Helicopters – Page 465
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Moving on up
The word "rebuilding" is likely to crop up frequently in conversations at the Helicopter Association International's Heli-Expo '97 (2-4 February, Anaheim, California). Manufacturers will be talking about rebuilding business post-recession, while the HAI itself will be addressing the problem of "phoenix", or rebuilt, aircraft. According to HAI president ...
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Raytheon E-Systems picks A310 for Australian AEWcompetition
Raytheon E-Systems will offer the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) four modified Airbus Industrie A310s to meet the RAAF's airborne early warning and Control (AEW&C) System requirement, "Project Wedgetail". The four A310s are being provided by Airbus Industrie, the aircraft are likely to be second hand aircraft held ...
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SEP rockets into Snecma
Snecma has completed the takeover of rocket engine and advanced materials venture Société Européen de Propulsion (SEP), which now becomes a wholly owned group subsidiary. SEP, in turn, will take over Snecma's brakes subsidiary, Messier-Bugatti, to create what is claimed will be Europe's largest aviation and automobile braking company. ...
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Special Osprey
Bell Boeing has been awarded a $490 million contract to begin engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) of the CV-22 special-operations variant of the Osprey military tilt-rotor. The contract calls for the joint venture to design, integrate and install special-operations-unique systems, including terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar, and additional fuel tanks, in the baseline ...
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Russia details 1997 launch programme
Funding permitting, Russia plans to launch 28 boosters in 1997, carrying a variety of satellites into orbit. These will include three manned Soyuz TM and four unmanned Progress M tankers to the Mir 1 space station. At least three commercial Proton launches are scheduled, starting with the flight ...
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Lockheed Martin chases Phalcon
LOCKHEED MARTIN is evaluating offering the Israeli Elta Phalcon phased-array radar on the airborne-early-warning (AEW) derivative of its C-130J Hercules 2 transport. The US company has applied for an export licence allowing it to discuss the AEWC-130J with Elta and hopes to begin talks within the next three to four ...
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PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range
JET AVIATION HAS completed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks. The 15,000litre auxiliary fuel-system, produced by PATS, was installed in a corporate-configured 767-200ER completed at Jet Aviation's Basle, Switzerland, modification centre. The aircraft's owner has not been identified, but is believed ...
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Concurrent inks Lockheed Martin computer deal
CONCURRENT Computer has allied with Lockheed Martin to produce rugged versions of its PowerMAXION real-time computer for military applications. Lockheed Martin plans to use the PowerMAXION in systems for sensor fusion, situational awareness, route replanning and battle management. An early application will be the US Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's ...
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UK funds Tornado replacement study
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to launch the feasibility study for the replacement of its Panavia Tornado GR4s. The French defence ministry is also funding elements of the project in a clear indication that it has an embryonic requirement for a strike aircraft to complement the Dassault Rafale. ...
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Caught on camera
There may be more than a safety aspect to the use of external video-cameras on aircraft. David Learmount/LONDON The CIRCUMSTANCES of the" British Airtours disaster at Manchester in August 1985 led the UK Civil Aviation Authority to investigate the installation of external aircraft-surveillance video cameras. About a decade ...
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Two finalists selected in EELV competition
Competition for the $1.4 billion contract to build the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) fleet has been reduced to two companies, with Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas each being awarded $60 million contracts on 20 December to produce final design proposals. The EELV programme will ...
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GKN Westland floats compound EH101
GKN Westland is pursuing an advanced compound-helicopter design which could potentially be "retrofitted" to the Westland/Agusta EH101 military utility helicopter. The company is working on a concept using a fuselage-mounted wing to provide additional lift and control. Westland says that the work is continuing. Previous research ...
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Goodnight MDC
BOEING'S $13.3 billion McDonnell Douglas (MDC) acquisition will make the company the world's largest manufacturer of military, as well as commercial, aircraft. While Lockheed Martin will remain the number one US defence contractor, Boeing will take up and expand MDC's mantle as the leading producer of combat aircraft. The merger ...
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Goodnight MDC
Combined, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will become the world's largest manufacturer of combat and commercial aircraft.MDC expertise will lift Boeing's JSF hopes The main product line-up for the new Boeing BoeingMDC Civil business Airframes737MD-80 747MD-90 757MD-95 767MD-11 777 HelicoptersMD 500 Explorer BB609 (with Bell)MD 600 SpaceSpace StationDelta launcher US ...
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Taiwanese avenger
The US Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $63 million contract to supply 74 vehicle-mounted Avenger fire units to Taiwan. The Foreign Military Sale also includes Raytheon Stinger surface-to-air missiles to be used with the Avenger system. Source: Flight International
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Bell Boeing considers civil tilt-rotor as V-22 trainer
BELL BOEING PLANS to offer its Model 609 civil tilt-rotor to the US military as a trainer for crews destined to fly the V-22 tilt-rotor transport. Development of the nine-passenger 609 was launched in November, with a first flight planned for mid-1999 (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, ...
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Germany sets up RMPA study to identify Atlantic successor
Germany is to phase out its Atlantics from 2005 Andrzej Jezorski/MUNICH German system-development house ESG has been given a Government contract to carry out a feasibility study to look at potential airframes and systems for a new German maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA). The German ...
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Time to convert?
"Build it and they will come" is Bell Boeing's hope for sales for the world's first civil tilt-rotor. Offshore support will be a key market for the Bell Boeing 609 nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor Graham Warwick/ORLANDO WHENBELL BOEING unveiled the Model 609 civil tilt-rotor in Washington ...
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Reflectone wins USMC V-22 deal
Reflectone has won the contract to supply a suite of maintenance trainers for the US Marine Corps Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport. The company also plans to bid to supply V-22 flight simulators, the request for proposals for which is expected to be issued in January 1997. ...
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A Whimper, Not a Bang
There is no doubt, even among French commentators, that the privatisation of Thomson SA has been bungled, leaving the restructuring of the European aerospace industry little further than the launch pad. The latest failure to agree will undoubtedly prove to be a temporary setback, but it still means that, as ...