargo handler at Heathrow. Acquisitive Smiths Industries of the UK is ...
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Raytheon divests simulation business to fast-growing L-3
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Raytheon has agreed to sell its flight simulation business for $160 million to diversified electronics supplier L-3 Communications. The sale is part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at improving struggling US defence electronics giant Raytheon's financial performance. New York-based L-3 is also buying the Space ...
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Clear air ahead for turbulence detector
Honeywell aims to develop a system within three years that will be able to detect clear air turbulence (CAT), for which there are no predictive warning systems available. The company plans to certificate a combined microwave and infrared radar to detect all types of turbulence, including CAT. It has ...
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Mergers
The UK's Smiths Industries has agreed to buy the US aerospace arm of UK industrial group Invensys, formed last year from the merger of engineering groups BTR and Seibe. The $175 million deal strengthens Smiths' position in supplying integrated systems for civil and military aircraft, and includes environmental control systems ...
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Union opposition kills Elta/Elisra plans
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Plans to form a joint marketing company to handle the sale of early warning systems offered by Israel's Elta and Elisra have failed because of fierce opposition from trade unions at state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Elta's parent. Elisra's owner, Koor - Israel's largest industrial concern ...
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Brazilian Cougars
The Brazilian army has ordered eight Eurocopter AS532 Cougar helicopters in a deal valued at $90.5 million. The Cougars will be tasked with surveillance and border patrol duties in the Amazon Basin. All but four of the army's helicopters are Eurocopters, while the Cougar is in Brazilian navy service. Source: ...
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T-6 resolution paves way for NATO school
Bombardier's NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme is expected to be operational in March, after delayed delivery of Raytheon T-6A-1 Harvard II turboprop trainers. Training of Canadian Forces student pilots is expected to begin as soon as aircraft are delivered to Moose Jaw, Alberta, says Jim Richardson, NFTC programme ...
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USMC holds fire on joint rotorcraft
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The US Marine Corps is reserving judgement on participating in the US Army-led Joint Transport Rotorcraft (JTR) programme until the joint staff's critical Overarching Rotorcraft Capabilities Assessment (ORCA) is completed. Meanwhile, the USMC is drawing up plans to extend the service life of its Sikorsky CH-53E helicopters. ...