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Boeing battles to cut F-22 costs
Boeing is attempting to slash costs on the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter by up to $12 billion over the life of the programme, partly through a series of production initiatives. The move follows the review of the Joint Estimate Team (JET) US Department of Defense price watchdog, ...
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Super survivor
Ghost Connie, you're cleared for flypast," calls the tower as Captain Charles "Chuck" Grant drops the nose of the Lockheed C-121C and asks flight engineer Jerry Steele for more power. The four turbo-compound Wright R-3350-93s howl louder and the Super Constellation thunders along the crowd line at El ...
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RMPA award
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract worth over $50 million to supply the electro-optical sensor for the UK's replacement maritime-patrol aircraft (RMPA). As part of the contract from Boeing, Northrop Grumman will deliver 21 electro-optical surveillance and detection systems (EOSDS), with the first due for delivery in October 1998. ...
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Korry turns the spotlight on switches
Throwing a bit of light on the matter - that is where Korry Electronics' expertise lies, as visitors to Hall 3/F3 will see. The firm manufactures illuminated push-button switches, indicators, integrated switch panels, and hard-wearing keyboards to name a few of its products. Korry's products can ...
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Canada to host new NATO fighter training programme in 1999
The skies over Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, will be the training zone for trainee fighter pilots from the UK, Norway and Denmark when the first intake of Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) students get airborne in 1999. Following nearly two years of talk since NFTC announced its ...
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Reflectone's $25m trainer deal
Tampa, Florida based Reflectone has confirmed the award of a $25 million contract from Bell-Boeing to provide five, three dimensional maintenance trainers for the MV-22B Osprey tilt rotor. Reflectone was selected last December, but the contract was not signed until February and the impending merger with British Aerospace then ...
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Miami expansion programme continues
Miami International Airport officials were more than happy to welcome a cavalcade of public visitors at their stand yesterday, having the dual role of promoting both Miami's tourism and airport infrastructure. An ongoing US$4 billion expansion programme, started in 1992, continues at the airport - which will be ...
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Ten Lord parts for Osprey
A range of motion accommodation products from Lord Corporation will be featured on the US Marine Corps' new tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey aircraft, now approved for initial production. In all, Lord will supply 10 different products, comprising a total of 58 components, primarily for use in the Osprey's rotor ...
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Osprey set to take flight for US military
United States Navy and Marine Corps aviation chiefs have given the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey rave reviews at Paris, after announcing work has begun on the first production version of the revolutionary tiltrotor. "Its on time, on cost and under weight," said US Navy under secretary for research, ...
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Firm launch orders for revolutionary tiltrotor
Nine companies committed themselves to buying the revolutionary Bell-Boeing 609 tiltrotor at Paris yesterday. First deliveries are in 2001. Bell-Boeing chiefs say the tiltrotor that can land on a tennis court will lead to a new way to travel. "Once the military show what the V-22 tiltrotor can do, ...
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Customers warm to the Lockheed C-130 variant
Lockheed Martin and electronics and systems partner Northrop Grumman claim they have significant interest from five countries for their C-130J-30 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) variant. Speaking at the show, Dana Pierce, Lockheed Martin's director AEW&C, says Australia is the potential lead customer, with Turkey, Greece, Italy ...
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Meggitt all-in-one display is double boost to pilots
Reduced pilot fatigue and the creation of more cockpit space are just two of the benefits of a hi-tech Secondary Flight Display System developed by Meggitt Avionics which is making its public debut at the show this week. The system is a technological leap forward which allows the ...
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Eagle in picture
The new Eagle-19 high-resolution colour display from dpiX is on show for the first time at Paris. The Eagle-19 is the largest active-matrix liquid crystal display manufactured in North America, claims dpiX, a member of the Xerox New Enterprise group of companies. The display has been ...
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Face the facts with... John Weston
Europe's defence industry is described by British Aerospace defence chief John Weston as a "crazy football match". Commenting on the fractured state of moves to integrate the continent's defence and aerospace industries, Weston says some players can't even find the pitch, and others are shooting at different goals: "There is ...
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Battle of giants for USAF $2billion booster contract
There can be only one winner as McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin lock horns in the battle of the big booster. At stake is a $2billion contract from the US Air Force to build the next generation of US launchers. The decision will be made in ...
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US special offer to Europe in JSTARS war
America has upped the stakes in the battle to supply Nato with Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft by offering a 74% offset deal to European industry participating in the $3billion project. Northrop Grumman executives said at Paris yesterday that the US Government's ...
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World market for casting
Expansion of the export side of its business is high on the agenda for British-based castings specialist Finecast at the show this week. The UK firm, exhibiting in Hall 2/J12, which produces lost wax investment castings for military and civil aviation clients, currently does 40% of its business ...
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BAe mini-movie looks a five-minute winner
American actress Rachel Lee, star of British Aerospace's film Partners in Flight, looked every bit the part when she flew into Paris for the mini-movie's preview. The five-minute film, shot over three months at locations in Inverness, Scotland and Preston, England, features stunning flight-simulation footage. Rachel ...
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TRW's MMW camera will offer low-visibility landing capability
ATRW-LED team is preparing for flight tests of a passive millimetre-wave camera which could allow low-visibility operations with commercial and military aircraft. System checkout will begin later this month and 60h of flight testing is scheduled to start in September, using the US Air Force's Boeing C-135CSpeckled Trout testbed. ...
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Hanging in the hover
Military helicopters The past two years could hardly be described as "vintage" for European military-helicopter programmes, with Eurocopter (chalet 156B/B) having to battle with politicians for orders for its Tiger attack and NH90 naval/tactical helicopters, and GKN Westland (2C/15) and Agusta (external 38) having to grapple with prototype-losses on ...