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Military takes a trick from civil aviation
The secret to good business is finding new markets and Honeywell is doing just that by retrofitting its commercial avionics technology into military aircraft. It is putting colour liquid crystal displays, developed for civilian projects such as the Boeing 777, into the cockpits of a range of US ...
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Antonov throws hat in ring for UK transport role
Tim Ripley Alan Peaford The arrival in Paris of the giant Antonov An-124 "Ruslan" has upped the stakes in the UK's competition to lease a minimum of four strategic transport aircraft. Ukrainian company Antonov is bidding for the contract in partnership with Luton airport-based Air Foyle, against strong ...
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Anniversary AWACS flies in to Paris today
A NATO E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), in a special livery to mark the alliance's 50th anniversary, is due to arrive at the show today. Look out for the aircraft, scheduled to arrive around 10.00am, in a distinctive blue-and-white design featuring the flags of the 19 NATO ...
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US Navy details unmanned air vehicle strategy
The US Navy plans to reduce competition at an early stage in the Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) programme by direct selection - moving directly to selection of a winner, without a shortlist. The USN is adding $21 million in fiscal year 2001 for engineering and manufacturing ...
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Embraer aims for more from military
Chris Jasper/SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS Embraer hopes to increase the share of turnover contributed by the military side of its business to 30% within five years, although it says a long-term aim of achieving a 50:50 split between defence and commercial activities is unlikely due to the runaway success ...
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Westland, Agusta pursue compound helicopter studies
Paul Derby GKN Westland and Agusta will submit a bid for European Commission funding "imminently" in a bid to step up their studies into an advanced civil compound helicopter. The two companies are pursuing both a military and a civil research programme and plan to use a Lynx ...
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Global interest rising in V-22 tiltrotor
Paul Derby A potentially lucrative export market for the Bell Boeing V-22 tiltrotor is fast emerging, with foreign interest at an all-time high, military chiefs said at the show yesterday. Lt Gen Fred McCorkle, deputy chief of staff for aviation with the US Marine Corps (USMC), says that ...
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F/A-18E/F set for quick export okay
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Andrew Doyle/BRATISLAVA The US Navy has indicated that it will make the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet available for foreign military sales once the fighter has completed its operational test and evaluation (Opeval). Release of the new fighter for export is becoming increasingly urgent for Boeing ...
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Face the facts with Dean Borgman
Dean Borgman is the man charged with leading Sikorsky into the 21st century. He comes to the post of president and chief operating officer as the former head of Boeing's helicopter plant in Mesa, Arizona and as president of the American Helicopter Society. Nine months into the role, he shares ...
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Rockwell Collins systems for RAF AWACS
Steve Nichols The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded Rockwell Collins (UK) a firm price contract of approximately £10 million for the Replacement HF Radio System for the RAF E-3D Sentry AWACS aircraft. The contract requires the replacement of existing HF radio systems in seven RAF E-3D AWACS, ...
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Military Aviation
Winner of the Military Aviation award was Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing. Together, they completed the engineering and manufacturing development of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor in the face of considerable technical and funding difficulties. The awards' panel felt that Bell and Boeing had displayed an outstanding achievement in ...
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New delivery moves 707 re-engining closer
A Boeing 707 re-engining programme involving between 250 and 300 military and commercial aircraft has moved a step closer with the delivery of the first new Pratt & Whitney (P&W) JT8D-219 engine for certification flight testing. Seven Q Seven (SQS) will carry out the flight testing, while demonstrator flights ...
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Northrop Grumman lands major radar contracts
Steve Nichols Northrop Grumman has landed at Paris with news of major new contracts for its radar products. The Polish air agency (PATA) needs an update to its airspace management system (AMS) that, when complete, will provide additional flight safety and improved en-route services to Central Europe. ...
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Boeing bullish as record year shapes up
Mike Martin "Boeing is back," declared Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group yesterday. "We have overcome recent production difficulties and are well on the way to meeting our commitment to deliver a record 620 commercial airplanes by the end of this year. That is more than ...
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Cabling specialist proud of key role in aviation
Geoff Thomas Aerospace cabling and wiring is sometimes regarded as a 'Cinderella' part of the aviation industry but John Tinson, who is BICC Brand-Rex's newly- appointed business director, speciality cables, thinks that this is an unfair description. "We will also be heavily involved in the forthcoming Nimrod refits ...
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Kosovo windfall for aircraft manufacturers
Tim Ripley Aircraft manufacturers in the USA and Europe are likely to receive a huge windfall from the Kosovo conflict, says a report from top US analysts Forecast International. This will be on top of the $500 million in urgent spending to re-stock USA and UK's arsenals of ...
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Bell Agusta unveils new helicopter
Bell Agusta threw the wraps off the AB139, its new medium-twin helicopter at the show yesterday, with a bullish assessment that the aircraft could generate 900 sales over the next 20 years. The 12 to 15-seater is to be developed as both a civil and military aircraft with the baseline ...
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AlliedSignal selected to power Boeing UCAV
Boeing has chosen the AlliedSignal Aerospace F124 turbofan engine as the powerplant for the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD). Boeing's Phantom Works was recently chosen by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Air Force to continue into the second phase of ...
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Helicopter makers battle for major military deals
Rival helicopter manufacturers will be using show week to cement their bids for several lucrative military contracts which are moving toward firm decision time. Top of their wish list would undoubtedly be winning the race to supply Turkey's $3-billion requirement for 145 attack helicopters - a protracted competition that was ...
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Comanche team optimistic of funding increase
Boeing Sikorsky says it is confident that the US Congress will provide an additional $56 million in funding to enable the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter to step up its flight test programme next year. Tom Sheehy, director of the Sikorsky Comanche project office, says the investment is needed both to ramp ...