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Bright idea excludes unwanted daylight
INTEGRATED PHOTOMATRIX (IPL) HAS DEVELOPED a system designed to make liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in cockpit panels and head-up displays (HUD) easier to read. The Dorchester, UK-based company's 10530-AAE detector monitors incident daylight and specifically excludes any near infra-red radiation, ensuring that the illumination of the LCD is instantly adjusted ...
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Primal screen show
Avionics usually come first when it comes to upgrades to military aircraft such as the F-15, F-16 and F-18. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S F-16 and McDonnell Douglas' F-15 and F-18 represent the single largest constituency of modern Western-built fighters in service worldwide. With some 6,400 F-15s, ...
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Ringing in the new
What does the new Bell 407 offer over its predecessors? Graham Warwick/MONTREAL IF BELL IS renowned for two things in the commercial-helicopter field, they are the Model 206 and the two-blade rotor. These traditional Bell strengths have threatened to become weaknesses, however, as the prolonged ...
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RAF deal clinched by Reflectone
REFLECTONE HAS finalised its contract with Lockheed Martin to provide training equipment and services to support the Royal Air Force's purchase of 25 C-130J Hercules 2 transports. The $77 million contract, is the largest in the US simulation company's history. Reflectone will supply two full-flight simulators, a flight-training ...
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USAF Upgrade
FlightSafety International has received a $52 million US Air Force contract to upgrade seven Lockheed C-5 simulators with articulated, 225° field-of-view, MultiView display-systems, Lockheed Martin CompuScene PT2000 image generators and database-generation systems and larger motion bases. FlightSafety Services operates the C-5 simulator on behalf of the US Air Force. ...
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MDC offers the USAF 88 more Globemasters
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has submitted a proposal to the US Air Force covering the purchase of up to another 88 aircraft at prices ranging from $212 million, down to around $190 million per unit. The proposal was submitted to the USAF as part of the preparations for the ...
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JDA lists aircraft requirements
THE JAPAN DEFENCE Agency (JDA) has provisionally requested funding in the 1996 fiscal year budget to purchase a total of 85 new military fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) seeks 42 aircraft, the Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) wants 26 and the Maritime Self-Defence Force ...
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Pentagon threat puts Heliwing UAV on hold
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US DEPARTMENT of Defense moves to kill the Boeing Heliwing project have led to plans for a second unmanned-air- vehicle (UAV) demonstrator being at least put on hold by the manufacturer. Boeing had decided to build a second demonstrator, but says that its ...
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Poles eye Falcon to fulfil fighter need
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH ministry of national defence has confirmed that it is considering buying 100 Lockheed F-16C/D fighters from the USA to replace aging Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbeds. Poland needs a new multi-role combat aircraft to replace 220 MiG-21s in fighter, ground-attack, training and reconnaissance ...
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UK eyes used AH-64s
Douglas Barrie/MIDDLE WALLOP THE BRITISH ARMY Air Corps (AAC) could eventually supplement its procurement of attack helicopters by picking up secondhand McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apaches from US Army stocks. In an exclusive interview with Flight International, Maj. Gen. Simon Lytle, Director Army Aviation, made it ...
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Power surge
Arms race or just re-equipment - either way, Southeast Asian nations are on a buying spree Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DEFENCE EXPENDITURE in Southeast Asia is at an all-time high and is continuing to grow, prompting many ob-servers to suggest that the region is in the throes ...
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Eurojet
Eurojet, a partnership between MTU of Germany, Italy's FiatAvio, Spain's ITP and the UK's Rolls-Royce, is responsible for the EJ200 turbofan which will power production Eurofighter 2000 aircraft. The first EF2000 prototype to be fitted with EJ200 engines, designated DA3, was flown in early June from Alenia's Caselle ...
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US Border Patrol receives re-engined Huey for trials
THE US Border Patrol, has taken delivery of five Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1 utility rotorcraft, powered by Light Helicopter Turbine Engine's T800 turboprop engines. The re-engine UH-1s, delivered on 14 July, are on a one-year loan from the US Department of Defense. After testing the combination, ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, the first to be certificated at 400kN, will power the Boeing 777-300s recently ordered by Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai Airways International. R-R has defined a thrust level of 423kN for the initial -300 A-market stretch, saying that this can be achieved with adjustments to the ...
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LHTEC
LHTEC, a joint venture between Allison Engines and AlliedSignal Engines, is supplying its T800 turbo-shaft engine for the re-engineing of Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters flown by the US Border Patrol. The first re-engined aircraft was due to have been delivered in July. The T800 was originally developed for ...
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MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce (MTR)
The MTR390 turbo-shaft engine will power some 427 Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters for the French and German armies, but two significant potential orders were lost when The Netherlands and the UK decided to order the US McDonnell Douglas Apache instead. Developed specifically for the Tiger by MTU, Turbomeca ...
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UK offers to share helicopter evaluation data with Malaysia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA HAS BEEN offered the results of the UK's attack-helicopter procurement evaluation in support of its own helicopter programme, which is strongly tipped for inclusion in Malaysia's next five-year plan, starting in 1996 (Flight International, 5-11 April, P19). Type evaluation is provisionally targeted ...
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Rolls-Royce Turbomeca
The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 turbo-shaft engine will power the 67 Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache attack-helicopters ordered by the UK, opening up the possibility of the engine being considered for any upgrade of the US Army's fleet of Apaches. The engine has already been selected to power Europe's EH101 ...
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R-R and Snecma examine AMET blade technology
ROLLS-ROYCE AND Snecma are considering blade-in-ring technology as part of their collaborative Advanced Military Engine Technology (AMET) demonstrator project. Blade-in-ring, or Bling, technology uses titanium metal matrix materials, and offers a substantial weight saving over more conventional materials. As far as AMET is concerned, the two ...