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Il-76 deal raises Israeli hopes in bid for China AEW contract
Israeli attempts to win the battle to provide China with airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft have been boosted with the conclusion of a deal with Russia covering the release of a modified Ilyushin Il-76 Candid to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). The details of the contract were finalised during two days ...
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GEaccelerates JSF test-
THE GENERAL Electric/ Allison/Rolls-Royce team plans to run its YF120-FX alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in 2002, two years ahead of the original schedule. Bringing the programme forward will allow competition between the YF120 and Pratt & Whitney's F119-based JSF engine to begin with the ...
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PZL-Mielec flight tests improved Iryda
PZL-Mielec is flight testing an aerodynamically improved version of its M-93 Iryda jet trainer, to be known as the M-96. The modifications include new leading-edge root extensions and vortex generators on the wings, and an extension to the tail fin to improve longitudinal stability. While Mielec is releasing ...
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-as Allison begins JSF lift-fan tests
LIFT-FAN HARDWARE for Lockheed Martin's short-take-off/vertical-landing Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) variant is arriving at Allison Advanced Development, which plans rig tests before delivering a complete lift fan to Pratt & Whitney in August 1998. P&W will integrate the shaft-driven lift fan with its F119-based SE611 engine for ground ...
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Taiwan navy aims for Seasprites
The Taiwan navy is reviving its long-standing interest in the Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopter, and is once again seeking funding and approval to order up to 12 of the remanufactured aircraft. It is understood from local defence sources that the Taiwan navy is drawing up an operational ...
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Dasa offers Ranger 2000 jet-trainer to Turkish air force
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is trying to breathe new life into its Ranger 2000 jet-trainer programme by offering the aircraft to meet an emerging requirement in Turkey. The Turkish air force is looking for a trainer to replace an ageing fleet of about 75 Lockheed T-33s. Sources close to ...
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Thoroughly modern airship
After a gap of several years, airship production is returning to the Cardington sheds - birthplace of the historic R101in the 1930s - near Bedford, 70km (45 miles) north of London in the UK. The airship under construction there today is a totally new design which will have a 14,200m3 ...
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MDC opens MD-17 'window' with two white tails
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has authorised production of two additional "white-tail" (unsold) C-17 transports in 1998, providing the first opportunity for the sale of a commercial MD-17 or foreign-military-sale C-17 versions. The US company says: "We think there's a good chance we are going to sell them commercially or ...
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US defence review cuts F-18E/F output by half
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) plans to halve production of the US Navy's McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18E/F, to slightly over 500 aircraft. The cut is the most dramatic recommendation of the DoD's Quadrenniel Defense Review (QDR), which also calls for production of the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 ...
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Surveillance upgrade
California Microwave has received an additional $5 million from the US Army to modify two Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Multifunction (ARL-M) surveillance aircraft. The award is part of a wider modification to the original $219 million contract for the aircraft-upgrade work. Two of the US Army's three Bombardier de Havilland RC-7B ARL-M ...
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Israeli Astronaut
An Israeli air force colonel has been selected to train to fly as a payload specialist on a US NASA Space Shuttle mission in late 1998. The pilot, who is unidentified for security reasons, will conduct national science experiments provided by Israel, but the US space organisation will pay for ...
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Simulator rivalry
When Thomson-CSF acquired the Rediffusion simulation business from Hughes Aircraft in 1993, the company became, at a stroke, the largest simulator manufacturer in Europe, and the world leader outside North America. Today, Thomson Training and Simulation (TTS) is competing fiercely in every market for simulators, and in 1996 ...
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Arms dynamism
Matra and British Aerospace started to discuss pulling together their respective guided-weapons units in 1992. It was to take four years of difficult negotiations, coupled with the occasional bout of brinkmanship, to conclude the deal. Despite the trials and tribulations, including those that still continue as two very ...
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Defence realms
The largest defence and professional electronics company in France, and also Europe, is Thomson-CSF. This majority-owned subsidiary of Thomson SA generated Fr36.3 billion ($6.28 billion)-worth of sales in 1996 (a 2.2% rise on 1995), with proÌts of $404 million. Of this, 65% was defence-related, around half of that being of ...
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Engine power
France has been in the aero-engine business as long as aircraft have been flying, and today the industry remains present in virtually every area of propulsion activity. The two principal companies, state-owned Snecma and privately owned Turboméca, provide power for civil and military aircraft, helicopters and space - the latter ...
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Helicopters on the rise
France's helicopter industry is poised for a comeback after several years of steadily declining fortunes during which, in common with helicopter manufacturers elsewhere, the recession hit civil and military sales particularly hard. In 1996, however, the industry saw real signs of progress, with orders up by an astonishing ...
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Franc facts
This year's Paris air show arguably comes at the most crucial time in France's post Second World War aerospace history. It now finds itself on the brink of a fundamental restructuring which will change forever the shape of the industry, not only in France, but throughout the whole of Europe. ...
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Restructuringf or a European future
Just ten months after the scheme was launched by defence minister Charles Millon, France's ministry of defence has finished planning for a fundamental restructuring of the national armaments directorate, the Délégation Générale pour l'Armament (DGA). At the heart of what is a profound re-organisation of the way the ...
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Rafale relief
As the agility of the Dassault Rafale multi-role fighter is demonstrated in the skies above spectators at the Paris air show in June, the French aerospace industry will be breathing a sigh of relief following the signature of the first production contract. Unless there is a last-minute hitch, ...
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Israel focuses on new fighter acquisition
The Israeli air force could decide as early as mid-1998 on its next fighter purchase, according to senior air force sources. Deliveries could start early in the next century. Israeli studies into the requirements have effectively narrowed the field down to two or three US contenders. The sources ...