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An-70 programme wins support
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT finance for the Ukrainian-developed Antonov An-70 propfan-powered military transport seems likely to materialise following a meeting between Russian prime minister Victor Chernomyrdin, and Konstantin Titov, the governor of Russian province Samara, where a production line is to be based. Russia and Ukraine signed a deal in ...
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Space sector absorbs most of Lockheed Martin cost cutting
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S space sector will bear the brunt of a consolidation plan intended to save $1.8 billion a year through the elimination of 12,000 jobs and the closure of 12 plants and laboratories over the next five years. The plan will cost $1.7 billion, the company ...
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Military aircraft bosses ousted at Daimler-Benz
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THREE SENIOR executives have left Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA's) military-aircraft division following board dissatisfaction with the operation's performance. Division president Klaus-Jurgen Wolfert is to go, along with head of development Wolfgang Kuny and finance and contracts chief Reinhold Faltlhauser. The three are expected to leave ...
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Canada offers to host NATO training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CANADA HAS submitted a "power-by-the-hour" proposal to host advanced flying-training for European NATO nations. The NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) proposal is backed by an industry team, led by Bombardier and including British Aerospace and CAE, which would own and operate the aircraft and simulators ...
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Radar first
Westinghouse has received a $3 million contract to retrofit Portuguese air force Lockheed C-130Hs with its APN-241 predictive-windshear radar. Deliveries begin in November. The contract marks the first international, and first retrofit,sale of the radar, which is in production for new US Air Force C-130Hs and the C-130Js now under ...
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Long hot summer
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 is facing its toughest test so far. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES It is make-or-break time for the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) C-17. The future of the military transport, and that of the US Air Force's global heavy-lift capability, hinges on the outcome of two ...
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Chinook crash: causes debatable
Sir - I have followed with interest recent reports concerning the circumstances surrounding the Chinook accident on the Mull of Kintyre. I read the report of the Board of Inquiry. The findings are unsurprising, if not spectacularly inconclusive. Without the benefits of reports from survivors, eye witnesses, radar ...
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Are they sitting comfortably?
ASSESSMENT SERVICES IS PERFORMING electromagnetic compatibility tests on an actuator unit on behalf of UK ejection-seat manufacturer Martin-Baker. The actuator, destined for use on Dassault's Rafale fighter aircraft, is designed to ensure that the pilot is correctly positioned in the cockpit for optimum use of the aircraft's systems and displays. ...
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Embraer forced to impose job cuts
Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANIERO BRAZILIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Embraer, privatised in late 1994, is to make 1,700 of its 5,550 employees redundant in a bid to cut costs, says president Juaraz de Siqueira Britto Wanderley. The redundancies, most of which will be voluntary, began in June. ...
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Avatar rockets into top ranks
A NEW COMPANY has propelled itself into the top level of the world's spares resellers with a $400 million cash deal to buy Delta Air Lines' surplus-parts inventory. Avatar Alliance believes that the acquisition of some 17 million parts for 12 aircraft types "...may be the largest transaction ...
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Vympel launches R-77 ramjet from Su-27
Douglas Barrie/LONDON RUSSIAN MISSILE manufacturer Vympel says that it has carried out air-launch tests of a ramjet-powered variant of the R-77 (AA-12 Adder). The tests were performed from the air force's Ahktubinsk test centre using a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker as the launch aircraft, according to Vympel. ...
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UK forced to modify RAF Tornado ADVs
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE has been forced to introduce engine modifications on its fleet of Panavia Tornado F3 ADVs (air-defence variants) following the crash in 1994 of an aircraft over the North Sea. Speed restrictions placed on the aircraft after the accident have been ...
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Suppliers
LSG Lufthansa Service, the Lufthansa catering division, has acquired US-based Caterair Holdings through Sky Chefs, the company's US partner. Pratt & Whitney, China Airlines and Singapore Airlines Engineering Company formed a joint venture to repair parts for the PW4000 engine. The repair facility will be located near Chiang ...
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Stretch revives Il-76 prospects
Ilyushin has rolled out a stretched, re-engine, version of its successful Il-76 Candid freighter. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW It is almost a quarter of a century since the Ilyushin Il-76 freighter (NATO codename Candid) made its first appearance in the West at the 1971 Paris air show. Although a ...
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Global ambitions
Lockheed Martin's ambitions will force Europeans to look to their laurels. Douglas Barrie/PARIS Talk of "mission statements" is normally enough to induce something akin to nausea among cynical European industrialists. In the case of US giant Lockheed Martin, however, they have to sit up and ...
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Rotary researches
Eurocopter believes that helicopter technology could develop dramatically over the next decade. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Although ancient toys and drawings show that the basic principle of rotary-wing aircraft dates back centuries, the history of the helicopter as a useful flying machine is generally thought to have ...
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BAe strengthens Eurocopter link
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE Defence is deepening its involvement with Eurocopter on military helicopters, announcing a tie-up to bid for a UK tri-service training contract using Eurocopter products, and confirming its intention to collaborate on an NH90 support-helicopter bid to meet UK requirements. BAe believes ...
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French premier backs key military projects
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS NEW FRENCH PRIME minister Alain Jupp, has pledged his support for the Dassault Rafale multi-role combat aircraft and the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter. His position on the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military transport is somewhat more reserved. In his first public statement on the ...
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Turning heads
The X-31 captured the imaginations of those who saw it flown at Paris, but does it have a future? Graham Warwick/PARIS A spectacular flying-display performance by the Rockwell/Daimler-Benz Aerospace X-31A Enhanced Fighter Manoeuvrability (EFM) demonstrator has rekindled debate over the combat benefits of thrust vectoring. Few watching ...
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Indian navy considers Harrier options
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE INDIAN NAVY plans to decide by next February whether to procure either refurbished British Aerospace TAV-8As offered by the USA or rebuilt or new two-seat Harrier trainers from the UK. Driving the aircraft-replacement decision are believed to be serviceability issues as to ...