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Eurocopter notches up new sales
Norway-based operator Helicopter Services Group has ordered six Eurocopter AAS 365-N4 helicopters, the latest version of the Dauphin 2 family, with an option on another six machines. The first two are due for delivery in November and December 1998, followed by the others at regular intervals. ...
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F-16 'still good for another 20 years'
Contrary to suggestions from its competitors, the Lockheed Martin F-16 will be around at the Paris air show for many years to come, says a senior programme official. Responding to attacks by the SAAB/BAe Gripen team on Monday, F-16 programme vice-president Bob Elrod says the F-16 is to ...
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Honeywell takes F-2 work to Japan
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems has signed an $8million contract with Yokogawa Electric Corporation for the first year of production of its programmable display generator (PDG) for Japan's F-2 fighter, it was announced at the show. Shipset deliveries are expected to continue over the next 10 years, beginning with ...
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GE defuses Gripen engine rumours
Speculation in the Hungarian and British press that Gripen engine supplier GE favours the Swedish fighter's two competitors in a Hungarian air force competition are untrue. So says George Bolln, GE Aircraft Engines general manager, F404/F414 project. The F-16 and F-18 are also in the running ...
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Northrop Grumman picks up JSTARS contracts
Northrop Grumman has picked up two contracts for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) worth a potential $132million. The JSTARS programme, which will run for 30 months, comprises a base $47million contract and a $58million increase for additional improvements. Under the base contract, Northrop Grumman will ...
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Question hangs over BAe's slice of the JSF cake
British Aerospace will get a larger share of the work in the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project if it joins a team sooner rather than later. "The main challenge for BAe is selecting the team which will win," says David Wheaton, Lockheed Martin's JSF programme manager. "BAe ...
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New concept in moving targets from Meggitt
Meggitt Target Systems, part of Meggitt plc, has announced a double development at the show. Yesterday it launched what it describes as a new concept in air-to-air and surface-to-air weapon training, the GT-400, and the next-generation aerial target, the Banshee 400. The new GT-400 should fill ...
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US to test UK's Broach warhead
Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gadaffi and other leaders around the world may be interested - or worried - to hear that the Pentagon has decided to test Britain's deep penetrating Broach missile warhead. The Broach is a high-technology warhead designed to blast through the layers of concrete of buried ...
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Canada to host new NATO fighter training programme in 1999
The skies over Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, will be the training zone for trainee fighter pilots from the UK, Norway and Denmark when the first intake of Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) students get airborne in 1999. Following nearly two years of talk since NFTC announced its ...
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Thomson-CSF scores radar breakthrough in Japan
France's Thomson-CSF defence electronics manufacturer has made a breakthrough in Japan with the sale of three Ocean Master radars. The contract is for the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force's Shinmaya US1A search-and-rescue amphibious aircraft upgrade programme, and coincides with the delivery of Japan's first Ocean Master radar, ordered ...
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US-French teaming for Hawkeye assemblies
Major US aviation group Northrop Grumman has selected French company Potez Aeronautique, from Aire-sur-l'Adour, to produce entire empennages for the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning command and control aircraft ordered by the French navy. Part of the US company's industrial benefits programme, the agreement is expected to bring ...
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United States Army selects Grumman radar
The US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) is to take nine Northrop Grumman Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads. Also in the $16.2million contract is provision for two spares and a set of ground control station displays. TESAR is a compact, lightweight, low-cost surveillance radar ...
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Ready, steady,-wait!
To battle-hardened veterans of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, the latest bout of German jitters must illicit a distinct feeling of déja vu, with German politicians once again threatening to put the project into a tailspin. For some of those veterans, however, German defence minister Volker Rühe's posturing ...
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Pentagon OK for JSF
Lockheed Martin has been given the go-ahead by the pentagon to begin the crucial next stage of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme after experts approved the progress to date on the company's concept demonstrator aircraft. "We can now cut metal and begin the detailed design phase," says Dain ...
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System installed
The Smart Topflight nav-attack system developed by Sextant Avionique has made its maiden flight on the Iryda M-96 trainer. This aircraft is anew version of the Iryda 1.22 advanced trainer developed by PZL Mielec of Poland and features advanced aerodynamics. With the Topflight-equipped Iryda M-96, the Polish air ...
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Engine certified
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Type Certificate for the Allison 250-C30R/3. The -C30R/3, which powers the US Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter and uses a full authority digital electronic control (FADEC), is a derivative of the -C47 engines certified for Bell Helicopter's Model 407 and the McDonnell ...
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Flying display
Tuesday 17 June 1306: Breitling aerobatic display, Extra 300S 1324: Titan Tornado, Il 912 1330: Mil Mi-8 1336: NHIndustries NH-90 1339: Eurocopter EC120, EC135, Tigre 1354: Hurel Dubois HD-34 1400: Socata TBM-700 & TBM-340 Tangara 1408: Airbus A319 & A340 1419: ...
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Osprey set to take flight for US military
United States Navy and Marine Corps aviation chiefs have given the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey rave reviews at Paris, after announcing work has begun on the first production version of the revolutionary tiltrotor. "Its on time, on cost and under weight," said US Navy under secretary for research, ...
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Face the facts with... Norman Augustine
Norman Augustine retires on 1 August as chief executive of Lockheed Martin after overseeing the growth of the company into one of the world's largest, with a net sales of $26 billion last year. The past two years have seen the company lead the consolidation of the US defence and ...
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Gripen partners 'still in love'
John Weston, Managing Director of British Aerospace Defence, admitted yesterday that when BAe and Saab joined forces at the last Paris show to market the Swedish company's Gripen, he was "very dubious" about the description of the aircraft as a 'fourth generation' fighter. He recalled thinking to himself: ...