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Fly by voice typhoon
Eurofighter's Typhoon - the export version of the Eurofighter - is expected to be the first production fighter to have voice control in the cockpit. Flight testing of direct voice input (DVI) is planned for next year, but the first equipment will be delivered to CASA in May for integration. ...
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Pushing the envelope
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Fight testing of the F-22 is in its busiest and most critical year, with major milestones round the corner The US Air Force test team evaluating the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor had more reason than most to celebrate the traditional US Thanksgiving holiday last November. On the 23rd ...
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Getting a head start
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Looking like a huge airborne spaniel with its ears outstretched, Boeing's 757 flying testbed (FTB) is destined to become a distinctive sight across US skies this year. The FTB was the first 757 to be built, and has been extensively modified internally and externally to test the ...
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Export attention
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Declining domestic markets have seen manufacturers shift their focus to fighter exports - and 'exportability' With worldwide fighter production set to hit an all-time low in the first years of the new century - fewer than 140 aircraft from all US and European manufacturers combined, according ...
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Tough choices
Paul Lewis/FORT WORTH Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Rival Joint Strike Fighter teams face challenges to complete the concept demonstrator phase within budgetThe Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition has become a contest of diminishing resources, with both teams overspent but determined to complete the current concept development phase within budget. Neither ...
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Multi-role Mirage
Julian Moxon/PARIS Dassault has adapted the Mirage 2000 to meet varying export requirements The Mirage 2000-5 was the first front-line fighter from Dassault Aviation that specifically responded to the demands of the export market, rather than a domestic French air force requirement. The latest version, the 2000-5MkII, incorporates ...
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Italy targets November for first A319CJ delivery
Airbus is planning to deliver the first of two A319CJ business jets to the Italian air force's 31st Wing in November. The L159 billion($90 million) deal will see the second aircraft handed over in August 2000. The aircraft will be used for government/VIP operations, and will replace the air ...
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Eurocopter boosts its sales in USA
Eurocopter's US arm has announced a clutch of helicopter sales to North American air medical operators and law enforcement agencies. Corporate Jets, which operates 36 emergency medical service (EMS) bases across the USA, has taken delivery of its first EC135. Five more will be delivered over the next five ...
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System change may delay UAE F-16 order
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for 80 advanced Block 60 Lockheed Martin F-16s may be delayed by a move to change the aircraft's electronic warfare system, says a US industry official. The programme had been stalled by difficult government-to-government negotiations over the ...
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Singapore signs up for eight Apaches
Singapore has signed a contract with Boeing for eight AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters, according to deputy prime minister and minister for defence Tony Tan. Deliveries are to begin in 2002. The announcement brings to an end year-long talks with potential suppliers, including Eurocopter, which was offering the Tiger, ...
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Technology transfer hits Boeing AEW bid
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Boeing has been unable to give the required guarantee of technology releasability in its bid to supply Australia with airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. Boeing and Northrop Grumman, supplier of the MESA phased-array radar to be carried by the 737-based ...
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News in Brief
Special operations Honeywell has won a $3.2 million US Army contract for 55 shipsets of Primus 700 colour weather radars to equip Boeing MH-47 and Sikorsky MH-60 special operations helicopters. Power generation AlliedSignal is to supply the power generation and distribution system for Bell/ Agusta ...
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Black Hawks to get SAR upgrade
US Army Aviation and Missile Command is to upgrade and modify Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk utility helicopters to a search and rescue (SAR) configuration for the Army National Guard. Sikorsky has been awarded a contract to integrate new mission equipment and flight test a modified SAR version of the ...
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Turkey takes its first upgraded F-4 Phantom
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) delivered the first of 52 upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter bombers to the Turkish air force on 1 March. The aircraft is one of two prototypes being used to integrate new avionics systems; the second prototype is due to be completed soon. The upgraded Phantom ...
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Aiming high
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Aero Vodochody is upgrading its trainers and light attack aircraft to attract Eastern and Western customers With a 35% shareholding by Boeing, the world's biggest aerospace company, Aero Vodochody is no longer a poor cousin in the trainer/light attack aircraft market. Today, all of its products are ...
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Comrades in arms
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin has provided Japan and South Korea with a technology boost by partnering on key aircraft programmes Japan and South Korea, two of the most significant aerospace industrial nations in the Asia-Pacific region, are pressing ahead with combat aircraft programmes that bring in new US technology ...
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Partners in production
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Eurofighter production is getting under way with the help of advanced manufacturing technologies Four separate final assembly lines in four different countries, while politically expedient, is not the most efficient means of producing 620 Eurofighters for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. But the partner companies ...
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Training Centre
Simulator maker Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) is to set up a training centre next to Eurocopter's factory at Marignane, France. The centre, due to open in 2001, will have two TTS-built full-flight simulators, for the AS332 Super Puma Mk1 and Mk2 and the AS365 and EC155 Dauphin. The devices ...
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Aerial Photography
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems and El Op have signed an MoU which allows F-16 operators to equip their aircraft with the Israeli company's advanced aerial photography systems. The two firms are already offering the Greek air force what industry sources say is a version of the El Op electro-optic ...
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Sikorsky Signs With FSI
Sikorsky has signed an agreement with FlightSafety International (FSI) for helicopter pilot and maintenance training. FSI will establish a site at Palm Beach Airport, Florida, and build Level D simulators for the commercial S-76, S-92 and S-70 international version of the UH-60 Black Hawk. Source: Flight International