Fixed-wing – Page 1291
-
News
CAE/TTS share 737-700 spotlight
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING HAS selected CAE Electronics to build the lead simulators for the new generation 737-700. Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS), meanwhile, has won a Southwest Airlines contract for a 737-700 simulator, and 737-300 desktop trainers, for delivery to its Dallas, Texas, training centre by the ...
-
News
UNC
Overhauler and maintainer UNC Airwork, of Millville, New Jersey, has named Benjamin Johnson director of aviation programmes. With the company since 1987, Johnson was formerly director of military and Government programmes and vice-president of customer support. Michael McCauley becomes national sales director for domestic business aviation. He ...
-
News
Northrop
William Brackney has been appointed vice-president for business operations and Wylie Smith vice-president for finance at the Electronic Sensors and Systems division of Northrop Grumman, of Los Angeles, California. They will be based at Baltimore, Maryland. Brackney, most recently vice-president for business management on the B-2 bomber programme, joined the ...
-
News
P&W
Engine manufacturer United Technologies Pratt & Whitney, of East Hartford, Connecticut, has named James Taiclet vice-president for military after-sales service. Taiclet, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and a former Lockheed C-141 flight-examiner pilot, will be based in San Antonio, Texas. Source: Flight International
-
News
Sextant signs up for PZL
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has signed a contract with Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec to provide an avionics package for the Iryda jet trainer (Flight International, 24-30 April). The contract, to upgrade 11 aircraft and equip six new ones, was signed on 26 April, and will be completed by the end ...
-
News
Indonesia wants F-16 offsets
US GOVERNMENT efforts to find buyers for 28 embargoed Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs have taken a further twist, with Indonesia demanding industrial offsets in return for buying nine of the aircraft. Research and technology minister B J Habibie wants the USA to buy components worth 30% of the value of ...
-
News
Su-27M prototype suffers flight-control failure
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A SUKHOI SU-27M development prototype, flown from the Ahktubinsk flight-test centre, suffered a near-catastrophic failure of its fly-by-wire system in April, but was recovered by the pilot. The incident involved what is described as a "double malfunction" of the flight-control system (FCS). The Su-27M (Su-35)was being used in ...
-
News
Europe and USA hold thrust-vectoring talks
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESAndrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROPE AND THE USA are seeking to co-operate on future thrust-vectoring research. Industry and defence officials from both sides were expected to open talks at the Berlin International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA), which started on 13 May. The discussions could include European ...
-
News
Arrest warrant issued for Serge Dassault
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS and Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS AN INTERNATIONAL arrest warrant has been issued for Dassault Aviation chairman and chief executive Serge Dassault by Belgian magistrates. He is charged with involvement in a BFr90 billion ($2.8 billion) bribe of Belgian Government ministers in exchange for contracts to buy ...
-
News
DASA warns France on defence agreement
Julian Moxon/PARIS DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) president Manfred Bischoff has threatened a possible collapse of the missiles/satellites agreement between Aerospatiale and DASA, if France does not honour its side of the accord forged between German chancellor Helmut Kohl and French president Jacques Chirac in 1995. In ...
-
News
Damaged F-18s survive collision
TWO US NAVY McDONNELL Douglas F-18As landed safely at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, after sustaining substantial damage in a mid-air collision during air-combat manoeuvring over the Atlantic Ocean. In the 23 April incident, the aircraft were on a converging course and collided at around 400kt (740km/h), the left wing ...
-
News
Harness hitch adds three-month delay to F-16 test programme
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE OPERATIONAL TEST and evaluation of three Lockheed Martin F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU) aircraft has been put back by around three months while the manufacturer reworks wire harnesses which are "below specification." The wiring problem, which is related to uneven solder used ...
-
News
Boeing schedules September delivery for first F-22 wing
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS ON schedule to deliver large sub-assemblies for the first pre-production F-22 air-superiority fighter to its partner Lockheed Martin in September, amid rising confidence that the first flight will take place on time in late May 1997. Boeing's two biggest sections of ...
-
News
Aviall continues disposals in quest for core profits
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AVIALL IS TO sell its aerospace-fastener operation, in another step towards its ambition of stripping the group back to its profitable aircraft-parts distribution business. An agreement was signed at the end of April to sell the fasteners-distribution unit to a new company formed ...
-
News
FLA mission is well defined
Sir - Your leading article under the title "Missing a Trick" (Flight International, 17-23 April, 1996, P5) contained a number of misleading statements relating to the Future Large Aircraft Programme which I would like the opportunity to correct. The article is a thinly veiled Lockheed-Martin sales pitch, which ...
-
News
Derco support
Derco Aerospace is to provide logistical support for Lockheed Martin C-130 maintenance by Chile's Enaer, providing spare parts, component repair and overhaul. Source: Flight International
-
News
Lockheed Martin building F-16 IRST
LOCKHEED MARTIN is building an infra-red search-and-track (IRST) sensor pod for flight demonstration on its F-16 in April-May 1997. The company sees a substantial export market for the sensor, a podded version of the AAS-42 IRST in service since 1994 on US Navy Grumman F-14Ds. It has been ...
-
News
The road beyond Damascus
Israel's industry faces a period of unheralded change. Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV Most countries with a population of 5 million would have neither the money nor the motivation to develop a national ballistic-missile-defence system, but then Israel is unlike most nations. It has developed the Israel ...
-
News
Upgrade impetus
ISRAELI COMPANIES HAVE succeeded in turning into actual business the much-mooted upgrade market for both the Northrop F-5 and Soviet-era combat aircraft. Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Lahav division implemented an avionics and weapons-system upgrade on the Chilean air force's F-5E/F. This included a variant of the Elta ...
-
News
SABCA profits
Belgian aerospace-components manufacturer SABCA says that the demise of Dutch manufacturer Fokker, which is its joint owner together with Dassault Aviation, is having little impact on profits. The company ended 1995 with net profits up by nearly 13%, to BFr132 million ($4.4 million), on sales of BFr8.3 billion. Fokker represents ...