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A new training system allows US fighter pilots to observe their own combat training sorties DeeDee Doke/RAF LAKENHEATH A new combat training system that allows fighter pilots to sharpen their skills without ground monitoring stations is in action at its first US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) duty station. This ...
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F-15 excess costs Boeing $225m
Boeing is to take a $225 million charge against third-quarter earnings because of excess inventory on the F-15 fighter programme. The hit is in addition to a previously announced charge of $45 million for F-15 inventory. The company had procured long-lead items in anticipation of export orders for up ...
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Bombardier to sell UK arm
Stewart Penney/LONDON Bombardier is to sell its Bombardier Services UK company which provides flying training and maintenance services to armed forces in the UK and the Middle East. The decision comes shortly after the company received the first four of 99 Grob G115 trainers to fulfil a UK contract to ...
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Boeing and Northrop set up F/A-18 centre
Boeing and Northrop Grumman have taken further advantage of US military base closures to establish a joint F/A-18 Hornet modification and overhaul operation at the US Navy's soon to be vacated Cecil Field naval air station in Florida. The two companies are among a number of tenants to have ...
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New Zealand election threatens F-16 deal
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA New Zealand's Lockheed Martin F-16 lease arrangement with the USA is threatened by a national election within the next 10 weeks, with the Labour opposition threatening to dump the deal if it wins power. New Zealand Labour leader Helen Clarke used the release of a major ...
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Bell files suit to take military counterfeits off civil market
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bell Helicopter Textron is campaigning to prevent companies fraudulently selling military-surplus helicopters as commercially certificated. The first of several lawsuits has been filed in Seattle against Washington-based Intrex Helicopters. Bell alleges that Intrex used components from an ex-military UH-1 "and obtained certification of the aircraft ...
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Diamond Star flight test programme begins
Austria's Diamond Aircraft has begun flight testing its production configuration DA40-180 Diamond Star, four-seat piston single, for which it already has more than 200 orders. Four pre-production prototypes have already been flown from its Wiener Neustadt base. During the two-month programme the all-composite, Textron Lycoming IO-360-powered aircraft will perform ...
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NATO joins USAF command and control experiment
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NATO is participating in a US Air Force experiment to test command and control (C2) concepts for expeditionary operations. The Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) now under way combines live and simulated forces in the second large-scale test of technologies which promise to enhance the capabilities of ...
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Germany doubles NH90 requirement
German procurement agency, BWB, has doubled its initial requirement for NH90 military transport helicopters and delayed entry into service by a year to 2004. While the increase still needs German parliamentary approval, the move is good news for NH Industries ahead of a major decision by the four NH90 nations ...
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First RAAF C-130J-30 delivery
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was due to take delivery of its first Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 transport on 7 September, 27 months after the original contract delivery date. The RAAF says a further five aircraft are expected before the end of this year, while the final six will arrive ...
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Talon clings on as US Air Force extends upgrade programme
The US Air Force is planning further life extension structural modifications to the Northrop T-38 Talon advanced trainer to complement on-going powerplant, wing and avionics upgrades. A request for proposals for the design and development of new air inlets and fuselage bulkheads is expected to be released before the ...
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Ready for action
The US Air Force aims to make itself light, lean and, most importantly, lethal DeeDee Doke/LONDON The impending transmutation of the US Air Force into a light, lean and lethal expeditionary aerospace force is akin to US-style football, says Maj Gen William Hinton (left). "We haven't changed what ...
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The training drain
The Kosovo conflict pushed the USAF's European forces to the limit - and created a training backlog DeeDee Doke/RAMSTEIN AB An air power victory in the Kosovo conflict did not come without cost to the US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), which commands 26,000 active-duty airmen at 14 ...
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Safety first
Korean Air is making a concentrated effort to improve safety and save itself from isolation - and possible collapse Andrzej Jeziorski/SEOUL Korean Air (KAL) executives speaking to the press these days face an unusual dilemma: how can an airline confirm, and simultaneously deny, that it has a problem with its ...
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Eurofighter to create own sales team
Stewart Penney/LONDON Eurofighter is reviewing its export strategy and considering the formation of a single sales organisation to sell its Typhoon multi-role fighter, in place of each partner being responsible for sales in individual countries. The four-nation consortium says a single sales team is one option being considered, ...
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JSF lift fan runs at full power
Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team has tested the clutch for the propulsion system for the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the X-35 demonstrator at maximum power. During the trials , the lift fan was engaged with the main propulsion engine running at power settings above ...
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Singapore outsources pilot screening to Australia
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to relocate pilot screening to Australia under a three-year A$5 million ($3.2 million) contract with British Aerospace Flight Training Australia (BAe FTA). The contract, signed in August, includes a seven-year option. It will see up to 240 pilot candidates screened each ...
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Contracts
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has been appointed prime contractor for the manufacturing programme linked to the supply of up to 145 attack helicopters to the Turkish armed forces. TAI has asked the five shortlisted helicopter manufacturers - Agusta, Bell Helicopter Textron, Boeing, Eurocopter and Kamov/Israeli Aircraft Industries - for best ...
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Agat and Phazotron work on new and upgraded radars
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOWThe Agat Moscow Research Institute is developing an upgrade of its active seeker for medium range air-to-air missiles. At the same time Russian radar house Phazotron is preparing to test new long range phased array radars. Agat's 9B-1103M active radar seeker will have a 25km (13.5nm) acquisition range against ...
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Popeye fails in Kosovo, but wins S Korean order
South Korea has completed plans to procure 100 AGM-142 stand-off missiles, even as news is emerging of the air-launched stand-off missile's failure to hit targets in their debut during the Kosovo air campaign. US Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers forward based in the UK employed the AGM-142 during ...