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Pratt & Whitney Canada
Two new applications for Pratt & Whitney Canada's (P&WC) best-selling PT6 turboprop/turbo shaft engine have been announced in 1996. The PT6B-37 turbo shaft has been selected by Agusta for its A119 Koala single-engined helicopter. Certification of the PT6B-37 is scheduled for late-1996, with production engine deliveries beginning during early 1997. ...
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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce launched the Trent 900, its latest large turbofan, at September's Farnborough air show. The 356kN-thrust engine, a derivative of the Trent 800, which powers the Boeing 777, is being developed to power the proposed Boeing 747-500X/600X and Airbus A3XX ultra-high-capacity airliners. The Trent 900 uses the same ...
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Rolls-Royce Turbomeca
The Rolls-Royce Turboméca RTM322 turbo shaft has been selected to power the 67 Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64 Longbow Apaches ordered by the UK. The RTM322 replaces the General Electric T700, which is fitted to all other versions of the attack helicopter. An engine integration programme, is scheduled to be carried, out ...
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Snecma
Snecma's M88-2 military turbofan, which powers the Dassault Rafale fighter, reached the end of its development phase and entered series production in April. The first of 42 production engines so far ordered by the French Government are due to be delivered in late 1996. Snecma is examining possible ...
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Soyuz Luzhnetskaya
The Gavrilov R-195 turbojet powered the Sukhoi Su-25 and Su-28 attack aircraft. The Khachaturov R-29 powers the Mikoyan MiG-23 and MiG-27, and the Su-22. The bureau is also known as the Moscow Scientific Production Corporation Soyuz Alliance. Source: Flight International
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Turbomeca
Turboméca manufactures Arrius turbo shaft engines for a wide range of helicopters, including the Eurocopter AS355N (Arrius 1A), EC135 (2B) and EC120 (2F) and McDonnell Douglas MD901 (2C). The engine has an electronic control system for twin-engined helicopters, and hydro-mechanical control for singles. The Arriel 2 engine powers the Eurocopter ...
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Turbo-Union
Rolls-Royce (R-R) says that production of more than 100 Turbo-Union RB.199s for 48 additional Panavia Tornado GR.1 strike aircraft which have been ordered by the Royal Saudi Air Force will help enable it to "...match military capacity to workload". The Turbo-Union consortium, which consists of R-R, MTU and FiatAvio, to ...
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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 ...