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Israel examines solar-spy air vehicles
SOLAR-POWERED unmanned-air-vehicles (UAVs), are being developed by Israeli companies for use on intelligence-gathering and early-warning missions. The Israeli ministry of defence is financing part of the development. The effort is classified, but some information emerged when Aero Design & Development released details of a solar-powered UAV which successfully ...
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JPATS production
Raytheon Aircraft has received a $31.1 million contract for six production Beech/Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainers for the US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System programme. The services have so far ordered nine of 711 planned production MkIIs and one prototype. Source: Flight International
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Rafael's agile constrictor
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Douglas Barrie/LONDON RAFAEL'S DEBUT in the air-to-air missile (AAM) arena was hardly auspicious. The Shafrir 1 was in service from 1964 to 1969, including the six-day war in 1967, but the AAM was not credited with a single kill. One of ...
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Lockheed Martin details advanced design studies
Graham Warwick/MARIETTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is nearing completion of a study into upgrading the US Air Force's C-5A/B Galaxy transports, and believes that there is "significant interest" in proceeding with the programme. The company has also revealed details of the New Strategic Aircraft (NSA) it is studying to replace ...
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Power shares
Engine manufacturers had a successful 1996, with orders picking up and new programmes unveiled Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON WITH THE AEROSPACE industry firmly out of recession, orders have finally picked up for aero engine manufacturers during 1996. This year has also seen ...
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RKBM Rybinsk Engine-Building Design Office
The RKBM Rybinsk RD-600 turbo shaft will power the Kamov Ka-62 twin-turbine helicopter which is due to have its first flight before 1997. GE T700/CT7s, LHTEC CTS800s and R-R Turboméca RTM322s are being offered as alternatives to the 955kW RD-600 Source: Flight International
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E-8 JSTARS needs improvement, say USAF evaluators
Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) requires "significant improvements" to meet its performance requirements, says a US Air Force test report. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved production of 19 JSTARS aircraft despite an operational-evaluation report, which is critical of the system's capability (Flight ...
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FBS wins UK training
THE FR Aviation, Bristow, Serco (FBS) team has won a ú400 million ($625 million) contract to run the ab initio helicopter flying training for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the next 15 years. Shorts and Bond teamed with Hunting were also competing for the business. The ...
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Phoenix fix boosts GEC plans
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) are in talks over potential teaming arrangements covering future unmanned- air-vehicle (UAV) projects. GEC's long-term plans to meet UAV requirements received a fillip with the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) decision to proceed with the ú250 million ($390 ...
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Damage fears resurface with RAF Tornado F3 crash
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The crash of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3 is again raising concerns as to the extent to, which a group of aircraft was inadvertently seriously damaged by contractor Airwork during maintenance on the aircraft. The Tornado was being flown by British Aerospace ...
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Lyulka Saturn
Lyulka Saturn has developed a thrust-vectoring version of the AL-31F engine that powers the Sukhoi Su-27. Designated AL-37F, a pair of the power plants have been fitted to a modified Su-27M, dubbed the Su-37 by the design bureau. The AL-37F has thrust-vectoring in pitch only, although the bureau ...
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GE expands with overhaul buys in Malaysia/Brazil
General Electric is forging ahead with international expansion of its growing engine overhaul business, with deals agreed in the last few days to take controlling stakes in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) engine- overhaul unit and Brazil's CELMA repair centre. Under an agreement understood to have been signed between ...
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You have control
Several recent airliner accident reports have identified problems with cockpit automation as principal or contributory causes of the accidents. Much of the conventional reaction (especially by pilots) to these incidents is of the "automation must be stopped" or "automation has gone too far" variety. That reaction, in human terms, is ...
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Programme for a light fighter
Sir - Could an advanced trainer programme such as DASA's AT2000 proposal (Flight International, 25 September -1 October, P6) provide a short take-off (STOVL)/vertical-landing light fighter variant? Such a programme could be very similar to that of the Euro-fighter, providing replacements for British Aerospace Harriers in Italian, Spanish ...
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Eurojet
The second Euro-fighter 2000 to be fitted with Euro-jet EJ200 engines, the Spanish CASA-assembled prototype DA6, had its maiden flight in late August. The first EJ200-powered aircraft, DA3, assembled by Alenia in Italy, first flew in 1995. The DA3 logged 40 flights before its original 01A-standard engines were ...
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LHTEC Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company
LHTEC, a joint venture between Allison Engines and AlliedSignal Engines, is developing three derivatives of the T800 turboshaft engine. The first, a 17% growth version which is destined to power the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, is on schedule and has completed over 3,000 of the planned 5,000 test hours, says ...
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MTR (MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce)
MTU/Turboméca/Rolls-Royce (MTR) is a consortium formed to develop the MTR390 turbo-shaft which will power some 427 Franco-German Euro-copter Tiger anti-tank and Gerfaut escort/support helicopters. The MTR390 delivers 875kW of maximum continuous power and 960kW at take-off. The engine received military certification in May, and civil certification is expected in December. ...
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Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines
First flight of the PW4090-powered version of the Boeing 777-200IGW is expected to take place by the end of October. The PW4090 is the first growth version of the baseline PW4084, and was certificated by the US Federal Aviation Administration in June 1996, rated at 400kN. Initial deliveries of PW4090-powered ...
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Recorder retrieval: technology exists
Sir - In response to the letter "Make recorders easier to recover" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P60), I would point out that there have been automatically deployable flight-data/cockpit-voice recorders on the market for more than 25 years. They have been fitted to every type of airframe - from ...
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Northrop Grumman gets E-8C approval
PRODUCTION OF 19 Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack RadarSystem (JSTARS) aircraft has been approved by the US Department of Defense (DoD), despite a last-minute bid by the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) to block full-rate production. Defence undersecretary Paul Kaminski approved production on 26 September, despite ...