All Helicopters articles – Page 465
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Bell Boeing still hopes to increase tilt-rotor V-22 production
BELL BOEING executives still hope that production rates on the V-22 Osprey military tilt-rotor programme may be increased, despite a US Department of Defense (DoD) rebuttal of their proposal. The DoD has rejected a request to increase the V-22 production rate and switch to multi-year contracting which, the ...
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Boeing agrees on Chinese Chinook
Boeing and China National Aero Technology Import and Export (CATIC) have reached an outline work-share agreement to co-produce the Boeing 234-100 Chinook helicopter, but are still looking for sufficient orders to launch the programme. The two sides have broadly agreed to split production of the civil heavy-lift ...
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GEC-Marconi struggles for Il-76 data
Paul Lewis/ZHUHAI GEC-Marconi is facing difficulty in obtaining the design specifications from Ilyushin needed to modify its Il-76 transport to take the Argus 2000 airborne early-warning (AEW) sys- tem, now being offered to China. There has been some "foot-dragging" on the part of the Russians to ...
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Korean Air unveils helicopter mock-up for first time
Korean Air's Aerospace division has publicly unveiled, for the first time, a mock-up of an armed scout-attack variant of its planned Korean Multi-purpose Helicopter (KMH). Sikorsky has provided assistance with conceptual design of the KMH, and some aspects bear a strong resemblance to the US manufacturer's S-70 Black ...
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Bell-Boeing agrees civil tilt-rotor
Ramon Lopez/PHILADELPHIA Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, partners on the V-22 military transport, have agreed to agreed to build a nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor (CTR) aircraft aimed at the corporate market. The corporate aircraft, which will be powered by twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines would ...
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Smiths expands with Leland acquisition
Smiths Industries has made its first major aerospace acquisition in years, with a $30 million deal to purchase Leland Electro-systems, a US manufacturer of high-performance electrical generators, which will sit alongside the UK group's growing business in power-management systems. The UK group, which has diversified into medical and ...
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Israelis offer Phalcon on AEW 767 to South Korean air force
Paul Lewis/SEOUL Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is offering the South Korean air force its Phalcon phased-array airborne-early-warning (AEW) radar system integrated on a Boeing 767 platform. The Elta system being proposed is based on the multi-sensor L-band Phalcon package already in service with the Chilean ...
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Northrop Grumman
A-6 INTRUDER The A-6E carrier-borne attack aircraft is being withdrawn from service. A limited upgrade of USN A-6Es added missile-approach warning, towed active decoys, satellite navigation and other improvements. Boeing-built composite wings were retrofitted to 172 A-6s. The last new A-6E was delivered in February 1992. ...
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Smiths waits a year for delivery upturn
THE FULL IMPACT of the upturn in civil and military aerospace markets will take another year to feed through to the bottom line, forecasts Smiths Industries, as it turns in another steady set of annual results. The aerospace business saw sales edge up a little, to ú377 million ...
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CASA
C.101 AVIOJET A C.101CC light-attack version of the Aviojet jet trainer has been sold to Jordan and assembled under licence in Chile (as the A-36 Halcon) by ENAER. The C.101CC has an uprated, 20kN, AlliedSignal Garrett TFE731-5 turbofan. Weapons include under-fuselage 30mm-cannon pods, underwing rockets and gun pods, ...
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Bell Boeing
V-22 OSPREY Bell Boeing has submitted an unsolicited offer to the US Department of Defense (DoD) proposing to raise the rate of production for the V-22 Osprey. The incentive for the DoD is an estimated $9 billion saving over the project's life. A DoD is response is likely ...
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Airtech (CASA/ITPN)
Brunei finally detailed its avionics equipment for its three maritime-patrol CN-235s in October 1996, with the radar competition being won by Texas Instruments. Pakistan is also emerging as a potential customer for a maritime-patrol variant of the aircraft. The CN-235 is being offered to South Korea to meet an air ...
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Israel Aircraft Industries
KFIR IAI completed an upgrade package for the Kfir in 1993, based on the cancelled Lavi fighter's avionics. It completed delivery of six aircraft to Sri Lanka in January 1996. The Philippines and Slovenia also remain potential customers for ex-Israeli air force aircraft, with Ecuador interested in procuring ...
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Racal-Thorn wins Sea King AEW upgrade
THE UK Ministry of Defence has selected Racal-Thorn Defence to act as prime contractor for the radar and mission-system upgrade (MSU) on the Royal Navy's fleet of Sea King AEW Mk.2A airborne-early-warning (AEW) helicopters. At the heart of the upgrade is the company's Searchwater 2000 radar, already selected ...
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Elta and Raytheon team for RAAF AEW bid
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ISRAEL'S ELTA is to team with Raytheon E-Systems to offer a derivative of its Phalcon airborne-early-warning (AEW) system to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), with the preferred aircraft believed to be an Airbus. The Australian Government selected four US contractors: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ...
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British Aerospace
SEA HARRIER FRS.1 & F/A2 BAe has converted the Royal Navy's 31 FRS1 Sea Harriers to FA2 standard under a ú170 million mid-life-update contract awarded in December 1988. Eighteen new-build FA2s have also been ordered. The aircraft has the capability to engage low-flying targets beyond visual range, ...
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems
C-5 GALAXY An improved, version of the Galaxy, the C-5D was proposed by Lockheed Martin as an alternative to the MDC C-17, under the USAF's Non-Development Airlift Aircraft (NDAA) programme. The C-5D would have new turbofans - GE CF6-80C2s and a two-crew cockpit based on that under development ...
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High-profile Hercules
A multi-national C-130 squadron has been supporting NATO in Bosnia for almost a year. Tim Ripley/RIMINI NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE Col Lasse Hobber, commander of NATO's multi-national Lockheed-Martin C-130 Hercules squadron in Bosnia, says: "When our capability became known around the theatre, we started to be asked ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...