Fixed-wing – Page 1243
-
News
Extra role for Raptor proposed for USAF
Lockheed Martin hopes to boost sales of F-22 Raptors to the Pentagon by proposing a long-range interdiction version to replace the USAF's F-15E Strike Eagle and F-117 Stealth Fighters. Micky Blackwell, president and chief operating officer of the company's Aeronautics sector, says the USAF is looking at clawing ...
-
News
Czechs place $1bn order for ALCA
The Czech government added some extra sparkle to Aero's rollout ceremony of the new L159 Light Multi-role Combat Aircraft last Thursday. After naming the new aircraft - Advanced Light Combat Aircraft (ALCA) - the government rubber-stamped a deal to buy 72 of them for the Czech air force. ...
-
News
Computer logs training
Pilots can now sit back after a day's training and watch their exact performance on a computer screen, thanks to a GPS-based air combat training programme. An example of the new Air Combat Training-Rangeless (ACT-R) programme can be seen at the Cubic Defense Systems stand in Hall 1/E22. ...
-
News
Wizard export prospects for Merlin
Export prospects worth more than $1billion are "looking good" for the GKN Westland/Agusta's EH101 Merlin search and rescue helicopter which makes its debut at Paris. Canada and Portugal are due to decide later this year on whether to buy up to 30 of the helicopters, says Westland's public ...
-
News
New helmet offers fighter's advantages
A new fighter helmet already in use with the French Air Force is on display for the first time at Paris in Hall 4/ A4. Elno designed its new helmet to be lighter yet compatible with European and American oxygen masks, night vision goggles and other devices, and ...
-
News
Mobile drying units meet stringent specs
The AF RXG was specifically designed for the French Air Force which was looking for a product to dry paint quickly and safely in explosive atmospheres. The steel frame holds two compartments which house two thermoreactors; a control panel is located on the front. Today, Sunkiss ...
-
News
Team doubt
British Aerospace officials have dismissed as "speculation" press reports that the company is to team with US giant Lockheed Martin to develop a contender for the Joint Strike Fighter project. "We have yet to make a decision," a company spokesman said at Paris yesterday. As we ...
-
News
Roamanian shadow
A $20million Romanian defence systems contract has been won by AAI Corporation. Romania is to purchase an AAI Shadow 600 unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system and a Moving Target Simulator (MTS) short-range air defence training package under the contract, the first to be financed under the US Defense Export Loan ...
-
News
Russians confident of MiG MAPO future
The newly-elected chairman of the giant Russian military/industrial conglomerate MiG MAPO says the long-term future of the grouping - which is less than a year old - is secure. "With 60,000 employees in a dozen companies, it's not surprising that the Group is taking some time to 'mature'," ...
-
News
Eurocopter eyes Tiger production contract at Show
Eurocopter officials expect a contract for setting up production lines for the Tiger combat helicopter to be signed at Le Bourget on Friday. Jean-Francois Bigay, Eurocopter chairman and chief executive officer, says the signature ceremony is expected to take place at the French Defence Ministry's pavilion. ...
-
News
Ilyushin arrives, but Antonov...who knows
Ukraine's giant Antonov An-70 airlifter may make its first foreign visit at the Show by the end of the week. It was due yesterday, but when it failed to arrive at the expected time representatives at the Antonov stand had no information on a revised schedule. ...
-
News
Flight dominates aerospace awards
Flight International editor-in-chief Allan Winn proudly congratulates three of his reporters for winning prizes in the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards at the Paris Meridien Hotel on Saturday night. David Learmount won the best air transport category, Kieran Daly took the best avionics award and Guy Norris ...
-
News
Customers warm to the Lockheed C-130 variant
Lockheed Martin and electronics and systems partner Northrop Grumman claim they have significant interest from five countries for their C-130J-30 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) variant. Speaking at the show, Dana Pierce, Lockheed Martin's director AEW&C, says Australia is the potential lead customer, with Turkey, Greece, Italy ...
-
News
Dassault resumes his globe-trotting sales activities
With the lifting by the Belgian judiciary of the international arrest warrant against him, French aerospace chief Serge Dassault (right) plans several inter-national trips in the coming months. "I am now free to travel abroad and am glad to resume my normal international activities," Dassault told reporters at ...
-
News
Meggitt all-in-one display is double boost to pilots
Reduced pilot fatigue and the creation of more cockpit space are just two of the benefits of a hi-tech Secondary Flight Display System developed by Meggitt Avionics which is making its public debut at the show this week. The system is a technological leap forward which allows the ...
-
News
Support group makes 'smart business'
THE UK C-130J Industrial Support Group (ISG) which started life six years ago with an informal membership of just two companies, has received a significant shot in the arm with the announcement that a further 10 British aerospace firms are to join, swelling its ranks to 45. The ...
-
News
Face the facts with... John Weston
Europe's defence industry is described by British Aerospace defence chief John Weston as a "crazy football match". Commenting on the fractured state of moves to integrate the continent's defence and aerospace industries, Weston says some players can't even find the pitch, and others are shooting at different goals: "There is ...
-
News
Mica on target
Dassault Aviation's Rafale B01, naval version of the fourth generation multirole combat aircraft, has for the first time successfully fired, by ejection release, a Matra BAe Dynamics Mica missile, with inertial guidance, at a supersonic target. The firing, carried out on 26 May at the Centre d'essais des ...
-
News
Chance for unmanned flights at Paris in 1999
Unmanned, uninhabited or remotely piloted vehicles are rising high on the agenda of many nations and a conference in the Paris Meridien Hotel last week to review thelatest developments attracted some 500 delegates. Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, the Pentagon's Director of Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, was the keynote speaker at ...
-
News
Doctored signal makes radar reading suspect
Electronic warfare could be revolutionised when new Drone Radar Electronic Enhancement Mechanism (DREEM) tech-nology is in widespread use on manned aircraft, towed decoys and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Details of DREEM technology to be deployed on the Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X and Vampire test targets to deceive enemy air ...