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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 ...
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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 ...
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Flying the flag at Le Bourget
While the exhibitors are putting the finishing touches to their stands and exhibitions, it is yet another day in the office for the pilots in the flying display. The couple of days leading up to the official opening are for rehearsals...when the pilots from all over the world ...
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UAVs attract renewed US attention
America's revolutionary high-altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programmes are back on track after a series of setbacks, say Pentagon officials in Paris. USAF Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, Director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, says it has been a "great year for us". The recent ...
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Le Bourget filled to capacity - again!
The "Complet" sign is up on the Paris International Air Show - with more than 1,700 exhibitors from 43 countries, the 42nd edition of this venerable exposition is sold out. Organisers are expecting about 300,000 visitors over the eight days of the show at Le Bourget. ...
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September flight on the cards for Renault-powered Socata
Gleaming white, and proudly sporting its Renault Sport compression ignition turbocharged diesel engine, Socata's new generation Trinidad TB 20 trainer hopes to capture a share of contracts for light aircraft of 180hp to 300hp class. Flight tests begin in late summer or early autumn at Tarbes, south-west France, ...
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Face the facts with.. Colin Green
Colin Green, Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Aerospace, comes to the show looking to a future where his company has an equal market share in the civil powerplant field with its two US competitors. He talks to Alan Dron. Q Do you foresee the recent change of government in Britain, ...
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Single trainers show potential
The world's first independent market intelligence study on single-engined military piston trainer aircraft suggests a potential $2.7 billion market over the next ten years. However, despite the potential it warns Western aircraft manufacturers not to be complacent. The report* was launched yesterday at the show, and ...
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SOIM trainer leading way
Romania's newly upgraded IAR-99 SOIM trainer is on show at Paris for the first time after making its maiden flight only three weeks ago. The jet powered SOIM is intended as a lead-in trainer for advanced fast jets such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet, according ...
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Russian sales to hit $5billion in 1997
Russia's aircraft industry comes to Paris with new-found vigour after defence exports continued to recover during the past year, with experts predicting sales of $5 billion during 1997. This represents a doubling of sales over the last five years, since they were rocked when the Soviet Union collapsed ...
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Australian shortlist
British Aerospace Australia, an Elta/Elisra team, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon E-Systems and Rockwell-ASTA Defence (now part of Boeing) have been shortlisted to supply electric-warfare equipment for a range of Australian Defence Force aircraft. A request for tenders to supply self-protection systems for the General Dynamics F-111, Lockheed Martin C-130J, ...
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Boeing tests F-22 life support
BOEING HAS completed safety-of-flight testing on the life-support system for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22, due to be flown in mid-June. The system includes the "integrated ensemble" of clothing to be worn by pilots during flight testing of the F-22. The US Air Force says the ensemble is the ...
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Hanging in the hover
Military helicopters The past two years could hardly be described as "vintage" for European military-helicopter programmes, with Eurocopter (chalet 156B/B) having to battle with politicians for orders for its Tiger attack and NH90 naval/tactical helicopters, and GKN Westland (2C/15) and Agusta (external 38) having to grapple with prototype-losses on ...
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A wing and a prayer
If the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) programme does not get the go-ahead soon, its advocates will argue that an opportunity akin to the original launching of Airbus Industrie will have been missed, while its detractors will take it as confirmation that the project is one which defence budgets cannot sustain. ...
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Dull, dirty and dangerous
They fly and they crash, but defence ministries keep on pouring cash into unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), despite a litany of programme failures and embarrassing flops. Defence ministries in general, and the US Department of Defense (DoD) in particular, continue to fund UAV programmes because they are on the cusp ...
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Cuts and thrust
The USA is facing significant order cuts, Europe is arguing about project launches, and Russia is in chaos, with procurement at a halt. That is situation normal for military-aircraft manufacturers in the 1990s. This year's Paris air show will once again be dominated by discussions of problematic programmes, ...
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Tour de force
Unlike the last two air shows at Paris, where the talk among military-engine makers was dominated by budget cutbacks, consolidation and survival, this year's discussions will welcome decisions to proceed with some military programmes. Leading the drive is the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) which, as the US Department of ...
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European focus
EUROPE IS THE near-term focus for the flight-simulation industry, with several high-proÌle military programmes pending, and the region's commercial-aircraft industry planning new developments. Production contracts for the Dassault Rafale fighter and Eurocopter Tiger combat-helicopter are expected to be signed at Paris - and planning for the respective training ...
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CAE eyes military boom
CAE president John Caldwell says that the group is preparing to take a leading position in Europe's military-simulator sector as sales boom over the next five years, and will also consider re-entering the USA once an exclusion agreement signed with Hughes Electronics expires. Europe's military-simulator market is expected ...
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Fokker's SABCA share to be sold
Receivers at FOKKER Aircraft have decided to put the bankrupt company's 48.8%share in Belgian aerospace manufacturer SABCA up for sale. It is not yet clear whether the shares will be floated on the stock market or placed directly with an investor. SABCA says that there are "several" prospective ...