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NEWS IN BRIEF Turbo-Union delivered the 2,000th RB.199 Tornado engine to the Nato MRCA Management Agency in a cere mony held at Rolls-Royce Bris tol on September 29. Managing director Kurt Munzenmaier said that production of the RB.199 is expected to continue to at least 1995. Munzenmaier said there were 2,400 RB.199s on order to power 940 Tornadoes. Aerospatiale has clinched a 12-helicopter deal with the US State of Maryland, and has signed a $25-8 million contract covering the first six medevac SA.365N Dauphins. First deli veries are scheduled for 1989. Aerospatiale was the lowest bidder in the competition to supply the further six search- and-rescue and law enforce ment versions. To date, 16 Dauphin helicopters have been sold to emergency medical services in the USA. Four top Northrop officials and five Board members were scheduled to testify on Sep tember 28 before a Congres sional subcommittee on alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in attempts to sell the F-20 to South Korea. Thomas Jones, chairman; Frank Lynch, vice- chairman; William McGagh, former chief financial officer; Weko Gasich, executive vice-president; and the Board members will be asked about the company's deposit of $6-5 million in a Hong Kong bank account in August 1984. The money is alleged to be part of a bribe to help sell the F-20. The Philadelphia Common Pleas Court has ruled that it is competent to hear claims for compensation brought by lawyers acting for relatives of 39 of the 45 men lost in the Sum- burgh Chinook accident last November. The presiding judge rejected a petition from Boeing Helicopters to have the case dismissed. Chinook disaster legal group spokesman, Aber deen lawyer David Burnside, expressed his delight over the court's decision, and said his team were now discussing arrangements for a full hearing. Soviet Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, leading a high- level eight-member military delegation to India, has again discussed licence production of the MiG-29 fighter by Hindus tan Aeronautics. India has already acquired two squadrons of MiG-29s direct from the Soviet Union. Already building the MiG-27 under licence, India is reluctant to produce the MiG-29 as it has high hopes for its indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), now under development. India has mean while denied Western press reports that it has test-flown a "MiG-35" lightweight fighter, allegedly offered by the Soviets as an LCA fallback. Japan is studying whether to continue involvement in Boeing's 767 airliner beyond the 500th aircraft. Since 1986 the consortium formed by Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, and Fuji to make 767 components has made heavy losses on the programme because of exchange-rate changes. The present agreement, signed in 1978, covers the first 500 aircraft. A decision whether to continue co-production after the 501st 767 will be made before the end of this year. Flight-test of a model of Japan's planned mini space shuttle failed on September 21 when the balloon from which the 2m-long model was to be released failed to reach the required 20km altitude, from which the one-seventh-scale model was to have been boosted to 80km to test re-entry. Aeritalia and General Dynam ics have signed a memorandum of understanding on commer cial launch activities, including the use of Italy's Iris upper stage on GD's Atlas launcher, Aeri talia subcontract work on Atlas, a study of Atlas secondary payloads, and co-operation on Space Station development. NASA and McDonnell Douglas have signed an agreement allowing the company to use facilities at the Kennedy Space Centre to support commercial launches of the Delta booster. Commercial Delta launches from two pads at Cape Cana veral are to begin late next year. China's first weather satellite, Fengyun 1, launchd by Long March 4 on September 7 from a new site in Shanxi Province, is a 700kg spacecraft equipped with two "very-high-resolution" scanning radiometers. Your Flight International contacts Editorial: 01-661 3321 Editorial facsimile (Group III/II) 01-661 3840 Advertising: 01-661 3315 Advertisement Production: 01-661 3267 Fax: 01-661 3305 Classified: 01-661 6373 Telegram Telex: 892084 REEDBP G Fax: 01-642 4431 Editor David Mason Deputy Editor Peter Middleton Assistant Editor Tom Hamill News Editor Graham Warwick Air Transport Department 01-661 3842 Air Transport Editor David Learmount Defence Department 01-661 3323 Defence Editor Mike Gaines Defence reporter Eric Beech Newsroom 01-661 3833 Reporters Ian Goold, Alan Postlethwaite, Ian Dormer, Lee Paddon, Chris Drewer Los Angeles Bureau John Bailey (714) 854 5980 Facsimile (714) 854 5925 Washington Bureau Julian Moxon (202) 547 2624 Facsimile (202) 547 5338 Photographer Janice Lowe Production Editor Philip Jarrett Sub Editor Stephen Spark Art Editor Colin Paine Technical Artists Paul Couper, Ira Epton, Tim Hall, John Marsden Israel Correspondent Arie Egozi 03 945 326 Paris Correspondent Gilbert Sedbon (1) 4825 5261 US West Coast Correspondent Norman Lynn (408) 778 0889 Facsimile (408) 778 9976 Telex 650 330 3971 MCI UW West German Correspondent Stefan Geisenheyner 061 21 526894 Publishing Director Murray Johnstone 01-661 8636 Editor-in-chief J. 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Walden Tel: England (0444) 441212 (Details of UK and overseas subscription rates and agents are available on request) Oakfield House, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 3DH, England Published in association with Airline Business by Reed Business Publishing Ltd, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, England. © Copyright Reed Business Publishing Ltd 1988 Founded 1909 Second-class postage paid at RAHWAY, New Jersey, and additional entries Postmaster: Send Address Corrections to "Flight International", c/o Mercury Airfreight International Ltd Inc, 10B Englehard Avenue, Avenel, NJ 07001. 4 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 8 October 1988
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